Joseph Young

 Joseph Young- Orange Grove Blvd Loxahatchee, FL 33470- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Florida Crystals, West Palm Beach, FL05/18 to Present Senior Accountant Created all cost journal entries for Osceola and Okeelanta locations. Utilize pivot tables, sum if statements and vlookups in excel once the financial data is extracted from SAP and SAP BI in order to summarize according to GAAP standards. Produced and distributed weekly cost reports to the following: Mill, Shop, Hauling, and Harvesting. These reports incorporated a consolidated summary level detail, waterfall graphs, and variance analysis of all the cost centers in each of the reports. These reports compared the weekly dollars per ton and the total tons per week compared to the year to date, the budget, last year to date, and last year’s final. Assisted with creating the Osceola and Okeelanta mills budgets in excel by cost center to help in forecasting the company’s overall performance for the year. Submitted these excel files to corporate for review and possible upload into SAP. All Fixed Farming Assets are added and disposed for Osceola and Okeelanta farms in SAP. Created efficiencies by working with the SAP BI programmers to create BI reports for Mills, Shops, Hauling and Harvesting cost reports. These reports had never been mapped and created in SAP BI before. Once this was finalized in SAP BI, this cut down the manual process of creating the cost reports in excel and allowed for better research on material variances for senior management. Pero Family Farms, Delray Beach, FL03/16 to 05/18 Senior Accountant Created all cost journal entries for Florida, Tennessee and New York locations. Utilize pivot tables, sum if statements and vlookups in excel once the financial data is extracted from Famous in order to summarize according to GAAP standards. Enhanced and created the corporate budget in excel by cost center for three regions which included Florida, Tennessee and New York to help in forecasting the company’s overall performance for the year. Updated and tracked the Fixed Assets in excel for all Farm equipment for the three regions and made monthly journal entries to add or dispose of the assets. Created weekly variance analysis comparing last month to this month, last quarter to this quarter, last year’s quarter to date verses this year’s quarter to date, and last year to date verses this year to date. Responsible for running weekly P&L’s for each region and supplying variance explanations on significant changes to the Controller and CEO. Responsible for monthly inventory counts for seed and plastic while creating monthly adjusting journal entries within Famous. Univita Medical, Miramar, FL02/13 to 03/16 Accounting Manager Created all journal entries and reconciliations for Univita Healthcare Corporation. Utilize pivot tables, sum if statements and vlookups in excel once the financial data is extracted from CA Technologies in order to summarize according to GAAP standards. Managed a staff of 4 four employees. Produced monthly the Balance Sheet and P&L fluctuation explanations for the month end review with the Controller. Updated and tracked the Fixed Assets in the sub ledger system known as FAS and made monthly journal entries to add or dispose of an asset. Implemented Corporate accounting process improvements by extracting large amounts of data from CA Technology to develop more efficient timing for the financial results utilizing pivot tables and vlookups to reconcile accounts and present easy to understand comments for senior management. Florida Power and Light, Juno Beach, FL03/10 to 01/13 Accounting 1, Corporate Accounting Journal entries and account reconciliations for FPL Corporate accounting for intercompany, deferred rent, interest on certain FPL bank accounts, dividends, and contributions accounts. Monthly variance report with written explanations according to GAAP for the Balance Sheet and P&L. Reconciled all 760 intercompany subsidiaries. Reconciliation of the GAAP to FERC financial statements illustrating the reclasses between GAAP classifications verses FERC classifications for all regulatory accounts. Flash Executive Report distributed to Senior Management for FPL. This report lists out on a high level the revenue and the major expense categories such as Fuel, Purchase Power, O&M, Storm Recovery, Depreciation, and Taxes. Senior Management utilizes this report to close monthly. Fanizzi Associates, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL01/00 to 03/10 Controller Prepared the financial workbook in Excel for the CFO which included the B/S, P&L, Cash Flow, and statistical analysis of all the jobs illustrating monthly and year to date trends on the Revenues and Expenses according to GAAP. Reviewed, approved and managed a staff of 4 employees. Enhanced and created the first corporate budget by department. Responsible for the company transition moving from QuickBooks to Solomon. Variance analysis and write ups were completed each month on all Balance Sheet and P&L accounts. Successfully managed yearly client audits for customers like Johnson and Johnson and managed the year end audit process to help obtain a favorable opinion. Implemented the first 401K plan for the company and became the administrator. Vlassic Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ 01/92 to 01/00 Accounting Manager Managed, reviewed and tested the GL, AR and AP for accuracy according to GAAP in creating monthly financial statements and management reports with a staff of 10 employees utilizing AS400 and Oracle based systems. Managed all the cost accounting journal entries for month end in accordance with GAAP standards and supplied write ups for variances between actuals and standards to senior management. Part of the management team responsible for the company Budget process. Andersen, Philadelphia, PA 05/88 to 01/92 Auditor Client audits tested, sampled and reviewed accounting procedures against the financials to ensure that the GL, AR, AP and Inventory were accurately stated for the financials for the year to coincide with GAAP principles. EDUCATION La Salle University05/91 to 05/93 Master of Science in Business and Accounting La Salle University09/87 to 05/91 Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance CPA CANDIDATE CURRENTLY COMPUTER PROFICIENCY ExcelSage 300OracleSequelAccess Budget MaestroExpensablesJD EdwardsCognosAS400 Microsoft OutlookMicrosoft WordQuickbooksSAPBusiness Objects Banking SoftwareSolomonFASRossNetSuite FamousCA Technologies