Kevin Merrill
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Credentials
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Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management InstituteAug, 2014- Oct, 2024 -
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
VBOA - Virginia Board of AccountancyJan, 2014- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Cotton & Company LLP
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United Kingdom
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Senior Manager
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Sep 2018 - Present
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Manager
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Jan 2014 - Aug 2018
Managing consulting work to support a Shared Service Provider offering Oracle Federal Financial solutions to a Federal Agency. -Supervising the validation of financial statements and footnotes generated from the financial system for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-136, Financial Reporting Requirements. -Coordinating and maintaining all the financial statement and footnote mappings, including fund and object class… Show more Managing consulting work to support a Shared Service Provider offering Oracle Federal Financial solutions to a Federal Agency. -Supervising the validation of financial statements and footnotes generated from the financial system for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-136, Financial Reporting Requirements. -Coordinating and maintaining all the financial statement and footnote mappings, including fund and object class value-set tables needed to prepare the financial statements and footnotes in accordance with OMB Circular No. A-136. -Maintaining procedures for financial statement validations. -Supervising the validation of the mass deobligation process to ensure the process ran correctly and has the intended impact on the general ledgers and sub-ledgers. -Preparing and supervising staff in the preparation of year-end pre-closing journal entries for cancelling funds and general fund receipt accounts. -Preparing and supervising data cleansing tasks to help cleanup stale and invalid data on the general ledger. -Advising and assisting client personnel on a wide array of auditing and accounting matters.
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Supervisory Senior Auditor
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Jan 2009 - Dec 2013
Provided financial reporting and general accounting services for a Shared Service Provider and their Federal client. -Validated system generated financial statements to calculated balances from the trial balance. -Validated quarterly allocation process to ensure allocations were calculated correctly and applied to the correct programs. -Developed the agency's first Schedule of Spending and continue validating the quarterly Schedule of Spending. -Supervised staff in… Show more Provided financial reporting and general accounting services for a Shared Service Provider and their Federal client. -Validated system generated financial statements to calculated balances from the trial balance. -Validated quarterly allocation process to ensure allocations were calculated correctly and applied to the correct programs. -Developed the agency's first Schedule of Spending and continue validating the quarterly Schedule of Spending. -Supervised staff in resolving anomalies related to trial balance and financial statement relationships, abnormal account balances, and other potential accounting errors or inconsistencies. -Monitored parent/child trial balances as required by OMB Circular A-136 and helped to ensure proper parent/child reporting in DOL’s financial statements. -Provided on-site support, including preparing analyses and responding to questions on the working capital fund, upward and downward adjustments, pre-closing journal entries, and Department of the Treasury and OMB reporting requirements. -Assisted in the development and testing of upward and downward adjustment posting logic for various business processes and system modules. -Analyzed data, formulated alternatives, and recommended improvements to configurations to enhance reporting compliance, improve accounting in accordance with relevant standards, and improve efficiency through automation. -Advised senior-level management regarding the principal financial statements, footnotes, and other accompanying information, such as the Schedule of Spending. -Prepared and presented responses to questions from DOL’s financial statement auditor.
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Senior Auditor
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Apr 2007 - Dec 2008
Supported a Federal Agency with the implementation of a Momentum financial system. -Performed on-site and off-site user support for data processing. -Analyzed transaction processing and recommended configuration improvements, as well as business process improvements, to enhance data processing and improve efficiency through automation. -Wrote, updated, and reviewed business process procedures for the implementation of financial system. -Wrote, updated, and reviewed… Show more Supported a Federal Agency with the implementation of a Momentum financial system. -Performed on-site and off-site user support for data processing. -Analyzed transaction processing and recommended configuration improvements, as well as business process improvements, to enhance data processing and improve efficiency through automation. -Wrote, updated, and reviewed business process procedures for the implementation of financial system. -Wrote, updated, and reviewed procedures for multiple user roles in client's user manual. -Performed role-based training on the use of the financial system in conjunction with developing the related procedures.
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Staff Auditor
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Feb 2006 - Mar 2007
Conducted OMB Circular A-123 testing, including: -Created, updated, and review business process narratives and flowcharts. -Developed and maintained test plans for internal control testing. -Performed and maintained yearly risk assessments. -Analyzed risk assessment results and identifying high-risk offices for review. -Performed internal control testing, which included verifying procedures, reconciling data, re-performing procedures, and interviewing key… Show more Conducted OMB Circular A-123 testing, including: -Created, updated, and review business process narratives and flowcharts. -Developed and maintained test plans for internal control testing. -Performed and maintained yearly risk assessments. -Analyzed risk assessment results and identifying high-risk offices for review. -Performed internal control testing, which included verifying procedures, reconciling data, re-performing procedures, and interviewing key personnel. -Compiled testing results to be provided to management.
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Education
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Master's, Accounting -
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Accounting