Cole Gudzak
Baltimore
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Accountant
LifeStraw
05.2025 - Current
- Prepared monthly financial statements ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
- Assisted in annual audit preparation, coordinating with external auditors effectively.
- Managed accounts payable process, streamlining invoice approvals and payments.
- Monitored cash flow closely to ensure sufficient funds were available for operational needs.
- Implemented improvements in data entry procedures to reduce errors and increase efficiency.
- Maintained general ledger accuracy through regular account reconciliations, journal entry adjustments, and transaction reviews.
Staff Accountant
Element Fleet Management
08.2023 - 05.2025
- Compile and analyze financial information to prepare general ledger entries.
- Executes month-end close procedures, ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with strict deadlines.
- Resolve inconsistent and inaccurate financial information in preparation of schedules, account reconciliations, and reports.
- Perform statistical analysis to determine trends, estimates, and significant changes to general ledger accounts.
- Proficient in utilizing excel tools such as pivot tables within to analyze and summarize complex financial data.
Financial and Administrative Intern
Board of Childcare
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Worked closely under the CFO to assist with research, data entry, filing and general coordination.
- Assisted in managing documentation and processes within the organization.
- Facilitated staff and third party resources to ensure accuracy and completion of tasks.
SEC Reporting and Financial analyst Intern
Vornado
06.2022 - 08.2022
- Assisted in the preparation of financial statements, including the footnotes to the financial statements and MD&A disclosures for the 10-Q SEC filing.
- Prepared quarterly schedules to tie out numbers to most recent SEC disclosures to ensure accuracy.
- Used financial reporting software (Workiva) to edit and update the 10-Q documents.
Education
B.S. - Finance
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ05.2023
Skills
- SAP
- NetSuite
- BlackLine
- Snowflake Datawarehouse
- MS 365 Applications
- MS Excel
- IDEA (caseware)
- Smart Sheet
- Team Player
- Strong Communication
- Motivated
- Leadership
- Technical & analytical
- Eager to Learn
Timeline
Staff Accountant
LifeStraw
05.2025 - Current
Staff Accountant
Element Fleet Management
08.2023 - 05.2025
Financial and Administrative Intern
Board of Childcare
05.2023 - 08.2023
SEC Reporting and Financial analyst Intern
Vornado
06.2022 - 08.2022
B.S. - Finance
Seton Hall University