Seeking Position As: Accounts Payable Manager / Procurement Analysis / HR Generalist

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

With over 12 years of experience in Human Resources and Finance I am a creative and enthusiastic accounting professional with exceptional interpersonal skills and a deep desire to continuously learn and grow. The past year I have been a proud member of Insomnia Cookies where I’ve leveraged my education and understanding of business to drive positive results. My experience has called for me to manage multi- million-dollar accounts and a team that processed a high-volume of invoices, payroll, and expense reports as part of my regular duties. I am a strong believer in collaboration and one who supports the team through employee morale events, employee aid programs, and mentoring. My hope is to bring a forward-thinking mentality to the role, to see challenges as opportunities, and help the organization grow its mission.

Account Reconciliation

Project Management

Supervisor/Motivating Leader

Client/Customer Management

Employee Expense Reporting

Concur & Sage 100

Collaborator/Builder

Decision Making

Cross-Department Collaboration

Interviewing/Hiring

Salesforce

Contract Review/ Negotiations

Problem-Solving

Process Improvement

SOX Compliance

Data Analysis

Relationship Building

Insomnia Cookies 2022 to Present

Accounts Payable Manager

Owing and driving all activities and operations within the accounts payable function. Actively improving the AP experience to meet the company values. Supervising and monitoring smart goal setting and achievement for the AP team. Creating a team structure with new strategic systems in place to support business growth and scalability well into the future.

Key Accomplishments:

Establish internal controls and procedures to ensure SOX compliance.

Development and implementation of Cash Management systems and ACH processes.

Setup of multiple entities for the Global expansion into Canada and the UK.

Manage a team of dive in the day-to-day accounts payable operations including month end and year end reporting and processing.

Establish and T&E Policy and supervise the administrator for compliance of the T&E policy.

Ad hoc reporting on a bi-weekly basis to review progress, challenges, and needs.

Key member of the Sage Software Upgrade and Oracle Software implementation teams.

Supervise the team to reduce the ageing from over 24 months to within 6 months.

Developed a strategic plan that aligns with company values and drives continuous improvement within the AP team.

Wawa Corporate 2021 to 2022

Fixed Asset Accountant

Recording and maintaining timely and accurate financial information in the fixed assets sub ledger. Utilize my thorough knowledge of Wawa’s asset management systems, capitalization policies and procedures necessary to maintain the company’s fixed asset sub ledger.

Key Accomplishments:

Collaborate with Construction Managers, Project Managers, Project Technical Leads and Financial Analysts to identify additional fact-pattern elements to create assets, account for project spending and assess impact on existing assets for asset retirements/impairment.

Perform monthly analysis for all depreciation accounts, as well as gain/loss and various balance sheet account reconciliations and analyses.

Support the month-end closing process by performing project settlements, investigating problems, and determining appropriate resolutions, as well as providing accounting and analytical support to Management during the month end closing process.

Wawa Corporate 2017 to 2021

Junior Business Analyst

Supervise the Non-PO Accounts Payable team, analyzing expense trends, develop and maintain reports as requested and managing process improvements projects.

Key Accomplishments:

Supervise and provide direction to the Non-PO Invoice AP team. Establish goals and provide day- to-day leadership and work direction to the non-PO AP team. Monitor and prioritize workflow to ensure timely and accurate payments are issued for AP invoices. Responsible for all coaching/ developing, and associate relation issues. Perform interim and annual appraisals as per corporate guidelines. Assist in the development and on-going maintenance of new and existing reports used to identify process improvements and efficiencies within AP and other affected departments.

Analyze vendor balances and periodic expenses with an emphasis on identifying significant variances from expectation and expense trends. Asist with the period-end and year-end accounting closings. Ensure the timely and accurate completion of standard and miscellaneous accruals, journal entries and interfaces. Complete other special projects (analysis, reports, etc.) and other duties as assigned.

Support and assist in the maintenance for bi-annual system updates, updates documentation and coordinates the resources, identified by management, for system testing and documents and communicates testing results to the Accounts Payable Management team.

Identify and implement AP related process improvement projects with the goal of increasing accuracy and reducing processing time. Help to create initial plan outlining resources, timelines and project needs for review by AP manager. Support executing the project plan, monitoring the progression of the project, and developing metrics to track the project’s success during the pre and post implementation phase.

Wawa Corporate 2015 to 2017

Accounts Payable PO Representative III

Manages accounts payable activities related to purchase orders. Coordinates reports and identifies areas for improvement to minimize spending and maximize return on investment. Vendor statement reconciliation. Serves as a liaison between vendors, customers, and staff.

Key Accomplishments:

Managing PO invoices and AP PO Invoice Approval email boxes of incoming invoices. Processing the invoices and researching any outstanding invoice issues. Releasing approved blocked invoices.

Managing Robert’s Oxygen scan service account

Partnering with my manager to clean up the outstanding transactions on the Bank of America card accounts.

Weekly uploading the approved P-card transactions. Monthly uploading transactions for all BOA accounts.

Café Re-class, Trash Accrual, Purchase Card Accrual journal entries at month end.

GRIR balance sheet analysis monthly and quarterly.

Taylor Farms New Jersey 2012 – 2015

Accounts Payable Supervisor

Manages all accounts payable activities for the company. Coordinates reports and identifies areas for improvement to minimize spending and maximize return on investment. Implements and executes new expense report processing procedures. Serves as a liaison between vendors, customers, and staff.

Key Accomplishments:

Implemented Automated Clearing House (ACH) to automate the check issuing process for more than $2M a week.

Spearheaded employee morale programs including a Multicultural BBQ with 500 attendees.

Founded the Helping Hands foundation to support employees in need.

Managed and trained one employee who assists in accounts payable.

Processed 1000 invoices a week and completed month-end and year-end settlements.

Wawa Unity Alliance 2018 – 2022

Co-Chair

Key Accomplishments:

Rebuilding the steering committee, increasing awareness of the Unity Alliance employee resource group. Leading the team to host several events such as The Chasing the Dream Series for Black History Month, UD Deep Day to attract diverse talent, Diwali to celebrate and educate, The Power of Intersectionality to promote and support belonging and inclusion. Partnering with other WINS to educate and help associates. Increasing membership, educating, and leveraging the WIN group for the success of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the company. Bridging partnerships internally and externally for the advancement of the associates.

ECANA 2019 – Present

Community Partner

Key Accomplishments:

Hosting virtual events to educate African American women as about endometrial cancer. Advocating for and supporting women in a battle with cancer and/or endometriosis. Speaking and sharing at the ECANA Conference in Hawaii about my own personal endometrial cancer journey. We are a group of women lead by Dr. Kemi Doll who have come together to create support, community and empowerment for any African American affected by endometrial cancer.

Le-vel 2016 – Present

Health Coach

Key Accomplishments:

Coached many women and men into a holistically healthier lifestyle. Helped my clients to create their unique recipe for lifestyle change success. Offering clients healthier alternatives for life’s stress.

Bachelor of Arts, Organizational Management University of Arizona, Expected 2024

Associate of Science in Psychology, Gloucester County College, 2003 – 2005 Earned 45 transferable credits.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Community Partner Certification – ECANA 2019

Victim Advocate / Crisis Hotline Training – Empowerment Temple 2011

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Excel & Access, SAP and SAP Reporting, Crystal Reporting, Workday, Digital Photography, QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics NAVision

AREAS OF STRENGTH AND EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

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