Customer Service Accounting

Darlene Garmon

*** *********** *****

Chesapeake, Va. 23322 US

Phone: 757-***-****

Alt. Phone: 757-***-****

Email: abj02t@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Seeking employment with a company that will provide a challenging and

permanent position in an accounting or office environment. Currently I am

volunteering at our local medical Center, finance dept. and other charity

work until I am re-employed.

Also assisting a friend with a small business using Quickbooks.

Hired in 1980 with Hipage, one of the largest privately owned customhouse

brokers in the US. Worked my way up in the accounting department from a

billing clerk to A/P & A/R, International transactions, and overseeing G/L

and help desk for all accounting functions for our Corp accounting dept.

and all branch offices. I was at this position until 5/2009 when our

company downsized.

My role was to assist my accounting co-workers in any manner needed to get

the work completed correctly.

I was also responsible for troubleshooting for our other 10 branches

accounting employees.

The on the job training in the various accounting areas was priceless.

Over the years we went from a manual system to several different computer

systems.

The use of windows and excel became part of our daily functions.

I am flexible and do not mind learning a new system.

Abilities

Bank reconciliation's - During my years in the accounting department I was

responsible for the bank reconciliation's, both disbursement and deposit

accounts for our branch offices as well as our corporate office.

This involved reconciling bank statements to our G/L accounts and verifying

discrepancies and making the

proper adjustments.

My abilities include but are not limited to the following:

General Ledger month end process-

Responsible for regular and adjusting journal entries each month.

Responsible for month end closing and balancing to G/L.

Assisted comptroller with investigating any discrepancies.

A/R - Daily bank deposits for 10 locations via lockbox and regular

incoming mail, downloads from bank and application to open receivables.

Prepared regular daily deposit for bank. Maintained A/R aging for

discrepancies, applied credit memos, and investigated old items. Refunded

overpayments and provided excellent customer service by answering

questions.

A/P - Responsible for daily check processing for vendor payments. Coding

of expenses to correct G/L account before creating payments. Maintain A/P

aging for discrepancies, apply credit memos and do zero checks to apply

corrections made through billing.

Collections - Responsible for all overseas vendor payments and collection

of receivables.

This was done through a net settlement process, which involved both A/R &

A/P.

After netting a payment a wire transfer would be done or a payment would be

sent to me from overseas and would be applied to both receivables and

payables.

Overseas vendors and agents were paid in both foreign and USD, which I

would convert, based on daily currency rates at time of settlement.

This process of obtaining foreign transfers was done online with our bank.

Some QuickBooks Experience and willing to learn more

Fixed Assets - Responsible for recording and maintaining fixed assets for

our 10 locations using the FAS program.

References- Available upon request

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