Experience

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  Twain Financial Partners

  • United States
  • Financial Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Senior Client Services Accountant

    • Feb 2022 - Present

    Twain Financial Partners is a full-service specialty finance firm with $4 billion in assets under management providing a full range of capital needs to real estate and renewable energy developments throughout the United States. Founded in 2013, the firm is based in St Louis, Missouri and maintains offices across the country.

  • Client Services Accountant

    • Oct 2018 - Feb 2022

    • Maintain accurate bookkeeping for each legal entity• Communicate with all partners within a deal structure in order to understand deal-specific nuances and to effectively problem solve• Act as point of contact for investors, CDEs and leverage lenders within the deal• Monitor cash flows through the NMTC deal structure• Prepare wire transfers/ACH for distributions, loan advances and payments, obtaining appropriate approvals• Review closing documents and reporting requirements, identifying any inconsistencies between loan documents and projections — work with attorneys/accountants to correct errors• Create and maintain leverage loan schedules and initiate payments• Prepare quarterly and annual financial statements• Facilitate audits and tax return preparation by third-party accounting firms• Provide instruction/guidance to CDEs within the managed deals• Calculate annual priority returns and/or excess cash distributions to the Investor• Collect annual fund management fees and expense reimbursements

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  Cushman & Wakefield

  • Greater St. Louis Area

  • Consultant - Cash Application Analyst

    • Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
    • Greater St. Louis Area

    • Resolve unapplied & on account cash items through thorough investigative research work• Research cash items using JP Morgan Receivables Edge and Workday accounting system. Additional subsystems include PeopleSoft and Salesforce.• Communicate with internal customers to gather the necessary information to clear unapplied cash• Understand service lines to be able to categorize, track & resolve unapplied cash• Understand the complexities and root causes for the generation of unapplied cash to seek ways to limit their occurrence in the future• Educate and train internal customers on the correct processes to avoid the generation of future unapplied cash• Utilize Excel to update the status of current unapplied cash items on the database• Drive team results by working as part of the larger unapplied cash team• Apply cash against outstanding invoices in Workday• Special projects as needed

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  EPIC Systems, Incorporated

  • United States
  • Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Purchasing/Accounting Specialist

    • Nov 2017 - May 2018

    Develop/Manage purchasing function – lead and execute strategies and procedures, Manage sales and use tax, including changes and tax related communications, develop strategy for purchasing excess parts on projects to reduce fabrication downtime and expedite shipping costs, Deltek Vision administration: troubleshooting, report management, uncommon entries, research and resolve project reporting issues, asset management and property tax assessment, administer corporate credit cards including selection, analysis, and rewards, research, analyze, and propose solution for electronic document management, research and analyze Crystal Reports as reporting solution, Administer and maintain corporate Dun & Bradstreet account

  • Accounting Manager

    • Nov 2016 - Nov 2017

    Direct daily AP, AR, and billing functions along with front office operations, hire all positions of accounting team as well as Front Desk Coordinator, developed new processes as team grew from 2 to 5 people, ddded Expense Report module to Deltek Vision accounting software to automate employee entry of expense reports thereby requiring fewer accounting team resources, ensure adherence with US GAAP to extent possible with team size, coordinate audits and other independent accountants as needed, perform monthly account reviews to ensure accuracy, manage and issue 1099 forms and B Notice administration, run overhead allocation & labor cross charge for month end, reconcile projects for month end closing, reduced paperwork handling/storage by moving to electronic records, drove initiative to begin shredding confidential project records, oversee purchasing functions

  • Accounting Supervisor

    • Oct 2013 - Nov 2016

    Manage and review Payables/Receivables/Billing/Collections, manage and supervise new client and vendor set up processes, file sales/use tax with appropriate state agency, run required month end reports, enter bi‐weekly payroll entries and monthly payroll accrual, review office budget spending, review accounts for taxable classification, and misplaced assets, review asset acquisition/disposal for quarterly entry of depreciation/amortization, provide purchasing training to new employees or personnel needing a refresher, order business cards, manage and oversee corporate services accounts, i.e.: mobile account, waste management, etc., manage corporate travel agent and employee travel needs

  • Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Coordinator/Purchasing Agent

    • Jul 2007 - Sep 2013

    Moved company AP process from manual to automated with Deltek Vision software, thereby allowing one resource to continue handling the job, enter all project and overhead invoices, credit card charges, and expenses, perform weekly check runs, weekly billing of projects to clients, maintain certificates of liability insurance for all contractors, open new vendor/client accounts and set up in system

  • Engineer/Project Manager

    • Oct 2004 - Jul 2007

    Complete mechanical design of seven station automated assembly machine, design camera enclosure/ lighting mounts/ framing components for vision inspection systems for food production, labeling, inspection, and testing, quote various projects – obtain pricing information, estimate hours, determine necessary resources, and present to customer, on-site measurements as needed

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  Hastings Manufacturing, Inc.

  • Greater St. Louis Area

  • Operations Manager

    • Jun 1994 - Oct 2004
    • Greater St. Louis Area

    Manage team building hot stamp presses/custom automated equipment:• Responsible for scheduling production of custom and standard machines• Direct activities for 12 employees in office, assembly, and machine shop• Overall responsibility for mechanical design of machines• Work with production manager, assembly personnel, and electrical engineer to build and trouble-shoot machines• Interface with machine shop (both in-house and outside contract) to produce all parts for equipment• Purchase components and materials necessary to build equipment• Work with customers and outside sales representatives to define customers’ equipment needs• Research and purchase new computer equipment, including hardware and software• Generate quotations for standard equipment and price any manufactured spare parts requested by customer• Customize and generate manuals for each projectRan front office while company searched for new office manager:• Learned all responsibilities of office manager• Invoiced accounts receivable, opened new projects, processed outbound shipments• Handled all insurance paperwork, completed end-of-month and end-of-quarter reports, trained new employee