An organized, detail-oriented, driven, reliable, and hardworking accountant with well-rounded experience in the public and financial accounting world, who wants and is willing to expand her expertise. A great team player, problem solver, and an enthusiastic role model to fellow employees.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
Blair C. Diaz CPA PC
Gainesville, GA
11.2025 - Current
Prepare and file sales tax, prepare financial statements, prepare engagement letters, and prepare payroll for nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
Clean up companies' QuickBooks files going back multiple years to ensure GAAP compliance.
Consulting individuals and organizations regarding proper accounting procedures and policies.
Senior Accountant (Acted as Assistant Controller)
Pan Am Dental Lab
Gainesville, GA
01.2025 - 11.2025
· Reconciling and maintaining current and long-term balance sheet account balances, including but not limited to cash, prepaids, and Goodwill accounts, accounts receivable, by either building, revamping, or updating any workpapers and investigating account balances and identifying any discrepancies.
· Recording any necessary journal entries to maintain ledger accounts.
· Contributed to training and delegating tasks to multiple new hires and current employees regarding handling accounts receivable, accounts payable, general accounting daily activities, month-end close activities, and problem-solving.
· Providing and exercising ideas and methods to help streamline processes to lead to a timelier month-end close and smoother accounting procedures.
· Assisting the divisional and corporate controller in daily problem solving and account investigations to identify discrepancies and assisted with updating and maintaining a weekly cash flow analysis.
· Worked daily with NetSuite ERP and Magic Touch operational software.
· Update and maintain a weekly cash flow analysis.
· Review fellow employees’ work to ensure accuracy and to confirm that the job is done correctly.
Senior Accountant
Century Fire Protection LLC
Duluth, GA
08.2023 - 01.2025
· Review and investigate monthly financial statements, notate any changes, discrepancies, or corrections that need to be made, and proceed with any necessary adjustments.
· Reconcile and maintain multiple companies' Balance Sheet accounts.
· Processing intercompany transactions, including settling invoices in AR and AP.
· Leading and assisting with many different projects, including a multi-million-dollar PO cleanup project and a project integrating a new tax software.
· Prepare and gather audit and tax information for multiple entities quarterly and annually.
· Excel, Dynamics(D365), Outlook, and Teams; proficient due to using these programs daily. I also have some experience with Avalara and Appian.
Accountant
Bull & Bull CPAs PC
Gainesville, GA
07.2018 - 05.2023
· Prepare payroll from start to finish for 25 to 30 companies on a monthly, bi-weekly, semi-weekly, or weekly basis.
· Calculate and pay sales tax amounts due, along with filing monthly, quarterly, and annual sales tax reports for Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
· Prepare monthly or quarterly financial statements for multiple companies. Prepare, organize, and file personal tax returns using Drake Software.· Develop excellent relationships with my 30-plus clients that I have worked with.
· Use QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Outlook Email, Word, Excel, Drake Software, Splashtop Business, and Adobe daily.
· Prepare and file annual and quarterly payroll tax forms and payments, including but not limited to W2, W3, W2C, W3C, 1099, 1096, 941, 940, G1003, GA DOL, AL DOL, and G7.
· Tax planning for individuals with a variety of companies.
Sales Representative, Accountant, and Secretary
Jackson & Associates, Inc.
Gainesville, GA
07.2014 - 06.2018
· Had daily face-to-face, electronic, and phone contact with various businesses and customers.
· Often worked with many different computer programs and systems, including most forms of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Adobe), CorelDRAW for operating the lasers, operating and using Act! Pro (customer database) and maintaining weekly payroll using Intuit through Bank of America. I also set up, maintained, and operated QuickBooks to help establish and execute sound financial decisions.
· Frequently gathered numbers to inform management of the company’s current financial status, along with helping to prepare and review tax documents and payments.