Debra Finney

About Debra Finney

Accounting professional with extensive years of experience in financial accounting, which includes accounting for Fixed Assets, Construction in Progress projects, Leases, General Ledger account reconciliations, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and management experience including the hiring of staff, annual employee performance reviews. Experience also includes working with Accounts Payable, Project/Facilities departments, and Vendors regarding invoices pending payment and determining whether or not an invoice should be paid. I have also participated in the implementation of accounting systems and system upgrades from a user perspective. I have experience with working with the following accounting systems, Epicor, Peoplesoft, Lawson, Oracle Project Tracking, Great Plains, and FAS(Fixed Asset System).Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office Applications, Word, Excel and Power Point.I am a team player, who works well with others, detail oriented, meet deadlines for monthly, quarterly and annual deliverables, self starter, adapt to change easily and communicate effectively.

Experience

1. Senior Accounting Analyst

   IBM

   Aug 2018 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   As a Sr. Accounting Analyst Responsibilities include the following:• Managing the Construction in Progress Projects by working with the Facilities and Lease Administrator to ensure that projects were closed out and submitted for capitalization in the Fixed Asset Accounting system upon completion.• Assisted Accounts Payable with invoices that were pending payment by providing the department with a report that showed a list of invoices along with the PO number associated with that invoice and a comment stating the status of the Purchase Order (PO) such as “Closed” “Open-due to items not received”, etc. Based on the PO status I would notate on the report which invoices could be paid and which ones would remain on “Hold”. • Assisted in month-end close process, which included 1)reviewing invoices recorded in the Construction in Progress clearing account to determine if the expenditure qualify as a capital expenditures or should be reclass to expense; 2)entering journal entries in GLUI and iERP general ledger systems; 3)reconciling the Construction in Progress clearing/in-transit account to ensure that the only invoices/transactions remaining in the account apply to projects that were not completed and invoices that posted to the clearing account after the cut off for submitting capital expenditures for capitalization; 4) Depreciation Expense accruals based on invoices/transactions remaining in each asset category clearing account and 5) Balance Sheet accruals process include reviewing PO’s generated through month-end, check the PO status, check in Doc Link to see if an invoice is listed for that PO, determine if the PO qualify as a capital PO and then do the accrual entry based on the outcome of the review and research process. • Responsible for various reports and reconciliations after the close process such as the Comparison Report, which compare the assets in SAP to the assets in IMS inventory system, Net Book Value and Depreciation Expense Reports.

Education

• The University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business

  BBA, Accounting

  1978 — 1983

Skills

• Business Process Improvement
• Microsoft Office
• General Ledger
• Financial Forecasting
• Budgets
• Auditing
• Finance
• Accounting
• Microsoft Excel
• Financial Analysis
• Tax
• Financial Accounting
• Management
• Fixed Assets
• Expenses
• Capital Budgeting
• Financial Reporting
• Microsoft Word
• Pivot Tables
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Variance Analysis
• Project Management
• Budgeting
• Account Reconciliation
• Peoplesoft