MORRIS F CEESAY
**** * ***** ****, ***** D PMB **2
STOCKTON, CA 95210
Tel: 650-***-**** EMAIL: ******@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A long-term temporary staffing professional with experience in Credit and Collections, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and Sales Order Management; with broad-based accounting, finance experience, seeking employment opportunity where my experience can be utilized.
Work Experience
- Accounts Receivables
Preparing invoices, recording and posting payments and transactions.
Maintaining and updating customer files, including name or address changes, mergers, or mailing address changes.
Reviewing A/R Aging report and communicating with customers to address delinquent accounts.
Researching customer account discrepancies and past-due balances to reflect a true amd current aging report with the assistance of the collections departmentt and other relevant departments such as Sales.
Assisting with the generation of monthly billing statements based on the general ledger entries.
Effectively communicating discrepancies with customers, management and otther related departments after identifing deliiquent customer accounts, and executing workable collection approaches.
Maintain accounts receivable records to ensure A/R aging is up to date, credits and payments are applied, uncollectible amounts are accounted for, and miscellaneous differences are cleared
Performing daily cash management duties, including the recording of bank deposits, updating and distribution of cash receipt logs, and posting of cash to accounts receivable sub-ledger
Working closely with other departments such as Sales Order Management, Credit and Collections to resolve customer accounts issues.
Credit and Collections
Monitoring A/R Aging report to identify outstanding invoices and investigating historical data of customer payment patterns.
Proactively contacting customers to remind them of their outstanding balances and request timely payment.
Applying payments received, processing refunds and resolving billing and customer credit issues.
Regularly updating customer account records and record collection activities and accounts receivable status
Interfacing with Sales and other departments to resolve disputed invoices.
Work on problems of a moderate or complicated scope, where analysis of the situation or data requires review of identifiable factors.
Exercising judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action for delinquent accounts.
Coordinate with outside collection agencies and legal department to resolve and recover bad debts.
Processing Dun and Bradstreet transactions and served as backup for daily cash receipts and deposits to ensure accurate cash application.
Provided weekly Ms. Excel reports on all accounts over 45 days past due. Collected invoice payments within 45 days and resolved accounts already reserved as bad debts.
Sales Order Management
Matching sales orders to sales quotes and purchase orders to ensure that all line terms, conditions, prices, billing and shipping information are accurate based on set company policies and procedures.
Providing management with monthly reports on sales order backlog information and order quality.
Processimg approved and shippable orders on time, and inform customers on order status within a reasonable time frame.
Tracking order status, managing invoice data entry and maintainig effective communications with all vendors and team members.
Identifying aging goods and prepare a Return Merchandise Authorization(RMA) process to address returns and credits.
WORK HISTORY:
Independent Contractor – Rideshare
Dec 2018 to Present
West Africa Project Self-Employed 02/12 - 07/18
Iscandari & Asscociates. Office Manager 06/07 - 01/12
Accountemps Temporary Contractor 06/05 - 09/07
Pacific Postal Credit Union Loan Processor 02/04 - 05/05
Credit & Collections Analyst Hitachi Data Systems 03/99 – 01/03
Collections Analyst Vitria Technology 05/01 to 06/01
Credit/Collections Analyst Contract Office Group 01/01 to 05/01
Collections Analyst Guidant Corporation 06/00 to 01/01
Accounts Receivable Rep General Magic 06/98 to 02/99
A/R Specialist Sun Microsystems 05/97 to 4/98
Customer Account Rep. Synopsys Inc. 02/95 to 10/96
EDUCATION:
B.Sc. Business Management
University of Phoenix, San Jose, CA
TRAINING:
Learning HTML - Productivity Point International, San Jose, CA. - June 1999
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet - Productivity Point International, San Jose, CA - May 1999
Oracle 10.7 - Core Business Systems, Hitachi Data Systems Training - April 1999
GetPaid Software – Credit Collections - Guidant Corporation Training - Dec 2000
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Ms. Excel (pivot tables & macros), Ms. Word, Ms. PowerPoint, Ms. Publisher, Oracle 10.4 & 10.7, SAP, ASK Manman/Omar, Get Paid-Collections, QuickBooks, Web Publishing, Desktop Publishing, Software and hardware setup.