Account Payable Specialist

Leona Brown

Aurora, IL *****

Phone: 630-***-****

E-mail: *****.*****@***.***

Personal Summary:

I am an enthusiastic, self-motivated, team-oriented individual looking for a rewarding position in accounting. My strong work ethic and commitment to task completion make me a superlative addition to any corporate accounting environment.

Education:

BA, Accounting DeVry University 2003

Minor field, Computer Science

Work History:

H and R Block, Oswego, IL 12/08-4/09

Tax Associate

 Prepare client’s 2008 taxes

 Answer any tax question a client may have

 Take payment for taxes prepared at the office

Fellows Staffing, Schaumburg, IL 11/08-4/09

McCain Foods, Lisle IL

Accounts Payable Clerk

 Process freight invoices for payment

 Match invoices with checks

 Research payment history

 Filing

 General journal entries by voiding stale date checks

Accounting Now, Naperville IL 05/08-08/08

Patterson Medical, Bolingbrook IL

Accounts Payable Clerk

 3-way matching

 Research complex payment information per customer or vendor request

HSBC Corporate Disbursements, Mount Prospect, IL 04/06-04/08

Accounting Assistant/Accounts Payable Clerk

 Administered high-level service regarding payment inquiries to national customer base and corporate suppliers.

 Researched complex payment information per customer or vendor request

 Audit expenditures against company policy, signing authority, cost center, and general ledger account

 Audit purchase orders to recognize capitalized spend

 Primary liaison between North American Corporate Purchasing (IT and Business Services) and A/P to bring all Major supplier accounts current

 Process all types of expenditures

 Trained team of _11__ co-workers on expenditure payment processing in accordance with corporate guidelines and procedures

 Liaised between onshore and offshore accounting teams

Financial Temps, Park Ridge IL 10/05-04/06

HSBC, Mount Prospect, IL

Accounts Payable Processor

 Process all types of expenditures

 Trained coworkers how to process expenditures for payment

 Audit purchase orders to recognize if could be capitalized

Delta Industries, Downers Grove IL 02/05-10/05

Accountant Assistant

 Prepared payment to vendors

 Prepared a weekly check run

 Verified payment by vendors with open invoices on their account

 Verifying a daily deposit amount of $2000.00 and above

 Prepared invoices to be mail to vendors

 Researching past and present open orders

Creative Electronics Technologies, Monticello IN 04/04-12/04

Accountant

 Verify and making general journal entries for 25 weekly time and expense reports of other co-workers

 Auditing the past 8 years of books

 Open a new set of Quick Books that immediately impacted co-workers true value on company credit card

 Created invoices, accepted payments from those invoices

 Payroll verify hours and general journal entries of taxes

 Created and designed new employee expenses reports for easier job costing reporting

Technical Training:

 Microsoft Office

 Great Plains

 Quick Books

 Peachtree

 PeopleSoft 7.5 and 8.0

 AS400

 Q&A

 Lotus Notes

 Microsoft Outlook

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