Zina T Smith

phone (334) 356-2419 email zinawarrior2@yahoo.com
6208 John Dunn Court West
Montgomery, AL. 36117

OBJECTIVE

To become a consummate professional accountant, examiner or auditor in support of strategic goals of a federal agency or private organization that can benefit from my analytical and organizational skills, my aptitude to train and direct others, as well as my innate ability to work in a self-motivated and deterministically effective paradigm.

 

DESIRED OCCUPATION

Accountant/Auditor/Payroll Specialist

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Employer: Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System
Title: Program Support Assistant
Location: Montgomery, AL
Duration: 07/1999  -  09/2004
Job Duties: Responsible for the timely payment and accurate recording of all hospital ambulance expenditures. Established obligations against control points, posted, decreased, increased and closed out monthly obligations as required. Charged appropriate cost against current and prior year appropriations. Other duties included full responsibility and accountability for the patient funds account (average daily balance $600,000). Deposited, withdrew and issued funds from various established funds.

Employer: Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System
Title: Payroll Technician
Location: Tuskegee, AL
Duration: 12/1990  -  07/1999
Job Duties: Processed the more complex transactions involving pay and leave. OWCP/TSP (401K) expert. Processed all SF-2811's/12's to health insurance companies. Processed unemployment forms, tax levies, garnishments and corrected W-2's as required. Processed all retirement's and disabilities, as well as, severance pay/ reins-statement cases.


Employer: Naval Research Laboratory
Title: Lead Payroll Technician
Location: Washington, DC
Duration: 04/1985  -  06/1990
Job Duties: Supervised the day-to-day operations of seven (7) lover-level payroll clerks/
technicians. Responsible for the complete and accurate reporting of the agency's retirement account. Approved all adjustments to pay and leave prior to processing. Trained all new incoming payroll personnel. Prepared bi-weekly and monthly accountability reports to be submitted to Naval headquarters.



Employer: Merit Systems Protection Board
Title: Payroll Technician
Location: Washington, DC
Duration: 10/1982  -  04/1985
Job Duties: Managed a one-person office. Processed bi-weekly payroll transactions for home office and fifteen (15) field offices via computerized input.

 

EDUCATION

Major: Accounting
School: Auburn University Montgomery
Location: AL
Degree: Undergraduate
Completion Date: 05/2004

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

*Familiar with building a general purpose worksheet or spreadsheet using Excel, to organize, calculate, analyze business data or plan a budget.  Hands on experience using PowerPoint, Access and Microsoft Word.

*Working knowledge of control points, fiscal-year obligations, requesting increases/decreases to obligations, cost centers, transferring funds from one control point to another, closing out control points, verifying authorized vendor/supply lists and current and prior year appropriations.

*Bachelor degree with an emphasis in accounting.

*Undergraduate course include Accounting I & II; Managerial Accounting; Accounting Information Systems; Intermediate I & II; Cost Accounting; Auditing; Advanced Auditing; Advanced Accounting.

Undergraduate business courses include Marketing, Business Law, Personnel Management, Statistics I & II, Macro/Micro Economics; Business and Professional Writing; Financial Management; Management of Organizations; Issues in Global Trade and Finance; Organizational Behavior; Operations Management; Strategic Management

*Graduate School enrollee (Mac) Masters of Accountancy program for Fall, 2004.  Current courses include: Advanced Financial Reporting; Advanced Managerial Cost/Controllership; Advanced Taxation - (Corporations/Partnerships/Estates and Trusts); Advanced Auditing Theory; Advanced Accounting Information Systems.

*Advanced skill in conducting tax research.

*Detailed governmental payroll/accounting experience.