Curriculum Vitae

Keegan L. Patterson

Resourceful accounting professional with expertise in systems implementation, software migration, project management, inventory control and variance analysis, policy and control review, fixed asset analysis, monthly close, and general ledger. 

Professional Experience

• Assisted clients with month-end reconciliations and closes, validated and maintained cost accounting and inventory control systems, performed fixed asset audit and supervised accounting software migrations.

• Helped clients improve on-time monthly closing and reduce preparation labor.

• Supervised day-to-day accounting, prepared financial reports, oversaw month-end close as well as process and policy development.
• Developed, revised, and implemented various accounting policies including credit and collections, inventory control, and fixed asset auditing policies and procedures.

• Assisted clients with month-end reconciliations and closes, validated and maintained cost accounting and inventory control systems, performed fixed asset audit and updated Sage database, reviewed and validated with monthly financial reports, and provided guidance to junior accounting staff. 
• Helped clients improve on-time monthly closing and reduce preparation labor.
• Increased client’s fixed asset database accuracy by identifying and validating over 95% of fixed asset inventory and identifying over 20% as subject to disposal.
• Assisted small business customers with initial government filings and payroll setup and performed end-of-year payroll true-up based on firm’s advice.
• Processed over 200 payroll runs in the first four weeks of January.

• Managed QuickBooks to Epicor 9 data migration and software customization; Created custom training and support documentation for Epicor.
• Managed multi-warehouse international inventory and implemented cycle counting program to identify process problems and dramatically reduce scrap rate by 47%.
• Prepared monthly financial reports for CFO, including utilization of advanced Excel features such as v-lookups, pivot tables and charts, forecasting, and modeling.
• Developed custom scripts, reports and dashboards based on requests from different departments. 

• Managed migration of paper-based accounting system to QuickBooks.
• Established accounting policies and procedures to bring accounting department in compliance with GAAP standards
• Performed internal audit to determine security weaknesses and recommended changes to management to strengthen system of controls; separation of duties.

• Full-charge accounting duties including payroll, monthly reconciliations, cash budgeting, preparing financial reports, internal auditing, A/P, A/R and collections. 
• Managed Board of Equalization sales and use tax audit & IRS payroll tax audit.
• Proposed and implemented methods to cut G&A expenditures by 28%.

• Responsible for general accounting including procurement and vendor contract negotiations, accounts payable and accounts receivable, expense reports, data entry and account management using SAP R/3 
• Prepared reports to assist with month-end closing.
• Assisted with office administration as a backup receptionist.

Skills & Software Experience