Accounts Payable Manager

ERICA HARMON, MBA

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Plainfield, New Jersey 07060

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CAREER SUMMARY

Innovative Accountant with a MBA and over 20 years of experience in

Construction, Entertainment, Investment Banking, Audit, Not-for-Profit.

Areas of expertise include billing, budgeting, forecasting, variance

analysis, cash management, periodic closing, internal audit and General

Accounting. Progressive thinker with hands on experience in developing and

training staff and processes need to obtain strategic objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Parsons Transportation Group, Newark NJ 9/2009

- 4/2010

Project Business Manager

. Manage the business functions for the Construction Management Consortium

on the Access to the Region's Core Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel exceeding

500 million.

. Prepare the Monthly billing to the Client (New Jersey Transit) and

interact with Client on funding concerns,

. Prepare journal entries on various general ledger accounts to ensure

proper budgeting, review and alert Subs on their funds available in

their respective budgets per their contract with CMC.

. Resolve with CMC Subs issues raised by NJT on their invoice

submissions, while processing all accounts payable and accounts within

a timely manner.

. Reconcile the Joint Venture's Bank Accounts to ensure the availability

of an acceptable cash flow.

. Audit all sub-consultant invoices for accuracy and process them for

payment, including processing change all change orders.

. Prepare wire transfer requests for all sub-consultants in excess of 10

million annually.

. Prepare and review all contracts for sub-consultants, review and alert

Subs on their funds available in their respective budgets per their

contract with CMC.

. Manage the importation of all invoices on to the Sharepoint system.

. Interact with all levels of management on various issues.

TCR Northeast Construction, Bayonne, NJ 2/2007

-9/2009

Project Accountant

. Managed three projects with payable exceeding $300 million with cost

saving of 5 million.

. Prepared monthly billings for various entities via AIA application,

trained new subcontractors on the preparation of AIA applications

. Reviewed subcontract agreements and purchase orders and coordinated

information with Accounts Payable.

. Met weekly with Project Managers and Superintendents to review and

confirm that all payables were correct and approved by the competent

authority.

. Reviewed all schedules of values and balance them against the

contract.

. Processed all change orders between Construction teams and

subcontractors.

. Prepared various cost analyses for the President of Construction to

approve.

. Maintained and managed the CCIP Program and manage offsite insurance

certificates for subcontractors.

. Balanced budget between Timberline and Prolog. While updating budget

changes on a weekly basis to ensure construction budget is meeting the

planned budget.

. Maintained Lien Release and Sworn statement for subcontractors and

verify for accuracy.

. Released retainage when subcontractors met contractual requirements.

. Interacted with bank inspectors.

New Jersey Transit, Maplewood, NJ

11/2001 - 11/2007

Accounts Payable Manager

. Managed invoice processing for vendor payments in excess of 150 million

annually.

. Reviewed batched invoices for proper account coding.

. Prepared journal entries on various general ledger accounts to ensure

proper budgeting.

. Prepared wire transfers and accruals in excess of 72 million dollars,

annually.

. Managed a staff of eight.

. Prepared 1099s annually for all accounts payable vendors.

. Reviewed all P-Card Purchases to ensure budgeting.

. Prepared payments for Purchase card charges monthly, for over 35 million

dollars, annually.

. Prepared voids and reissues on accounts payable checks.

. Processed discounted invoices monthly and in a timely manner, to take

advantage of the discounts that were available for early payment to a tune

of $3 million, annually

. Managed 150 Vendors accounts with revenue of over $500 million.

Independent Long-Term Consultant 01/1999

- 10/2001

Provided consulting for various projects with the following companies, MJI

Broadcasting, Proskaure Rose, LLP, Amman and Whitney Engineering Group, Net

Quotient Consulting, Part Miner, Bernard Hodes Advertising.

Senior Accountant / Analyst/ Business Manager

. Prepared various types of commission reports for sales employees.

. Reconciled six different bank statements with revenues of over 400

million dollars.

. Analyzed and review current year to prior year budgets to ensure

consistency with the Plan.

. Prepared cash flow analysis and monitored the budget on various projects.

. Prepared commission payments for consultants in excess of $4 million.

. Designed and implemented an off-site Accounts Payable Department for a

small IPO, which enabled the improvement of accountability within the

company.

Martha Graham Center, New York, NY 01/1998

- 01/1999

Accounting Manager

. Managed the accounts payable and payroll system via Blackbaud.

. Notified Board Members when performances were over budgeted amounts.

. Processed payroll for 150 employees including Dance Company and center.

. Prepared daily bank deposits for school and Center.

COMPUTER SKILLS

PRISM, Timberline, Prolog, ASI, McCormick & Dodge Accounts Payable and

Payroll Systems, People Soft, Peachtree, ADP, QuickBooks, MAS90, Elite,

Win2, Unix, Excel, Lotus, dBase III, WordPerfect, Access, Microsoft XP,

Microsoft Publisher, Blackbaud and PowerPoint.

EDUCATION

Dowling College, Long Island, NY May 2004

Master of Business Administration in General Management

Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC May 1985

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

Professional Memberships

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. - Chairperson Fund Raising, Assistant

Treasurer

National Association of Black Accountants

References Furnished upon Request

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