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Kowsar Mohamud

Burnsville

Summary

Results-oriented accounting professional with several years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, and audit-related settings. Quick and eager learner with acute attention to detail and a consistent track record of identifying process improvements to drive quality, accuracy, and efficiency.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Accountant

Hartzell Aerospace Welding
Eagan
2025.01 - Current
  • Perform monthly fluctuation analyses on financial statements to identify potential accounting issues and investigate variances.
  • Analyze trial balances and other financial data.
  • Ensure transactions are recorded promptly and accurately in accordance with internal accounting policies.
  • Tie local ledger balances to central ERP ledger balances.
  • Assist the Controller with the month-end closing process, including reporting, general ledger reconciliations, expense accruals, journal entries and account analyses.
  • Lead the monitoring of HAW’s site progress in the close process and follow up on delays.
  • Develop and implement accounting procedures by assessing current procedures and recommending enhancements.
  • Drive initiatives for cost-cutting, continuous improvement and streamlining initiatives.
  • Serve as support for payroll, accounts payable, and other local accounting site functions.
  • Support other administrative duties that are required by the business
  • Managed accounts receivable activities such as invoicing customers, applying payments received, monitoring customer balances.

Accounting Associate

Channel Partners Capital LLC
2022.11 - 2024.10
  • Daily ACH processing includes generation of daily loan receivable collection files, processing of ACH returns, creation of NSF fee invoices, and posting of cash in the loan management system.
  • Post daily loan transactions in loan management system. Daily Accounts Receivable and accounts payable transactions. Resolve account discrepancies as well as bank recon, asset sales. Perform data entry as needed.
  • Completed bank reconciliations on monthly basis to ensure accuracy of financial records.
  • Assisted in preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts. Tracked fixed assets, calculated depreciation, chargeoffs, accrual and non-accrual record necessary journal

entries.

  • Assisted with monthly closing process, ensuring timely completion.
  • Manage daily credit card and employee expense report. Collaborate with auditors to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements during annual audits.
  • systems used ar Bill.Com, Sage Intacct, Power BI, Aspire, SalesForce.

Cash Management

CBRE
2021.09 - 2022.11
  • Working with high priority clients
  • Provided technical support on a variety of cash management systems including ACH, wire transfer, and positive pay services.
  • Performed daily cash management activities such as deposits, transfers, and wire payments.
  • Analyzing/pulling daily cash reports
  • Systems used Yardi
  • Analyzing client accounts/opening/closing accounts
  • Analyzing and approving multiple wire transfers
  • Working with multiple different banks such as Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Citizen Bank, Bank

of America.

Regulatory Support

TD Bank
2016.04 - 2021.06
  • Generated monthly cash flow reports for senior management, providing insights into liquidity positions and financial performance
  • Company Overview: Regulation D is a federal regulations that limits the number of withdrawals from savings and checking
  • Create 1099 &1042s for US and Foreign customer tax purposes
  • Process W8 & W9 for banking clients to verify their status in the United States
  • Verified that interest in accounts (IOLA) checking accounts that are reported to the state where the client accounts were opened
  • We used macros to run report and used V-lookup
  • Regulation D is a federal regulations that limits the number of withdrawals from savings and checking
  • Collaborated with various teams to keep records up-to-date and recommend suitable actions to rectify discrepancies
  • Processed and verified invoices and payments, including reconciling vendor statements and making timely payments
  • Processing Monetary transactions
  • Verified Bond transaction to proper account

Deposit Accounting

TD Bank
2015.05 - 2016.04
  • Processing monetary transactions
  • Verified Bond transaction to proper account
  • Reduced accounting department backlogs through automating and streamlining processes.
  • Prepared bank deposits, reconciled invoices and processed payments.
  • Balanced daily receipts and prepared bank deposits in accordance with established accounting protocols.
  • Answered phone calls from other branches, contact centers and interoffice
  • Research accounts of clients, updated and forwarded to supervisor

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting

Strayer University
Washington, DC

Skills

  • ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
  • REPORTING
  • AUDITING
  • ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
  • General ledger reconciliations
  • Accounts receivable management
  • Expense accruals
  • Problem solving
  • Team collaboration
  • Data analysis
  • Statement reconciliation
  • Tax preparation
  • BANKING
  • FINANCE
  • GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTING
  • BALANCE SHEETS

Timeline

Staff Accountant

Hartzell Aerospace Welding
2025.01 - Current

Accounting Associate

Channel Partners Capital LLC
2022.11 - 2024.10

Cash Management

CBRE
2021.09 - 2022.11

Regulatory Support

TD Bank
2016.04 - 2021.06

Deposit Accounting

TD Bank
2015.05 - 2016.04

Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting

Strayer University
Kowsar Mohamud