Senior Accountant

Sheila L. Clark

Phone: 586-***-**** / Troy, MI **084

Email: ************@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

To help your company by using and sharing my knowledge with experience in multi-departments from my 26 years of learning as I stayed loyal to the same company. Would like to help make your company’s tasks and operations run smoother and more efficiently (not intrusively) if needed so more can be accomplished, helping all in need. SKILLS:

Easily adaptable to new policies, procedures, a new company’s way of doing things (not set in my ways)

Professional, integrity & confidentiality are a number 1 priority

ADP & Paychex payroll for multiple companies simultaneously (hourly & salary including UAW) – completely migrating from ADP payroll systems to Paychex and Benetrac systems for benefits

Knowledge of the GAAP accounting principles – use daily

Very fast learning ability, using analytical thinking, self-teacher – can figure things out, mostly with common sense

Pay very close attention to detail – quickly double and triple checking where needed

Microsoft Office – efficient (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Ability to get along with everyone, (all personalities) with friendliness, treating everyone as I’d like to be treated

Able to work independently, using time management skills wisely, multi-tasking ability, excellent note taking

Able to meet deadlines – used to strict monthly deadlines EXPERIENCE:

(Worked at the same company for 26 years. 1995 – 2021) – Please see below: Senior Accountant / ARCH Cutting Tools – KEO / April 2014 to November 2021

Accounts Receivable & Payables (Basics learned in 1997, been helping since)

AP – Setting up new vendors and maintaining accurate G/L codes, address updates, etc.

AP - Receiving & reconciling invoices, coding with proper G/L account numbers

AP – 3-way match, vouchering, check cutting, and invoice/PO discrepancy research

AP – Vouchering up to 200-250 invoices per day

AP - Maintained a list of capital expenses, separating from regular expenses making sure spending does not exceed the budget, weekly reporting of capital expenses sent to Corporate Office

AP – Maintained excellent relationships with vendors, making sure they were paid on-time, researching “early pay” discounts

AP – Managed all employee expense reports, making sure the proper G/L coding is used, updating the form for accuracy, receipt verification, etc. before vouchering for payment

AP – Vouchers Payable reports – ran and monitored weekly or more often as needed/requested

AP – Monitored and maintained and accurate listing of all un-vouchered invoices (invoices with no purchase orders) for month end reports

AP – Managed and maintained petty cash – Logging all cash going in & out, payment to employees, G/L coding of all receipts – reconciled at every month end – scanned all receipts into system

AP – Helped create purchase orders as needed, receiving in system as needed, verified all PO’s for proper G/L coding before receiving took place

AR - Daily cash posting of customer payments through PNC lockbox, up to 300k per day

AR - Research customer payment and bank lockbox discrepancies daily

AR – Frequently ran AR Aging report to assist with past due, credits, etc.

AR - Key role in customer RMA’s, freight credits, pricing issues, etc.

AR - Customer service calls to distributors (customers) relating to invoice discrepancies, credits, and past due accounts

In charge of auditing work instructions for AP & AR – making them fool-proof, rewriting, screenshots, testing, etc.

ISO internal auditing of many departments (more info. Listed below)

Assisted Customer Service Department with invoicing

Assisted with Hourly (UAW) vacation accruals

Monitored spending and helped with budgets; advised where money could be saved

Month End work papers & journal entries, prepared financial reports

Reconciled payables & receivables with 26 ARCH business units every month end

Key role in yearly financial internal & external audits (separate from ISO audits)

Physical Inventory – reported variances, loss & gains

Performed additional accounting & office duties as assigned or needed Human Resources & Accounting (AP/AR) / ARCH Cutting Tools – KEO 2009 to 2014

Weekly payroll for KEO, including UAW & 5 other ARCH companies at the same time using ADP & Paychex systems

Verified hourly employee timecards, hours worked, helped managers with this process

Fully migrated ADP payroll system over to Paychex payroll system, along with Benetrac

Helped employees understand paystubs, taxes, and answered questions

Maintained employee records, updated employee policy handbook

Assisted with union negotiations and new contract wording, proofreading, suggesting changes, etc.

On boarding of new hires, background checks, drug screening, in charge of alarm codes – activate/deactivate

In charge of the annual open enrollment process – including UAW employees, using the Benetrac system

Trained employees to use the Benetrac system

Prepared annual performance reviews for the hourly UAW employees

New law compliance – educated Managers, including UAW plus all employees

In charge of making sure all employees office (salary) and UAW (hourly) were treated fairly

Key role in FMLA training & HIPPA laws

Retirement/pension, disability, 401k assistance, 401k loans, COBRA, etc.

AP – vouchering, cutting checks, AR, cash application, other accounting duties as needed or requested

1995 – 2009 / ARCH Cutting Tools – KEO (formerly KEO Cutters, LLC), other jobs:

Purchasing, Inventory Control, daily cycle counting, initiated large warehouse inventory transfers to stocking reps in other states, Shop Trak system management, strategic planning events, coordinating large employee parties & lunches, materials management, processed daily steel/parts output, processed daily production cards, customer service, special projects for the corporate offices and other duties as asked or needed

EDUCATION:

Associates Degree in Business Management – September - 2006 diploma, Western International University – all online classes

Several Fred Pryor classes including Excel, Word, HR law, and others

Notary Public, commission expires July 11, 2026

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:

Key role in MAJOR ERP system upgrade (Syteline 6.0 to 9.0) due to extensive knowledge in current Syteline ERP system (2011-2014)

Extensively trained UAW employees the new Shop-Trak input/output system, along with Syteline 9.0 daily for over 5 months – groups of 4-5 employees each training session, 4 hours every day after teaching the program to myself

ISO internal audits for UAW, finance, purchasing, and materials management checking all departments for conformance, controlled documents, non-conformance forms to prepare for the annual external ISO audit

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