Accountant II / Treasury Analyst
Resume:
BRUCE McELFRESH
Decatur, GA 30033
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SUMMARY:
Twenty years of treasury, cash management, accounting, and finance experience with a strong focus in debt management, banking services, and bank reconciliation. Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills and ability to train and develop others to their potential. Effective problem solving and time management skills. Strong work ethics, highly motivated, and attentive to detail.
EXPERIENCE:
AIG Agency Auto Alpharetta, Georgia June 2007 - Present
Accountant II
* Reconcile and Analyze company’s main AR bank cash account against outside AIG vendors.
* Conducted research on all exception items and worked with responsible parties to clear items from reconciliation
* Perform the Daily cash balancing on the AR program and reconcile items to company’s mainframe system.
* Compare reconciled cash account to spreadsheet for daily cash balancing for any variances.
* Putting together EFT file and balancing it before sending to bank.
* Verify ACH amounts daily with bank before money is deposited into AR checking account.
* Work with audit and SOX Manager to ensure reconciliation processes are compliant and resolve any issues that arise due to changes in processes.
* Work on special projects and prepare ad-hoc reports for senior management.
Reliance Trust Company Atlanta, Georgia May 2006 – May 2007
Bank Reconciliation Team Lead
* Reconcile the daily concentration account for company's largest client with 5,000 -50,000 items passing through account daily depending on time of month.
* Reported balances and prepared special reports for client surrounding the bank recon functions
* Conducted research on all exception items and worked with responsible parties to clear items from reconciliation.
* Ran queries and interacted with various groups assisting with troubleshooting any problems concerning bank recon functions.
* Assisted in the set up and transition of the company client's bank accounts from a manual process to one that is fully automated
* Assist remote supervisor with training and leading a staff of 4 full time employees.
Georgia-Pacific Corporation Atlanta, Georgia November 1988 - May 2006
Treasury Analyst (June 1998 - May 2006)
Cash Management Responsibilities
* Use ICMS Treasury Workstation to Manage and Administer daily operation of company's long-term debt liability and initiate principal and interest payments ($8 billion debt portfolio).
* Monitor and record changes to commercial paper program ($350 million portfolio)
* Act as liaison and troubleshoot any problems arising from long-term debt related issues.
* Monitor and pay all bank fees and trustee fees related to debt related invoices by Wire Transfer, ACH, or check.
* Put together various types of daily, monthly, and quarterly debt reports for senior management, financial reporting, auditors, and other key departments.
* Monitor, record, and report changes to company stock plans and verify company dividend payments.
* Pay all outstanding common stock shares exchanged for shares of Ft. James and Unisource stock.
* Track and report all bank fees paid by company to management on quarterly basis.
* Continue testing and debugging hardware and ICMS software for all debt related issues, and attend weekly meetings to discuss issues relating to that hardware and software.
* Maintain rate updates associated with debt.
* Develop training manuals for Debt Payments.
* Assist in creation of Business Continuity Plan manual and all supporting documents to insure compliance with cash mgmt control related to Sarbanes-Oxley and audit.
* Treasury Staff Accountant Job Responsibilities listed below through August 2003.
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Georgia-Pacific Corp (continued)
Treasury Staff Accountant (November 1988 - June 1998)
* Analyzed and reconciled 90-125 monthly corporate bank accounts and cash accounts for various divisions.
* Balanced general ledgers to the bank statements.
* Conducted research on all exception items and worked with responsible parties to clear items from reconciliation.
* Acted as the liaison between the different divisions and the banking industry, and to the financial reporting and audit team in answering any questions concerning transactions.
* Setup and received transmissions from both external and internal vendors.
* Ran queries and interacted with various Accounting Groups assisting with troubleshooting any problems concerning bank recon functions.
* Assisted in training and supervising 1 full time and 2 part time employees.
* Developed training manual for bank reconciliation.
EDUCATION:
NORTH GEORGIA COLLEGE, DAHLONEGA, GEORGIA (1985-1988)
Bachelor of Business Administration
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
UNC Treasury Management Program - Beginning & Advanced
SunGard Debt Portfolio and Overview
LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES:
Team Lead – (2006-2007) Bank Reconciliations
Committee Member - 2006 Treasury Workstation Project Team
Committee Member - 2004 Treasury Diversity Council
Committee Member - (2002-2005) ICMS First Team
Committee Member - 2002 Bank Reconciliation Review
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Windows 95,98, 2000, NT & XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ICMS Treasury Workstation System, Integrity Treasury Workstation System, AS400 Accounting and Bank Reconciliation Module, SunGard Intellimatch Bank Recon Module, Checkfree Bank Reconciliation, Accurate Bank Reconciliation, First Windows 2000, Wieland, Addvantage accounting software.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
(2008) Led a team of Finance professional that reviewed and choose a transactional matching software package to replace current reconciliation process and negotiated with vendors on pricing options.
(2006) Created detailed debt profile for each piece of debt.
(2005) Developed Desk Procedure Manual for Debt Analyst position for training purposes.
(2003) Trained Financial Service Center accounting personnel on bank reconciliation process.
(2002-2006) Tested and helped implementation of ICMS Treasury Workstation & Integrity Treasury Workstation software relating to long-term debt portion of cash management system.
(2002) Tested Checkfree and Accurate for replacement bank reconciliation software package to replace current system.
(2001) Developed training manual for making Long Term Debt payments.
(2002) Developed updated training manual for bank reconciliation using query option.
(1994) Developed and put together Trustee files for each Instrument of Debt.
(1992) Assembled History files for Dow Jones Industrials and Stock Prices.
(1992) Developed manual for department to use in the training of employees.
(1992) Received 1992 Chairman's Award.
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