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SAMPLE 2
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| LINDA JOHNSTON |
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| 5674 West 76th Place Palmyra, VA 55678 . Home 345-785-4567 Office 345-789-0987
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| OBJECTIVE |
| To secure a responsible position as an Assistant
Controller/Senior Accountant. |
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HIGHLIGHTS OF CAREER
- Over twenty years experience in all accounting functions
including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable/Payable, Payroll and Cash
functions using
both proprietary and commercial software
- Assessed needs, developed curricula and conducted tax workshops
for bank holding company and 25 subsidiaries
- Adept at creating a wide variety of useful financial anagement
reports from mainframe and PC
systems
- Orchestrated University year-end general ledger close including
staff and mainframe scheduling, and constant reviewing to final trial
balance
- Hired, trained, supervised and
evaluated up to 9 general accounting staff managers in Payroll and
Accounts Payable
departments.
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GENERAL ACCOUNTING SKILLS
- Administered Federal,
State, and private grants for University faculty, providing liaison function to
ensure compliance.
- Highly proficient in preparing various financial statements
including quarterly and year end, consolidated, profit and loss, balance sheet
and supporting schedules; Instituted detailed schedules used by internal and
external auditors and responded to auditing inquiries.
- Administered outstanding Federal and State mortgages and bond
issues by planning and communicating with Controller and other accounting staff.
- Responsible for all new business start-up procedures
from
licensing to accounting system. |
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
Long history of working with the complete budget cycle in
various settings; Established policies and procedures for large educational
institution, awarding and budgeting restricted scholarship accounts to avoid
over-expenditure; As Board Treasurer for community group, assisted in
long-range financial planning and budgeting, Prepare and analyze income and
expense budgets and cost of sales reports using Lotus 1-2-3; Analyze and
adjust marketing dollars and techniques to improve
sales strategy. |
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ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
Designed manual and presented training in use of Lotus Macros to Accounting staff and
assisted in training clerical workers in the
use of PCs; Provided walk-in and telephone accounting support to faculty,
staff and students. Created an Accounting
Office Procedures Manual; Developed and presented multi-media interior decorating workshops used as marketing
tool; Skilled at communication with Accounting/IS professional as well as
non-technical staff. |
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| EMPLOYMENT HISTORY |
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| 9/91 ? Present |
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Owner/Operator DECORATING DEN Palmyra,
VA |
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| 1/90 - 9/91 |
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Tax Preparer PRO TAX Charlottesville, VA |
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| 1/78 - 9/89 |
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Senior Accountant UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
Controller s Office Richmond, VA | |
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Bachelor Degree in Business Administration
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Westminster College New Wilmington, PA |
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1975 |
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Certificate, Business Management
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University of Kentucky Lexington, KY |
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1977
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