Billing

Lavina S. Barry

Phone: 843-***-****

Woodbridge, VA 22192 Email: ********@*******.***

Accounting Professional

Business Planning and Analysis Risk and Operations Management Fiscal Accountability

Summary

Lavina S. Barry is an accomplished accounting professional with over a decade of experience in financial reporting, analysis, payroll processing, budgeting, cash management, and auditing. She has held various managerial roles in reputable organizations. Ms. Barry has experience managing in person and remote teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Current Role: Ms. Barry is currently serving as the Billing Manager at Planned Systems International, where she oversees the AR team, manages high-value invoices, and ensures compliance with FAR/DFAR requirements. She also evaluates and improves billing processes to enhance revenue flow. Managing a remote team, Ms. Barry evaluates, disciplines, hires and terminates AR team members. The team is responsible for billing, collections and closeout actions.

Previous Experience: Prior to her current role, she was the Accounts Receivable Manager at Systems Planning and Analysis, where she managed a $500M company's AR team, cash receipts, and collections, and implemented process improvements to ensure consistent revenue flow. Ms. Barry was responsible for cash flow estimates, managing incoming cash payments, collections and closeouts.

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Earlier Roles: Ms. Barry has also worked as a Sr. Billing Manager at Valiant Integrated Services and as an Accounts Receivable Manager at SRI International, where she was responsible for government accounting, financial transaction reconciliation, and managing AR teams

government contracting work history:

● PLANNED SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL – BILLING MANAGER – 9/2024 TO PRESENT

● SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS – ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE MANAGER – 10/2022 TO 09/2024

●VALIANT INTEGRATED SERVICES - SR. BILLING MANAGER – 08/2021 TO 10/2022

● SRI INTERNATIONAL -ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE MANAGER 12/2019 –08/2021

● ADVANTAGE SCI -SENIOR BILLER - 08/2012 –12/2019

● BAE SYSTEMS -FINANCIAL ANALYST II - 06/2009 –10/2019

Education & Professional Development

Education: Ms. Barry holds two Master of Business Administration degrees, one in Project Management from American Continental University and another in Finance from Strayer University, both with a 4.0 GPA

Technical Skills

Costpoint Deltek 8,0, 8.1 and 8.2; Microsoft Dynamic; Unanet; AS 400, Microsoft NAV; Deltek Vision; Cognos, Crystal Reports MS Office Suite; Word; Access (create and manage Access databases) Power BI; ADP; Photoshop; Adobe; submission platforms such as Wide Area Workflow; Invoice Processing Platform (IPP); SharePoint; dBase.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

● PLANNED SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL – BILLING MANAGER – 9/2024 TO PRESENT

Hire, develop, mentor, and manage AR team in billing, collections, unbilled, cash receipts and

closeouts

Assist in billing high dollar invoices

Contract review and management

Review and approve invoices to ensure compliance with FAR/DFAR requirements and company policy

Submit invoices by email and various portals

Evaluate billing process and suggest improvements to expedite revenue

Manage remote AR team

Provide reconciliation, analysis, and recommendations on billed vs unbilled balances, retainage, and receivables accounts

Tracked DSO

Evaluate workflow and implement a process improvement plan which includes steps to improve staff retention, updated policies and procedures and ensure consistent revenue flow and implement process improvements

● SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS – ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE MANAGER – 10/2022 TO 09/2024

Developed, mentored, and managed the seven member AR team

Managed cash receipts, unbilled, active billing and collections for $500M company

Contract review and management

Reviewed and approved invoices to ensure compliance with FAR/DFAR requirements and company policy

Provided reconciliation, analysis, and recommendations on billed vs unbilled balances, retainage, and receivables accounts

Assisted with reserves and write-offs

Tracked DSO

Evaluated workflow and implemented a process improvement plan which included steps to improve staff retention, updated policies and procedures and ensure consistent revenue flow and implemented process improvements

Provided standard reporting and tracked results against KPIs

Assisted with internal and external audit requests, including DCAA/DCMA and GSA

Performance evaluations, reviews, and disciplinary actions

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●VALIANT INTEGRATED SERVICES - SR. BILLING MANAGER – 08/2021 TO 10/2022

Government accounting, reporting, and establishing internal controls.

Reconciling financial transactions.

Hire, train, mentor, and manage the AR team.

Document reviews.

Reviewed and approved invoices to ensure compliance with FAR/DFAR requirements and company policy.

Assisted with reserves and write-offs

• Evaluated workflow and implement process improvements.

Provided standard reporting and tracked results against KPIs.

Assisted with internal and external audit requests to include DCAA/DCMA, and GSA.

Supported ad-hoc requests when needed.

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