Accounts Payable Specialist

Chelsea Wright

**************@*****.***

480-***-****

Skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Word) & Microsoft Dynamics GP.

o Pivot tables, lookup function, etc.

o Purchasing functions, smart list, manual payments, payment batches, etc.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Accuracy and attention to details

• Able to prioritize and to address multiple responsibilities with excellence

• Excellent ability to work well with others as a team player

• Excels and adapts well within standard Financial monthly/quarterly/annual deadlines

• Exceptional organizational skills; Attention to detail; Results-oriented

• Analytical skills, GAAP knowledge.

• Strong critical thinking skills: able to identify financial irregularities, initiate corrective actions, and see through to resolution

Work Experience

Accounting Specialist; MCS 2024-Current

• Contractor Disbursements, new client/customer setup in GP, addition of new GL accounts, vendor management and workflow approval.

• Assist in Month End Close, GL tie outs.

Accounts Payable Specialist III; Northwest Hardwoods 2021-2024

• Run all ACH, Check, & Wire payments out of Microsoft Dynamics GP

o ACH/check payment runs twice a week (~$10M every week)

o On-request wire payments (~$5M every week)

o Maintain payment schedules

• Corporate Card Administrator - Lead Corporate Card point-of-contact for 1,200 employees

• Team member of program to roll out AP automation software in 2022

• Create and manage all employee expense accounts within SAP Concur

• Vendor data maintenance

• Lead monthly corporate card and expense audits

• Maintain company’s expense type configurations/charge number database within SAP Concur

• Complete month end metrics and maintain unclaimed property/escheatment process

• Fluent in purchase order and non-purchase order processes (3-way matching)

• Review and verify invoice workflow for approval and payment

• Full-cycle AP processing, Month end account reconciliation, Project Management

Accounts Payable Specialist; Worldwide Express 2018-2021

• Full-cycle AP processing: Research, code, and process vendor invoices (50-100 invoices/day)

• Process payments in Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains

• Generate EFT files and upload in the bank

• Assist in month end close

• Collect W9’s for vendor setup process

• Data entry

Assistant General Manager Morning Squeeze, Scottsdale, AZ 2016-2018

• Scheduling, ordering, inventory, and payroll for 40 employees

• Oversee all operations of the high-volume restaurant

• Handling all concerns of employees and customers

Intern Scottsdale Unified School District, Scottsdale, AZ 2016

• Assist in the ordering, purchasing, and storage process of all food for 29 schools in the district

• Assist in development of annual menu and cost analysis

Education

Arizona State University, BS in Nutr. Management with Minor in Business

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