Accounts Payable/Receivable
Resume:
AIMEE AGUSTIN
Professional Summary
Accounting Professional with established and more than 15 years solid experience in the area of Finance and Accounting with specialization in full cycle of Accounts Payable. Working in productivity objectives and targets aimed at the achievement of the company’s short- and long- term plan. Strong expertise in continuous process improvements and legal entity start up and migration activities specific to Shared Service Finance industry set-up. Skills
• Customer Satisfaction
• Vendor/Lender Relationships
• Verbal and Written Communication
• Customer Relationship Development
• KPI Development and Management
• Account and Ledger Reconciliations
• People Management
• Hospitality
Work History
Accounts Payable Manager 10/2023 - Present
ICL USA – New York USA
• End to end AP processes and procedures
• Invoice posting in Quickbooks and payment runs
• Initiate payment in online bank portal
• Weekly AP forecast and bank reconciliation.
• Vendor master maintenance
• Maintain very strong relationships with all company team members and service partners/providers.
• Daily email management for internal and external stakeholders
• Invoice resolution and decision making
• Regular governance with Operations team and vendors
• Work closely with management identifying, resolving, and mitigating AP issues and concerns.
• Account analysis and reconciliations
• Agent statements
• Review Vendor statements
• Collaborate with account managers on Accounts Receivable and Credit
• Administer critical response to delinquent accounts.
• Monitor summary statements to identify trends and potential problems. Freeport, NY 11520 I 516-***-**** I **************@*****.***
• Process Change Improvements
• Accounts Payable and Accounts
Receivable
• Vendor Creation/Maintenance
• Leadership/Strategic Skills
• SOX Audit
• Logitude, Cargowise1
• SAP, Oracle Cloud, Quickbooks
• Management reports (Balance Sheet, Expense Analysis)
• Process improvements and process documentation.
Finance Manager 02/2018 – 11/2022
Western Digital – Philippines
• Managing team of at-least 10-15 full time employees
• Ensure compliance of accounts payable policies, audit requirements and controls
• Provide problem and invoice resolution assistance to vendors and internal company personnel with tact and diplomacy; act as a liaison between departments and vendors
• Monitoring payments, reviewing bank account reconciliations on payment runs, ensuring payments are properly executed, posted and payment failures are identified.
• Manage relationships with vendor, procurement, treasury and country controllers
• Be proactive and identify areas in need of improvement and take action to implement process improvements when appropriate to increase overall department capacity.
• Provide effective and timely follow through with internal and external inquiries, issues and concerns
• Oversee vendor account discrepancies; disputes and take corrective actions
• Routinely perform periodic audits to ensure that invoices have been processed accurately and paid within terms.
• Communicates with Business Units and Local countries, troubleshooting errors and responding to inquiries, as needed. Investigates and resolves or recommends. problem resolutions
• Reviews workload and adjusts resources to provide accurate and timely processing consistent with policy and controls
• Review and processing of timesheets
• End to end processing of internal and external expenses. Group Process Owner 02/2017-02/2018
DSV Global Transport and Logistics – Philippines
• Develop and implement policies and procedures inclusive of defining and aligning Service Level for all the sub processes of Order to Cash: Credit Risk Management, Billing and Collection, Disputes & Customer Query Handling, Incoming Payments, Reconciliation & Analysis and AR Closing.
• Standardization of procedures and roll out across all APAC countries.
• Monitor and measure deployed policies and procedures to ensure compliance of parties involved through KPIs and Finance Process Forum
• Documentation of work instructions, training materials, including system documentation.
• Continuously identify areas for improvement.
Accounts Payable Manager 10/2014-01/2017
UTI Logistics – Philippines
• Manage day to day operations in Accounts Payable globally (APAC, North and South America)
• Manage Cash Application process for South America.
• Maintains Service Level Agreement and Key Performance Indicator target
• People Management (Coaching, 1-1 check ins, Individual Development Plan, T&A, Performance Evaluation)
• Monthly closures of AP Sub ledger and opening new month’s sub ledger.
• Mediating and successfully resolving issues and disputes escalated by the team or by customers ensuring that corporate policies are adhered to.
• Supporting purchasing team on the monitoring of inventory receiving and purchase order.
• Liaise with internal auditors and ensure controls are operating effectively to attain SOX compliant.
• Suggesting and proposing improvement solutions to standard processes, technology and policies for AP and AR.
Accounting Manager
Xerox Business Services Philippines – Michelin account May - August 2014
Overseeing all Night Shift AP, AR and FA serving the North America region. Directly reporting to the Client Zone Manager.
Central Payment Manger
Starcruises Pte. Ltd (Genting Group)
Sep 01 2009 – Nov 15 2013
Overseeing the fleet wide accounts payable function for both ship and shore Based related expenditures
Accounts Payable Administrator
WR Grace Philippines Inc.
Feb 04 – Aug 28 2009
Process payables for Australia, New Zealand & South Africa Accounts Payable/General Accounting/Inter-company Recon Finance Officer
Perkinelmer Optoelectronics Phils. Inc.
Aug 23 2005 – Feb 3 2009
Accounts Payables, Travel & Expense, Reporting
Finance Officer
Direct Link Distributors Inc.
Nov 21 2001 – Oct 30 2004
Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Inventory
Education
Bachelor of Science – Accountancy 05/2000
San Pablo Colleges - Philippines
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