Salema V. Gibson
Ocala Florida 34476
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OBJECTIVE: To return to the Accounting profession and be an asset to your organization
given my wealth of experience with various software systems, cultures, problem
solving techniques and pro-active approach to meet and exceed your
expectations.
01/09-Present Curves Clermont North, Fitness Club
Manager
• Hire, Train and Manage Employees to provide excellent Customer
Service.
• Accounts Payable/Receivables, verify and resolve all variances to
include cash receipts.
• Sell memberships as well as train and encourage members on
equipment and progress tracking.
• Monthly reporting/ projection sheet transmittals to Corporate, set
up and manage all insurance payments.
• Teach Weight Management Classes, sale of Curves Nutritional
supplements as well as clothing and other retail products.
• Purchase & negotiate all related offices supplies, equipment,
contracts and resale products.
• Manage and budget all Marketing, Promotions and Advertising.
11/06-09/07 Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics. Global supply chain solutions (Ocean & Inland)
Accounts Payable Contributor/Assistant to A/P Manager
• Served as a back up for the Accounting Manager.
• Daily review & processing of VSA vendor invoices through JDE.
• Audited data entry of invoices for accuracy prior to posting.
• Reconciled VSA month end closings & resolving vendor inquiries and
issues and ran all VSA A/P Checks.
• Weekly audit, processing and scanning of expense reports
• Verify accuracy of supplier invoices and expense reports.
• Maintained VSA disbursement reports on a weekly basis.
• Coded & batched expense reports and VSA bills.
• Verified manual check signatures on VSA checks over 10K & backup.
• Managed wire transfers, stop payments and voided checks.
• Supported other departments with VSA invoice backup as needed.
• Generated & maintained check register.
• Processed VSA Purchase Orders, facilitate approvals and set up new
Suppliers.
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Nomura Securities Int’l. Global Securities Asset Management Firm NYC
10/90-06/06
Accounts Payable Coordinator
• Assisted Accounts Payable VP with various duties and reports.
• Served as back up for departmental manager during absences and
vacations.
• Trained and supervised temporary employees.
• Opened new accounts and set up new vendors in Geac database-D&B
• Posted, reconciled, and ran A/P checks.
• Reviewed, processed and signed off on petty cash disbursement
Requests.
• Batched, coded and prepared travel and entertainment expenses.
• Reviewed and signed off on travel advance requests.
• Input month end journal entries & posted adjustments on A/P Geac
system-D&B.
• Investigated and corrected all invalid transactions.
PeopleSoft Implementation Team.
• Wired funds to various banks and scanned documents into A/P data Base.
• Initiated, ran and distributed reports for various managers.
• Worked with Paybase 7X, Bottom Line Technologies A/P printer software.
10/87- 07/90 Elders Finance Group New York, NY
Accounts Payable Clerk (promoted from Data Entry Clerk)
• Prepared, audited travel and entertainment expense vouchers.
• Maintained daily and monthly expense statements of Elder Finance
Group and related companies.
• Input of all data on IBM System 38, investigate and correct invalid
transactions.
• Prepared checks payable to related companies for deposit to various
accounts.
• Processed journal entries.
• Prepared and routed vouchers for approval pertaining to outside vendors.
EDUCATION:
1986-1987 United Business Institute New York, NY
Curves University, Certificate of Achievement: Workout, Management, Guest
Production, Hiring / Managing Employees, Marketing, Legal, Sales &Weight
Management
COMPUTER SKILLS:
PeopleSoft-
Paybase 7X,
GEAC-B&D,
Microsoft Word, MS Office, MS Outlook, Excel
System 38
AP database-Doc-Server,
JD Edwards
QuickBooks- Curves related Software and Accounting programs.