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Melissa Williams

Managing Member

Phone:

(503) 407-0786

Email:

Specialties: 

  • Payroll and Benefits Accounting

  • Financial Reporting

  • Cost Accounting

  • Balance Sheet Management

  • Mergers and Acquisitions 

  • GAAP Accounting 

  • Banking and Treasury

  • Systems Integrations

A Bit About Me

My name is Melissa Williams, a managing member of Abacus Professional Accountants. The path to Abacus started 25 years ago when I was hired as a summer intern at a small tower construction company, as a dedicated, gritty, and detail-oriented teenager fresh out of high school I soon discovered a passion for facts & figures, precision, and audits. What started as a summer internship landed a 24-year stretch in GAAP accounting, mergers and acquisitions, banking and treasury, and balance sheet management.  My job titles prior to joining this incredible team have included: payroll manager, accounting manager, senior and staff accountant. I attended Portland State University and studied the nuances behind human resources, payroll, and compliance. 

I am an Oregon native but left in the early 2000’s to further my career in the peaceful North Texas countryside where I’ve lived and worked remote the last 20 years of my life.  When I’m not crunching numbers, I’m passionate about child welfare and, along with my husband, have nurtured over 15 medical children through the state’s Foster Care system. In my spare time I enjoy barnyard chickens, photography, reading and digging in the dirt alongside my children.

Work Experience Highlights

Accounting Manager

Payroll Manager

Senior Accountant

Attended Portland State University

After 24 years of experience, I found a great position in the telecommunications construction field as a  Accounting Manager! I managed my own accounting department of 5 employees. I also maintained the general ledger chart of accountants and reconciliations. I was able to develop and implement departmental accounting policies, procedures, and processes to establish and standardize accounting best practices.

I found myself in the rewarding field of home health and hospice providers as a Payroll Manager. Here I got to learn and manage several functions functions, including semi-monthly processing of multi-state payroll, including garnishments, direct deposit, commission payments, terminations, new hires, relocation, education reimbursement, taxable and non-taxable benefits and taxes consistent with federal and state wage and hour laws.

My first job was exciting starting as a staff accountant and working my way up to Senior Accountant. It was exciting working in the cell tower industry where I learned so much reporting directly to the CFO and mandating banking covenants. I experienced working effectively two companies as we merged 7 times over the course of my 16 years. 8 of those years I performed all the functions of upper management payroll and worked as a senior accountant, overseeing quarterly and yearly financial statements the rest of my time. 

I got the amazing opportunity to attend both Portland Community College and Portland State University. I learned a lot taking classes in Human Resources, Business and Accounting. 

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