Experience

TransMontaigne

• Oil and Gas
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Terminal Scheduler

  • Oct 2016 - Present

• Revenue Accountant

  • Oct 2014 - Oct 2016

  Revenue accounting for the Brownsville Terminal.



Laramar Group

• United States
• Real Estate
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Property Accountant

  • Oct 2012 - Feb 2014

  Manage multiple properties to ensure accuracy with accounting procedures. Create month-end and year-end reports with the Yardi and spreadsheets for clients. • Preparing timely, accurate and meaningful financial reports for clients. • Prepared and entered journal entries related to accrual and cash based accounting. • Advising and assisting property owners with questions on financial matters. • Review and enter property invoices to ensure proper coding of accounts payable, approving and posting monthly activity. • Monitor cash balances. • Review and prepare bank reconciliations. • Advising, assisting, and reviewing work of on-site staff, provide direction and support on any pertinent accounting matters. • Calculate monthly management fees. • Calculating and preparing distributions as required or requested by clients. • Assist and prepare tax returns for all properties. • Process and monitor all real estate, supplemental, secure and unsecure property taxes for the entire property portfolio. • Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task in a detail oriented environment. • Strong verbal & written communication skills. Show less



Urban Lending Solutions

• United States
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Loan Modification Underwriter

  • Feb 2012 - Oct 2012

  Assist borrowers on retaining their homes through modifying customer’s interest rates, principal balances, extending terms and forbearance of principal. Through the loan modification program the Department Of Justice is modifying the GSE/Non-GSE and HAMP/Non-HAMP loans associated with Bank of America customers. • Designated as Subject matter expert on procedural guidelines. • Helped reduce failure rate from 17% to 8.3%. • Articulates and implements best practices for team and organizational goals. • Analyze and underwrite financial position of customers. • Calculate income to determine debt ratio. • Underwrite GSE (Government Sponsored Enterprise) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae loans, Non-GSE, HAMP, and Non-HAMP modification programs. Show less



Archstone

• Real Estate
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Accountant II

  • Oct 2001 - Jun 2011

  Accountant II Designated liaison between Archstone and mortgage lenders for all mortgage related transactions. Responsible for the preparation of financial statements for mortgage and bond lender, processing journal entries related to mortgage debt, record and analyze monthly activity, interest accrual for mortgage and construction loans. Also responsible for processing revenue checks, processing payments through accounts payable, account coding and maintaining the business licenses for the properties. • Analyzing the financial position of the West, East and Northeast regions to ensure the proper accounting procedures were followed for month-end close. • Develop regional accounting procedures for processing journal entries which help to reduce month-end correction and reduced month-end by 2 days. • Reconciling and researching GL balance sheet accounts for accuracy and correcting discrepancies through journal entries. • Analyzing mortgages and bond lender’s accruals, interests and payments related to all loans with lenders. Maintained all requirements from the lenders and allowed the company to meet its obligation on time. • Communicated with all the regional division monthly on new procedures and processes. Accountant I • Processing customer payments, creating invoices, performing monthly reconciliation for accounts receivable accounts, reconciling bank statements and processing journal entries. • Process business licenses for all states, save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest penalties by negotiating pass penalties. • Created checklist for acquisition and disposition to analyze all outstanding invoices due. The checklist eliminated unnecessary interest charged, past due notices and reduced call volume with the accounts payable department. Show less



Sybase

• Englewood, CO 80111

• Accounting Specialist

  • Dec 1999 - Oct 2001

  Processed customer payments, created invoices, performed monthly reconciliation for accounts receivables accounts, reconciled bank statements, process payment through accounts payable, account coding and processed journal entries. Specific Accomplishments • Created queries to instantly download information to reflect where all customer payments were posted. This decreased labor time in creating Excel spreadsheets • Implemented process to save time on crediting the company on foreign checks. Working with the banks and allowing automatic credit of a foreign item. This reduced processing time from 10 days to 2 days. Show less



ADT

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Manager Recurring Payments

  • Jan 1993 - Apr 1999

  Managed a team of 24 personnel in the Accounts Receivable department to include: hiring, firing, motivating, developing and training staff members. Other duties included processing payroll, reconciling bank statements, processing journal entries and managing special projects. Specific Accomplishments • Saved 5 hours per employee of weekly overtime by designing an ACH, banking by phone, and credit card process to streamline and reduce setup time for new customers. • Initiated a training program for all customer services and collections personnel to educate them on new procedures and products associated with the accounts receivable department. Show less