Carol S. Ferry

*** ********* *** ~ Columbus, Ohio 43221

614-***-**** ab4thd@r.postjobfree.com

Computer Experience

. Oracle

. Lawson

. Discoverer

. Microsoft SQL Server 2008

. Business Objects

. Microsoft Exel

. Microsoft Word

. MIcrosoft Powerpoint

. Hyperion Essbase

Professional Experience

The Wendy's Company. Dublin, Ohio 04/12-Present

AP Staff Accountant

. Import and validate the daily EDI Food vendors and Facility

Maintenance Invoices

. Post the month-end journal entries consisting of Corporate AP Accrual,

I-Expense Accrual, accruing Donlen lease payments, allocating all

cellphone charges, allocating unidentified food items and

miscellaneous reclassifications.

. Provide support for the AP Manager during month-end as needed.

. Provide backup for the I-Expense and Corporate Card Administrator and

P-Card Administrator.

. Reconcile the following accounts, Accrued Utilites and AP Vendor

Credits.

. Assist Store accountants on food inventory discrepancies and any other

questions.

. Assist the IT team with new EDI vendor set-up and updates to existing

vendors.

. Participating in the R12 Oracle implementation for Accounts Payable by

testing the responsibilities related to my position.

NescoResources., Worthington, Ohio

01/12-03/12

Temporary Staff Accountant at Express

. Managed the Marketing and E-Commerce Checkbooks and process related

invoices.

. Maintained all expenses timely and accurately.

. Reviewed expenses with the owners to ensure the expenses are

accurately recorded and accounted for in the Month of Benefit.

. Researched invoice issues by using the General Ledger System and On-

Line Spend Management.

. Prepared month-end journal entries and reconciled the Checkbooks to

the General Ledger at month-end.

Diamond Innovations Inc., Worthington, Ohio

11/04-11/11

Accounts Payable Analyst

Oversaw the Accounts Payable department by

. Supervising the daily responsibilities of the Accounts Payable clerk

and processing of invoices

. Manage month-end close by closing the periods, journal entries,

reconciling accounts

. Coordinate weekly Accounts Payable disbursement batches.

. Compile, review and complete OH and FL Use Tax on a monthly basis.

. Assist IT with testing A/P module for Oracle upgrades and patches.

. Train new users for online expense reports on Oracle.

. Responsible for investigating and resolving any system errors within

the Accounts Payable responsibilities.

. Responsible for submitting 1099's.

. Administrator on the corporate credit cards with the ability to

resolve issues on employees' credit cards and issue new credit cards

to employees.

. Manage the Accounts Payable Purchasing Card with a $800k limit.

Accomplishments

o Assisting the Ohio Use Tax consultant that resulted in a refund

of $1.1M.

o Implemented the AP Procurement card in the Oracle, which has

resulted in improved cash flow through higher days to pay.

o Participated in the implementation of Oracle Accounting System.

o Created a policy and procedures and a desktop manual for

Accounts Payable.

o Enhanced the internal controls in Accounts Payable post

implementation.

o For 4 years have met the spending requirement to receive rebates

from the Credit Card Company

o Worked with IT to create a procedure to test AP before any

upgrades or patches are put in production.

EXEL INC., Columbus, Ohio 03/03-

11/04

Accounting Specialist

. Reviewed Capital Project Requests for appropriate approvals and issue

project number to requestor.

. Process invoices pertaining to Capital Projects after verifying

invoice for signature and

spend against Capital Project Request.

. Established asset in the accounting system according to invoices CPR's

and depreciation lives.

. Managed fixed assets on monthly basis through transferring, retiring,

disposing or changing the asset.

. Prepared reports for finance such as Capitalization Report, CPR Spend

Report and any other reports requested.

North Broward Hospital DistricT, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

01/02-01/03

1 Accountant

. Approved and assigned numbers to Capital Equipment Requests and

Capital Project Requests.

. Approved all requisitions against CPR's and CER's.

. Managed the Capital Equipment budgets and Capital Project budgets

after approval by Finance and the Board of Commissioners.

. Processed invoices for payment after verifying signature and spend

against CPR's and CER's.

. Maintained assets in the accounting system through transfers,

additions, disposals, and changes.

. Performed month-end reconciliation by reconciling the G/L to Asset

Management for asset accounts.

. Posted month-end journal entries and accruals.

. Performed quarterly inventory tag audits.

Weinberg & Associates, Inc., Delray Beach, FL

05/01-01/02

1 Audit Consultant

. Performed field examinations, which included audit analysis, narrative

reporting on collateral, accounts of asset-based borrowers within a

specified time period.

. Validated accounts receivable and account payables by testing invoices

on the A/R Aging Report and A/P Aging Report.

. Assessed inventory by performing physical tests counts on reported

items.

. Reviewed the General Ledger and Trial Balances for discrepancies.

. Performed trend analysis such as turnover days, gross margin, sales,

and roll-forwards.

. Discussed the findings with the company and prepared a report for the

lender.

1 Education

FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY, Columbus, OH

Bachelors of Science in Accounting with Honors, 2000.

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, OH

Bachelors of Arts in Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1992.

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