Accounts Payable Director
Resume:
CONTACT
*****.*****@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuani-white-
61480774
https://nupress.northwestern.edu
EDUCATION
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Master of Business Administration
August 2021
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Management
2010
SKILLS
Project Management,
Continuous Internal Process and
Performance Improvement,
Team Building,
18 years of Customer Service
experience.
8 years of Accounting/Financial
experience,
Analytical,
Manage Communication Streamlines
Pricing Negotiations
SOFTWARE
Microsoft Office Suite, CRM systems,
PeopleSoft, Kronos, MP3
Kuani White-Lascelles, MBA
A finance professional that focuses on internal process improvements WORK EXPERIENCE
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE – NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS ADMINISTRATION
Mar 2022 – Present
Managing $2.2 million annual budget
Supply Chain Manager
Approving all expenditures
Monthly reporting and projections
Annual Budgets
Accounts Receivable (Cash, Checks, and Wire Transfers) Impact:
Agile Organizational Leader
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR – NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Jan 2020 – Mar 2022
Supporting Preventive Medicine department, over 350 employees
Identifying, recommending, and implementing improvements
Managing finance team for timely completion at a high quality of work
Daily approving over 50 financial expenditures under $5,000
(level 2 approver) (including grants)
Maintaining and managing over 90 unrestricted accounts
(creates and close chart strings)
Enforcing budgetary compliance by consistently monitoring department’s account balances to avoid negative balances
Billing, accounts receivable and reconciliation
Coordinating & completes all associated fiscal year close/open processes
Providing customer service and advise financial guidance
Ensuring that service level goals are met
Negotiating with vendors for purchases & leases
Sending weekly reminder to prevent penalties
Ensuring contracts are executed for both parties
Initiating Phase II (using Smartsheet): Developing new internal procedures to process transactions for efficiency and increase of userfriendly functions
Impact:
Developing and support a diverse team: leading to more NU resources for success operationally and professionally, empowering for professional growth
DPM Mission Advancement Award winner 2022
FINANCIAL COORDINATOR – NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Aug 2018 – Jan 2020
Currently responsible for the following:
Managing department financial operations
Managing (hire, train, coach, develop and evaluate the performance of) the finance team (process financial transactions)
Overseeing accurate, efficient and compliant workflow of all transactional processes across
Reporting and distributing financial statements of discretionary accounts
Processing complex financial transactions as team back up during high peaks and/or high priority
Creating internal streamline systems for efficiency
Daily approving over 20 financial expenditures under $5,000
Performing transactional research
Processed special pay
Impact:
Phase I (using PDF forms): Developed new internal procedures to process transactions for efficiency: decreased processing time from 25 days to 6 days or less
Promoted to Financial Administrator (still performing job responsibilities except Special Pay)
FINANCIAL ASSISTANT – NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Developed and implemented departmental training sessions
(new employee and bi-weekly walk-in)
Ensured all daily administrative operations are maintained accurate and consistent
Liaison for IT, Facilities and Financial requests
Provided users troubleshooting assistance to completion
Approved financial expenditures at Level 1 (under $1,500)
Processed over 5 monthly internal sales revenue – spreadsheet journals for mailing and catering expenses Impact:
Problem-Solving: Upgraded mailroom procedure to charge transactions for better efficiency
Provided oversight in the project management for departmental move
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Administrative Assistant – Northwestern University Aug 2014 – Mar 2016
PLANT ADMINISTRATOR – ELGIN ENERGY CENTER, PROENERGY SERVICES Feb 2014 – Sept 2014
Billing Customer Account Executive – Comcast
Communications Oct 2012 –Feb 2014
Short Sales Coordinator – Carby King Realty
Apr 2012 – Oct 2012
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