Meredith Calloway

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Detail-oriented Staff Accountant with 5 years of experience in full-cycle general ledger accounting, financial close, and internal controls within mid-market manufacturing and SaaS environments. Specializes in month-end close acceleration and account reconciliation, consistently delivering clean audits and reducing close timelines. Recognized for building Excel-based automation tools that cut manual reporting time by 30% across two employers.

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Staff Accountant IIMar 2022 - Present

Vantara Solutions Inc., Columbus, OH

Reduced monthly close cycle from 8 days to 5 days by redesigning the journal entry workflow and standardizing 47 recurring accrual templates in NetSuite.
Reconciled 120+ balance sheet accounts monthly with a 99.6% first-pass accuracy rate, eliminating 3 consecutive audit findings related to prepaid expenses.
Built an automated variance analysis dashboard in Excel (Power Query) that cut management reporting prep time by 6 hours per month and flagged a $214K revenue recognition discrepancy before Q3 close.

Staff AccountantJun 2020 - Feb 2022

Brightline Manufacturing Co., Dayton, OH

Managed fixed-asset ledger for 1,100+ assets totaling $38M, coordinating annual physical inventory that resolved $490K in unrecorded disposals.
Prepared and posted 200+ monthly journal entries across 6 cost centers with zero material misstatements across 4 external audit cycles.
Assisted Controller in implementing a new AP three-way match process that reduced invoice discrepancies by 41% and recovered $62K in duplicate payments within the first year.

Accounting AssociateAug 2019 - May 2020

Fenwick & Draper CPAs, Columbus, OH

Supported senior accountants in preparing compiled financial statements for 18 small-business clients across retail and hospitality sectors.
Processed payroll tax filings (941, SUTA) for 12 clients on a biweekly cycle with 100% on-time submission rate over 10 months.
Reconciled client bank accounts and credit card statements averaging 350 line items per client per month, identifying $28K in unrecorded expenses across the portfolio.

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