Accounts Payable Financial Reporting

Elizabeth Buehrer, CPA (inactive), MBA

***** * ***** ***** * Surprise * AZ 85379 * 949-***-**** * *********@***.***

SKILLS

*Set Up Financials for Acquisitions *Inter-Company Transactions

*Financial Reporting *Strong Communications Skills

*Accounting Procedures Set Up *Superior Attention to Detail

*Account Reconciliations *Self-Motivated Professional

*Budget Development and Analysis *Accounts Payable and Receivable

*Banking Relations *Cash Flow Analysis

*Staff Supervision and Development *Mergers and Acquisitions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HIG Consulting, Phoenix, AZ July 2022 – November 2024

Bookkeeper for: Hotels, Properties, Time Shares, Medical Offices, Construction and Law Firm

Responsible for month-end close process, including reviewing, journal entries, bank reconciliations and account reconciliations.

Responsible for financial statement preparation, budgeting, and cash forecasting

Barnes Aerospace, Phoenix, AZ January 2022 – June2022

Temporary Position – Senior Accountant

Controller for a Clinical Research Organization October 2014 – October 2021

ProMedica International, Costa Mesa, CA

Day-to-day finance operations.

Solely responsible for budgeting and forecasting.

Solely responsible for month-end closing process, including reviewing, journal entries, bank reconciliations and account reconciliations.

Management and maintenance of A/P, G/L and Payroll functions.

All statutory filing, including federal and state tax filings.

Maintenance of FSA and Simple IRA accounting.

Billable expense maintenance by project.

Primary company liaison with outside CPA’s, Payroll Company, federal and state agencies, office leasing company, commercial and employee benefits brokers.

Ad hoc reporting of current and historical financial data and metrics to company’s President and VP’s.

Light HR Duties.

SOPs.

Consulting – Temporary Basis – Robert Half Management Resources

The Yellowknife Group (Architectural Design), Lake Forest, CA June 2014 – September 2014

Kagan Publishing and Development, San Juan Capistrano, CA November 2013 – June 2014

Freeway Insurance, Huntington Beach, CA October 2012 – October 2013

Divisional Controller June 2001 – May 2012

USI of Southern California, Inc. (A Goldman Sachs Capital Partners Company), Irvine, CA

Directed accounting team encompassing Business Operations, Decision Support, Financial Reporting and Analysis and Sales Reporting. Provided accounting support for divisional financial planning and analysis team led by CEO, CFO, and all EVP’s. Provided financial management reporting including quarterly financial review, CEO and EVP reports and ad hoc support. Responsibilities included general ledger maintenance, month and year end close, journal entry preparation and review, reconciliations and financial statements, financial analysis and account reconciliation, budget preparation and forecasting, quarterly producer true ups for commissions, vendor and banking relations.

Implemented financial and forecast reporting (Flash Report) that identified revenue and expenses by product line and set up metrics for each product line based on actual and forecasted data. This “flash report” allowed management to recognize not only sales increases, but to evaluate product line profitability and to re-allocate human resources if needed.

Led a team of 4 to collect over 90-day accounts receivable totaling $1.8M. The expected result was 30% collection or $540K. The actual result was 58% or $1.04M. Collection effort resulted in $504K more than expected.

Assisted in a fully integrated system rollover from various systems to Sagitta (Citrix).

Converted the financials from spreadsheets to the accounting software (Sagitta - Citrix).

Enhanced internal controls by implementing journal entry approvals, an authority approval matrix and fixed asset tagging process.

Restructured Accounting Department from 12 to 6 and streamlined accounting procedures.

Reviewed and analyzed internal controls to ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.

Reconciled all inter-company balances and set up inter-company “dummy” checks to eliminate a need for check writing.

Provided financial support for acquisition and mergers of over 10 new businesses, including systems conversion and set up of billing and collections.

Prior Positions include Controller for Pharmaceutical Distribution Company; Assistant Controller for a chain of Hospitals; Medicare Reimbursement Auditor; Staff Accountant with a local California CPA firm.

COMPUTER SKILLS

SyteLine, Blackline, Sagitta (Citrix), Sage50 (MAS 200), BillQuick, Bill.com, QuickBooks, Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables & V-Lookups),

EDUCATION

Briarcliff College, Briarcliff Manor, NY Pre-Med 1974-1977 AA

California State, Fullerton CA Pre-Med/Immunology 1977-1980 BA/MA

Arizona State, Tempe, AZ Accounting 1983-1985 BS

California State, Fullerton, CA Accounting 1992-1995 MBA

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