Accounts Payable Analyst

THEO RICHARDS

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ROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

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Business Analyst/Financial Analyst

THE LINDE GROUP Sept 2011 Present

• Compile and analyzed monthly KPI performance reports and operating results to advise senior management

• Execute monthly financial analysis results compared to plan/forecast of current and prior periods, providing accurate

and timely explanation of variances to Executive Committee for Monthly Operating Review

• Generate monthly dashboards to analyze gross revenue for North America and Canada future spend with business

suppliers such as Bulk Gases, Helium and Medical Gases

• Liaised between support functions and finance team on a daily basis to ensure accurate financial reporting is being

projected for audit purposes

• Gather, analyze and deliver effective financial reports for the monthly KPI Metric dashboards with recommendations

to multiple levels of stakeholders

• Eliminated aging variances in SAP for accounts payable clearing account

• Daily audit of accounts payable invoices that interface to SAP by mapping tables and interpreting error codes

• Provide training to Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Revenue Accounting and Business Plant Managers on

new reports, processes, procedures prior to implementation

• Assist Finance Controller with high profile ad hoc projects executing profit/loss analysis

• Prepare for User testing when necessary, ensuring all possible scenarios are captured, prepare testing documentation

and make certain that system access is available prior production

• Streamlined reporting processes by learning local and global reporting systems and enhance management reporting

efforts by including recommendations for process efficiencies and systematic augmentations

• Partner with business owners to discuss process gaps and determine systems capabilities to ensure resolutions for

financial reporting

• Ensure proper execution of change management procedures, including performing first level testing of system

changes and co ordination of user involvement in user testing

• Preparation of journal entries for month end closing

• Assist in gathering requirements for process automations and communicating these to the appropriate departments

for implementation

Finance Analyst

INFINEUM USA A JV OF EXXONMOBIL & SHELL April 2010 Sept 2011

• Prepared rolling forecasts for revenue and operating expenses for divisional leadership

• Collaborated with global Business Support team to implement new business structure for technology statistics

reporting

• Manage and develop monthly and daily controls reports generated from SAP to make certain that testing

invoice errors were analyzed with documentation of resolution

• Prepared and streamline monthly Business Warehouse reports listing YTD revenue transactions for the US

and UK business area

• Forecasted resource restructuring separation payments as part of business unit for diesel fleets

• Monthly dashboard data Analyst for Field Testing Group, analyzing OEM Oil price variance and provide

analysis to Fleet Testing Coordinators and Chemist

• Performed general auditing duties on a daily, monthly and quarterly basis

Royalty Analyst,

Aug 2009 Feb 2010

EMI MUSIC

• Performed artist audits for claims raised by external auditors regarding missing domestic sales

• Coordinating with music Label's legal and business affairs staff to obtain artist and management contractual

legal documentation in house and third party label

• Executed monthly financial variance reporting for publisher, artist and producers based contract agreements

to ensure accurate royalty rates are paid to the industry advisers

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

Sept 2007 Dec 2008

International Royalty Analyst, (Sept 2008 Dec 2008) Sept 2007 Dec 2008

• Reporting quarterly royalty revenue to Sony international affiliates and external companies as per contractual

agreements

• Financial KPI/ Dashboard reporting of quarterly royalty earnings statements for 100 owner companies along with the

related payment transmission

• Managed reconciliation process that helped to resolve historical account out of balances between royalty data and the

intercompany accounting sub ledger. Process helped to improve internal controls to avoid reconciliation issues from

more recent royalty reporting

• Liaised with Business & Legal Affairs department and third party companies to ensure terms negotiated are applied

to the accounting of multiple income types as needed

• Liaison to nine International Countries to on a daily basis to help resolve artist inquires related to royalty payment

• Negotiated royalty rates on a monthly basis for activity related to assigned artists for nine international

countries

• Worked on team which helped improve withholding tax processes for specific local tax agreements between

international affiliates

• Utilized pivot and lookup tables to analyze data in order to make recommendations to international contacts

on royalty reporting improvements

• Successfully reconciling $14M of company assets on a for assigned artist and business unit

Accounts Payable Coordinator, (SEPT 2007 Aug 2008)

• Process and manually 800 vendor invoices on monthly basis

• Coordinate and process accounts payable checks, wire transfers and ACH payments

• Reconciles American Express statements for departmental T& E expenses

• Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date with proper company approvals

• Assisted in month end closing on a monthly basis

• Communication and resolution of issues with suppliers and staff as required including vendor

statement reconciliations

EDUCATIONAL SUMMARY

Bachelor in Business Administration BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE 2011 Present

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office PC 2003/2007/2010: Advance MS Excel, Pivot Tables, V Lookup, Marcos, Advance Excel Formulas,

MS Word, Power Point, Outlook – Advanced,

Microsoft Office Apple Format 2010: Advance MS Excel Word, Power Point, Outlook, SAP R/3, SAP BW, SharePoint,

Lotus Notes, AP Masters Banctec, Esker, IRIS, ASCAP, GRAS/RAAS, GCLS and SAMIS

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