Project Manager Billing

JANAAN NEWMAN

Baltimore, OH 740-***-**** adtkq0@r.postjobfree.com

Accomplishments and Successes

Saved over $46,000 by creating a bidding and purchasing system

Led a flawless conversion when Sprint purchased Horizon Wireless Division (my employer) through a custom mapping process.

Reduced inventory costs by $750.000 through a specialized asset purchasing policy. Additionally, recovered 25% warehouse space by eliminating unnecessary stock.

Recovered $1,000,000 in previous unbilled project revenue. Additionally created process to prevent future billing fallout.

Billing manager AT&T largest business client and received an award from fortune 5 client for most improved billing.

Created employee handbook accepted by CFO, utilized company wide.

Created new billing scenario for new contract for AT&T valued at $2,000,000,000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Billing Analyst AT&T – Columbus, OH 04/2016 - 03/2021

•Created account receivable journal entries for executives.

•Conferred with customers about concerns with products or services to resolve problems and drive sales.

•Discovered and recovered $1,000,000 of unbilled revenue and resolved a process issue that had prevented several types of feeds from billing. Resolve contract issues and disputes.

•Utilized Excel forecasting revenue experience and project management expertise to establish new accounts, new services and contract implementation.

•Promoted consistent accuracy of billing information by reconciling 75 accounts and billing over 5 million monthly thru multiple customers by utilizing Excel functions.

•Verified accuracy of accounts payable payments, resulting in 90% reduction in payment errors and check reissues by utilizing V look ups and other Excel functions.

Lead Bill Ops AT&T – Columbus, OH 10/2012 - 4/2016

•Project Management experience working with setting up new billing scenarios.

•Surpassed performance goals by ensuring all 1,000 projects billed correctly according to multiple contracts.

•Created multiple Excel workbooks for each contract so that a comparison to actual billing could be accomplished.

•Drove disputes resolution of more complex issues staying within contractual guidelines.

Described and explained details about over 50 product and service options to inform customers and guide purchasing decisions.

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JANAAN NEWMAN

Baltimore, OH 740-***-**** adtkq0@r.postjobfree.com

Billing Operations Analyst AT&T – Columbus, OH 9/2006 – 10/2012

•Billing Manager for a $2B, 5-year contract for global ATT client (General Motors, GMAC, Delphi, OnStar) with over 8,500 global sites, 47 countries, 7 billing feeds, 80,000 billing transactions, 3200 manual billing entries, and over 400 monthly invoices.

•Managed workflow of 4 in-direct reports and project managed transition from current station services vendor to new vendor.

•Re-engineered the project process from life cycle management to end billing.

•Full account responsibility including revenue assurance, taxing, and contract administration utilizing Excel workbooks.

•Discovered and rectified major flaw in a primary billing system resulting in additional billing of $2M.

•Successfully integrated SBC billing into ATT billing system.

Accounts Payable Administrator DGM, Inc. (temporary) 5/06 – 8/06

Utilizing my accounting knowledge, negotiation skills, computer knowledge and costing

analysis process accounts payable for three concrete plants and corporate construction office.

Understanding contracts and their requirements I run ODOT construction estimates and

change orders and analyze their impact on the company and subcontractors.

Approve Subcontractors for payment according to ODOT payment allotments and contracts.

Cash reconciliation requiring analysis of outstanding checks, hand written checks and any

ODOT payments awaiting approval.

Payroll Administrator Ingle-Barr, Inc. 5/05 – 1/06

Verify and approve for payment all subcontractor labor bills

Track and input all labor hours associated with 2 construction offices and various

construction sites across Ohio

Process weekly payroll for 200 employees and process and submit certified payroll

Administrator for all employee benefits including garnishments, vacation, and insurance

Complete necessary reports for the Department of Labor

Human Resource/Project Manager American Warehousing (contract) 11/04 - 5/05

Project Manager for converting three warehouses’ inventory data into new software.

Completed under budget and within time constraints with less than 1% error rate.

Developed first comprehensive employee manual obtaining information from a variety of

professional sources and modifying them to fit the company needs and appropriate laws.

Developed pricing strategies for new customers. Forecasting revenue strategies, warehouse

space requirements and inventory turnover rates utilizing Excel workbooks and functions.

Utilizing my knowledge of costing performed cost analysis that reduced reoccurring costs

by 15% monthly.

Cut benefits costs by 10% through negotiating best price contracts with vendors.

EDUCATION:

1983 Master of Interpersonal Communication – Ohio University

1987 Bachelor of Science – Ohio University

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