Customer Service Accounts Payable
Resume:
PEGGY KENNEDY
************@*******.*** ? 913-***-****
QUALIFICATION SUMMARY
An accomplished and committed finance professional with strategic
analytical skills and the proven ability to solve and research problems and
issues. Areas of expertise include:
Accounts Payable Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
Supervising Financial Reporting and Variance Analysis
Account Reconciliations Inventory and Asset Management
SOX Hyperion and PeopleSoft Financial Systems
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CenturyLink - Overland Park, KS 2006-2009
Supervisor-Accounts Payable
Managed staff with daily production service levels for paper invoices and
returned checks. Handled customer service issues, ensured training of
staff, established yearly goals and objectives for staff and provided
performance evaluations and participated in special projects.
Developed invoice processing procedures for $680M of paper invoices
received yearly to ensure all invoices were properly handled within the
department.
Managed processing of approximately 5K invoices per month within
established service standards and in accordance with corporate policies and
procedures.
Instrumental in establishing and documenting procedures for SOX
requirements.
Participated in system upgrade of the PeopleSoft Financial System.
Sprint - Overland Park, KS 2005-2006
Financial Analyst /Accountant
Lead team of hourly employees in group which involved approving account
reconciliations and journal entries, monitoring workload, participating in
yearly performance evaluations, and ensuring department goals were being
met.
Improved the process of asset retirement by collaborating with IT
personnel, focusing on internal systems and reports available to field
personnel.
Developed automated process to reconcile inventory accounts of over $100M.
Instrumental in establishing and documenting procedures for SOX
requirements and providing SOX training to other team members.
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CBRE - Overland Park, KS 2003-2005
Staff Accountant
Provided client with accounting and financial services support on numerous
real estate projects. This included purchase requisitions, purchase orders,
invoice processing, account analysis, variance analysis and billing costs
to client.
Established procedures for invoice approval and processing.
Improved the performance of the staff by successfully implementing material
request process.
Expanded employees' knowledge of client's processes by serving as a liaison
between CBRE project managers and client's finance employees.
OLATHE MEDICAL CENTER - Olathe, KS 2002
Staff Accountant
Assisted with activities related to financial analysis, budgets and other
special projects.
Obtained and compiled budget data.
Prepared special reports for various management members.
SPRINT - Overland Park, KS 1985-2001
Senior Financial Analyst
Ensured timely and accurate issuance of financial statements for
subsidiaries and on a consolidated basis; prepared, reviewed and reconciled
variance and margin reports by business unit and product line; and
interfaced with senior management on a variety of operational issues.
Streamlined over 90% of departmental procedures within six months by
implementing best-in-class practices; resulted in higher customer
satisfaction and increased departmental productivity.
Key management member on team to reduce data centers by 50% without
affecting productivity; received a company Excellence Award.
EDUCATION
M.B.A. - MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe, Kansas
B.S. - Business, Major: Accounting, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project
PeopleSoft
Hyperion
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