Accounts Payable
Resume:
TERRI L. MONROE
Stockton, CA 95207
209-***-**** *************@*****.***
SUMMARY
Contract Administrator with over 15 years’ experience meeting deadlines while managing multiple
projects in sub-contracts and accounting. Self-starter and detail-oriented in Accounts Payable and
Receivable. Extremely proficient in solving problems internally and resolving customer concerns.
COMPUTER SKILLS
• SAP • Oracle Financial • Quick Books Pro
System
• Peachtree • Solomon 4.21 • Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word • Microsoft Access • Windows XP
Professional
• 10 Key Adding by • ADP Payroll • Typing 75 wpm
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NORTHROP GRUMMAN, Sunnyvale, CA 4/2003 – 4/2014
Contract Administrator
Perform all levels of Contract Management, maintain approximately $15M collectively in various
customer’ accounts by negotiating terms and conditions; manage funding and expenditure levels,
milestone payments and pricing on parts.
• Reduced backlog of outstanding proposals from 400 to 80 in 3 months.
• Generated $1.5M in proposals to meet monthly deadline.
• Support Accounting and Finance forecast monthly billing meeting deadline of $7M.
• Perform monthly billing of time and expense for the Accounting Department reducing outstanding
volume by 30% from 5%.
• Resolved Labor and Expense reporting issues for Traveling Field Engineer by 50%.
• Established warranty reserve management by opening new accounts for warranty deliverable
Marine products.
• Coordinate with Accounting and Finance any deficiency status resolving outstanding problems.
WEST VALLEY; AMERICAN PLASTICS & RITA MEDICAL, Pleasanton, CA 2000 – 2003
Accounting Specialist for Payable / Receivable
Maintained a strong collection procedure for delinquent customer accounts. Created and developed
payment plan for customers / suppliers with cash flow problems. Collected and performed A/R and
Cash Management of daily bank deposits. Billed invoices from sales orders and made daily cash
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deposits. Performed monthly bank reconciliation at month-end on Excel spread sheet. Assisted
Manager in ADP processing of employee adds and changes to the PR system.
• Collected outstanding balances due on various accounts.
• Reduced top 10 outstanding aging invoices by 85% in 30 days.
• Reduced outstanding aging report from $425K to $80K in 3 months.
• Enhanced payment method to decrease delinquencies by 100%.
• Re-class funds by on-line journal entries to various bank deposits and cash accounts.
• Reduced 2-year backlog of incorrect posted cash to correct GL accounts.
BEYOND.COM & HEALTH HERO NETWORK, Palo Alto, CA 1999 – 2000
Accounts Payable Supervisor
Supervised and trained new Accounts Payable personal. Reconcile old outstanding invoices.
• Processed all A/P invoices into the Solomon Accounting System.
• Streamlined procedures for the Con-Cur American Express Expense Reporting system.
• Re-wrote A/P and expense reporting procedures and issued checks weekly.
• Assisted Auditors, Ernst & Young and A/R Manager in GAAP policies for quarterly closing.
• Assisted Director in the conversion process from Solomon 4.21 to SAP accounting system.
SPACE SYSTEM / LORAL, Palo Alto, CA 1993 – 1999
Senior Subcontracts Accountant
Work with check auditors to process high volume invoices and quotes submitted by customer. Meet
weekly and monthly deadlines for month end Accounts Payable cycle.
• Requested and processed Request for Quotes as submitted by customer.
• Processed Consultants and Subcontract accounts.
• Matched invoices to purchase order / contracts for processing into Oracle system.
• Assisted in the conversion from the Honeywell system to Oracle system.
• Processed check requests, utilities and Federal Express freight invoices.
• Coded and vouchered vendor high volume invoices 600 per week into A/P system meeting
month-end deadline.
• Facilitated month-end close by recording payments on Excel spread sheet and preparing journal
entries for month-end close.
• Prepared accrual of open liabilities and re-classified cost into prospective GL accounts.
LOCKHEED SPACE MISSILES, Santa Clara, CA 1981 – 1993
Accounts Payable Supervisor
Supervised and trained 16 employees. Created new desk procedures. Interviewed candidates for
A/P positions and conducted performance reviews.
• Processed high volume invoices into the A/P system of 300 accounts per week.
• Performed Month-end close, journal entry, check and 1099 processing.
• Reconciled statements, reducing customer problems by 95%.
EDUCATION
Business Administration, University of Phoenix, Livermore, CA
Accounting, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
Accounting and Marketing / Advertising, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
(Continuing education for BS degree in Business 62 units remaining)
CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING WITH NORTHROP
Contract Closeouts – Training, 2012
Contracts Review – Certificate of Completion, 2012
FAR Overview – Certificate of Completion, 2012
Information Security Awareness – Certificate of Completion, 2012
Personally Identifiable Information – Certificate of Completion, 2012
ISO 9001 Awareness Training – yearly, 2012
REFERENCES
Jim Diani/Northrop Grumman Director 408-***-****
Kevin Daigneault/Northrop Grumman Manager 408-***-****
Florence Silva/Northrop Grumman Order Administrator 408-***-****
Ellen O’Rourke/Northrop Grumman Order Clerk 408-***-****
Debra Short/Protein Simple Accountant 650-***-****
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