Julie Gin Rico

• Management day-to-day accounting of Hotels and Restaurants in France and in US.
• Ensure that books are accurate every month end.
• Prepares yearly budget of the Hotels and Restaurant.
• Involve in preparing consolidated reports based on the adapted standards in France.
• Performs cashpooling/cash management for all the Hotels and Restaurants
• Process bills received from the vendors.
• Involved in Accounts Receivable. Ensures that open invoices are collected timely.

Client Management Reporting

• Facilitates client coordination and audit communication during US hours of the monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial reporting activities.

• Directly communicates with client's point of contacts and handles requests from them.

Middle and Back Office Support for Clients

• Perform review on financial reports including consolidated financials. Ensure accuracy of financial statements.

• Acts as a project manager on on-boarding client, and reviews initial set-up of clients on all accounting and other applications such as Quickbooks Online, Xero, Expensify, Bill.com, and etc.

• Set up and improve accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and maximize operational success.

• Assist team members in transitioning from one accounting software to another through extensive training and one-on-one support.

• Perform advanced reviews of business operational trends and expected obligations to prepare accurate forecasts.

• Review budgets, including capital appropriations and operating budgets, and communicated findings to senior management.

• Prepare accounts for industry audits and supported audit process.

• Review monthly general ledger closing activities, including journal entries and reconciliations.

• Handle month-end and year-end end finances by managing and reporting fixed assets and other data.

• Review balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.

• Identifies any out-of-scope work from the regular engagements and ensures proper billing.

• Perform AP and AR process review. Ensures that all information provided are accurate. Perform callbacks to vendors to verify the bills and payment method provided.

• Meets with engagement team members on a weekly basis to discuss the status of all the accounts,

the game plan for the week to meet any deadlines, and resolve any issues or questions raised by engagement teams.

People Management

• Reviews timesheets of the staff ensuring that all hours are in line with the budgeted hours and the staff's output.

• Develops staff thru regular coaching and provides timely performance evaluations, communicates job expectations, and monitors staff's performance progression.

General Accounting and Tax.

• Performs balance sheet accounts reconciliation and analysis.

• Prepares workbooks and financials for the period/month end closing of books on a timely manner.

• Records business related transactions and performs general ledger accounting and maintenance using accounting software.

• Ensures that all expenses are accrued, and all income and expense items are recognized in the appropriated period.

• Reconciled intercompany transactions with affiliates.

• Prepare 1099 Misc. workpaper and file 1099 Misc. through QuickBooks Online.

• Prepare and file Delaware Franchise tax.

• Accounts receivable/payable processing:

• Process customers' invoices.

• Posts and applies cash receipts against open customer invoices.

• Responsible for the resolution of invoice and cash posting or application issues and problem.

• Process vendors' invoices and employee expense reports.

• Responsible for the resolution of invoice and expense report issues and problems.

• Responsible for checking expense report against receipts.

• Initiate and review payment runs.

• Responsible for running reports.

• Monitor purchasing accruals.

Other functions:

• Prepares financials based on accounting standards, IFRS and GAAP.

Prepares non-accounting related tasks.

Communicate with US clients via email and call to discuss work related transactions

• Applied proper codes to invoices, files and receipts to keep records organized and easily searchable.
• Handled accounts payable documentation by reviewing month-end accruals.