Tara N. Walton

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. Thirteen years of general Accounting experience; Specialization in A/R

and A/P

. Three years of Lease Administration experience

. Familiarity of GAAP Principles

. Knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley compliance in specific areas

. Knowledge of People Soft, JD Edwards, Prolease, Adobe Pro, MRI, I-

Track, Microsoft Word, Excel, Timberline, AS400 Systems, Salesforce

and Filestar

. Excellent Analytical, Research and Strong Organizational Skills and

interpersonal /teaming skills

. Excellent track record maintaining inventory control and A/P vendor

files and ability to maintain Customer/Client confidentiality

. Enthusiastic worker with the ability to perform at a high level of

accuracy and attention to detail

. Lease Contract Interpretation and Administration

. Research Analysis and Documentation extract lease information

Experience

February 2016 - March 2016 Robert Half

Consultant - Lease Administrator

. Handle the documentation and invoicing of tenant insurance, sales, and

percentage rent.

. Strategically identify and resolve tenant's issues covering billing,

receivables, and defaults.

. Provide lease interpretation information to property managers as

required (outside of lease abstracting) and disseminate monthly

reports and invoicing for rent increases, sales, and insurance.

. Manage the completion and distribution of monthly reports and

invoicing for rent increases, sales, and insurance; conduct lease

interpretation information to property managers as required outside of

lease abstracting

June 2016 - November 2016 Spirit Realty Capital

Property Accountant

. Periodically review AR Aging report and record any necessary clean up

and adjustments

. Calculate and post receipts to appropriate general ledger accounts and

verify details of transactions, such as funds received and total

account balance

. Set-up and maintain customer billing into database

. Researches and applies unallocated cash

. Oversees client trust accounts, accounts receivable write-offs and

payment reversals.

. Processed manual billings for non-recurring charges, as needed.

. Compile and sort documents, prepare and post invoices and credit and

debit memos

. Maintains telephone and personal contact with attorneys, staff and

vendors on receivable matters as directed by manager.

. Maintain the lease files by providing lease interpretation and

handling correspondence related to rent escalations, options to renew,

NNN expenses, real property taxes, insurance responsibilities,

environmental compliance, damage and destruction, condemnation or

eminent domain issues, maintenance and repair obligations and

default/remedy issues that arise during the lease term.

. Identifies and corrects the user issues that result in incorrect

and/or incomplete posting and communicates these to Management

Property management for corrective training purposes.

. Worked closely with Leasing Agents and Property Managers on individual

tenant matters.

. Performed auditing of leases to insure MRI was being properly

maintained

. Updated and maintained lease information in database and hardcopy

files

June 2015-June 2016 Rouse Properties, Irving TX

Lease Administrator/Billing Specialist

. Handle the documentation and invoicing of tenant insurance, sales, and

percentage rent.

. Strategically identify and resolve tenant's issues covering billing,

receivables, and defaults.

. Demonstrate expertise in maintaining electronic file and hard copies;

assume full responsibility in converting paper copies into searchable

Adobe Acrobat documents for posting in network database.

. Provide lease interpretation information to property managers as

required (outside of lease abstracting) and disseminate monthly

reports and invoicing for rent increases, sales, and insurance.

. Manage the completion and distribution of monthly reports and

invoicing for rent increases, sales, and insurance; conduct lease

interpretation information to property managers as required outside of

lease abstracting

. Proficiently handle Common Area Maintenance (CAM) and expenses

research, accounting, and invoice/budget compliance with leases and

property contracts.

. Review documents for accuracy and enter information in accounting

system from both lease abstracts and lease documents

. Entry of complex permanent leases into accounting system.

. Entry of Sales Information for Sales year, type of breakpoint and

breakpoint amounts

. Review and update units within accounting system to reflect changes

per lease documents

. Possess ownership attitude and responsibility of results for the lease

administration process and monthly billing process for assigned

properties

. Provide support to Property Manager, Property Accountants, AR

Specialists and Lease Administration Specialist in regards to lease

administration and monthly billings.

. Ensure compliance with internal controls relating lease administration

and billing

. Assist in ad-hoc and special projects as required

. Interpretation of legal or lease documents

Monthly Billings/AR

. Communicate with Mall General Managers via phone, email, mail or

personally for rent increase and CAM fees

. Work with collections personnel to verify status of delinquent

accounts and solicit payments on overdue accounts

. maintain accounts receivable customer files and records for all

tenants in malls

. Maintain an accurate aging report

. Identify and execute the necessary process adjustments for refunds and

write-offs

. Provides monthly financial and management reports.

. Oversee and assist with mailing of monthly bills as needed

. Accessing shared drive to obtain information for billings

. Entry of miscellaneous billings into system. Generate edits with

backup for Manager reviews

Rent Rolls

. Generation of monthly rent roll edits from accounting system and

distribution to operations and property accountants

. Communicate with General Manager about expiring leases. Obtain

approval to extend expiring tenants and hold-over status

. Preparing monthly rent roll reconciliation to highlight changes from

previous month for General Manager and/or Property Accountant review

and approval

. Posting of monthly rent rolls

. Generation of annual rent statements

December 1999 - June 2015 CB Richard Ellis, Dallas TX

Accountant -Corporate Accounting

. Review employee labor allocations to make certain reimbursement status

for employee and property coincide with employee / property setup.

Work directly with Real Estate Managers and City's point of contact to

address any conflicts or make recommendations for changes

. Monitor email inquiries sent to corporate mailboxes and provide

instructions, guidance and resolutions on issues related to billing

disputes, recording fees and adjustments and other miscellaneous

requests

. Perform the billing function for property management and construction

management

. Aid in AR cleanup through the research of unapplied cash, resolve

delinquent balances and process credit adjustments and cash

application

. Monitor incoming wires daily to claim and apply funds for the

department and research any unclaimed money at month end

. Process Brokerage commission invoices and journal entries

. Responsible for providing training technique on journal entry and

billing function

. Prepare weekly payroll packets for internal commissioned agents which

involved recording cash receipts, updating the tracking and payment

system and schedule broker payout dates

. Record cash receipts and update tracking and payment system to

schedule Broker payout date

. Update deferred revenue commission schedule according to revenue

recognition procedures

Associate Accountant-Accounts Payable/Receivable Specialist

. Coordinate tasks between Accounts payable department and Staff

Accountants

. Prepare, audit and verify scheduled check run

. Process and code vendor invoices, maintain spreadsheet of approved

invoices and reconcile to Accounts Payable database

. Update and record checks that have cleared the bank

. Maintain vendor file, open and close vendor accounts

. Prepare weekly payroll packets for internal commissioned agents which

involved recording cash receipts, updating the tracking and payment

system and schedule broker payout dates

. Research and resolve unapplied cash and delinquent balances

Education

Texas A & M Commerce - Commerce, TX

BAAS, Business Administration May 2012

Cedar Valley College Lancaster, TX

AS, Management 2010

Certification

Human Resources Assistant Certificate May 2008

Diversity Training Skills Achievement Award May 2008

Leadership Activities

Volunteer, March of Dimes Team Captain for CBRE March 2003-2016

Volunteer, America Heart Association 2006-2015

Volunteer, Rebuild America 2012

Volunteer, Support Our Troops 2010-2013

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