Shemette G. Bell

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Professional Summary

Experienced Accounts Payable Manager/ AP Supervisor in leading teams and ensuring consistent and effective development of services to business regarding workforce development and support to fit organizational needs. A team leader committed to employee engagement and excellence through leading by example, mentoring, and continued training and development. Extensive industry knowledge related to reconciling processed work through verifying entries and comparing systems reports to balance, analyze and maintain accounting ledgers through verification.

Professional Experience

Norfolk Southern Corp. Atlanta, GA

Expenditure Accounting Supervisor January 2022 – September 2023

• Managed team of 3 Accounts Payable Specialist

• Reconciled monthly Accounts Analysis

• Managed Vendor Maintenances

• Performed high volume new vendor set ups.

• W9/ W8 sets and requests on all high-volume vendors.

• ACH/ Wire set ups.

AmChar Wholesales McDonough, GA

Accounts Payable Manager September

2020 – November 2021

• Managed team of 4 Accounts Payable Specialists

• GST/HST management for AmChar Canada.

• Develop and manage key metrics for the accounts payable area.

• Work with the purchasing team and receiving team on faster processing.

• Collaborated with vendors on past due invoices.

• Discount vendors process timely.

• AMEX CC administrator for employees.

• Funding Availability reporting produced daily for CFO. Oldcastle Infrastructure Sandy Springs, GA

Accounts Payable Supervisor January 2019 – September 2020

• Process Invoices for multiple plants locations across the U.S.

• Collaborated with the vendor and accounts to obtain low percentage of outstanding invoices.

• Research and resolve Internal/ External invoicing issues.

• Conducted successful role supervising 6 A/P associates in a high-volume payment processing environment.

• Coach team members as necessary to ensure that everyone is performing at the expect level.

• Managed Financial audits.

• Collaborated with a team on automating AP invoicing. Acuity Brands Lighting Group Conyers, GA

Accounts Payable Manager September 1995 – August 2018

• Twelve or more year’s job-related progressive management experience in Accounts Payable.

• Managed a group of 9 while supporting Accounts Payable’s team by working and processing of financial activity on customer accounts.

• Researched disputed items and identified appropriate documents to support financial transactions and obtain approval.

• High volume processing of invoices and purchase orders 3-way matching.

• Made direct verbal contact with customer and agents to address issues timely.

• Negotiate with customers on disputed items.

• Contributed to team effort by accomplishing projects as needed.

• Handled and paid utilities and verify prior payment per lot.

• Managed all Internal Audits requests and External Audits.

• Managed the company’s property leases and heavy equipment rentals monthly; over 50 contracts (ensuring each is paid and monitored monthly).

• Supervised Fraud management for Wells Fargo banking.

• Paid vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; verifying federal id numbers; scheduling and preparing checks; resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation; insuring credit is received for outstanding memos; issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.

• Issued checks/ EFT payments within established deadlines twice per week.

• Inputs vendor invoices into accounting software and consistently monitors A/P email.

• Maintained historical records by scanning and filing documents.

• Protected organization's value by keeping information confidential.

• Experience with various processes of A/P automation to include Invoice Scanning, EDI, and ACH.

• A hands-on approach to leadership with the ability to be strategic, see the big picture, remaining attentive to detail with exemplary follow-through skills.

Education

Associate in Business Management, Georgia Perimeter College Strayer University-Bachelor of Business Administration -Graduated Technical Skills

Scan-one (online capture center) Great Plains Oracle 11i and R12 Microsoft Office, NetSuite, Suite/Computer literate (MS Office including Word and Excel as well as accounting software)

Microsoft Dynamics AX SAP MDG Smart VM

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