Isaac Church // isaactchurch.com
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Financial Analyst
Samaritan's Purse
June 2019 - Present
- – Develop, implement, and coordinate all financial reports, statistics, and analysis for Operation Christmas Child (OCC), both domestically and internationally
- – Assist OCC VP and Directors in semi-annual budget and financial statement preparation, and regular expense review
- – Monitor and reconcile gift-in-kind and purchased inventory, and complete annual gift-in-kind valuation project
- – Develop and maintain future projections and plans for 5+ years
– Maintain ledger and account coding structure
– Recommend cost-efficient and cost-saving opportunities
– Train staff on finance and budget procedures
– Attend and support domestic and international conferences as needed
Accountant
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
July 2018 - June 2019
Fortune 40 Company – Mooresville/Wilkesboro, NC
- – Designed, built, and implemented new reporting system (ETL, cleaning, interactive dashboards, daily and periodic reporting) summarizing ~$200M of transactions daily
- – Offered new insights into fees and processing errors, and facilitated significant fee reduction through daily reporting tools
- – Used Microsoft Power BI, DAX, Access, Excel, Power Query M, SQL, and other tools to clean, analyze, and visualize a variety of financial data
- – Worked with data from Oracle PeopleSoft General Ledger software to summarize and analyze credit/debit interchange, assessment, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. fees, and ran periodic account balances and variances
– Investigated debit interchange variances, creating cost-saving potential by altering network transaction volumes
– Traced authorization downgrades to root cause through multiple systems and 2,000+ stores
Additional Accomplishments
- – Evaluated Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and AmEx fees and volume (international and domestic tiers)
- – Extracted and analyzed data using MicroStrategy reporting tools (DART)
- – Worked with Loss Prevention team to provide data-driven insights into fraudulent transactions
- – Conducted SOX testing to assist internal audit and inventory teams
- – Maintained industry-leading PCI DSS and security standards
Graduate Research Assistant
Appalachian State University
2017 - 2018
- – Supervised by Dr. Sandy Vannoy, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs & Research
- – Assisted with literary review of hundreds of social media, social computing, and social networking articles
- – Created review of rankings of business ethics academic journals
– Researched hybrid/executive business graduate programs as part of an exploratory study
- – Assisted with analysis of department budget, program goals, and student fees
- – Supervised by Wendy Deng – WCOB Graduate Programs Budget Director
- – Graduate Programs differential tuition research
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Appalachian State University
2016 - 2017
- – Supervised by Dr. Claudia Kelley, Professor of Accounting
- – Assisted with research, evaluations, proctoring, and grading for graduate- and undergraduate-level courses
Serials Processing
Belk Library at Appalachian State University
2014 - 2018
- – Managed, created, and updated thousands of item records with Sierra ILS database
- – Conducted annual audits of periodical subscription invoices and receipts
- – Worked on various special projects for serials and receiving
- – Saved the Library $4,000+ annually in subscription fees by eliminating unread publications
Intern
Johnson Price Sprinkle PA
January - April 2016
- – Worked with CCH® ProSystem fx® Suite software to prepare clients’ tax returns
- – Analyzed clients’ financials for §1250 and §179 depreciation savings opportunities
- – Responsible for completing various accounting projects
- – Oversaw records digitization project for Boone office
- – Used STG Conference Programmer software to coordinate and monitor thousands of residents across campus
- – Managed 10,000+ residence hall keys
Sports Official
Appalachian State University Recreation
2013
- – Officiated intramural sports games and championships
- – Shift supervisor for soccer referees
Staff
William B. Shuford Recreation Center
2010 - 2013
- – Sports official, office manager, score/timekeeper, groundskeeper, landscaper, and more
- – Officiated and was a score/timekeeper for baseball, basketball, soccer, and volleyball program
- – PA announcer for baseball games
