The document provides a summary of Richard Amponsah's qualifications and experience. It outlines his extensive financial and accounting skills, including experience in analytics, financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting. It also details his past roles working for organizations like AT&T, Morgan Stanley, and Bankone, where he gained experience in accounting, financial analysis, and auditing. His objective is to obtain a position that allows him to utilize his analytical and problem-solving abilities.

1. Richard Amponsah
rampo30954@wildcats.wilmu.edu***3024071367
Summary:
 Excellent people skills, leadership skills and customer focus.
 A proactive approach to problem solving.
 Able to work closely with customers, often in joint client/consulting teams.
 Flexible & adaptable, able to work well individually and within a team.
 The ability to perform under pressure and deliver to challenging timescales.
 Ability to handle confidential information.
 Can interact with all levels of staff including senior management.
 Attention to detail.
 Proactive, taking the initiative to explore issues and to generate new ideas and approaches.
 Able to work under pressure and deliver results to deadlines.
 Having a creative and analytical thinking cap, practical and thorough approach to resolving issues.
Certification & Education:
 Certified Financial Analyst
 Post-Bac. Certificate 2007 in Healthcare Administration/M.I.S Drexel University
 MBA-Accounting, Wilmington University, Delaware
 Delaware Society of CPA-Student Member
 Association of Certified Fraud Examiners – Student Member #749495
 Currently taking Becker CPA Review Courses towards CPA certification
Technical Skills & Experience:
 Analytics: Statistical data analytics and Methodologies experience
 SAP FICO on-the-job trained and utilized in production
 SAS Base/Advance 9.4 trained data and tables creation and manipulation
 Budgeting, Forecasting and Variance Analysis/CVP analysis
 Data analysis and Data manipulation
 Asset management, Fixed income, equities, trading, foreign exchange, derivatives, bond pricing/trading, asset
backed mortgages(ABS), Collateralized debt obligations(CDOs)
 Managed the various kinds of risks associated in maintaining a portfolio of assets.
 Financial Statements Analysis and Reporting, Data validation and Tableau Reports and Analysis
 Advanced MS Excel: Macros, formulas, Pivot tables, v-lookup, h-lookup, QuickBooks
 In-depth knowledge on Internal controls and COSO framework documentation and compliance review
 Financial Reporting and Compliance- GAAP, IFRS, SFAS, GAAS
 Working knowledge of Hyperion Accounting software
 Extensive working knowledge Reconciliation, Variance Analysis of Statements and Financial reports
Christiana Care Health System October 2016-November 2016
Financial Analyst (Contractor)
Responsibilities:
 General ledger preparation, Data manipulation and creation of tables for variance analysis
 Validated absorption costing methodology used in compliance with GAAP
 Re-calculated inventoriable costs and Overheads and compared with Benchmarks for reporting purposes
 Reviewed and used data mining and predictive models to verify optimized growth and Key Performance
indicators (KPI) by extrapolating the numbers
 Analyzed data and assisted data analysts, data modelers and developers for interpreting the data definitions,
fields & attributes.
 Ensured that the client business is kept aware of any relevant interaction that CSM have with their clients
AT&T Corporate Center, Middletown, NJ September 2007 – October 2016
Sr. Accountant
Responsibilities:
 Performed year-end adjustments/Journal entries, accruals, variation analysis for US SG&A expense Accounts.
 Worked extensively with SAP FICO to generate trial balances, ledgers entries and account postings.
 Worked on Journal entries; Kept books up to date for year-end closings and quarterly reports.
 Handled several aspects of accounts payable and generated required reports including entry in QuickBooks.
 Prepared cost of jobs performed by the field technicians and prepared invoices to be sent to clients.

2.  Worked with external auditors to provide requested documentation and/or supporting schedules
 Monitored all necessary controls to ensure SOX compliance.
 Ensured the accurate, complete and timely reporting of monthly financial report data/information.
 Worked on SOX compliance within the control framework and environment.
 Promoted to handle different aspects of accounts receivable for the company using MS dynamics (Contract
Renewed).
 Assisted in the management of the global financial statement close, consolidations and reporting process
 Prepared balance sheet and reported quarterly to CFO on Regulatory Reporting Areas.
 Assisted with ADP payroll preparation and preparation of Financial Statements and Reports applying.
 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Statement of Financial Accounting Standards.
 Analyzed and created financial reports with Macros, extensively used pivot tables and v/h-lookups.
 Supervisory oversight with cash flow team, cost to complete reporting, owner contracts, and cost accounting
 Prepared summary report using Oracle ERP and construction accounting with budget reviewing and variance
analysis
 Prepared regular reconciliations for all job cost related accounts as well as required schedules for the year-
end audit.
Morgan Stanley, Brooklyn, New York September 2006 to Sept 2007
Accounting Staff- intern
Responsibilities:
 Received first-hand on-the job training in Reconciliation/Analytical Review skills.
 Created reports with Excel: pivot tables, v-lookup for Controller Department for internal audit.
 Experienced preparing Financial Reports, Project Accounting/Cash-flow statements.
 Assisted with the general ledger/consolidations accounting of speciality accounting areas e.g. Benefits .
 Shadowed Balance sheet control and consolidation Team. Experience with Finance Package e.g. Hyperion.
 Prepared weekly and monthly reports using pivot tables.
 Trained on Reconciliation and the preparation of consolidated management accounts.
 Ability to manipulate, analyze and interpret both financial and business data using SAGE software package.
 Analyzed and created reports with MS Excel working with Macros.
 Acquired hands-on skills and much experience in accounting/financial operating systems.
 Assisted in the preparation of budgets and forecast projections.
Bankone, Wilmington DE November 1999 – April 2005
Accounting Associate
Responsibilities:
 Financial advisory tools ranging from corporate finance to equity research.
 Extracted financial data from company annual reports.
 Performed quality checks to ensure accuracy of data entered.
 Conversant with Account reconciliation, managing accounts payable & receivables.
 Did oversee collections activities related to customers, including developing and maintaining reports, creating
communications, and monitoring individual issues to ensure resolution.
 Analyzed, synthesized and presented data in a concise and easy to understand format
Professional References
Dr. Robert Baah Internal Auditor, AT&T 610-931-2602 Email: donpieroo@gmail.com
Mr. Kwabena Andoh. CPA 240-535-1594
Clement Pobee. BlackRock, Investments/Hedge Funds SME, Email: fabriccraft1@gmail.com