GINA M. KLEIN
GRETNA
Summary
Extensive background in non-profit accounting and operations specialist. Including HR experience, accounting and daily operations.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director of Finance
The ARC of GNO
03.2024 - Current
- Responsible for managing the day-to-day accounting, finance, and budgeting
- Ensures the maintenance of financial and accounting records and recordkeeping systems, including grant/fund accounting, to ensure compliance with all regulations, accepted accounting practices (“GAAP”), and contractual requirements
- Responsible for overseeing organization wide and departmental budget development
- Monitor actual spending vs
- Budgeted spend and routinely provide reports to ED and Board of Directors
- Prepare, analyze, and present monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and statements to ensure that the ED and appropriate Board of Directors are apprised of the organization’s financial health
- Oversee banking activities and actively manage cash flow to ensure it meets the organization’s needs
- Monitor investment and cash management accounts, complete appropriate journal entries, and create reports
- Manage the invoicing, accounts receivable, accounts payables, and payroll functions
- Serve as the primary liaison with its independent Auditor to ensure the annual audits are completed smoothly and in a timely manner.
Director of Operations
New Orleans Opera
12.2005 - 03.2024
- Responsible for all financial operations of the company
- Handled all COVID regulations including PPP loans, Employee Retention Credit and ensured that all the PPP loans met loan forgiveness
- Also secured the SVOG for COVID relief for the organization
- Ensure compliance for the financial reporting for the annual audit to be in line with current GAAP standards
- Developed internal structures for applying, tracking, projecting, and reporting for Louisiana Economic Development tax credits which has resulted in over $1.4 million in the past 5 years
- Actively works with the General Director and Board/Finance Committee to help complete and present budgets to the board and prepare the monthly financial statements and reports for the board meetings including cash flow statements
- Track budgets and expenditures for grants received
- Acts as liaison with outside administrative contractors, including audit services, banking services and insurance services
- Responsible for all areas of Human Resources including the bi-weekly payroll processing up to 400 seasonal employees during productions including the quarterly payroll taxes
- Handle all W-2 processing for 400 seasonal employees and annual 1099s for contract services
- Assisted in updating the employee handbook for the company
- Actively works with volunteer committees for special events including silent auctions, raffles, and other fundraising activities to follow audit regulations
- Organized all support documentation for the company’s BP claim which included over 5 years of profit & loss statements
- Maintain contract regulations and payments for union agreements including IATSE and AGMA
- Greatly reduce the company’s payroll expenses by bringing all payroll in house at annual savings of over $10K a year.
Full charge bookkeeper
The Kalencom Company
10.2000 - 08.2006
- Processed payroll for 200 full-time employees
- Maintained monthly sales reports for all outside sales reps including preparing annual 1099s
- Organized inventory into the accounting software
- Spearheaded setting up accounting software from a DOS base program to Windows base including training all office personnel.
Administrative for Risk Management and Human Resources
INTERNATIONAL MATIX TANK TERMINALS
01.1999 - 10.2000
- A company which handles and stores bulk liquid with over 1,000 employees and multiple locations
- Maintained all human resources files for employees, including all health insurance benefits which IMTT was a self-insured company
- Monitored all automobile insurance policies for the various terminals including updating and enforcing all Certificate of Insurance requirements.
Education
credits in accounting -
University of New Orleans
12.1991
Skills
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Sage Business Works
- QuickBooks
- ACCPAC
- Choice
- PAYCOM, ADP
Timeline
Senior Director of Finance
The ARC of GNO
03.2024 - Current
Director of Operations
New Orleans Opera
12.2005 - 03.2024
Full charge bookkeeper
The Kalencom Company
10.2000 - 08.2006
Administrative for Risk Management and Human Resources
INTERNATIONAL MATIX TANK TERMINALS
01.1999 - 10.2000
credits in accounting -
University of New Orleans
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