Financial Service Manager I

Darlene F. Jones

*** ******* ****** *** ********, GA 30126

Phone: 678-***-**** ****************@*****.***/********@*********.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Coca-Cola North America Atlanta, GA

Accounting Specialist June 2012 – Sept 2015

Financial Service Manager I Sept 2015-March 2021

Assist the Balance Sheet Managers with the entries for the quarterly management of my customer’s accounts

Monthly account reconciliations performed on my portfolio cost centers

Prepare forecasts for the quarter and accruals for year end

Prepare and post monthly journal entries and quarterly amortizations to the general ledgers in Blackline

Process funding adjustments between forecasted and actual budgets

Develop and maintain Ad Hoc reports and variance analysis

Enter budgets into the systems per the customer’s yearly programs

Process month-end close and year-end close

Process invoice detailed payments for vendors in a timely manner

Analyze and interpret customer contracts to National Account Executives

Resolve contractual discrepancies with the National Account Executive, Legal and Customer Agreement Team.

Interact and communicate daily with cross functional teams

Initiate proper documentation for vendor setups, retrieve W-9s and submit to the A/P department for processing

Prepare yearly spread allocations to bill bottlers their portions of the customer’s expenses

Train NAEs & Directors on the department processes

Communicate with sales reporting team with all volume reporting issues

Process volume-based payments according to customer and bottler contracts

Process customer's OPEX documents and verified receipts for accuracy

Timely response to all audit requests & identification of risks and opportunities; recommendation to mitigate risks and capture opportunities.

Coca-Cola Refreshments Atlanta, GA

Accountant III Nov 2005 – June 2012

Process volume-based payments according to customer and bottler contracts

Process invoice detailed payments for CTM vendors in a timely manner

Analyze and interpret customer contracts to National Account Executives

Identify, research and process funding adjustments between forecasted and actual budgets needed for settlement payments

Interact and communicate daily with National Account Executives to ensure payments are made in a timely manner and all submitted documentation is accurate

Prepare monthly CTM-to-SAP reconciliations

Prepare forecasts for the quarter and accruals for year end

Initiate proper documentation for vendor setups

Prepare yearly spread allocations to bill bottlers their portions of CTM customer expenses

Train NAEs & Directors on CTM Settlement Processes

Prepare and post monthly journal entries and quarterly amortizations in SAP

Panoff Publishing, Inc Fort Lauderdale, FL

Financial Analyst Feb 2004 – Jul 2005

Assisted the chief financial officer in preparing port shopping program proposals for various cruise lines

Prepared budgets and projections

Prepared monthly budget-to-actual reports and distributed to managers

Prepared weekly merchant sales reports and distributed to individual cruise directors

Developed target grids for effective marketing strategies and port shopping programs

Assisted in payroll preparation by calculating cruise directors incentive and performing related duties

Analyzed cruise directors monthly sales using trend reports

Panoff Publishing, Inc Fort Lauderdale, FL

Accountant Jul 2001 – Feb 2004

Monitored and pursued timely receipt of preliminary revenue reports from cruise directors

Contacted delinquent merchants weekly from the Aging Report

Validated all merchants’ receipts attached to incoming revenue

Recorded daily accounts receivable checks

Performed monthly bank reconciliation

S.D.K. Jones Vending Fort Lauderdale, FL

Co-Owner/Office Manager Apr 2001 – Jul 2001

Established work sites for contracted vending machines at various companies

Negotiated commission prices with owners

Follow up telephone calls for customer’s satisfaction and comments

Monthly bookkeeping duties

Comprehensive Personal Care Services Miami, FL

Accounts Payable Supervisor Apr 1997 – Mar 2001

Supervised accounts payable personnel and reviewed their daily work. Responsible for two hundred and eighty client’s overview of their bank accounts, brokerage accounts, trust account, life insurance, annuities and bonds

Managed, calculated, and maintained personal bank accounts with extremely high balances

Prepared monthly budgets and account analysis (detailing the balances and transactions on intangibles and tangible assets) for each of our active clients

Successfully reduced the company’s outstanding check report by eighty five percent

Comprehensive Personal Care Services Miami, FL

Property Coordinator Sept 1993 – Apr 1997

Researched the whereabouts of outstanding bonds, calculated the redemption value and redemption date.

Responsible for contacting the U.S. Treasury for replacement of lost bonds and calculated the tax implications for redemption of bonds

Designed and implemented dividend check reports

Maintained daily contact with attorney’s concerning court orders to redeem bonds and sale stock

Citibank, Florida, N.A. Dania, FL

Customer Service Representative Sept 1991 – Sept 1993

Maintained proper activity in customer accounts by computing figures with speed and accuracy

Operated computers to retrieve processed data and supervised large amount of cash flow

Conducted surprise cash audits on co-workers.

Conducted account audits for the branch after hours

EDUCATION

Florida Memorial University, Bachelor of Science, Accounting

HIGHLIGHT OF QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of month-end close process

Knowledge of balance sheet review, post journal entries, account reconciliation, planning, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis

ERP System Knowledge: SAP, Blackline, Microsoft Excel (pivot tables & v-lookups)

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