Accounts Payable Manager

Michael Robert Nelson

**** ******** ***** ~ New Brighton, MN 55112

Home Phone: 651-***-****

E-Mail: *************@***.***

Objective:

Seeking a senior level accounting or financial analyst position with

in a for-profit company.

Work History:

SENIOR LEVEL ACCOUNTING EXPERIENCE

3/2004 - 8/2006: Personix - Shoreview, MN

Senior Accountant

. Preparing Financial Statements: i.e. Income Statements, Balance Sheets

and Trial Balances.

. Assisting with month-end and year end closings.

. Helping prepare annual budget.

. Preparing and entering journal entries such as depreciation, payroll,

and accruals.

. Reconciling inter-company and intra-company transactions.

. Maintaining the fixed assets database.

. Analyze and prepare sales commissions.

. Reconciling bank statements, prepaid accounts, and accrual accounts on

a monthly basis.

. Reconciling all other balance sheet accounts on a quarterly basis.

. Helping prepare the federal income tax package.

. Assisting with audit checks.

. Preparing and entering monthly inventory expenses entries.

. Volunteering in the Activities Committee and Inventory Process

Improvement Team.

. Six Sigma Yellow Belt trained.

1/1994 - 2/2004: Advanced Web Technologies - Minneapolis, MN

Assistant Accounting Manager

. Billing, processing and mailing.

. Processing sales, value added, and gross margin reports.

. Reviewing and correcting profitability/value reports and job cost

details.

. Preparing and entering journal entries.

. Assisting Accounting Manager on creating financial statements.

. 01/1994 - 03/1999: held various positions such as accounting clerk,

cost accountant, accounts payable and inventory accountant.

FINANCIAL ANALYST EXPERIENCE

8/2006 - 11/2007: St. Jude Medical - Little Canada, MN

IT Financial Analyst

. Preparing month end Actual/Forecast/Budget comparisons for the

Corporate IT department.

. Helping prepare the Corporate IT department's Strategic and

Operational plans.

. Creating Check Requests for Corporate IT invoices that come in.

. Maintaining records of cell phone and pager expenses for departmental

and divisional expenses.

. Processing Purchase Requests and Capital Expenditure forms for the

Corporate IT department.

. Maintaining files on Construction in Process assets and transferring

the costs of those to the Fixed Assets Suspense account when fully

capitalized.

. Updating the Master Staffing Spreadsheet on a monthly basis.

. Tracking Service Change Orders and maintaining copies of those forms

on file.

. Assisting in any additional projects that are involved in the

financial side of the Corporate IT department.

Michael Robert Nelson

1874 Longview Drive ~ New Brighton, MN 55112

Cell Phone: 651-***-****

E-Mail: *************@***.***

Work History (Continued):

GENERAL ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

04/2009 - 07/2009: Accountemps - Twin Cities Area, MN

Temporary Accountant for Capella University

. Reconciled 3rd Party Account Receivables.

. Developed procedures on reconciling 3rd Party Account Receivables.

03/2008 - 04/2009: Robert Half International - Twin Cites Area, MN

Salaried Professional Services Employee

Major Projects

Senior Business Analyst United Health Group

. Research, determine and communicate resolution of pended commission

payments with the Contract and License team.

. Manage and resolve escalated issues involving commission payments to

agents.

. Verify and resolve data migration integrity.

. Suggest business process improvements.

Senior Staff Accountant Healthia Consulting

. Help set up invoices to be entered into the Accounts Payable system.

. Review and verify invoice billings.

. Help correlate and print billing invoices.

Senior Staff Accountant Best Vendors

. Reconcile individual Client Accounts Receivable aging.

. Assist with Balance sheet Reconciliations.

. Create spreadsheets for individual cost center Balance Sheet

accounts.

11/2007 - 2/2008: Personix - Shoreview, MN

Contract/Temporary Accountant

. Process and enter invoices and bills into the Accounts Payable system.

. Prepare and print checks for payment of invoices from Accounts

Payable.

. Prepare expense accruals of Accounts Payable for month end closing.

. Train the new Accounts Payable/Financial Accountant employee.

. Monitor the billing program and forwarded billing information to

corporate headquarters.

. Record and forward the revenue numbers on a weekly basis to the

Leadership Committee.

. Maintain and update the Revenue and Card Count report and forwarded it

monthly to the Vice President of Operations.

Education:

Carlson School of Management

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

1994 Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Major: Accounting

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