Accounts Payable

TERRI L. MONROE

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

Stockton, CA 95207

209-***-**** acft47@r.postjobfree.com

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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