Clarice Jenkins
Owings Mills,MD
Summary
Senior accounting professional with solid background in financial analysis, reporting, and compliance. Strong focus on team collaboration, driving efficiency, and delivering accurate results. Skilled in budget management, financial forecasting, and process improvement. Known for reliability and adaptability in dynamic environments.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Staff Accountant
Semmes, Bowen & Semmes
Baltimore, MD
12.2025 - 03.2026
- Responsible for reviewing, bank reconciliation on AP MasterCard and AP MasterCard Virtual Credit Card Excel reporting monthly by posting payment to the represented GL accounts.
- Tracked funds, prepared deposits and reconciled accounts.
- Process weekly bank deposits and A/R entries for client payments received.
- Managing of firm escrow accounts payment ensuring client accounts are applied to correct client matter and general ledger accounts.
Jr. Staff Accountant
Target Marketing Group/Helm
Owings Mills, MD
03.2025 - 09.2025
- Vouching business invoice expenses into Profit Maker for customers/vendors payment.
- Maintaining check processing and mail checks to various entities.
- Prepare prepayment charges for materials being ordered by the sales team staff.
- Responsible for posting cash receipts, bank deposits payments and reconciling credit card payments in Profit Maker & NetSuite.
- Reconciling vendor statements, calling on past due accounts receivable.
- Reviewed invoices for accuracy and approved payments, reducing processing errors significantly.
A/P Specialist/Bookkeeper, Towner Management, Contract
Creative Financial Staffing
Bethesda, MD
09.2024 - 01.2025
- Scan and upload invoices into the Yardi system to pay various vendors in P2P.
- Assist in payroll entries, mailing checks to various property managers and vendors.
- Managed project timelines and deliverables, ensuring adherence to organizational goals and standards.
Financial Analyst, Exelon, Contract
Synectic’s Staffing
Chicago, IL
08.2023 - 06.2024
- Maintain and process the $10K Blanket Monthly Review report which consists of running the Hyperion report to capture expenses over $100k.
- Analyzed financial data to identify trends and support strategic decision-making.
- Maintain tracker report to track the open invoices, review and close of the EPS ID invoices being processed in the People Soft accounting system.
Senior Accountant
Hydrasearch Company, LLC
Stevensville, MD
11.2021 - 03.2023
- Responsible for accounts receivable and accounts payable which consist of posting and depositing payments, collections, customer contact, and setting up new customers/vendors.
- Process coding and vouching vendor invoices between 100 & 200 a day, and vendor contact related to purchase order discrepancies.
- Assist in posting journal entries, reviewing, and reconciling the general ledger, creating financial statements, and month end closing.
- Assist in corporate accounting with annual auditing and interact with other departments.
- Streamlined aging report for delinquent customers account for payment by creating excel spreadsheet to capture expense over 120 days.
Accounting Specialist
Dover Federal Credit Union
Dover, DE
03.2021 - 07.2021
- Verify, balance, and reconcile General Ledger accounts and Balance Sheet subsidiary accounts to include loans, the Federal Reserve account, Fiserv settlement, coin counters, ECR accounts, receivables, accruals/deferral.
- Research daily general ledger/subsidiary account variances; post adjusting entries as required.
- Process business member international wire transfer and Finance settlement wire transfers.
Financial Accounting Specialist
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
01.1997 - 02.2021
- Managed responsibilities for Business Services accounting and budgetary process, including monthly budget reports and expenses for departmental libraries.
- Assist supervisors, teammates and other accounting personnel with technical budgetary and grant matters throughout the fiscal year for year-end closing.
- Assist Financial Analyst Manager with financial reporting and audit requests to ensure accuracy for credit/procurement card purchase for various departmental units monthly.
- Handled all accounting features, including bank reconciliations, coding transactions, managing student workers, and processing employees and non-employees travel arrangement reimbursement, and purchase order requisitions.
- Process invoices between 150 to 250 a week for the university by check requests in the PeopleSoft accounting system daily for vendor and supplier payment.
- Knowledge of financial management, fiscal, public accounting theories, procedures, practices and generally accepted accounting principles and standards.
Education
Bachelor’s degree - Security Management, Advance Cyber Security
University of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ06.2019
Skills
- Account Reconciliation
- Journal Entry
- General Ledger
- Financial Analysis
- Customer Service
- Audit support
- Internal Controls
- Bank Reconciliations
- Invoicing
- ACH/Wire Transfers
- Month End & Year-End Closing
- Microsoft Office Software
- Pivots
- People Soft
- Oracle
- ERP Systems Proficiency
- Adobe Acrobat
- Nonprofit Accounting
- Yardi
- Profit Maker
- Net Suite
- SharePoint
- LMS
- Docu-Sign
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- Attention to Detail
- Problem-solving abilities
Timeline
Senior Staff Accountant
Semmes, Bowen & Semmes
12.2025 - 03.2026
Jr. Staff Accountant
Target Marketing Group/Helm
03.2025 - 09.2025
A/P Specialist/Bookkeeper, Towner Management, Contract
Creative Financial Staffing
09.2024 - 01.2025
Financial Analyst, Exelon, Contract
Synectic’s Staffing
08.2023 - 06.2024
Senior Accountant
Hydrasearch Company, LLC
11.2021 - 03.2023
Accounting Specialist
Dover Federal Credit Union
03.2021 - 07.2021
Financial Accounting Specialist
Washington University
01.1997 - 02.2021
Bachelor’s degree - Security Management, Advance Cyber Security
University of Phoenix