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Ruth Simon, MBA

Ruth is a professional with over 20 years of experience in accounting and financial information systems. Her experience includes financial information systems implementation, business process and database analysis, financial report specification, design and testing, project planning development and execution, and user documentation and training.

Education:

• University of California, Santa Barbara, BA - Accounting
• University of Southern California, MBA - Information Systems

Professional Experience:
 San Francisco Unified School District - Financial and  Accounting Analyst

• Responsible for reporting on $1 billion plus of voter-approved general obligation bonds used to modernize more than 100 school sites.
• Overseeing fiscal year-end closing, contract close-out process, and reconciliation of budget, purchasing, and accounts payable.
• In tandem with Contracts Office, manage procurements and administer contracts in compliance with relevant policies, regulations, and bond proposition language.
• Liaison to Contracting, Budgeting, Legal, Information Technology, and Office of Equity.
• Provide on-demand analysis and supporting schedules for auditors, arbitrage analysts, bond counsel and advisors, School, City & County representatives, and school site administrators.
• Used forensic accounting techniques to settle long outstanding project discrepancies with State and City agencies resulting in more than $1.5M returned to the District.
• In accordance with generally accepted government accounting principles and standards, design and implement accounting and reporting procedures for the Facilities department including statutory and board required quarterly and annual reports.
• Coordinated year-end closing and reporting for 250 Federal and State categorical grants. 

 TMP Worldwide / FinanceStaff, San Francisco, CA -
Senior Business Systems and Accounting Consultant

   Engagements Included:

• San Francisco Association of Realtors - Designed custom reports reflecting the membership-based nature of the organization using the MAS 90 extended reporting package. Worked with accounts receivable staff to properly account for and reconcile the members; various fees and subscriptions.
• PG&E - Worked on an SAP R/3 implementation team designing custom reports and writing report specifications for integrated financial information system. Designed system test plans and wrote system tests. Defined programming specifications. Performed system testing.
• Gap Inc. - Developed user reference manuals and provided training for Gap's enterprise-wide proprietary pricing system.