Anita Berry
Irving, TX ***62
E-mail **********@***.***
EDUCATION Athens State University in Athens, Alabama
Bachelor of Science Degree with a double major in
Accounting and Business
Administration.
EXPERIENCE
Paragon Global Relocation-April, 2012 to Present-Client
Accounting/Auditing-Billing Spec.
` - Service Fee Auditing and
Analysis to approve for processing in receivables
batches. I approve and process receivables batches,
and then the billing accountants do the invoicing to
the individual client.
This involves the following:
- Researching and Reviewing client policies, expenses,
billing ledgers, closing documents, and all
relocation details for applicable service fees and
Prism system billing triggers
- Monthly Accrual
- Monthly Billing Statistics reporting to management
- Approving Wire Logs submitted by India team
Skills and Knowledge used:
- Excel (V Lookups, etc.)
- Strong communication skills
- Auditing the work of others
- Strong problem solving skills
- Organizational and time management skills
Burnett's Staffing - Feb. 2012 to Present - Working as a Temp
- Various Accounting/Financial assistance
Siplast, Inc. - December, 2006 to December, 2011-Accountant
Duties:
- Payroll HR changes through ADP (new hire paperwork,
personal data, pay rate changes, terminations),
assisting employees, Payroll recons, Full Cycle
Processing for Canada ADP
- Billing, Billing Auditing
- Revenue Reporting
- State Sales and Use Tax filings and Canada
- Assisting Auditors
- Cash Receipts
- Commissions
- Journal Entries, month end close processes
- Month end GL Recons and other duties
- Bank reconciliations
- Releasing credit holds (AR Aging research)
- Coding Revenue Adjustments (Debit/Credit memos)
Snelling Temp Agency- July, 2006 to December, 2006
Assignments included-Auditing test compliance documents in
a Quality and Compliance Department and assisting a
controller with AP, AR, and Payroll duties
CCI Career School-August, 2005 to June, 2006 -Computerized
Accounting CI
- Performed Training in Basic Accounting (Manual
Ledgers, -
Automated Accounting System, Peachtree, &
QuickBooks), this included:
Invoicing and other transactions involving A/P and
A/R, account coding, journal entries, posting to GL,
simple bank statement reconciliations, financial
statements (Income Statement and Balance Sheet),
closing entries, reversing entries, payroll, and tax
returns
Verizon Information Services Company - April, 2000 to
March, 2005 - Spec. Financial Planning and Analysis
- Subject matter expert to West Region's Sales Reps and
Managers for Commissions pay plan contract. This
involved many aspects of reviewing, research,
variance analysis, problem solving, and reporting.
- Conducted net meetings and conference calls with
sales managers and reps for Commissions analysis and
pay plan contract assistance, understanding and
reviewing
- SAS querying and producing weekly reports (Revenues,
head count, etc.)
Ad Hoc prior period actuals to quota/budget analysis
and reporting
- Reviewing Audit Report -for quota and threshold
variances
- Approved and made adjustments for retros
- Running retros, auditing and variance analysis
reporting
- Reviewing the Error Extract Report and follow-up
- Reconcile and maintain incentive trip accrual journal
entries
- Commissions Payables A/P and expense reporting
(helping GL with financial statement analysis)
- Maintaining DSR and Goal file tables in Access
- Produce National Sales report and prepare National
Cover Roster for on-line distribution
- Insure accurate reporting by submitting reporting
changes in employee table to comp system.
- Serving as part of testing/validation team for new
systems
- Working with all levels of sales force and management
Aegis Communications Group, Irving, TX - September, 1998 to
April, 2000 - Accountant
- Responsible for auditing and analysis of large client
invoices, assisting Controller in variance analysis
on the financial statements. This also included:
- Contract Administration and working with
clients/vendors
- Revenue estimate tracking, analysis and reporting
- Analyzing cost center variances and reconciling
associated revenue
- Reconciliation/analysis of Income stmt. and Balance
Sheet to A/R and Revenues
- Assisted A/P in preparing GL variance analysis for
expenses
- Auditing all invoicing reports and back-up (performed
this in a Lead role for largest client)
- Assisting Client auditors
- Invoicing
- Coding invoices and coordinated project codes with
project names and GL account numbers
- Journal Entries/Accruals/monthly close
- Collection reporting, analysis and reconciliation
- Preparing performance results reports for Sales VPs
- Maintaining tables and reports in Access
- Serving as part of testing/validation team for new
systems
Harken Energy Corporation, Irving, TX - August, 1996 to
July, 1998 - Accountant
- Variance Analysis reporting for revenue
- Prepared monthly tax returns for oil and gas wells.
- Contract Administration
- Audited prices paid and compared to contract terms
- Analyzed budgeted expenses with actual expenses
associated with well workovers-prepared reports
- Downloaded data from the Excalibur to Excel, then to
the -Paradox database for reports sent to management.
These reports compared revenues, expenses and taxes.
- Maintained tables in Access
- Trained as the backup to the supervisor in the
Accounts Payable department, which includes
conducting the A/P system check-run, coding invoices,
coding expense reports, and dealing with vendors
directly.
- Accounts Receivable reconciliation and journal
entries
COMPUTER/ Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint
SOFTWARE IFS, Excalibur, Lawson Accounting systems (exposed to a little
Peoplesoft), Peachtree, QuickBooks, Macola, Solomon
Databases/Reporting Systems: Paradox, Access, SAS, Crystal, Lotus
Notes, Prism
Other: Sales Contract Systems LMS/Vast/VRMS, Checkpoint RIA
OTHER Delta Mu Delta National Honor Society. Detail oriented and
well organized.