MELODY HEALD

**** ******** ******, *** *****, CA 92104

Mobile 619-***-**** * Email: ad2pn9@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Skills

1099’s, Accounts Payable incl Contracts and Insurance, Accounts Receivable, Account Reconciliation, Account Research, Cash Applications, Chargebacks, Collections, Customer Service, EDD/UI Claims, Employment Verifications, Garnishments, General Office Support, Inventory Control, Payroll, Payroll Taxes, Phones (Multi-line), Purchase Orders, Shipping, Spreadsheets, and Vendor Maintenance

Software - *multiple versions

Microsoft Suite* (Excel - Pivot Tables, V Look Up, Spreadsheets; Outlook; Word), Adobe Acrobat*, SAP, TeamConnect, Power BDI, Docusign, Oracle*, Timberline, CIS, Sage, QuickBooks*, MAS90, SBT, Salesforce, Perfect Law, Legal Software Solutions, Epic, Kwikwork, TempWare, Temps Plus, and Computer Ease

Professional Experience

Jan. 2022 - Present

Sempra, Contract Position, San Diego, CA

Accounting Associate/Legal Fiscal

~Manual and electronic payables for SDGE & SoCal Gas

~Create and manage Work Plans for legal matters

~Budgets

~Vendor maintenance

~Timekeeper rate management

~Vendor/Attorney liaison

Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022

Alliant Insurance, San Diego, CA

Insurance Payables Specialist

~ Insurance payables matching to carrier invoice, working with a team

~ Resolve 90+ days aged items priority

~ Work with Account Executives on their internal billing and Carriers to ensure accuracy and timely payments on policies

~ Enter wire transactions, review teammates wires for accuracy

~ Review carrier monthly statements

~ Month end ensure all payment reconciliations for my book of business closed

July 2016 – Aug. 2019

Fairfield Residential, San Diego, CA

Accounts Payable Clerk II

~ Contract real estate payables utilizing purchase orders, three-way matching, 50-100 invoices/week

~ Non contract payables, 5-10 inv/wk

~ Assist Senior Project Accountants, Accounting Manager, and Controller with various projects and audits

~ Bank reconciliations - 25-30 Accts/month

~ Filing both physical and electronic, scanning

Mar. 2016 – July 2016

ACCESS Destinations/Accountemps, Contract Position, San Diego, CA

Accounting Clerk

~ Payables and check requests for extreme events planning firm that is very fast paced and requires constant multi-tasking for their five locations

~ Vendor maintenance

~ Expense reports

~ Credit card reconciliations

~ Audit files for accuracy

~ Filing both physical and electronic, scanning

~ Assist controller and Jr. Staff Accountant with agings and other tasks as needed

Jan. 2016 – Mar. 2016

J. Craig Venter Institute/Accountemps, Contract Position, La Jolla, CA

Accounts Payable Specialist

~ Very fast paced, high volume payables 100/week for a bio-engineering not for profit, state of the art facility in La Jolla, CA working with files electronically and physically

~ 2-way & 3-way matching, Purchase Orders

~ Prepare for audits, filing, scanning

~ Credit card reconciliations

Nov. 2013 – Jun. 2014

Kleinfelder/Accountemps, Contract Position, San Diego, CA

Accounting Clerk

~ High volume payables 75-100/week for an international architecture firm to assist as they prepared to move their office from the Governor/Genesee area of San Diego to downtown and converting software

~ Usage of Sales Tax, assist General Ledger department as needed

~ Open mail, sort and deliver as per their guidelines

~ Filing, prepare for multiple audits, prepare files for moving

Mar. 2011 – Aug. 2013

PICO Holdings, Inc., La Jolla, CA

Accounting Clerk

~ A/P functions – weekly check runs, vendor maintenance and set up, 1099’s, expense reimbursements, credit card statements, assist with audits

~ Assist team of staff accountants with various projects such as compiling copies of all project related expenses into reference binders

Feb. 2010 – Mar. 2011

Kein, DeNatale, Goldberg, Bakersfield, CA

Accounting Clerk

~ Full cycle A/P – Large Law firm’s daily check runs, handling incoming check requests, payables, coding invoices, reconciling statements, dispersing petty cash, vendor set-ups and files, 1099’s, credit applications, expense reimbursements, credit card processing

~ A/R functions – billing, expense entry, posting receipts, time editing, client receipts

~ Responding constantly to entire firms accounting needs as a team

~ New software conversion, general office, phones, filing, spreadsheets, email, fax, scan, copy

Mar. 2007 – Feb. 2010

Tejon Ranch, Lebec, CA

Accounts Payable Administrator

~ All A/P functions – payables, vendor set-ups and files, audit invoices for coding accuracy, credit applications, 1099’s, reconciling statements, prepare for frequent audits

~ Diverse company – very high volume payables 100-200/week, also handled for its many subsidiaries

~ Extensive knowledge and usage of complex coding to accommodate the diversity of Tejon Ranch and its many subsidiaries

Feb. 2005 – Mar. 2007

VTI Staffing Prof., WestlakeVillage, CA

Bookkeeper

~ Payroll – reports, garnishments, UI, taxes, stop pays, reissues, quarterlies, W4’s

~ All A/P functions – payables

~ All A/R functions – Invoicing, sales tracking, collections, statements, export and import of data, general journal, account reconciliations, credit applications

~ General office, phones, filing, spreadsheets, email, fax, scan, copy

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