Accounts Payable Manager
Resume:
PETER L. AIOSA
Elmwood Park, NJ 07407
Home: 201-***-****
Cell: 201-***-****
**********@*****.***
http://www.linkedin.com/in/paiosa
SUMMARY
Maintains financial performance by developing operating and financial metrics, analyzing results and trends, and providing recommendations to improve overall efficiency. Continually seek out process improvements to existing processes. Collects and summarizes fiscal year data for various federal agency annual filings. Provide information to department heads as to accounting methodologies for expenditures and reviews monthly accruals. Strong verbal, listening, and written skills. Comfortable with interacting with all levels of the organization. Adept at multitasking to achieve individual and team goals. Attentive to detail and produces quality results. Skilled at meeting challenges and deadlines. Outstanding organizational skills and automation of manual procedures. Enjoys learning new programs and processes and training staff. Ability to adapt to a changing environment quickly and easily.
Areas of expertise include:
Accounting Close
Bank Reconciliations
General Ledger
Banking Relationships
Audits
Cash Management
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Accounts Payable Management
Balance Sheet Reconciliation
Process Improvement
Cost Reduction
Systems Integration and Conversion
EXPERIENCE
Fi-Tek LLC, Edison, NJ (position relocated to Wilmington, DE in December 2014)
Assistant Controller May 2014 – Dec. 2014
Prepared monthly financial statements and audit schedules, analyzed accounts, paid vendor invoices, processed customer billing, and performed bank reconciliations all by using QuickBooks. Updated revenue recognition schedules. Assisted in the 2015 budget / forecasting process.
ADMIRAL IMPORTS, Cedar Grove, NJ (company ceased operations in April 2014)
Controller March 2013 – Jan. 2014
Utilized Microsoft Dynamics GP to prepare daily reports for an asset based loan to determine the funding needed to pay future invoices.
Managed cash. In charge of Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable.
Issued wire transfers to foreign vendors.
Processed vendor chargebacks.
Created and run monthly financial statements with FRx.
Worked with outside auditors on a monthly basis for the asset based loan.
Implemented a new chart of accounts. Saved time on processing invoices and analyzing accounts.
NAVINT PARTNERS, LLC, Rochester, NY (contract position)
Consultant (for Kid Brands, Inc., East Rutherford, NJ) Oct. 2012 – Nov. 2012
Assigned project to analyze, modify, and test the FRx financial statement parameters of Kid Brands, Inc.
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US CABLE CORPORATION, Montvale, NJ (company sold in September 2011)
1980 – Oct. 2011
Accounting Manager (1999 – 2011)
Prepared monthly financial statements for multiple locations (SC, GA, FL, TX, NM, CO, MN, & MO) according to GAAP for upper management to use as a basis for strategic planning. Reviewed monthly financial statements with each regional manager before presenting it to upper management and making any
appropriate changes or comments before presenting it to upper management. Analyzed the operating results
to budgeted performance. Managed cash, maintained vendor and banking relationships, dealt with loan compliance, and served as liaison with the external auditors during their yearly attestation of the financial statements. Recruited, trained, and managed accountants and accounts payable staff, (6 direct reports). In charge of Accounts Payable; examined the aged payables each week before scheduling vendor payments.
Saved over 50% or $120,000 annually by terminating an existing vendor relationship and managing the new vendor selection for debit and credit card processing from RFI and RFP submission, cost-benefit analysis and compliance with PCI standards.
Audit Team leader that reduced the annual audit fee by over $20% or $32,000 over the past two years by consistently completing the interim and annual audits ahead of schedule.
Utilized excess funds to pay down debt and thereby reducing each subsequent monthly interest payment by approximately $30,000 per occurrence.
Significantly improved productivity by converting and verifying manual depreciation schedules into the FAS system (Fixed Assets) and utilizing Microsoft's FRx (Financial Report Writer) to produce the monthly financial statements.
Involved in the acquisition of cable systems in four states by opening over 25 bank accounts, creating payroll accounts in the respective states, and setting up recurring lease payments.
Worked with department managers to understand assumptions for underlying budgets and ensure that assumptions are reasonable and defensible.
Achieved quicker access to funds by changing lockbox processing from the four acquired sites to one centralized disbursement checking account and by installing TD Bank Rapid Deposit scanners for faster depositing of checks.
Benefited by associating with Metavante and other electronic check processing companies to obtain a downloadable file to credit each customer’s account instead of processing each check manually.
Expedited production of monthly financial statements according to GAAP by creating and standardizing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet templates that were used by regional offices as well as in-house accounting department for the submission of data.
Assisted Ernst & Young in the preparation of federal and state tax returns. Filed 1099s.
US CABLE CORPORATION (continued)
Senior Accountant (1986 – 1999)
Prepared monthly financial statements according to GAAP for the company’s flagship cable TV system in Lake County, Illinois with over 75,000 subscribers from start-up until the system was sold. Reviewed the financial statements with the general manager before they were presented to upper management. Conducted and supervised the annual physical converter inventory. Prepared audit schedules for the interim and annual audit that was conducted by Ernst & Young. Liaised between end-user and programmers to address computer system problems and modifications.
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Improved employee productivity by managing the overall automation, conversion, migration, user training and subsequent monitoring of the manual accounting processes of accounts payable and general ledger on to the SAGE MAS500 system.
Documented and implemented internal control procedures (pre-Sarbanes Oxley / SOX).
US CABLE CORPORATION (continued)
Accountant (1980 – 1986)
Prepared monthly financial statements according to GAAP for various cable TV entities as well as sales and use tax returns for multiple states.
Standardized the chart of accounts.
Ensured proper coding of invoices.
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
ELMWOOD MEADOW CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION 1988 – Present
Elmwood Park, NJ
President / Treasurer
Serve residents by applying financial expertise and broad-based business acumen to prepare budgets, negotiate with vendors and assist in strategic long and short term planning in the best interest of all residents.
EDUCATION
MBA, Computer Science, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
BS in Business Administration, Accounting, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
SKILLS
Sage MAS 500 (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchase Orders)
Microsoft Dynamics GP (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Sales, Inventory)
Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, FRx (Financial Report Writer)
FAS (Fixed Assets),
QuickBooks (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Sales)
AFFILIATION
Institute of Management Accountants
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