Laniesha Williams - Corporate Accounting Lead, Compound Planning, Inc.

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CompoundCorporate Accounting Lead

Jan. 2025

FetchAccounting Manager

Sep. 2022 - Sep. 2024• Directs a team of accountants in managing critical functions, including cash management, revenue recognition (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC842), accounts receivable and collections, accounts payable, and month-end/year-end closing processes. • Achieved a 4-day reduction in the month-end close cycle by streamlining processes and implementing efficiency measures, enhancing overall financial operations. This was achieved with implementation of FloQast Close management system. • Prepare and review monthly financial statements for accuracy and trends to report in management analyses • Implemented and improved accounting processes and procedures to implement a SOX environment • Reconfigured and lead payroll accounting enhancement project that included but not limited to payroll liability reconciliations, UKG configuration, department clean up, and commission process enhancements. This was completed by closely working with Payroll and HR/Benefits department. • Managed Fetch’s Intercompany Revenue and Cost-Plus pricing to ensure smooth consolidation between the US and Mexico entity. • Developed and instituted comprehensive accounting policies to support organizational growth, ensuring audit-ready workpapers and maintaining accuracy in technical accounting standards. • Oversaw intricate revenue recognition processes, adapting swiftly as the company integrated 4 new revenue streams, collectively generating over $400M annually. • Lead Quote to Cash project to provide visibility between the Sales, Revenue Accounting, AR, Data, and Deal Desk team to ensure visibility and cross functional efficiency using Salesforce, NetSuite & Netsuite ARM, and Tableau. • Facilitated audits with Big 4 firms, ensuring timely, accurate responses and adherence to compliance standards. • Managed the NetSuite One World expansion for the Mexican entity, ensuring precise recording of international and inter-company transactions and smooth consolidated financial reporting.

Emerald VenueOwner

Nov. 2021 - Feb. 2024Birmingham, Alabama, United States• Managed all aspects of venue operations, including logistics, staffing, and customer service, ensuring a seamless experience for clients and guests. • Developed and maintained strong relationships with vendors, suppliers, and event planners to enhance service offerings and drive repeat business. • Created and implemented marketing strategies that increased venue bookings by 25% within 3 months. • Ensured compliance with local regulations and safety standards, maintaining a secure environment for all events. • Oversaw financial management, including budgeting, invoicing, and expense tracking, resulting in a 40% increase in profitability. • Developed comprehensive event packages tailored to diverse client needs, leading to improved client satisfaction and higher conversion rates.

GreenlightSenior Accountant

Nov. 2021 - Sep. 2022Atlanta, Georgia, United States• Identified opportunity for enhancements to make ME Close progress more smoothly and quicker by working cross functionally with business partners and external stakeholders to finetune the cost of sale recording process with an 95% accuracy level of actual spend to get gross margin to upper management in a timelier manner. • Managed the monthly audit process with outside auditors and oversees the annual external audit process to ensure accuracy of the financials. • Manages all research and implementation of accounting policy changes such as ASC 606, ASC 842, and ASC 740, etc . • Assisted with Netsuite OneWorld expansion for our Indian entity by testing, suggesting error remedies, and ensuring accurate recording of international and intercompany transactions as well as eliminations. • Lead Process Placemat documentation, RACMS, IPE Documentation in workbooks for SOX compliance and documentation of processes that touched a few of Greenlight’s liability account. • Focuses on ME close activities and recording journal entries with high focus on precision, audit ready backup, and accuracy. • Assist with the development of financial statements and disclosures for purposes of internal reporting • Leads company’s employee resource group in a Finance compacity to implement and maintain operational budget by setting clear monthly and quarterly spend expectations by communicating with other stakeholders and Leads to forecast the most effective use of allotted funds. • Focuses on driving change by strengthening processes and business partnerships to ensure complete and accurate financials.

