Dorinda Sperry

With over 20 years in accounting, I've built my career through determination and adaptability. I fell in love with accounting in high school, but my path wasn't traditional. I became a teenage mom, got my GED, and went to college with two kids at home. What started as a summer internship for college credits turned into my first job when I was hired on the spot. Years later, while working as a controller for an electrical contractor, I completed my associate's degree, and I'm now just 6 credits shy of my bachelor's. Currently, I serve as a senior accountant and payroll administrator for the Bonattio Group, which my original company merged with in September. I love the diversity of tasks in my role. On a daily basis, I process bank feeds, enter payables, send balance reports to clients, handle accounting for multiple companies, process and enter payrolls, reconcile general ledgers monthly, and complete month-end reviews and closes. I'm self-taught on most accounting software and have successfully gone into previous positions to do full cleanups on software I didn't even know how to use, creating much better financial views for companies. I have extensive experience in processing payroll, and my coworkers often come to me with payroll questions. While I'm happy in my current role and don't seek to stand out, I'm always willing to help coworkers one-on-one, showing them why we do things a certain way and what changes can occur.