Accounts Payable Management

Patel AJ

Financial Analyst

*** ******** **. **.: 551-***-****

Providence, RI 02906 Email:*******@*****.***

Seeking a position to expand my skill set and bandwidth of responsibilities through continuous process of learning

SUMMARY

Over five years of hands on Financial and Accounting Analyst experience in Logistics and retail industry.

Well-rounded expertise in areas of budgeting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, forecasting, compiling of audit items, reporting and trend analysis.

Experience with analyzing financial data and preparing trend reports.

Experience in area of budgetary control and forecasting.

Strong knowledge of accounting principals

Worked in areas of risk analysis, risk documentation and measurement.

Experience with analyzing returns, cost management and cash flow analysis.

Excellent knowledge of Accounting principles and an ability to understand GL structures.

Experience with bank reconciliation, preparing reconciliation reports.

Extensive experience with data collection, documentation and organization.

Perform month-end closing process to ensure accurate financial reporting of monthly results.

Assist in the preparation of quarterly and annual schedules for external auditors

Extensive experience with General Ledger Maintenance and Journal entries.

Prepare account reconciliations on a monthly basis and necessary analyses for auditing

Strong technical, problem solving and analytical skills accompanied with excellent management skills

Thorough understanding of Logistics Industry, process and practices.

Self starter with will and desire to perform best with no-fail attitude.

Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.

Experience in working with multi-vendor projects and dealing with third party agents

Experienced with office and database tools.

Academic Qualification

Master of Business Management in Management, UNA, Florence, Alabama.

Bachelor in Accounting, Gujarat University, India

Tools

QuickBooks, Freight Stream.

MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, Power Designer

MS Access, MS Outlook, Oracle SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Samrat Container Lines Inc. July 2009 - To date

Piscataway, NJ

Financial Analyst- Accounting

Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records for the purpose of advising the senior management, prepare statements and reports of financial operations of the company.

Prepare financial reports and conducts comprehensive analyses with written summaries to management.

Preparing spreadsheets, graphs, and charts to help illustrate financial trends.

Prepare reconciliations for assigned accounts.

Performing revenue and expense forecasts in order to make financial decisions.

Creating and reviewing financial records.

Maintains or oversees the control of accounts and records in such areas as disbursements, expenses, tax payments, and income

Work closely with financial institutions for cash and credit management.

Assist with year-end audits and audited financials.

Experience in conducting meetings with shareholder and internal financial team.

Handle credit terms/contract provisions with vendor.

Perform ad hoc reporting and analysis.

Presenting financial information to senior management.

Prepare reports related to budget, variances, and cost allocation and performance measurement.

Work with systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.

Assist in finalizing Balance Sheet and Tax Return.

Setup and maintain vendor master data.

Scan and process vendor invoices, check requests, freight and overnight air bills. .

Prepare and process accounts payable checks, wire transfer and ACH payments

Reconciliation of payments.

Resolve invoice discrepancies.

Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries.

Shree Krishna Trading, Gujarat

Retail Industry

Aug 2005 – Aug 2007

Accounting Analyst

Prepare financial statements

Provides comprehensive and complex financial analyses

Close book and count inventory system by weekly basis

Maintains a financial system database

Compiles and reviews budgets using actual performance, previous budget figures, estimated revenue, expense reports, and other data sources to control funds and provide for proper financial administration

Oversee preparation of reports/data used to determine trends and business decisions

Internal consulting - guide/assist business units on best practices in reporting their finances, obtaining goals

Ensures that costs are allocated according to established procedures.

Responsible for short-term forecast/budget process - makes all necessary budget adjustments and updates the forecast on a monthly and quarterly basis including variance reporting.

Perform reconciliation of all inventory accounts to the General Ledger.

Maintained accounts payable unit

Managed and filed accounts payable data

Prepared monthly journal entries

Oversee cash disbursement, administer cash payments, expense recording and perform cash reconciliation

Process and maintain invoices

Manage and maintain documentation pertaining to accounts

Manage cost and general ledger

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