Remote Bookkeeper
DEBRA DODDS
PO Box 2633
Freeport, TX 77542
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SUMMARY
Offering the prospective employer ability to work independently to set up and keep good accounting records and systems, handles multistate payroll and daily bookkeeping, as well as, office management with supervisory duties if needed. Excellent public relations. I would like to work at home.
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
Set up Quickbooks customer billing to track job labor and costs, handled multi-state payroll for 25 staff with multi state projects biweekly. I was the Admin Asst/Bookkeeper for an environmental research firm for two years handled all daily bookkeeping duties, ran biweekly payroll for 25 multi-state staff in multi-state projects, paid all payroll liabilities and payroll taxes, handled large amounts of cash, did HR activities, paid employer dividends, and ran holiday bonus checks, tracked employee expenses and reimbursements, billed out time and materials in Quickbooks to projects, and did progress invoicing. Like to reconcile accounts; kept separate excel file to ensure all transactions were entered and balanced with my Quickbooks balance. I trained my successor and helped build a Quickbooks/office policy and procedure manual for successor. l love to crunch numbers and take things apart that are not working or balancing financially and fix them. I also helped prepare the books for taxes every year; and was on the frontline on any state or governing body audits. Needs an organized, efficient space.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE/SKILLS
* Experience preparing payroll and payroll tax returns for multi-state staff running multi-state projects
* Full-charge bookkeeping skills to include but not limited to: payroll and payroll taxes, invoicing clients, accounts payable, day to day recordkeeping, bank and cc reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, aging reports and collections management, financial reports, employee expense reimbursements, and bonuses, corporate dividends and draws, adjusting entries and journal entries, a/r, project expense tracking, employee benefits tracking, track licensing and insurance payments and reminders, vehicle/equipment maintenance records, employee appraisal and payrate tracking, hiring paperwork, accounting and office management procedures/policy manual updates, capital investments, depreciation/impairments, asset retirement obligations, leases, estimated and accrued liabilities, prepaid assets and deposits, intercompany transactions, credits, discounts, and allowances, internal control setup
* Experience working with QuickBooks: to include file and account setup, monthly/year end closings
* Account analysis and adjusting entry preparation, and public accounting experience
(I took business/personal income tax preparation, auditing and fraud accounting in my university courses, but no experience in them or in government or non-profit accounting; but I am familiar with those concepts: budgets, funds, variances)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
08/13 - 11/15 Admin Assistant (Bookkeeper), GW Scientific, Fairbanks, AK
01/07 - 10/07 Admin Assistant (Billing Assistant) Northern Industrial Services, Fairbanks, AK
07/03 - 12/06 Bookkeeper/Office Manager, Northern Mechanical Services, Fairbanks, AK
10/02 - 09/03 Admin Assistant/Billing Manager, Northern Lights Plumbing & Heating Services, Fairbanks, AK
07/02 - 09/02 Project Accounting Specialist, Manpower (City of Nenana), Nenana, AK
06/95 - 03/02 Admin Assistant (Supervisor), Fairbanks Native Association, Graf Healing/WICCH, Fairbanks, AK
(I worked 1 year doing Quickbooks bookkeeping for a plumbing and heating company in Fairbanks in 2002 but don’t list them as we left on uncertain terms. Also worked 9 months in 2007 for an Automotive Repair and Welding Company doing Quickbooks billing and reconciliations but their business burned down after I left; I think they left state.)
EDUCATION
Jemez Valley High School, Diploma (1981)
Colorado Technical University BSA in Accounting (2009)
Colorado Technical University MBA emphasis in Accounting (2015)
Colorado Technical University MSA (Accounting) 2016
Colorado Technical University MSM (Project Management) 2019
DEBRA DODDS
PO Box 2633
Freeport, TX 77542
------------ (email: ------------)
SUMMARY
Offering the prospective employer ability to work independently to set up and keep good accounting records and systems, handles multistate payroll and daily bookkeeping, as well as, office management with supervisory duties if needed. Excellent public relations. I would like to work at home.
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
Set up Quickbooks customer billing to track job labor and costs, handled multi-state payroll for 25 staff with multi state projects biweekly. I was the Admin Asst/Bookkeeper for an environmental research firm for two years handled all daily bookkeeping duties, ran biweekly payroll for 25 multi-state staff in multi-state projects, paid all payroll liabilities and payroll taxes, handled large amounts of cash, did HR activities, paid employer dividends, and ran holiday bonus checks, tracked employee expenses and reimbursements, billed out time and materials in Quickbooks to projects, and did progress invoicing. Like to reconcile accounts; kept separate excel file to ensure all transactions were entered and balanced with my Quickbooks balance. I trained my successor and helped build a Quickbooks/office policy and procedure manual for successor. l love to crunch numbers and take things apart that are not working or balancing financially and fix them. I also helped prepare the books for taxes every year; and was on the frontline on any state or governing body audits. Needs an organized, efficient space.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE/SKILLS
* Experience preparing payroll and payroll tax returns for multi-state staff running multi-state projects
* Full-charge bookkeeping skills to include but not limited to: payroll and payroll taxes, invoicing clients, accounts payable, day to day recordkeeping, bank and cc reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, aging reports and collections management, financial reports, employee expense reimbursements, and bonuses, corporate dividends and draws, adjusting entries and journal entries, a/r, project expense tracking, employee benefits tracking, track licensing and insurance payments and reminders, vehicle/equipment maintenance records, employee appraisal and payrate tracking, hiring paperwork, accounting and office management procedures/policy manual updates, capital investments, depreciation/impairments, asset retirement obligations, leases, estimated and accrued liabilities, prepaid assets and deposits, intercompany transactions, credits, discounts, and allowances, internal control setup
* Experience working with QuickBooks: to include file and account setup, monthly/year end closings
* Account analysis and adjusting entry preparation, and public accounting experience
(I took business/personal income tax preparation, auditing and fraud accounting in my university courses, but no experience in them or in government or non-profit accounting; but I am familiar with those concepts: budgets, funds, variances)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
08/13 - 11/15 Admin Assistant (Bookkeeper), GW Scientific, Fairbanks, AK
01/07 - 10/07 Admin Assistant (Billing Assistant) Northern Industrial Services, Fairbanks, AK
07/03 - 12/06 Bookkeeper/Office Manager, Northern Mechanical Services, Fairbanks, AK
10/02 - 09/03 Admin Assistant/Billing Manager, Northern Lights Plumbing & Heating Services, Fairbanks, AK
07/02 - 09/02 Project Accounting Specialist, Manpower (City of Nenana), Nenana, AK
06/95 - 03/02 Admin Assistant (Supervisor), Fairbanks Native Association, Graf Healing/WICCH, Fairbanks, AK
(I worked 1 year doing Quickbooks bookkeeping for a plumbing and heating company in Fairbanks in 2002 but don’t list them as we left on uncertain terms. Also worked 9 months in 2007 for an Automotive Repair and Welding Company doing Quickbooks billing and reconciliations but their business burned down after I left; I think they left state.)
EDUCATION
Jemez Valley High School, Diploma (1981)
Colorado Technical University BSA in Accounting (2009)
Colorado Technical University MBA emphasis in Accounting (2015)
Colorado Technical University MSA (Accounting) 2016
Colorado Technical University MSM (Project Management) 2019