Jessica Bass
Pineville
Summary
Detail-oriented accounting professional skilled in financial analysis and reconciliation. Expertise in processing complex financial transactions and maintaining compliance with regulatory standards. Adept at generating informative reports that drive decision-making and enhance financial transparency across organizational operations.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Accountant/Alternate Fiscal Service ADPAC
Alexandria Veteran Affairs Health Care System
Pineville
04.2022 - Current
- Lead and coordinate activities of the Staff and Accounting Technicians assigned to the accounting section.
- Maintain an established, decentralized, double entry commercial type accounting system.
- Initiate and lead special studies or review of accounting operations and prepare reports, automated systems change and/or standard operating procedures based on study results.
- Compiled, prepared, and verified detailed reporting system, ensuring timely delivery of informative reports on station operations that integrated essential financial facts into accounting systems.
- Prepare numerous monthly reconciliations of various appropriations.
- Alerted Chief Accountant to out-of-line financial situations during accounting cycle, facilitating timely corrective actions.
- Processed all construction transactions into FMS, including Environmental Liabilities, Deferred Maintenance, and Capitalizations.
- Worked on the monthly Undelivered Orders (UDO) Report.
- Worked on the FMS Analysis of Open Documents (889b) Report.
- Reviewed daily Fiscal Accepted Document Listing (ADL - F829) for compliance and accuracy.
- Enter, process, and clear all Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) transactions that hit the F859.
- Enter all G-Invoicing CWT order modifications and performances.
- Process all payments for Compensated Work Therapy (CWT), Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Settlement, Home Improvements and Structural Alterations (HISA), monthly lease payments, National Nursing Education Initiative (NNEI), Personal Funds of Patients, public vouchers, and vendor reimbursements.
- Administrator for G-Invoicing and Invoice Payment Processing System (IPPS).
- Assist the Financial Quality Assurance Officer with the following audits: Unannounced Agent Cashier, Accounting Operations, Convenience Checks, General Post Fund, Personal Funds of Patients, Property, Plant and Equipment, and Voucher.
- Managed Fiscal Service Multi-Service Veterans Health Information System and Technology Architecture (VISTA) and computer-based software packages, overseeing planning, direction, support, and implementation of ADP programs that automated Fiscal service functions across service lines.
- Enter system access requests in order to gain access to the Veterans Affairs networks and other computer applications.
- Conducted daily transactions for cash, check, and credit card deposits to ensure financial accuracy. Approve deposits in OTCnet, confirm deposits in VISTA, and key deposit transactions into FMS.
Personal Lines Account Manager
Brown & Brown of Louisiana, LLC
Alexandria
09.2003 - 10.2019
- Executed marketing campaigns for policy renewals, enhancing customer engagement sixty days prior to expiration.
- Renewed policies with carrier and entered details into Agency Management System, facilitating seamless coverage for clients.
- Processed daily policy changes.
- Invoiced renewals and policy changes.
- Processed daily deposit of agency accounts receivables.
- Provided customer service through office visits, telephone calls, and email.
- Reconciled monthly and yearly accounting statements, ensuring accuracy and financial integrity.
- Logged out all agency checks and maintained the agency check register.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Accounting
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Shreveport, LA12-2021
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Louisiana State University of Alexandria
Alexandria, LA12-2020
Skills
- Financial reporting
- Financial data analysis
- Financial forecasting
- Budget analysis
- Reconciliation processes
- Auditing procedures
- Regulatory compliance
- Internal controls
- Accounts payable
- Month end close
- Bank reconciliations
- Journal entries
- General accounting
- Project accounting
- Cost accounting
- Contract compliance
- Financial records review
- Data analysis
- Data collection
- Records management
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Reliability
- Data entry accuracy
- Accounts management
- Financial tracking
- Data collection
- Critical analysis
- Records management
- Financial tracking
Accomplishments
- Outstanding FY25 Performance Appraisal Rating
- Outstanding FY24 Performance Appraisal Rating
- Outstanding FY23 Performance Appraisal Rating
- FY25 VHA G-Invoicing Super User Training Completion
- FY25 Virtual Aspiring Supervisors Program Completion
Timeline
Operations Accountant/Alternate Fiscal Service ADPAC
Alexandria Veteran Affairs Health Care System
04.2022 - Current
Personal Lines Account Manager
Brown & Brown of Louisiana, LLC
09.2003 - 10.2019
Master of Business Administration - Accounting
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Louisiana State University of Alexandria