Maintenance Manager

BETH L. GOURLEY

** *** *******

Newnan, Georgia 30263

(c) 703/628-6207

Email *************@*****.***

Dedicated and highly motivated individual with 29 years of accounting and

progressive systems support. My experience spans the hospitality and

information resources industry where I have consistently delivered business

acumen that combines expertise in financial management, accounting, and

systems support. Oracle applications experience in a functional role. Use

quality assurance and test implementation skills to enable Marriott to

implement several applications with success.

EXPERIENCE

MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, Bethesda, MD

Senior Financial Systems Analyst-Financial Application Business Support-

Allocations

(July 2013-March 2014)

. Support the ongoing maintenance of GL allocations in Oracle PeopleSoft

9.1.

. Troubleshoot and help resolve moderate to complex processing issues

impacting the business.

. Conduct ongoing analysis of allocations and optimize configuration to

improve performance.

. Help develop systems and process documentation, and end-user training and

support materials for general ledger allocations.

Senior Financial Systems Analyst-Project Eclipse, (January 2013- July 2013)

. Assisting the Project Eclipse Configuration team with all combo edit

troubleshooting in the new Oracle PeopleSoft 9.1 environment.

. Worked/resolved (10-20 Remedy incidents daily) end user requests for the

new Oracle Peoplesoft 9.1 environment.

. Lend direction and expertise to Chartfield Maintenance staff in support

of Operating Unit, Department, Account, Tree, and Source Maintenance

activities.

Senior Financial Systems Analyst-Financial Information Management Ledgers

and Consolidations-Transactions, (May 2010-January 2013)

. Lend direction and expertise to Chartfield Maintenance staff in support

of key chartfield maintenance activities.

. Manage decentralized allocation maintenance process in Oracle PeopleSoft

7.0, including review of testing and ultimate migration of approved

changes into production. Oversee and work to improve the production

allocation schedule efficiency and work with IR support and end users to

resolve production allocation issues.

. Assist in the day-to-day activities of FIM's chartfield maintenance

group.

Lead Analyst-Financial Information Management Ledgers and Consolidations-

Transactions, (2005-2010)

. Responsible for the day-to-day management and maintenance of Marriott's

Combination Edit processing in Oracle PeopleSoft 8.8. Maintain

international entity combination edit trees, create and test new

combination edit rules and groups, work with users to maintain and

enhance existing combination edits.

. Worked with property and above property users to assist and troubleshoot

journal entry processing surrounding MIGL/MHGL journal functionality and

combination edit errors

. Responsible for all Project Magellan corp assignment and source

maintenance for CALA and CE hotels on boarding onto Oracle PeopleSoft 8.8

(MHGL)

. Assisted in the day-to-day activities of FIM's Chartfield Maintenance

group. Lend direction and expertise to Chartfield Maintenance staff in

support of Product, Department, Account, and Source maintenance

activities.

Senior Financial Systems Analyst-Financial Information Management Ledgers

and Consolidations-Reporting, (2000-2005)

Managed the Reporting Test instances in Oracle PeopleSoft 7.0 to ensure

the necessary data and processes are in place for adequate testing of

report changes (includes Maestro requirements, security access updates,

table/panel updates).

Managed Reporting System Test process to ensure all reporting changes are

adequately tested, documented, migrated to production and communicated to

the affected end users and to the Oracle PeopleSoft Training Manager.

Managed the IBM OnDemand testing environment to reflect the current IBM

OnDemand production environment. Ensure the production environment meets

the ongoing business requirements.

Managed the population of reports into IBM OnDemand and support the

Information Resources department to ensure they accurately charge various

departments for storage costs. Ensure the accuracy of total IBM OnDemand

storage costs and necessary retention periods for Marriott International

general ledger reports by considering the business and legal requirements.

Updated/maintained the production report batch schedule to ensure any

changes identified by the users are communicated timely to the PBS each

period. Assist the PBS to diagnose and correct any problems that occurred

with a previous night's batch schedule.

