Laura Palinkas

Senior Accountant at ANSAC
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(386) 825-5501
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US
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  • English -

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Experience

    • United States
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Accountant
      • Mar 2021 - Present
    • United States
    • Veterinary Services
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Senior Accountant
      • Feb 2019 - Feb 2021

      • Work with department in upgrading ERP system, take the lead in creating a Fixed Asset subsystem to ensure correct accounting life cycles and deprecation. • Take the lead within the organization to implement and train all employees to use Concur Expense Reporting. This includes writing training documentation, system reports and overall system maintenance and approval process. • Support daily, monthly and quarterly Hospital’s revenue, working with IT to ensure the correct information is being posted from the Hospital’s PMS systems to the Organizations Revenue Portal. • Review and post monthly Hospital’s AR activity; including deposits, write-offs, adjustments and sales tax. Work with IT to improve and automate this process. • Take the lead within the organization in working with CohnReznick in creating a Fixed Asset system for the Organization to ensure correct accounting life cycles and deprecation is posted accordingly.

    • France
    • Information Technology and Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Staff Accountant
      • Jul 2017 - Feb 2019

      • Support monthly, quarterly and annual close of the Neopost District offices through the completion of financial P&L’s, journal entries, account reconciliations and analysis.• Review monthly District gross margin reports for accuracy reporting of revenue and COGS.• Successfully managed district’s physical inventory and reconciliations.• Reconcile various company balance sheet accounts to be in compliance with SOX auditing standards.

    • Postage Administration Representative
      • Aug 2015 - Jul 2017

      • Execute daily funds transfers between customer’s funding accounts.• Research missed applied payment checks through bank and account reconciliations.• Partner with colleagues in resolving customers’ reporting discrepancies and funding issues.• Ensure compliance with USPS requirements along with SOX1 auditing standards and guidelines.

    • United States
    • Semiconductor Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Market Research Interviewer
      • Aug 2002 - Jun 2017

      •Conduct global market research surveys of high tech consumers that have required technical support. •Report ratings and consumer comments to company databases. •Maintain global client relationships and ensure quality of client satisfaction. •Conduct global market research surveys of high tech consumers that have required technical support. •Report ratings and consumer comments to company databases. •Maintain global client relationships and ensure quality of client satisfaction.

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Associate Manager – Contract Manufacturing
      • Jan 1998 - Aug 2002

      • Managed six employees while working with the 25+ Third Party Manufacturers utilized by Clairol for its outside production. Notably PAC in Los Angels CA; Bocchi Laboratories in Santa Clarita, CA; and Medicia Pharmaceuticals Corporation in Dayton, NJ. • Successfully managed department with finished goods production resulting in a 36% growth in a two-year period. • Lead the process to manufacture Work in Process (WIP) and Packettes, along with special deal bundles within club stores. • Partnered with various departments (QA, R&D, Operations, and Marketing) within Clairol to ensure accurate and timely product launches; 25 different products over a three-year period.

    • Senior Financial Analyst – Consumer Products Finance
      • Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

      •Performed reporting and analysis on Clairol’s consumer products operations. •Prepared monthly, quarterly and annual consolidated statements for Profit Review and Projections. •Assisted in the design, development and implementation of Clairol Product Division’s new financial database (Hyperion), including logic, allocations and report writing. •Prepared an in depth review of all Trade Rate accrued by the division, resulting in an achievable annual projected expense, identifying annual savings of $200k. •Maintained Clairol Product Division’s financial data base; including, but not limited to creation of new accounts, balance checks and reports. •Completed special financial reporting projects as requested.

    • Senior Financial Analyst – Financial Services, Operations
      • Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

      •Fulfilled analysis and reporting requirements for Clairol’s domestic manufacturing operations. •Prepared monthly and annual consolidated statements for Profit Review and Projections. •Assisted in annual cost center and product standard costing process. •Improved monthly reporting and annual projections, by creating the manufacturing financial reporting data base. Established monthly procedures for its use in downloading actuals and inputting projections. •Redesigned the monthly reporting schedules for Profit Review and Projections, streamlining processes, improving accuracy and ensuring proper calculations. •Developed a new financial reporting model to report monthly actual production and projections by department and EDP. This model also reported on absorption credited to each department based on production volume. Implementation allowed for strategic and role appropriate hiring. •Prepared special costing projects for bundling packages as required. •Maintained manufacturing financial data base.

    • Business Planner
      • Jan 1991 - Jan 1994

      •Performed research and analysis on competitors, worldwide markets and business environments to identify and assess potential new areas for worldwide operations. •Assisted in coordination and preparation of business units’ strategic plans’ and the Annual Report. •Researched, designed, developed and implemented quarterly International Market Review that highlights economic conditions of foreign countries where Pitney Bowes Financial Services (PBFS) has business partners. •Undertook special financial services projects as required.

    • Senior Accountant
      • Jan 1987 - Jan 1991

      •Ensured accounting transaction integrity, accuracy, consistency and uniformity through maintenance of general ledger system and other management reports. •Created and implemented various timesaving Lotus models that streamlined process and ensured calculation accuracy. •Ensured accounting transaction integrity, accuracy, consistency and uniformity through maintenance of general ledger system and other management reports. •Created and implemented various timesaving Lotus models that streamlined process and ensured calculation accuracy.

Education

  • Fairfield University
    Master of Science, Financial Management
    1987 - 1992
  • Sacred Heart University
    Bachelor of Science, Accounting
    1981 - 1987

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