SIRETHA HERRON
**** **** # *** ? Kansas City, Missouri 64109 ? 816-***-**** ?
**************@****.***
Career Objective
To obtain a challenging position that will enable me to exercise
my superb accountant communication and problem solving skills to
enhance an organization's mission.
SUMMARY QUALIFICATIONS
Extensive knowledge of principles and practices of accounts
payable and receivable
Ability to communicate effectively through both oral and written
communication
Ability to collect and consolidate, organize and prioritize
assignments
Ability to multitask assignments
Plan, organize, and supervise the work of a large group of
professional and clerical personnel
Perform detail work involving written or numeric data and to make
arithmetic calculations rapidly and accurately
Do extensive responsible research, analysis, and report writing
Express ideas clearly and concisely, both orally and written
skills
Accounts Payable
Organizational Skills
Computer City's People Soft Financials and Human Resources
Organization skills
Computer Literacy
Work in a team or as individual
Communication skills
Time management
Ten Key by Touch
All Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, Access, etc.)
Opex 30, Opex 50 Omation Machine
KIVA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Accountant II - Lead Accountant - Supervisor
Neighborhood and Community Services, Accountant II
3/02/08 - PRESENT
Assigns and supervises the activities of personnel engaged in the
maintenance of monthly journals, purchases, approval of payment
vouchers and reconciliation of accounts
Prepares vouchers for various appropriations; receives, verifies and
deposits revenues, assembles fiscal information for departmental
annual budget
Audits materials and make recommendations as to costs
Inspects contracts for proper charges, proper recording of
collections
Judgment in planning, installing, revising and maintaining accounting
procedures
Supervises, coordinates, and assists in the control of departmental
fiscal budget
Oversees the proper maintenance of accounting records and reports
Maintaining accounting procedures
Reviews invoice clearing funds, journal vouchers and daily
miscellaneous receipts
Assist with the development of policies through consultation with
division heads on maintenance activities
Confers with and advises divisions heads on problems and projects
relating to maintenance
Reviews budget estimates, and special departmental reports and
projects relating to maintenance
Performs related duties as required
Do extensive responsible research, analysis
Establish effective working relationships with the subordinates,
employees and officials, and the general public
Publishes varied reports illustrating transactions and financial
position of the department
Supervises and coordinates capital outlay requests and the
preparation and administration of the departmental budget
Reviews and approves financial statements and reservations of funds
Studies cost trends and make recommendations as to costs
Make suggestions for changes and improvements in accounting
procedures
Maintains liaison with other units in relation to equipment service
charges and procedures
Clears accounts payable file of reservations of funds for payments of
bills
Secures authorization for payment and forwards to proper office
Assists in the Administration operations
Assists the Division head in administration of the division to which
assigned
Keeping activity and expenditure records, and contract administration
Accountant I
Neighborhood and Community Services, Accountant I
7/31/06 - 3/02/08
Processing the payroll for several divisions of the Neighborhood
Community Services Department which consists of 100-150 staff
Audits material and reports; make recommendations as to costs;
make suggestions for changes and improvements in accounting
procedures.
Processing the availability of funds
Processes purchase orders and reservations for encumbering and
paying invoices
Prepares vouchers for the expenditures of various appropriations;
receives, verifies and deposits revenues; assemble fiscal
information for inclusion in the departmental annual budget
Serve as liaison with other units in relation to equipment
service charges and procedures
Clear accounts payable file of reservations and requisitions paid;
processes receiving reports, secures authorization for payment and
forwards to proper office
Prepares and records reservations of funds for payment of bills
Verifies calculating of rental payments
Process refunds on contracts
Process payments of principal and interest on bonds
Maintains accumulation of billing of outside agencies
Prepares statement of operating cash on hand, operating profit and
loss
Inspects contracts for proper charges; proper recording of
collections
Customer Service Support
Makes deposits in PeopleSoft
Maintains grant database in Access
Assists in auditing of time record and misuse of cash handling
Cross-trained on processing of issuing of Insurance checks and
assessments
Data Entry and Filing
Revenue Division, Secretary
November, 2003 - July 2006
Maintained and operating imaging system
Creates monthly journals, recording of purchases and
reconciliation of accounts
Assembles fiscal year information for the departmental annual
budget
Audits materials and reports and makes recommendations as to the
cost
Prepared and records reservations of funds for payment of bills
Prepared vouchers, monthly reports and statements
Assisted in the control of departmental fiscal affairs
Oversees the proper maintenance of accounting records and reports
Performing special assessment account information, account
maintenance and research account information entered into KIVA
Prepared the money for withholdings, emergency, arena, business
license, convention and tourism and other taxes collected.
Prepared summary of income and expense
Prepared Inter Account Transfer Vouchers and Budget Transfers
Prepared general ledgers and spreadsheets and inputted into the
system
Process ACH transactions and e-filing payments.
Resolve bank error notices and helped create procedure manual
Update files, close-out accounts and open new accounts
Reviews the work of clerical employees and paraprofessional
engaged in maintained in the municipal general ledger and
budgetary control accounts
American Century Investment Company, Account Specialist
July 1998-2002
Monitors reimbursements and general fund accounts
Processed investors redemption requests
Creates and enters journal vouchers
Processed shareholder non value transactions request (VOD's),
Bolo, BRC's)
Cross-trained on Account Services (Redemption, Purchases, Address
Changes)
Operate microfilm machine and endorse checks
Reviewed the work of professional and employees engaged in
maintained in municipal general ledger and budgetary control
accounts
Processed ACH transactions and e-filing payments
Update and maintain the account holder information within the
company database
Research account holders information and communicate with the
appropriate parties
Apply professional accounting principles and skills to the
maintenance of accounting records
Performed arithmetic calculations on a daily basis
Engaged in maintaining municipal general ledger and budgetary
control accounts
Oversees the proper maintenance of accounting records and reports
Reviews invoice clearing fund specials
Reviews trust fund specials
Education
Central High School 9/1986 - 5/1990
CERTIFICATES
Certificate of completion received through computer courses taken
at Penn Valley Community College
Career Development Certificate Program
Human Resources Management Academy