Perry Temchin

Experience

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  Semi-Alloys, Inc.

  Oct 1979 - Aug 1980

  Cost Estimator

  This company is a manufacturer in the semiconductor industry.I calculated the material amounts for inventory control and amounts of plastic raw material needed to be ordered.

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  AIG

  Oct 1982 - Jan 1983

  Consultant

  Worked for major insurance company.Posted, reconciled, calculated, and checked insurance transactions.

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  New York City Health and Hospital Corporation

  Nov 1983 - Feb 1984

  Consultant

  Worked in the capital budgeting department. Reviewed prequalification applications for contractors bidding on construction programs.

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  Leshkowitz & Co.

  Feb 1984 - Aug 1985

  Staff Accountant

  This is a public accounting firm.• Prepared accounting journals and financial statements.• Audited and analyzed financial statement accounts.• Observed inventory, confirmed cash and accounts receivables.• Composed letters for problem resolutions.• Organized net worth data for client resulting in statements of greater clarity to the client.• Prepared corporate, partnerships, S Corporation, and individual tax returns.

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  MCI Corporation

  Feb 1986 - Aug 1986

  Consultant

  Working in the purchasing department I clarified relevant information for making a financial decision by preparing buy versus lease equipment analysis to aid in making a decision with the equipment.

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  Barr Laboratories

  Dec 1986 - Dec 1988

  Staff Accountant

  This company is a manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals.• Prepared financial statements, sales tax, and payroll tax returns.• Increased the quality and clarity of fixed assets report by adding more detailed descriptions of assets.• Analyzed financial statement accounts.• Took inventory.• Prepared and printed tax form 1099.• Involved with preparing financial statements for the company's public offering.

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  Computer Systems Repair, Inc.

  Dec 1988 - Jun 1990

  Staff Accountant

  This company services personal computers.• Prepared and reviewed financial statements, sales tax returns, and payroll tax returns.• Budgeted and forecasted cash requirements. Used Lotus 1-2-3 to aid in this process.• Analyzed financial statement accounts.• Interviewed candidates for accounting positions.• Increased effectiveness by creating spreadsheets during preparation of financial statements.

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  Technicon(now a part of Siemens Diagnostics)

  Dec 1990 - Mar 1991

  Consultant

  This company deals with medical diagnostic equipment.Reviewed and reconciled fixed asset ledger to the general ledger.Prepared schedule of construction in process.

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  Hertz

  Sept 1991 - Oct 1993

  Accounting Supervisor

  This is an insurance division of a major car rental corporation.• Supervised three people.• Prepared financial statements and general journal entries and used Lotus 1-2-3 to assist in doing this.• Examined, analyzed, and discussed monthly financial statement accounts.• Reviewed accounts payable invoices.• Aided in automation of the accounts payable cycle.• Monitored capital expenditures and budgets.• Oversaw daily customer escrow account funding activity.• Maintained fixed asset records including monthly fixed asset schedules.• Streamlined the processes of preparing routine journal entries, monthly account analysis, and tracking cash activity by creating spreadsheets. Show less

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  White Plains Child Day Care Association

  Nov 1993 - May 1996

  Assistant Financial Administrator

  This is a nonprofit child day care center.• Prepared financial statements and payables.• Reviewed general ledger accounts and used Lotus 1-2-3 to keep track of the analysis.• Reconciled bank accounts.• Assisted Financial Administrator with grant expenditure compliance and expense analysis.• Setup some accounting procedures and created a document listing these procedures.• Aided in converting accounting records from manual to computer based(Realworld) for more effective reporting. Show less

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  FUND E-Z Development Corp.

  May 1996 - May 2011

  Accountant/Controller/Accounting Software Support Technician

  My job accomplishments are:• Sped up processing tasks and improved reliability of data by creating Microsoft Access queries.• Discovered quick way to thoroughly verify complex support client billing records by creating intricate Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which combined two spreadsheets into one.• Improved current processes by using Microsoft Word to write accounting procedures where none existed.This is a small company that markets and develops accounting software for nonprofit organizations. While I was working there I performed a variety of tasks and had many roles at the same time mostly working between accounting and providing software support. What follows is what I did while I was there:Accounting functions:• Prepared and reviewed monthly and annual financial statements.• Prepared and reviewed payroll using Quickbooks and Paychex.• Prepared corporate tax returns using ProSeries tax software.• Prepared and reviewed payroll tax returns.• Prepared sales tax returns.• Recorded and reviewed payables, receivables, and cash transactions.• Reconciled bank accounts.• Made collection calls.• Periodically reviewed accounting procedures and updated them when needed.Accounting software support functions:• Provided telephone software support to clients to assist them in utilizing our nonprofit accounting FUND E-Z software package as well as helping them install the software on a single workstation or on a network. Some support calls also dealt with questions pertaining to the Medicaid billing package.• Researched solutions for clients and gained access to the clients’ computers through the internet to resolve their problems.Other duties included:• Uncovered problems to resolve when testing the company’s accounting software package during development of this application software. Show less

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  AIDS-related Community Services

  Nov 2011 - Dec 2011

  Consultant

  This is a nonprofit organization.Entering accounts payable transactions and consulting on the use of FUND E-Z software.

