Accounting/Finance

Tamara King

TK Marietta, GA ***** (C) 404-***-**** *.********@*****.***

Objective: Administrative-Financial Professional

A strategic professional with individual expertise in project management, research, training in customer service. Strong analytical as well organizational, interpersonal skills. A self-starter leader with initiative dedicated to getting things done. Have a track record of efficiency and high productivity with little or no supervision. Solution oriented with an eye toward bottom line results. Dedicated to providing exceptional customer service to both internal and external customers that allows me to demonstrate my strong motivation to succeed; I’m a professional with excellent communication skills.

Areas of Expertise:

Account Manager

Client Relations

Financial Management

Policy Procedure Development

Process Improvement

Strategic Planning

Team Facilitation

Professional History

Seven Stone Surfaces – AP Manager, Atlanta, Ga 02/2016-06/2016

Provide & managed a high level of account payables for a counter top & granite company for 5 locations within the Southeast Region. Responsible for preparing accounts payable register, related reports & oversee day to day account payable operations.

Paid vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; verifying federal id numbers; scheduling and resolving purchase orders with purchasing team & payment discrepancies and documentation.

Process 3 way P.O. matching invoices. Work closely with the CFO & Owner regarding all high dollar supplier accounts.

Accurately setting up of new vendors, including all 1099 information if applicable, as well as insuring that all terms are set up accurately in the system, process credit card, ACH, bank wire transfers & check payments.

Ensured that all GL coding is correct & Ensure correct purchasing approval. Maintain great relationship with customers.

Prepared weekly/bi-weekly check runs, obtain all signatures for checks & distribute checks accordingly.

Charged expenses to accounts analyzing invoice/expense: recording entries, respond to all vendor inquires.

Daily input of all incoming invoices into system with supporting documentation, if information is needed such as a purchase order and or receiver, going into system and generate copy of information needed for back-up to process invoices.

Day to day Reconciliation, Accounts Payable Aged Trial Balance for each EOM closing.

Maintained W-9, COI’s, sub-contractor agreements.

ThyssenKrupp Elevator- Asst District AP/Billing Manager & Lead Trainer, Marietta, Ga 2012-2015

Provided a high level of account payables & billing for one of the world’s leading elevator companies. Exceeded growth & promoted within the company from a billing coordinator to management in AP, Billing & Lead Trainer for the Southeast region. Performed and maintained a positive high-performance of excellence in customer service. I also managed to increased billing revenue goals & budgets for last three consecutive years by 20% year after year.

Managed & processed up to 800-1000 vendor invoices a week, allocated refunds & returned requisitions. Processed audit travel & mechanics expense reimbursement submissions & performed day to day management of all reconcile payments activities. Analyzed variances & initiating corrective actions.

Ensured correct approval, sorting, coding & matching of invoices/receipts.

Assisted in Month End Closing & Year end close. Achieved & Exceeded all performance goals from 2012-2015.

Conducted weekly backlog meetings with ops mgrs, branch mgrs., admins, billing coordinators, Vice President & Vice President of Finance to review month-to-date billing revenue & budgets for all branches within the Southeast Region. Reviewed & managed MTD/QTD/YTD revenue, margins & all cost.

Consistently analyzed financial data & present financial reports on completion of jobs. Reviewed and enter contracts, booking packages to determine billing terms of each project including purchased materials. (Processed Quoted, Time and Materials also Contract repairs). Analyzed variances & initiating corrective actions.

Business to customers, operations & sales rep to resolved billing issues in a timely manner.

Weekly backlog reports that maintains list of open projects (Managed all estimated cost for labor, materials & expenses. Added new projects & removed completed projects). Reported/scheduled all mechanics for each project. Coordinated cost corrections with payroll & operations managers.

Interacts with branch personnel, external customers to answer billing questions, resolved billing issues, and reconciled accounts. Verified and processed customer invoices on a daily basis including national accounts.

Traveled throughout the regions/divisions to train all new account payable & repair billing coordinators. Attended workshops & conducted we binars to add new material to the account payables & billing manuals.

Verified and processed customer invoices on a daily basis including national accounts.

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Orkin Atlanta Commercial Pest Control-Office Manager-Atlanta, GA 2009-2012

Provided high-level administrative, accounting support throughout the region to all branch managers, regarding client relations, goal initiatives for each branch. Conducted company business in relations to company policies and procedures.

Processed all AP invoices for all vendors & refunds. Matched purchase orders to invoices.

Prepared all check requests, matched invoices to checks. Reconciled vendor statements & corrected discrepancies.

Distribution of final invoices and responded to inquiries related to invoices. Business to customer (B2C).

Prepared and maintained client account records, credit adjustments, month-end closing.

Prepared controlling expenses, travel arrangements, labor supplemental, equipment usage and catering.

Performed all accounts receivables tasks. Dispatched all service calls.

Received and posted client payments. Prepared bank deposits, related records & any returned checks.

Prepared credit memos and debits. Processed all billing to customers for all services render.

Prepared and maintained Payroll, HR data, time and material.

Developed and implemented assignment plans that required knowledge of department policies and procedures while maintaining and creating databases for tracking.

Provided direction, traveled to train and guidance to all administrative specialists.

Prepared meeting agendas and carefully monitored all action items.

Successfully solicited business to increase income goals, billing & client relations.

Happy Feet Carpet Care – Part-Time Office Manager- Lawrenceville, GA 2003-2009

Responsibilities were performing activities designed to establish and maintain positive and productive relationships with customers. Performed all office functions and administration, financials.

Received responded to customer inquiries about company and services offered.

Maintained account receivable, accounts payable log. Dispatched service calls to service techs.

Processed payments via credit card system, ach, banking reconciliation.

Maintained all files and administrative information.

Responsible for Marketing, Vendor scheduling, customer service calls.

Education

Lawson State Community College -Birmingham, AL

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Power Point, Word Perfect & Outlook (Expert)

V-Look Up &, Private Tables (Experience)

Data Entry 1100+

60+ WPM

Programs/Software

Oracle

Focus

Servsuit

JD Edwards

GAAP

Yardi

Kronos

Stromberg

Cognos

Quickbooks

Professional Skills

Management skills: Elevator, Pest Control, Property Management-Hospitality

Account Payables, Receivable and Billing

Marketing, Customer Service

Accounting (Insurance: Life and Disability) also Inventory Control

References Available Upon Request

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