Shonta Mitchell
(: **** Ridge Hill Parkway Douglasville, GA, 30135 (: 770-***-**** (:
**************@*********.***
Career Objective
Analytical and Accomplished Accounting Professional seeking opportunities
that will utilize my areas of expertise and skills in providing
comprehensive accounting for corporations as well as developing and
integrating processes that will positively affect bottom-line productivity.
Educational Background
university of phoenix - Marietta, GA
Master of Accountancy, 2009 GPA: 3.75/3.75
Life university - Marietta, GA
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 2004 GPA: 3.2/3.0
Professional Experience
09/2009 -Present Accounting Manager (Contract), South Cobb Youth
Basketball Assoc., Marietta, GA
* Post registration payment by recording cash, checks, and credit card
transactions
* Generated accounting statements and reports for management
* Develops and maintain automated spreadsheets.
* Organizes and maintain customer financial records
* Researches cash receipts, coding and posting of receipts.
* Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and
procedures, conferring with board members, organization officials, and
staff members as necessary.
* Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical
accuracy, and proper codes.
* Receive, record, and bank cash, checks, and vouchers.
* Oversee the flow of cash or financial instruments.
* Recruit staff members and oversee training programs
09/2007 -Present Acquisition Scheduler, American Red Cross, Douglasville,
GA
* Examine documents, materials, or products and monitor work processes
to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and
specifications.
* Review documents, such as production schedules, staffing tables, to
determine personnel priorities.
* Confer with department supervisors or other personnel to assess
progress and discuss needed changes.
* Revise production schedules when required due to labor shortages, or
other interruptions, collaborating with management.
* Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies
necessary to meet production demands.
* Calculate figures, such as required amounts of labor or materials,
manufacturing costs, or wages, using pricing schedules, adding
machines, calculators, or computers.
* Distribute production schedules or work schedules to departments.
05/2005 -09/2007 Assistant Store Manager, The Kroger Company, Douglasville,
GA
* Oversee activities directly related to making products or providing
services.
* Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments
concerned with the production, pricing, sales, or distribution of
products.
* Review financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other
performance data to measure productivity and goal achievement and to
determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement.
* Direct and coordinate organization's financial and budget activities
to fund operations, maximize investments, and increase efficiency.
* Determine staffing requirements, and interview, hire and train new
employees, or oversee those personnel processes.
* Plan and direct activities such as sales promotions, coordinating with
other department heads as required.
* Determine goods and services to be sold, and set prices and credit
terms, based on forecasts of customer demand.
* Locate, select, and procure merchandise for resale, representing
management in purchase negotiations
08/2004 -05/2005 Accounts Receivable Representative, World Ford Stone
Mountain, Stone Mtn., G A
* Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record,
store, and analyze information.
* Classify, record, and summarize numerical and financial data to
compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or
computers.
* Debit, credit, and total accounts on computer spreadsheets and
databases, using specialized accounting software.
* Operate 10-key calculators, typewriters, and copy machines to perform
calculations and produce documents.
* Compile statistical, financial, accounting or auditing reports and
tables pertaining to such matters as cash receipts, expenditures,
accounts payable and receivable, and profits and losses.
* Reconcile or note and report discrepancies found in records.
02/2000 - 08/2004 Account Management Representative, JP Morgan Chase
Kennesaw, GA
* Arrange for debt repayment or establish repayment schedules, based on
customers' financial situations.
* Locate and notify customers of delinquent accounts by telephone to
solicit payment.
* Advise customers of necessary actions and strategies for debt
repayment.
* Persuade customers to pay amounts due on credit accounts, or to return
merchandise.
* Confer with customers by telephone to determine reasons for overdue
payments and to review the terms of sales, service, or credit
contracts.
* Locate and monitor overdue accounts, using computers and a variety of
automated systems.
* Record information about financial status of customers and status of
collection efforts.
* Trace delinquent customers to new addresses by inquiring at post
offices, telephone companies, credit bureaus, or through the
questioning of neighbors.
* Evaluate customer records and recommend payment plans based on
earnings, savings data, payment history, and purchase activity.
* Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and
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