Accounting Accounts Payable

Kanisha Laws

Accounting Associate - Cargill Corn Milling

Southaven, MS

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A highly motivated Accounting Professional with a verifiable record of accomplishment spanning three years.

Highly creative, recognized as a results-oriented and solution-focused individual. Areas of strength include:

• Cost Accounting- Operations

• Budget Analysis

• Statistical Data Analysis Using Excel and Minitab

WORK EXPERIENCE

Accounting Associate

Cargill Corn Milling - Memphis, TN - June 2012 to Present

Cost Accounting & Financial Reporting for Corn Milling Manufacturing facility servicing 15+customers and

100+ vendors sourced from 6 different product lines.

• Worked with engineers and department heads to budget projected maintenance ($32M) and service ($12M)

cost for upcoming fiscal year. Used budget analysis tools to calculate future costs.

• Reported out to reliability coordinators weekly maintenance budget forecasts for the week/month.

• Write commentary for Business Unit leaders to review the state of the business.

• Supervised summer intern, through weekly progress reports, professional development, mentorship, and

coaching.

• Reconciled site balance sheet monthly/quarterly/annually averaging $25M. Lead pre-close cost analysis for

all non-product line accounts as an internal control measure to ensure accuracy of account classifications.

• Conducted Balance sheet audits with peer review teams to analyze capital assets, review processes, and

ensure appropriate internal controls were in place. Also shared best practices across different facilities with

our business.

• Audit, Reconcile, and Amortize approximately $15M of chemical inventory monthly after communicating

with department heads on the chemical change-outs throughout the facility affecting purity and pH levels in

products. Complete unit of measure conversions to receive chemicals into our payment system at the correct

rates.

• Conduct monthly/quarterly/annual inventory counts to keep our inventory sub-systems balanced with our

actual on-hand inventory averaging $8M.

• Verified all rate modifications with negotiated contracts from all of our time reported contracting companies.

As an internal control, checked for validity of contracts and inactivated all old rates.

• Support accounts payable staff by creating purchase orders, material requisitions, and miscellaneous

purchase requests to pay our vendors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Accounting Intern

Cargill Meat Solutions/Shared Services - Wichita, KS - January 2011 to June 2011

Shared Accounting service for 12+ Meat Processing facilities including turkey, beef, and poultry

• Record general ledger entries

• Assisted with property accounting, Budgeted capital asset cost for a $30million construction project for

building a new research and development facility

• Worked with Maximo to prepare purchase orders, purchase requisitions, and receive invoices, CIC and JDE

reconciliations. Reported short-term debt projections to the controller weekly

• Job shadowed accounts payable, risk management, our hedging departments.

• Computed daily, weekly, and monthly freight accruals for six beef plants around the U.S

• Calculated weekly expense accruals, input the figures in the ledger accounts using JDE (our General Ledger

system), then compared the variances between accruals and actual for future budgets.

EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration

Belhaven University - Jackson, MS

October 2013 to Present

Bachelors of Science in Finance

University of Alabama at Birmingham - Birmingham, AL

2012

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