University Drive Sportyboys*2@yaho
Apt# 224 Davie o.com
Fl 33328
Carlos Herrera
Associate Accountant with 8 years progressive experience seeking a long-
term position with in a great company where I can apply my expertise and
acquired skills to support a successful organization, while increasing my
responsibilities and continuing my professional growth.
Work Experience
08/06 to 05/10 Avamere Health Services. Wilsonville, OR
Accounts Payable Lead
. Process a high number of invoices on weekly bases for 9 different
facilities (living Centers).
. Communicate & problem solve daily with Living Center Administrators.
. Perform set up of new vendors such that all documents and data were
available for multiple facilities revaluate future Suppliers.
. Manage and maintain all W-9 and 1099 forms.
. Review aging reports with Controller weekly and make necessary
adjustments.
. Make sure all invoices for Head Quarter office are approved and paid on a
timely manner and review statements to prevent issues.
. Posts payroll data and prepares routine reports and/or payments to
facilities, insurance companies and others.
. Calculates and processes special checks, reviews, edits and makes
corrections and adjustments as needed.
. Coordinates the preparation and maintaining of disbursements, reports and
statistics for facilities and others.
. Ensures that payments and facilities reports are disbursed timely and
accurately.
. Establishes policies and procedures for the payroll function.
. Research void checks and cancel invoices, as required.
. Report to A/P Manager.
. Process month end closing for all facilities.
03/06 to 08/06 In Focus Corp Portland, OR
ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST
Processed a high volume of transactions. (120 invoices per day) Interface
with US and International Suppliers answering standard inquiries and
resolved complex discrepancies. Document Oracle procedures. Provided back-
up support for functional team members.
. Route miscellaneous invoices to proper people for approval for payment.
. Use integrated accounting system to process invoices against system
purchase orders.
. Complete check mailing and filing voucher packets.
. Complete check printing and prepare check packets for signature.
. Process employee international expense reimbursements through electronic
expense reporting system.
. Execute control process that we verify bank information for Electronic
Funds Transfer to ensure data entry into the vendor data base are correct
and payments to suppliers are sent to the proper bank accounts.
. Executed and audited W8 bank reports daily and backlog reports weekly to
validate accuracy of the vendor master database before payments are made
to suppliers.
. Work closely with accounts payable supervisor to provide back up
assistance for the accounts payable month-end close process.
01/05 to 03/06 Intel Inc. Hillsboro, OR
Accounting Specialist
IMI SAP Super User
. Processed utility payments (300 invoices and $100M per month) through
manual process into nonstandard software for one of the companies'
acquisitions. This activity was more of an exceptions process demanding
detail review to ensure proper payment to suppliers.
. Researched and resolved invoice errors in coordination with business
partners from the Purchasing department most often around ensuring
established controls were upheld.
. Maintained business partnerships to facilitate resolution of all IMI SAP
. Issues and questions
. Trained two newly hired peers on system functionality, business processes
and exception problem solving. Performed audits on their work to ensure
the training concepts were retained and made determination as to level of
audit and deceleration of individual review.
. Created and continually updated the process documentation for the
training manual in my area of responsibility.
. Execute control process that we verify bank information for Electronic
Funds Transfer to ensure data entry into the vendor data base are correct
and payments to suppliers are sent to the proper bank accounts.
SAP Processor
. Entered 200 invoices per week into the SAP system for an acquisition to
Intel. This manual process demanded validation of exception processes and
learning different versions of SAP from standard Intel. Processed
exception invoices, consignment adjustments, cancellations, credit memos,
and short pays to keep Intel legal.
. Executed and audited W8 bank reports daily and backlog reports weekly to
validate accuracy of the vendor master database before payments are made
to suppliers.
. Led the Invoice Team through Customer Service Ticket process distributing
service requests to the appropriate staff members and engage Management
when appropriate for priority tickets.
. Created, compiled, and distributed weekly and monthly indicator reports
that are reviewed by Management Team for action planning
US AP Statement Review
. Support a credit recovery process in which we review Supplier Statements
for audit purposes and research all open credits for over payments or
price discrepancies.
. Work with the vendor to close those open items and complete the SAP
transaction to clear the items in order to properly record the credit for
Intel.
. Supported transition of Accounts Payable move to Costa Rica by updating
aged documentation on daily process, train new staff on the purpose and
steps to complete these daily processes and audit their training to
ensure transfer of knowledge occurred.
Education
. High School graduate
. Accounting Courses
Seminars and Classes
Microsoft Outlook, email and calendar, SAP, Word, Excel, RainGold,
Oracle, FDMS. DMS, MDI.