Jennifer Dawson
Hanahan,South Carolina
Summary
Dedicated professional with proven performance in management, leadership, and communication. Detail-oriented in problem-solving and planning. Implementing financial system requirements, enhancements while providing support to users in accounting using my financial and budgeting experience. Ready to make an immediate contribution to your organization.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Systems Accountant
The US Department of State
05.2023 - 07.2025
- Trained new employees on accounting principles and company procedures.
- Led the Annual Close Team to include oral and written communication to customers domestically and abroad.
- Primary Point of Contact for several federal agencies.
- Subject matter expert for Regional Financial Management System (RFMS) - accounting software used by the Department of State.
- Assisted our production support team to find timely resolutions and ideas to improve effectiveness.
- Led the RFMS/M Security Access team - led the initiative to streamline access by creating business roles instead of selecting a la carte roles. This limits access and ensures there is a need to know.
- Assisted in developing an automated budget process to ensure Posts funding is loaded as soon as possible. Posts were able to receive their funds twelve to eighteen hours sooner.
- Subject matter expert for authority transfers - budget corrections at various budget levels
SYSTEMS ACCOUNTANT
The MIL Corporation - US Department of State Contract
07.2017 - 05.2023
- Designed and implemented controls to track financial records
- Analyzed and reported fiscal activity to overseas users
- Monitored key account reconciliations and balances to identify risks to financial statements
- Provided subject matter expert approval of a design documents, test plans and test results
- Developed specifications for user training, best practices, and operating procedures
- Provided user support for accounting software updates
- Assisted system users of overseas accounting system by offering advice and instructions, maintaining documentation with specific procedures for systems use and explanations of systems logic to avoid future rejections
- Led system testing for accounting software updates, recommended system improvements while monitoring system performance to ensure that software changes are in accordance with documented changes specified in design document
- Wrote procedures and policies, driving continuous improvement of financial processes.
- Translated analysis into usable reporting for technical personnel and affected officials.
- Reviewed accounts for discrepancies to properly reconcile differences.
- Created and prepared adjusting journal entries.
- Analyzed and resolved complex accounting issues for accounting staff while serving as subject matter expert in accounting theories, concepts, and principles
- Developed and maintained complex automated systems and subsystems to produce accounting and financial information while ensuring data integrity
- Communicated both in writing and orally any findings or recommendations related to the accounting system to include requirements and deficiencies
- Led the Annual Close Team, responsible for all written communication to domestic and overseas users
- Assisted with training new employees, including assisting in developing a new employee training checklist
- Led accounting system access team to ensure proper system access was granted and compensating controls were met
OVERSEAS ACCOUNTANT
The MIL Corporation - US Department of State Contract
07.2007 - 07.2017
- Analyzed rejected 1166 transactions, including cashier vouchers, vendor payments, travel vouchers and advances, and journal vouchers, to determine the cause of the rejection
- Trained others on the Centers current accounting system, Regional Financial Management System (RFMS), COAST, and BRMS via training courses, to obtain an understanding of all the interplay among all post level accounting systems and the GFS accounting tools, processed rejected 1166 transactions correctly, limiting the number of errors that need to be backed out and re-entered also ensuring that the general ledger is updated correctly
- Assisted several Direct Connect Post with day-to-day problems, some more complex than the other; assisted the Authority Transfer Review Board in entering correction documents (CI) for when authority transfers have mistakenly occurred
- Oversaw the Centralized Funding Team and the CGI-AMS Resolution team, to make sure that all production issues are addressed and help solve them as soon as possible
Education
No Degree - ACCOUNTING
Strayer University
Washington, DC06.2022
Skills
- Accounting Software Systems
- Effective and Professional Communication
- Business Operations Analysis
- Critical Thinking and Analysis
- Business Controls
- Accounting Procedures Validation
- Accounting Policy and Control
- Business intelligence tools
- Year-end close
- Analytical research
- Budget analysis
Awards
Presidents List - 2020, 2021, 2022
Timeline
Systems Accountant
The US Department of State
05.2023 - 07.2025
SYSTEMS ACCOUNTANT
The MIL Corporation - US Department of State Contract
07.2017 - 05.2023
OVERSEAS ACCOUNTANT
The MIL Corporation - US Department of State Contract
07.2007 - 07.2017
No Degree - ACCOUNTING
Strayer University
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