Alicia Jones
Chicago,IL
Summary
To provide my experience as a Team leader, with my creative thinking and learning skills to produce and implement new ideas.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Payable Manager
Hektoen Institute
Chicago, IL
06.2002 - 05.2025
- Training Accounts Payable Team
- Distribute work flow to the team
- Charge expenses to appropriate accounts
- Cut checks on a weekly basics
- Responsible for timely vendors payments
- Bank reconciliations of statements
- Check printing, mailing of checks, printing reports
- Vendor maintenance, inactive all dormant vendors
- Journal entries
- Budgets allocations
- Work with State & Federal funding grants
- ACH, wire transfers
- Generated reports
- Process Direct Deposit to accounts
- Accounts Payables entries & reconciliation
- Accounts Receivables entries & reconciliation
- Accounts Receivables, cash receipts, A/R Invoices
- Month and year end financial assistance close
- Resolve accounts payable issues
- Ensures that staff match, batch and coding is correct
- Makes sure taxes are accurate
- 1099 process
- Work with auditors
Accounts Payable Assoc.
Ambrosi & Assoc.
Chicago, IL
10.1999 - 05.2002
- Graphics designers process invoices for Montgomery Wards, JCPenney, Sears
- Process Checks for vendors
- Handled vendor issues
- General ledger reconciliations
Accounts Payable Manager
First Chicago Bank & Trust
Chicago, IL
06.1989 - 08.1999
- Provide oversight and direction in Accounts Payable processes, including reviews of daily A/P payments
- Ensure that monthly closing journal vouchers entered into the general ledger are accurate
- Prepare reports for managers
- Overseeing all A/P accounts reconciliations
- Provide assistance with audits
- Identify and recommend potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change or new one's should be developed
- Performed other duties as assigned or required
- Movement of funds to various accounts
- Resolve complex accounting issues
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
National Louis University
Chicago, ILSkills
- Organization
- Communication
- Leadership
- Detailed Oriented
- MIP
- Great Plains
- SAP
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- Collaboration Skills
- Attention to detail
- Work well under Pressure
- Team player
Accomplishments
I have accomplish working, with the Hektoen Institute for 23 years. I have trained the Accounts Payable team for 15years, with new software introduce to the department. I have created within the Accounts Payable Department, Direct Deposit to vendors and employees accounts, which help to make the department run smoother and efficiently.
Timeline
Accounts Payable Manager
Hektoen Institute
06.2002 - 05.2025
Accounts Payable Assoc.
Ambrosi & Assoc.
10.1999 - 05.2002
Accounts Payable Manager
First Chicago Bank & Trust
06.1989 - 08.1999
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
National Louis University