Accounts Receivable Manager

Ruzica (Rose )Vidakovic

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Clermont Fl 34714

H: 352-***-**** W: 407-***-****

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SUMMARY

Senior Finance Analyst with 8 years of experience. Demonstrated skill at contributing to

the continuous improvement of business processes, systems and reporting. Superior

analytical and problem solving skills. Creative and highly innovative team player with a

positive attitude. Excellent oral and written communication, project management and

time management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP SD, FI/ CO, Oracle, BW/BI, Infopak, ICMS, Visio, C++,

Visual Basic, SQL, Crystal Reports

Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook

EMPLOYMENT

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT Orlando, FL

Senior AR Coordinator/ Supervisor- Finance Shared Service (Temporary Assignment

July 2008- April 2009) April 2009- Present

•Train and supervise staff members in areas of procedures, client relations and

systems operations.

•Responsible for Electronic Data Interface (EDI) check operations.

•Primary point person for AR research, corrections and technology development

and refinement in SAP.

•Support various Accounts Receivable projects from the business owner

perspective, throughout the whole PLC. Created and implemented a

solution to the Special Ledger deactivation project issue, helping the teams

move forward with the project that was placed on hold due the issue.

•Fine tune many reporting and reconciliation requirements to further improve and

automate existing processes to improve efficiency. Created and

implemented a quicker and more efficient way of doing mass

maintenances, which decreased the processing time from 4 hours per

transaction to 15 minutes per transaction.

•Continually evaluate current processes to identify and implement continuous

improvement initiatives to streamline existing processes.

•Revise current policies and procedures as necessary.

•Working closely with the accounts receivable manager to ensure SOX 404

compliance and to complete external audits. Compile and gather backup

for all audits. Analyze and explain complex transactions to upper

management and auditors.

•Working closely with the reporting manager to ensure all Accounts Receivable

entries are captured for various financial reporting purposes. Created and

implemented a procedure which allows the reporting team to extract more

accurate tax related accounts receivable entries.

•Working closely with application developers to make sure that all end user needs

are understood for all accounts receivable projects currently in process.

Working with the IT department currently on changing the existing set up

of reason codes to improve the current accounts receivable subledger data

efficiency..

•Completing all SAP SD User Acceptance Testing.

•Assisted the Vice President of Finance during the sale of one business division

and completed the analysis of all return credit memos and AR related

transactions during the separation.

•Assisted during the merger and conversion from Peoplesoft to SAP. Revised

manuals, completed all AR training and assisted coworkers during the

transition.

CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY Jackson, Mi

Consumers Energy provides both natural gas and electric services to more than six

million customers in the State of Michigan.

Admin Assistant I-Admin Assistant III- Billing and Budgeting Services 2002 - July

2008

•Completed SOX 404 compliance testing.

•Completed bank reconciliations.

•Monitored delinquent Receivables and completed monthly analysis for doubtful

accounts.

•Completed all AR internal and external audits in a timely and successful manner.

•Completed the month-end close process for accounts receivable and reconciled

all CMS Energy and its subsidiaries balance sheet accounts

•Prepared monthly recurring and non recurring general ledger entries.

•Assisted the Accounts Payable department in vendor setup, with problems and

questions.

•Completed Excel spreadsheets application functionality testing.

•Analyzed project billings, inter company billings and third party billings daily.

•Assisted with the policy and procedure manuals creation.

•Researched variances between cross system sub ledgers and the general ledger

and recommended corrective action.

Sap System implementation duties:

•Compiled data from Account Receivable systems in order to implement SAP (3

billing systems- Oracle, McBars and MBS).

•Assisted team members with data conversion, report writing and other technical

issues during the SAP implementation process.

•Translated current accounts receivable processes to future processes in SAP

•Developed BI views and standard reports in SAP to meet our reporting

requirements.

•Assisted with internal order, cost center assessments and overhead costing sheet

set up.

•Assisted with material set up for Resource Related Billings including accounting

translations.

•Participated in SAP security testing.

EDUCATION / TRAINING

Bachelors in Business Administration, Davenport University, Lansing Mi

Associates in Business, Computer Programmer, Lansing Mi

Fluent in German

Additional Employee Development Training completed (Consumers Energy):

•Employee Growth and Development Training

•Leadership Principles Training

•Managing critical situations Training

•Performance Management and Accountability Training

•Negotiation

•Critical Thinking

•Valuing Diversity

•Emotional Intelligence

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