Accounts Payable Manager
Resume:
LISA L. KOVAL
Pittsburgh, PA **209
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Heinz North America, Pittsburgh, PA
Obsolete Inventory Analyst
November 2006-June 2011
• Prepared summaries on aging inventory utilizing pivot tables
• Drove decisions during monthly aging meeting
• Assisted with budget preparation
• Generated reclass entries
• Prepared and published weekly analysis of actual vs. forecast
• Determined need for incremental reserves and gathered backup
• Pulled monthly financials via Access and Hyperion Essbase
• Acted as a financial liaison within our department
• Conducted biweekly meetings to review sensitive aging inventories
• Generated YOY savings for disposals driven by close monitoring and questioning transactions
• Developed strong cross functional partnerships
• Prepared training material and trained factories on the GDW ADR application
• Fielded questions on the GDW ADR application and monitored use
• Wrote Corporate Finished Good Asset Disposal Requests and identified root cause for the disposals
• Tracked and analyzed finished good disposals and determined improvement plans
• Created process maps for all job functions
• Participated in Six Sigma Yellow belt training
Inventory Accountant
August 2001-November 2006
• Monitored and analyzed inventory transactions via queries (AS400 and Access)
• Reviewed various reports to ensure transactions resolved to the general ledger properly
• Analyzed and cleared raw material receipts not paid for
• Interacted with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Factory Locations and Various Departments on a regular basis
• Worked well with various levels of management
• Assisted with the implementation of the return to vendor policy and monitored compliance
• Maintained facility and warehouse codes in BPCS and published the warehouse master list
• Monitored and loaded finished good standard costs
• Developed processes for creating book-to-book reconciliations with 3rd party warehouses (WMS vs. BPCS)
• Reviewed book-to-book reconciliations and summarized variances
• Reviewed aging inventory and recorded adequate reserve dollars
• Questioned disposal transactions vs. reserve
• Oversaw the annual physical inventory
• Audited and wrote procedures to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
• Prepared various reconciliations and researched discrepancies
• Assisted with the development of a warehouse cycle count procedure
• Prepared journal entries
Accounts Payable Supervisor
April 1999-August 2001
• Supervised, developed, trained, and motivated 10 Accounts Payable personnel in the day-to-day activities of the
accounts payable department
• Directed and controlled staff to ensure accurate and timely processing of vendor invoices
• Successfully implemented E-bpcs software program into daily activities
• Assisted and offered insight on the E-bpcs implementation for HNA Dry
• Maintained Accounts Payable policies and procedures and continued to develop new processes
• Reviewed and processed journal entries
• Reconciled various accounts on a daily and monthly basis
• Assisted the General Manager of Accounting with special projects
• Prepared 1099 taxable income forms for the IRS
• Reviewed signature authorization levels and monitored compliance
• Reviewed and analyzed general ledger account discrepancies and provided feedback on the inquiries
• Understood the relationship between various departments and the effects of transactions on these departments
• Regularly interacted with all levels of management and factory locations
Sales Support Analyst
February 1998-April 1999
• Monitored, evaluated, and analyzed spending and took corrective action
• Assisted in the preparation of general, administrative and selling expense budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Provided administrative support for the field offices
• Prepared financial reports for all levels of management
• Code and approved various marketing charges
• Prepared various P&L components in forecasts and budgets
• Provided brand support
• Prepared monthly spending documents
• Maintained database of all marketing appropriation requests
Senior Accounts Payable Coordinator
March 1997-February 1998
Accounts Payable Coordinator
March 1995-March 1997
Accounts Receivable/Deductions Coordinator
August 1994-March 1995
EDUCATION
Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA
Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration
Major: Accounting
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
Advanced Excel, Intermediate Access, Word, Integrated Mfg. Software (BPCS), Global Data Warehouse ADR
Application; AS400 queries, Cognos (EDS) and Hyperion Essbase
Lisa L. Koval
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