Monica Melghem
Corona, CA ***83
Phone: 951-***-**** Cell phone 909-***-****
abiy13@r.postjobfree.com
Accounting Professional
Process Improvement ~ Legal Compliance ~ Certified Project Management
Over ten years of increasingly responsible experience in manufacturing,
sales and marketing, logistics and construction industries. Management of
staff members, vendor relationships, budget preparation, resolution of
customer and employee complaints and provided coaching to executive and
line management. Extensive experience in project management, policy
development, and financial reporting. An innovative, self-motivated,
results-oriented, professional with proven ability to be an effective
business partner.
Journal Entries
Bank Reconciliations
Payroll
Bank Reconciliation
Auditing
Job Costing
Analysis and Depreciation
Collections
EMPLOYMENT
Consulting - Temporary Positions
Working for different temporary agencies. Sept
2008 to Present
. Various projects
o Bank recons
o System upgrades and or interface
o Payroll Admin 3 month project
o Audits
o Account Reconciliations
o Fixed Assets implementation
o Quickbooks projects
AMF Support Surfaces - Manufacture Industry
Assistant Controller Mar 2008 to
Sept 2008
. Assisted with month end close
. Journal Entries
. Submitted Workers Compensation Claims
. Employee claim investigations
. Verified Payroll
. Bank Reconciliation's
. Auditing
. Wrote policies and procedures for part number schema that was adopted
in Quality Management system
. Supervised 6 employees
. Trained employees in quality procedures when needed
. Created and developed various manuals for accounting department
o Monthly Financial Statements
o Documentation of determination
o Training Manual
o Sox Procedures Manual
o IT training manual and procedures
o Helped develop Shipping and Receiving procedure
. Developed Accounting Department
. Job costing
. Analysis of Inventory, Bill of Materials and Scrap
Sage Software Inc.
Customer Support Analyst Oct 2007 to
Mar 2008
. Receive 80-100 phone calls per day regarding accounting software
issues
. Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve errors is MAS90 software
. Wrote up new fixes and procedures for system issues
. Worked with in 15 minute model to resolve issues for customers
. Called customer's to log into their systems to take driver seat in
serious cases
. Have extensive knowledge of MAS90 modules and their inner workings
Statewide Bancorp
Staff Accountant Dec 2005 to
Mar 2007
. Developed accounting policies and procedures
. Developed and implement new Accounts Payable filing system
. Bank Reconciliations
. Cash Management, Streamlined spending
. Develop Budget
. Created new Accounts Receivable processes
. Analysis and Depreciation Inventory analysis and depreciation
. Supervised Jr. Accountant
. Month and Year end closing
. Worked with Human Resources in writing employee manual
. Developed new recruiting procedures
. Created new employee incentive program
. Created new forms for employee, inquisitions
. Worked with Human Resources to develop employee benefit program
Commodity Logistics Inc., Accounting Associate May
2004 to Dec 2005
Payroll
Supervise one Payroll Clerk and two AP Clerks.
. Processed weekly payroll for 800 company employees in Etime.
. Assist with weekly payroll for 800 temporary workers in Etime.
. Prepare weekly payroll journal entry
. Audit of payroll sick and vacation pay
. Implemented payroll tracking spreadsheet that is used throughout
company
. Enter into ADP Wage Garnishments and Child Support Orders
. Enter direct deposit requests into ADP
Accounts Payable
. Enter up 500 AP invoices into weekly
. Set up Vendor accounts
. Vendor reconciliations
. Accrue for month end closing
Billing
. Prepare customer invoices
. Administrator of Nextel company phones
o Order, Issue, maintain control of users of phones.
o Work closely with the Nextel maintaining proper price plans
Cristek Interconnects
Senior Accounting Associate May 2002 to
May 2004
. Matching, Coding, Posting invoices 100 or more a day
. Posting in a 24 hour turn around time
. Cutting checks for Vendors on a weekly basis
. Keeping Vendors informed (keeping them happy!)
. Processing Debits for returned material.
. Member of the Materials Review Board. ISO Company.
. Process re-engineering for new Policies and Procedures
. Overtime Control Reports
. Departmental Budget Control
Allied Modular Building Systems
Accounting/HR Clerk, Nov 2000 to
Nov 2001
. Assist supervisor with month and year-end closing tasks.
. Administrate supervisors' tasks.
. Set up appointments, screen phone calls, and return correspondence.
. Enter and post journal entries.
. Process vendor invoices by matching, researching, and inputting data.
. Code data for input to financial data processing system according to
company procedures.
. Research and respond to vendor inquiries.
. Assist during check disbursements for aged payables.
. Prepare invoices for customers (i.e. billing, proposals, lien
releases).
. Prepares job files (i.e. data sheet, purchase orders, quotes, change
orders, transportation, etc.)
. Update vendor files (I.e. insurance certificates, contracts,
proposals, terms profiles, W-9, etc) in database.
. Update employee files (i.e. benefits, performance reviews, profiles,
attendance records, sick/vacation accumulation, etc.)
. Verify and summarize payroll information for processing.
. Assist with hiring and termination of potential and existing
employees.
Technical Skills:
GAAP Bilingual/Spanish
Sage MAS90 QuickBooks
Excel Word
ACCPAC ABBASOFT
QuickBooks ADP, PayChex
Report Smith, ETime
EDUCATION
ITT Tech Associates of Science, Computer and Electronics
Engineering 2003
University of Phoenix Bachelors of Science in Business Management
2006
University of Phoenix Masters in Business Administration
Current