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Julia Reed
Senior Accountant with experience in month-end close, account reconciliations, lease accounting, and audit trails. Practical work includes Journal entries, Reconciliations, Lease accounting, Audit support.
Experience
Corgi Insurance
Las Vegas · United States
Senior Accountant
Jan 2025 - now
- As workstream lead, prepared accrual journal entries and account reconciliations for month-end close, tying supplier invoices and service dates to the reporting period; resolved a cutoff discrepancy before the controller approved the close and retained the adjustment rationale.
- With responsibility for the review standard, rebuilt lease accounting schedules for store amendments and assembled audit evidence linking contracts, payment dates, and ledger balances; made each changed balance traceable without asking auditors to reconstruct the calculation from email.
- Reconciled a balance-sheet account to supporting schedules, investigated aged reconciling items, and attached approval evidence to correcting journal entries before month-end close.
- Owned monthly journal-entry review using reconciliation schedules, resolved missing accrual evidence and completed the financial-reporting package for controller approval.
- Published an audit evidence index using account-level references, reduced document retrieval from 18 to 6 minutes and retained the accounting approval trail.
PwC
New York · United States
Accountant
Mar 2016 - Dec 2024
- As review lead, reviewed duplicate supplier invoices and unmatched credits in an Excel exception log with the shared-service team; separated payment holds from timing differences and assigned an owner to every unresolved item.
- Checked a reporting workbook for stale links, inconsistent units and unsupported manual adjustments; reconciled the corrected output to the approved source before submitting it for review.
- Investigated a variance flagged during review by tracing the affected entry back to its supporting record. Separated timing differences from incorrect classifications and attached the proposed correction for the reviewer’s approval.
Selected project
Month-end close handover
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- As review lead, documented close tasks, source files, and reviewer sign-offs for recurring balance-sheet accounts. allowed a backup accountant to complete the next close using the same control checks.
- Used Journal entries and Accruals to compare the source record with the proposed result; documented exceptions, the reviewer, and the acceptance decision before handoff.
- Created a synthetic ledger and supporting schedules with timing differences, reversals and an unmatched item; reconciled opening and closing balances and retained the source for each proposed adjustment.
- Tested the workbook after changing a period and reversing an input, identified formulas that failed to update, and added a control total and reviewer notes explaining the remaining assumptions.
- Owned the synthetic-ledger reconciliation using control totals, resolved an out-of-period posting and completed an evidence index linking every adjustment to its source record.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Business Administration
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior
Skills
Role expertise
Journal entries · Reconciliations · Lease accounting · Audit support · Excel
Publications
- Published a personal accounting methods note using synthetic journal entries, explaining cutoff judgments, reconciliation differences and the approvals needed before changing a real ledger.

