Michael Flynn

About Michael Flynn

Hands-on Nonprofit Accountant Trained Executives and staff in procedures. Saved Cash by working with Bank to block any unathorized electronic payments. Guided Director and staff to spend per budgets- Administered government grants; budgeting, reporting, and amending contracts- Budgeted costs and wrote an explanation- Month-End closing; revenue, allocated costs, salaries, benefits, etc- Assisted Comptroller- Wrote significant financial information for the Board- Explained grants, and processes to auditors- Summarized current grant budgets, deadlines, contacts, etc- Revenue and Cash Receipts- Approved check requests- Prepared financial statements, and receivables payment schedules. ACCOMPLISHMENTS- Directed grant spend-out of $1.5 million center- Simplified grant spend-out process; reduced 40 + pages to 2 of significant cost variances- Initiated writing processes- Saved cash by blocking unathorized electronic payments. Created new process; saved $20K annually- Tightened internal controls payable requests. Natural right-hand to a Controller. Specialties: Creating strong working relationships, grant processing writing, training. “. a goal oriented person within, structured roles.\".considerate, accepting, agreeable.” “…calm, stable, dependable and cooperative. … ” “… quite socialable, enthusiastic, cheerful, genial, and outgoing.” “… quite logical, reflective, analytical, factual, and practical. ….”

Experience

1. Instructor

   Chess Scholars

   Oct 2013 — Present · Fox River Valley, IL, US

   Chess Instructor at elementary schools. Provided instruction on rules, values, tactics and ran a tournament. for grade school students.

Education

• Carthage College

  Bachelor's Degree, Accounting

  1975 — 1979

• Waubonsee Community College

  QuickBooks

Skills

• Cost Accounting
• Cash Flow
• Government Contracts
• Job Costing
• Auditing
• Grant Writing
• Depreciation
• Internal Controls
• Internal Audit
• Hyperion Enterprise
• Accounting Procedures
• Excel
• Financial Accounting
• Payroll Processing
• Bookkeeping
• Payroll
• Accounts Receivable
• Financial Statements
• Cash Management
• Volunteer Management
• Budgets
• Accounts Payable
• Account Reconciliation
• Bank Reconciliation
• Fixed Assets
• Journal Entries
• Nonprofits
• Financial Analysis
• Volunteer Recruiting
• Microsoft Excel
• Invoicing
• Reconciliations
• Budgeting
• Writing
• Grants
• Finance
• Employee Benefits
• Accounting
• Benefits
• Process Improvement