Maintained production NVSID, protected nVision scopes and report requests

used in the batch process.

Assistant Manager-MARS Reporting Team (1998-2000)

Created the report inventory of all Mission Critical and Phase II Oracle

Peoplesoft 7.0 reports.

Managed the development/production pipeline of new and existing Oracle

Peoplesoft 7.0 reports.

Created the IBM OnDemand repository.

Managed the report batch schedule and IBM OnDemand repository.

Managed NVSID, protected nVision scopes and report requests in the batch

process.

HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION, Bethesda, MD

Manager-Property Accounting, Tax Department -1995-1998)

Assistant Manager (July 1994-December 1995)

Controlling the accounting and financial reporting for Host Marriott's real

estate assets.

Subject matter expert on the implementation and development teams for the

newly reengineered Host Marriott General Ledger, Asset Management, and

Authorized Expenditure Systems utilizing Oracle PeopleSoft Accounting

Software, General Ledger, Asset Management and Project Costing modules.

Prepare capital expenditure cash flow on a periodic basis.

Record the major dispositions and acquisitions on the Oracle PeopleSoft

General Ledger and Asset Management Systems:

16. Calculate and record proceeds and purchase price allocations for

book and tax purposes through analysis of settlement sheets,

closing statements, and other pertinent legal documents.

Prepared an investment schedule on a quarterly basis.

Oversee the Fixed Assets to General Ledger reconciliation's.

19. Reconciling the Oracle PeopleSoft Asset Management system to the

Oracle PeopleSoft General Ledger.

MARRIOTT CORPORATION, Bethesda, MD

Senior Staff Accountant, Property Accounting (June 1993-July 1994)

Staff Accountant (June 1991-June 1993)

20. Recorded unit sales on the General Ledger and Fixed Assets system,

utilizing Dunn and Bradstreet Fixed Asset System.

21. Prepared periodic balance sheet entries (AJEs).

22. Prepared capital expenditure cash flow reports.

23. Prepared and maintained Marriott Corporation investment schedule.

24. Prepared "PBCs" for the annual preliminary and year end audits.

Supervisor, Property Accounting (June 1988-June 1991)

25. Supervised and trained a staff of six people on fixed asset

capitalization policies for both financial and tax purposes.

26. Reviewed design and system enhancements for Focus Memo System.

27. Coordinated the disposition of the fixed assets related to the

headquarters building sale.

28. Reviewed the reclassification of construction-in-progress to property,

plant, and equipment.

Accountant I, Property Accounting (April 1987-June 1988)

29. Prepared periodic balance sheet entries (AJEs).

30. Reclassified temporary assets to the fixed asset system.

31. Estimated depreciation for projects not already set up on the Dunn and

Bradstreet Fixed Asset System.

Accounting Assistant, Property Accounting-(June 1986-April 1987)

Accounting Clerk II (September 1984-June 1986)

32. Reclassified authorized expenditure projects to the Dunn and Bradstreet

Fixed Assets System.

33. Reviewed and corrected out of balances on the Fixed Asset/General

Ledger Systems.

34. Prepared periodic balance sheet entries (AJEs).

35. Prepared fixed asset individual asset dispositions and asset transfers.

36. Researched and analyzed depreciation on the General Ledger and Fixed

Asset Systems.

37. Reviewed reclassifying of authorized expenditure projects to the Fixed

Asset System.

EDUCATION

Longwood College, Farmville, VA

BBA-Concentration in Management and Marketing

Graduated May 1982

SKILLS

Oracle PeopleSoft General Ledger (versions 7.0, 8.8, and 9.1), Oracle

PeopleSoft EPM (version 8.8), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word

RECOGNITION

Received MARS Star Award as part of the MARS Reporting Team; May, 1999

Nomination for the Marriott Finance Division Excellence in Service Award;

April, 1991

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