SummarySenior-Level Accountant Analysis Reporting Fund Accounting Global Team Leadership Highly-accomplished, solutions-driven leader and visionary senior-level accounting professional with unique combination of project financial management, process improvement, fund accounting, data collection analysis, reporting and strategic offshore partnering skills and expertise. HighlightsCORE COMPETENCIES AccounFinancial statement analysistingFinancial Management AnalysisFinancial Statement Preparation GLExcel SpreadsheetsData Collection AnalysisStatutory ReportingReconciliationsProcess ImprovementProject Management Mutual Fund AccountingStrategic PlanningPolicy Procedure DevelopmentResearchSecurities PricingP L NAV CalculationsInternational Accounting Standards GAAP ComplianceAnalytical Problem Solving Technology IntegrationCommunicationsRelationship-BuildingTeam Building TrainingClient ServicesAnalytical reasoningBudget forecasting expertisePeopleSoft knowledgeComplex problem solvingEffective time managementStrong organizational skillsFlexible team playerFinancial statement analysis ExperienceSenior Accountant,08 2013-CurrentAcadia Healthcare Salt Lake City,UT,Oversee all accounts, ledgers and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate GAA standards and regulatory requirements.Support Internal Control for receipt of revenue, cost and program budgets with actual expendituresConsistently analyze financial data and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner. Monitor progress and business changes and keep senior leadership abreast of the organization financial status.Assist HCE leadership in the annual budgeting and planning process administer and review all financial plans and compare to actual results with a view to identify, explain and correct variances as needed.Support the CFO Executive Vice President in engaging the board s audit and finance committees around issues and trends in financial operating models and delivery.Oversee all financial, project programs, grants accounting ensuring that expenditures are consistently aligned with grant and program budget throughout the fund period.Responsible to gather financial reporting material for government, corporate and foundation grants.Manage cash flow forecasting by working in partnership with the program leaders and CFO.Track the performance of invested assets in keeping with policies and investment guidelines.Responsible for organizing all the necessary documents for year-end audit as well working closely with auditors.Responsible of processing biweekly payroll for four-hundred employees with minimal errors.Captured cost savings by reviewing all procedures, including backup, used by Accounts Payable and identified corrected discrepancies in accounts. Improved relationship with AP to enable working together with an open approach to problems.Tightened financial and IT controls and mitigated risk by performing internal audits on a quarterly basis, conducting quality assurance reviews and ensuring regulatory compliance.Utilized strong technical skills to answer managers technical questions, including Excel inquiries. Worked with Human Resources manager to resolve technical issues regarding payroll.Senior Accountant,08 2005-12 2012Acadia Healthcare San Marcos,CA,Optimized achievement of financial accounting goals by maintaining and reviewing monthly weekly journal entries, as well as reconciling components of net book value and income statement between inventory and GL.Eliminated accounting errors in financial documents by analyzing discrepant data, identifying issues, correcting errors and communicating corrective actions to offshore partners. Verified information in GL and reports.Elevated financial and technical performance by implementing efficient processes for analysis of accounting data and reporting. Performed asset income reconciliations and prepared financial statements.Enhanced statutory reporting capabilities by creating IMIS program requiring only account number and date range to obtain supporting information in required CUSIP format summed up for quarterly annual (Schedule D) reports.Reduced time to create reports by more than 75 from days to hours using Excel spreadsheet containing formatted information for all accounts, thereby eliminating need for each accountant to format individual account information.Took the initiative to teach myself use of the Oracle-based Investment Management Information System (IMIS), including programming and setting up fields for generation of reports, performed on my own time.Expanded technical capabilities using Excel spreadsheets in the Bloomberg terminal to write VLOOKUP formulas across accounts to call information from Bloomberg to linked spreadsheets for calculation of accrued interest.Increased operational efficiency with time required to verify accrued interest shortened from 1 day to 1 or 2 hours by using Excel spreadsheet to provide information for all securities, freeing time for more complex issues.Coordinated 3-month training of offshore partners in Jersey City, NJ by developing Excel template and collaborating with coworkers and partners to schedule training in preparation for outsourcing.Chosen for excellent leadership abilities to build and lead team in producing a detailed manual, still in use today, to improve understanding of statutory reporting. Leveraged strengths of team members to complete manual.Minimized errors and incorrect filings in statutory reporting through successful use of manual by entire group, including accountants and offshore partners, which outlines procedures for quarterly and annual reports. EducationBachelor of Science Business Administration, Finance,Expected in-Manhattan College-Riverdale,NYGPA Status-Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentration in Finance SkillsAccountant, Accounting, Excel, Accounts To, Filings, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Gl, Inventory, Journal, Offshore, Oracle, Reconciliations, Reconciling, Schedule D, Securities, Statutory Reporting, Training, Finance, Accounts Payable, Ap, Audit, Audits, Basis, Budget, Budgeting, Budgets, Cash, Financial Reporting, Financial Reports, Forecasting, Human Resources, Internal Audits, Payroll, Progress, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Compliance, Client Services, Collection, Data Collection, Financial Management, Fund Accounting, Gaap, Integration, Integrator, Maestro, Ms Office, Mutual Fund, Peoplesoft, Pivot Tables, Powerpoint, Pricing, Problem Solving, Process Improvement, Project Management, Quickbooks, Solutions, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Word  SEP  Job Description As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for helping design, build, test, deploy and operate highly scalable solutions for the canonical asset management system for all of Oracles next generation Cloud Infrastructure. You should be a rock-solid coder, and a distributed systems generalist who can dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems and design broad distributed system interactions. Your passion for excellence combined with your experience will help you be an outstanding technical contributor but also help you mentor more junior engineers. You should be able to work independently and as part of a team in an Agile environment. You should be an expert communicator to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in multiple locations around the globe. You should also be able to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment, be results-driven, and thrive even when faced with ambiguity and uncertainty. Most importantly, you should be a team player, someone who is eager to learn, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team succeed. ResponsibilitiesRequired Experience BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experienceAbility to obtain US Government security clearance.Minimum 8 years in a software-engineering related position, at least half of which was in an AgileDevOps environment 5 years of Java development 5 years of Python development5 years of experience with REST API developmentStrong knowledge of LinuxUnix fundamentalsStrong knowledge of microservices, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistenceExcellent troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning skills.Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to all audiences.Desired Experience and SkillsExperience with build automation, continuous integration, or continuous deployment tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Grunt, RunDeck, Ansible, etc.Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure is a strong plus.Working knowledge of or experience in data center infrastructure and operations is a plusExperience with Infrastructure-As-Code Tools like Terraform is a strong plus.Experience with React JavaScript framework is a plusExperience in developing and designing solutions with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.Experience testing web-based applications with REST APIs, especially applications requiring IAMSAML authentication.Experience with observability tools and practices.Experience with working flexible hours and working with team members in a global setting with distributed time zones.