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Professional Accountants manage financial records in an organization. Specific responsibilities emphasized in a Professional Accountant example resume are managing financial systems, offering financial advice, running financial audits, liaising with stakeholders, analyzing risks, checking financial information, maintaining accounting records, and preventing fraud. The ideal candidate should showcase in his or her resume accountancy expertise, good numeracy skills, integrity, confidentiality, attention to detail, accuracy, and analytical thinking. Computer competences are also necessary. Employers require a degree in accountancy and specific certificates.

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Professional Accountant

Reconcile daily warrant cancelations, refund, retirement tax adjustment departmental reports.

  • Monitor and correct insufficient payroll accounts.
  • Reconcile monthly on demands and manual payroll reports.
  • Assist with month-end closing by researching and math-auditing reconciling entries.
  • Assist with year-end closing by reversing 911 account entries used to clear insufficient account balances created during the accounting cycle.
  • Assist in updating purchasing pard records and payment activities.
  • Provide technical assistance with Flair system access to purchasing approvers.
Candidate Info
20
years in
workforce
15
years
at this job
C
Computer Programming
C
Web Design Services
BA
Accounting
2

Senior Professional Accountant

Serve as Senior Accountant in the Finance Department for the Fiscal Agency for North Carolina Medicaid led by DHHS.

  • In charge of setting up, collecting and paying levies from Healthcare Providers that owe money to the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Employment Security, and the NC Department of Revenue.
  • Troubleshoot and analyze financial issues such as banking, recoupments, and other money related transactions for Healthcare Providers that are too complicated to be answered by the CSC Call Center.
  • Assist in making sure the new Software system (started in July 2013) is working as it should be in recording all accounting transactions and calculating correctly the funds included in the Providers' 1099s.
Candidate Info
18
years in
workforce
1
year
at this job
BS
Accounting
BA
Psychology
3

Pre-professional Accountant

  • Reviewed services contracts for nonstandard terms and conditions
  • Prepared month end journal entries
  • Performed account reconciliations
  • Assisted in gross profit analysis of long term services contracts
  • Prepared cost reclassifications to ensure proper contract profitability
Candidate Info
7
months in
workforce
7
months
at this job
BS
Accounting
MS
Accounting Information Systems
4

Professional Accountant Specialist

  • Apply Governmental GAAP principles to State of Florida's financial accounts
  • Prepare Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the State of Florida
  • Analyze financial statements for accounting errors for 35+ state agencies
Candidate Info
4
years in
workforce
2
years
at this job
BS
Finance

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