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Delton Farnandes

 

3021 Fantom Court, Green Land, RA 60214

Phone:  321-620-7021

Email: dfarnandes41@yahoo.com

 

 Career Objective

An accountant offering seven years of experience in a well-rounded variety of positions and industries, seeking to utilize my skills in a supportive role in an organization.   

Employment History

·         April 2011 – Present: Group Accountant, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK

o    Working as the finance support for one research group and in charge of preparing the quarterly management reports to Group Heads.

Responsibilities:

o    Produce and tweak the quarterly management reports provided to the Groups and provide training to staff on these reports as well as seek ideas for improvements

o    Support the Sustainable Markets Group with any financial queries or activities including preparing financial reports to donors and assisting in budget preparation for proposals

o    Created the new timesheet template used by all staff and trained staff

o    Create and maintain the budget templates for data entry into the accounting system and trained staff on functionality

o    Prepare ad hoc reports as requested by Group Administrators, Group Heads, Head of Finance, or Director of Finance

o    Provide daily advice and training on processes and tools for new group accountant in the team

·         June 2010 – April 2011:  Temporary Accountant, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK

o    Set up the new management accounting position and a reporting pack for the organization and its groups and teams.

Responsibilities:

o    Created budget vs. actual reports for the institution, the groups, and specific projects and worked closely with the areas to ensure the reporting met their needs

o    Trained the new permanent Sales Ledger post on processing expense claims and company credit card transactions for employees

o    Provided training on daily bank reconciliations for GBP and foreign currency bank accounts

o    Trained ten program administrators on new budget file to load information into Sun Systems  

o    Determined and implemented processes and procedures for subcontracts and payment cycle

·         October 2008 – February 2010:  Senior Accountant, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

o    As the only accountant in my department, I was the lead for the production of the quarterly financial reports for use in executive-level and management decision making and acted as a reference for three financial analysts on a regular basis. 

Responsibilities:

o    Prepared quarterly P&L statements including budgets, actual, and forecasts for the university and 11 stand-alone departments

o    Prepared ad hoc reports and analyses at the request of VP of Finance and Executive Vice President including year-over-year competitor analysis to benchmark expenditures and flowcharts for international degree program approval processes

o    Reviewed budget entries on a daily basis; assisted in the analysis, reconciliation, and consolidation of the annual budgets

o    Acted as the contact for internal audit of international study programs

o    Assisted in the annual salary planning process by providing detailed reconciliation between HR information and excel-based merit increase spreadsheets for full-time employees

·         January 2008 – October 2008:  Staff Accountant, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

o    Working to record and reconcile the university’s main revenue streams, I worked across the treasury, student accounts, payroll, and payables functions to resolve issues.

Responsibilities

o    Reconciled various accounts including cash to bank statements and receivables

o    Prepared and booked journal entries for all types of accounts

o    Prepared year-end schedules for external financial audit       

·         February 2007 – January 2008: Corporate Auditor, USG, Chicago, IL, USA

o    As a member of the internal audit group, I worked to ensure that USG’s various departments were in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley. 

Responsibilities

o    Performed yearly SOX audits of departments including Capital Assets, Revenue, Employee Benefits, Payroll, Strategic Sourcing, and subsidiary Close the Books processes

o    Performed unplanned audits on R&D and the Headquarters Relocation

o    Performed an operational audit of the Greenville ceiling tile plant

·         October 2005 – February 2007: Corporate Accountant, USG, Chicago, IL, USA

o    As part of the consolidation accounting team, I prepared the corporation’s financial statements. 

Responsibilities

o    Performed monthly, quarterly, and yearly closing duties including preparing the income statement and balance sheet, preparing the work paper support for the 10-Q and 10-K, calculating ROI and other ratios, and preparing monthly account audits

o    Oversaw accounting for charitable contributions; prepared yearly financial statements for donations for use by upper management

·         January 2005 – March 2005: External Auditor - Internship, UHY Advisors, Houston, TX, USA

o    For a number of companies in various industries, I helped to prepare the annual financial audits.

Skills

·         Microsoft Office (Excel: pivot tables, vlookups)

·         PeopleSoft/Oracle Financials (reports, query writing, drilldowns)

·         Sun Systems (report writing, journal entries, query writing, budget management)

·         Hyperion Reporting

Educational Qualifications

·         2006 – 2009 Masters of Business Administration, Finance – DePaul University

·         2001 – 2005 Bachelor of Business Administration, Accountancy – Baylor University

References are available on request.

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