ShiptSenior Accountant

Apr. 2019 - Nov. 2021Birmingham, Alabama Area• Supervises a team of staff accountants to ensure completeness and accuracy of all below the line GL accounts with emphasis on Accounts Payable, Prepaid and Expense tracking, and Fixed Asset delegations. • Lead and manage continued configurations to Workday Financials system to remain in line with company growth and KPIs. Configurations include new process creations, continued cross functional communication, business partner training, and maintenance, to name a few. • Continues to lead portions of the monthly recording of financial data to actively measure profitability. Process includes manipulating large sets of data with precision, booking detailed journal entries, ensuring accuracy with reconciliations, and highlighting the cause of large financial swings. • Successfully aided in Workday Financial ERP implementation by leading portions of operational design & configurations to effectively build a flawless software to be used across the organization. Efforts includes embracing new ideas and goals to build new processes for seamless transition, understanding the bigger picture and working with internal subject matter experts to create a cohesive plan, and manually rewriting existing processes to better conjoin the two. • Review monthly data and trends to better communicate financial impact to business leaders for more informed company strategies and tactics. • Connects with internal and external partners to act as an expert liaison for events effecting financial wellness by maintaining clear and concise expectation, increasing transparency in nuanced situations that could potentially lead to mistrust in cross functional teams, and actively seeking areas of improvement to new challenges.

ShiptStaff Accountant

Apr. 2017 - Apr. 2019Birmingham, Alabama Area• Focus on General ledger entries with emphasis of OPEX and below the line valuations. Assist with various month-end closing responsibilities, including journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, and account variance analysis and explanations • Maintain and manages Bill.com, accounts payable system, while managing an approval flow based on dollar threshold of invoices. • Implemented a new process that saved ~10 manhours on employee reimbursement entry and processing that total ~$30,000 a week. • Implemented and audited employee travel/corporate card policies. Actively managed Concur, Expense Processing Software to help eliminated erroneous task when performing record keeping for corporate card accounts. As well as investigating and booking all journal entries related to corporate cards on a monthly basis. • Perform project management skills to find software alternatives that will improve day to day processes. Tested and lead trial runs of various software that would have improved accounts payable, corporate card, inventory management processes.

Motion IndustriesInternal Auditor

Jan. 2015 - Apr. 2017Irondale, Alabama• Perform operational audits to ensure all branches, distribution centers, integrated supply branches, and machine shops comply with the company’s policies and procedures by planning and performing a series of tests on randomly selected samples. • Present audit findings to branch and upper management through prepared notes and reports, identify areas of high risk to mitigate tolerance, analyze trends in findings, and consult the most efficient way to resolve reoccurring issues. • Review audit work and suggest changes to work papers, notes, and score to ensure each coworker performed his or her due diligence in conducting field work. • Perform various special projects as they apply to Motion and/or SOX guidelines. Projects include, but not limited to contract adherence, inventory count compliance, and revenue recognition.

Golden Flake Snack FoodsAccounting Intern

Aug. 2013 - Dec. 2014• Balance payments received by reconciling check remittances to unpaid invoices and appropriately apply sales discounts in the general ledger to maintain accurate estimation of received cash flow using M3 Lawson Smartoffice software. • Perform monthly bank reconciliations of 11.5 million per month or more and provide staff accountants General Ledger correction suggestions on misapplied monies. • Research and apply journal corrections for accounts with discrepancies between remittances and invoices within our accounts receivable ledger. • Download and format weekly and monthly statement information to align with each company’s accounts payable software’s requirements to maintain accurate and up-to-date billing of anticipated received payments.

Alabama Power CompanyCorporate Intern

May. 2013 - Aug. 2013Birmingham, Alabama Area• Utilized effective communication and problem solving skills to assist customers in residential call center to maintain company’s high, ideal customer service satisfaction • Shadowed in the Joint-Use Ownership Accounting, Tax Accounting, and Accounting Research departments to ultimately understand the significance of department’s responsibilities as it relates to Southern Company’s financial statements. • Assisted departmental budget analyst with preparing budget variance reports and corrective journals. Also, helped conduct budget meetings with department managers for changes to budgets in preparation for the 2014 fiscal year.

Alabama Power CompanyCustomer Service Intern

Jun. 2012 - Aug. 2012Gardendale, AL• Utilized company software (iNovah Cashier, CSS, CSS Retrieval) to take payments, update customer information, and establish various service orders that are later relayed to assigned engineers to maintain high customer satisfaction. • Honed interpersonal communication, problem solving, negotiation, and critical thinking skills to dilute compromising situations with customers while maintaining a balanced daily cash flow register.

University of Alabama at BirminghamSchool of Business Student Assistant

Jun. 2011 - May. 2013Department of Management, Information Systems, & Quantitative MethodsRetrieve mail for the professors of the department Perform necessary office duties when asked, such as faxing, copying, and scanning Run errands to and from building for the office while being available to professors upon request