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  Columbia University

  Apr 2012 - Aug 2013

  Analyst, Finance Service Center

  This was a one year term position. Provided phone and e-mail support to users in transition of accounting software to Oracle-PeopleSoft. Served as a part of initial response support level and provided information, guidance, and referrals to other departments. Resolution of issues dealt with explanations of key financial concepts and system functionality to assist with questions related to the general ledger, chart of accounts, journal entries, budget checking, expense reclassification, verifying that purchase orders tie out with invoices involved , finance reporting, system access authorization for users, accounts payable, purchasing, vendor management, and university policies and procedure.In some situations guided the user to access various training materials and various documents to aid in performing the tasks in which they were inquiring about.Worked with document scanning software(Onbase) for verifying that associated documents were linked to the appropriate transactions. Also worked with the software ServiceNow to record and track issues from initiation to resolution, and to communicate with customers and vendors Show less

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  The Clear View School

  Mar 2014 - Sept 2023

  Achievements:•Created charts to forecast seasonal trends.• Streamlined process through automating recurring monthly payments to clients who received supplemental payments for personal allowance using Excel. Created Excel pivot tables, used Excel nested if statements, and exported data in creating spreadsheets. This resulted in cutting the processing time down from 2 days to 2 hours.• Improved effectiveness and internal controls with regard to reviewing payroll prior to the submission by creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with pivot tables comparing prior payroll to current with regards to hours, departments, gross payroll, and count of employees that were paid. • Increased efficiency and improved effectiveness in cash management by creating Excel spreadsheet for tracking daily cash balances and for forecasting cash in the short term. Created a chart showing trends for daily bank balance over 3 months. Verified checks cleared and outstanding using Excel’s match function to compare accounting software outstanding checks listed to those listed from the bank.• Improved internal controls by creating spreadsheets with pivot tables and using Excel’s match function to validate data such as: billing information before it is billed, reporting payroll deductions for retirement savings to the company that would be managing the retirement savings plan, and in preparation of yearend schedules.• Improved effectiveness and increased efficiency in reporting on relevant information in cash management of petty cash by setting up a Microsoft Access query and creating Excel spreadsheet that could be reused with new data. • Improved clarity of information for cash management by creating a cashflow report exporting our accounting data into Microsoft Excel and creating a pivot table to summarize the data. • Streamlined process of recording payroll entries through automating recurring monthly entries by creating Excel spreadsheets. Show less Achievements•Merged Medicaid database with accounting record database. Previously Medicaid billing was done and handled in one database and then the resulting summary records impacting accounting was recorded in another database. By merging these databases together it created a more efficient and effective process for creating and monitoring Medicaid billing. To do this I had to copy over many codes and imported and exported bills to set the bill counter to be higher than when the bill number was currently being used. Also in doing this process of merging the databases to get codes over, I used Microsoft Excel’s match and vlookup functions.•I used Microsoft Excel’s pivot function for summarizing Medicaid remittance payment information to show Medicaid file number, the type of billing and dates of service that were paid. •To see the summary of the general ledger distribution on a group of Medicaid billing, created custom reports in FUND E-Z to accomplish this.•In reconciling Medicaid billing to accounts receivable general ledger and the accounts receivable subledger, I used Microsoft Access to create Access crosstab queries to summarize the amount billed and quantity billed per month. The steps I took to do this are: I took the claims report by the type of billing and exported this as a text file into Microsoft Access. Then I used a crosstab query to show for each client the quantity and amount billed per month. I then exported this result into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.Duties•Prepare and review financial statements including preparation using accounting software FUND E-Z.•Created Medicaid billing files, processed Medicaid remittances, and reviewed this information.•Creating general journal entries for payroll.•Processed tuition billing invoices to school districts.•Recorded cash receipts.•Recording bank reconciliations.•Helped in preparing the budget.•Analyzed accounts for audit. Show less

  • Controller

    Jan 2015 - Sept 2023

  • Senior Accountant

    Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
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  Broadview at Purchase College

  Sept 2023 - May 2024

  Senior Accountant

  This is a start up operation. I process accounts receivable billing, payroll and record general journal entries.

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  The Clear View School

  May 2024 - Jun 2024

  Consultant-Accounts Payable

  Processed accounts payable invoices until new accounts payable coordinator started.

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  The Clear View School

  Aug 2024 - now

  Assistant to Chief Operating Officer

  -Audit group home records and processing.-Process personal allowance payments for Group Home residents.-Review contracts.-Reengineered tracking financial transactions of residents from paper listing to electronic spreadsheet.