Accounting Assistant Customer Service
Resume:
SUMMARY
Performance-driven associate with stellar record of starting up a Finance department in a leading Ghanaian public university. Lived and worked on three continents: Africa, Europe and America. A skilled Financial Accountant with strong business acumen in the areas of problem solving, customer service and a great communicator both orally and written.
CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATION:
United States Permanent Resident and Ghanaian citizen.
EXPERIENCE
Amazon 09/2021 – Present
Warehouse sort associate 1. Sorting packages for delivery
2. Managing front desk.
Transporting goods within facility.
3.Scanning packages
7-Eleven Inc 09/2019 – 09/2021
Cashier Team Lead
1.Running cash register.
2.Customer service and support.
3.Preparing coffee and hot snacks.
4.Opening and closing cash register.
5.Stock taking.
UNIVERSITY OF ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES 08/2007-12/2019
Principal Accounting Assistant
Accounts Payable duties
Overview: With respect to the university’s accounts, paid third parties and employees by scheduling and preparing checks, resolving purchase orders, ensuring credit is received for outstanding bills, and issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
Clarifying any questionable invoice items, prices or receiving signatures for incoming goods.
Obtaining proper information and/or data regarding invoice payments.
Calculating and verifying amounts on invoices.
Verifying and calculating all extensions and totals on invoices.
Reviewing and assembling Goods Received Vouchers, Payment Vouchers and Requisitions for payment.
Preparing payment vouchers and writing checks upon approval.
Journalizing by debiting the expense accounts and crediting payables.
Calculating and reporting sales tax based on paid invoices.
Accounts Receivables Duties
Overview: Managing incoming payments, properly tracking them into the system to maintain accurate bookkeeping records.
PERETINENT DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Maintaining, reconciling and analyzing financial accounting data.
Bank reconciliation: Reconciling vendor statements to accounts payable ledger.
Posting cash receipts journal entries to the Main Cash book and Accounts
Receivable Ledger.
Reconciling Accounts Receivable Leger to Main Cash book and Bank Statements.
Depositing funds into University’s bank account.
Reviewing and performing accounts payable and accounts receivable duties; accountability for money received and disbursed.
Preparing, updating, examining and analyzing the following reports: Accounts receivable and payable aging analysis, report on delinquent accounts receivable balances. Typing memos.
Ensuring appropriate internal controls are effective with the transfer, disbursement, recording and reporting of money.
With respect to travel, reviewing petty cash and payment vouchers are authorized before payment.
Processing and paying bills and invoices due from the University.
Providing customer service to clients of the university; students, parents, and vendors.
Member of the University’s Finance committee; executing projects.
Maintaining the billing system.
Performing account reconciliations.
Generating invoices and account statements.
Maintaining accounts receivable files and records.
Producing monthly financial and management reports.
Recording receipts in the Revenue book.
Writing out/generating receipts for clients.
Posting cash and check receipts from Revenue book to Main Cash book.
Accounting for withholding and sales tax to Revenue authority.
Researching and resolving account discrepancies.
Receivable aging analysis
Payables. Preparing payment vouchers, seeking approval, preparing checks and updating the Main cash book.
Submitting Goods Received Vouchers, Payment vouchers and Petty cash vouchers for Pre and Post audit.
Initiating purchases and procurement by raising purchase orders.
Maintaining a Petty Cash account.
Coordinating with Audit Department during annual audits.
ACHIEVEMENTS
1. Improved financial measurements including ROI and revenues by 60% following dedicated progression methods.
2. Modified risk management policy, bringing down risk by 25%.
3. Introduced an online data entry system which improved invoice input time by 70%.
4. Redesigned the accounts payable system, thereby increasing system efficiency by 60%.
5. Processed 400 invoices in two weeks.
6. Decreasing month-end closing tasks spanning 7 days to 3 days following implementation of new accounting system.
7. Introduced and implemented a core audit compliance and controls system that decreased accounts payable audit time by 25%.
SOFTWARE/SKILLS
MS Office, Word, Excel
Quick books online
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
BS in Business Administration, Concentration: Finance – State University of New York at Buffalo.
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