
Seasoned Accounts Payable Manager with a proven track record at Airgas, enhancing financial operations through expertise in ERP systems like SAP and Oracle. Spearheaded the Workflow project, significantly improving invoice processing efficiency. Demonstrates strong leadership in team management and a knack for strategic project implementations, ensuring compliance and optimizing accounts payable processes.
● Responded to and addressed inquiries with internal employees, external auditors, vendors with regards to their invoices, Receiving, and accounting process.
● Implement controls procedures to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
● Work along with IT on process improvements consists of EDI and E-Invoicing.
● Ensured compliance with key administrative policies such as: Signature Authorization Administrative Policy, Check request policy, Check signing authority
● Reconciliations of accounts, closing fiscal periods, process and review the reports for
Example AP Aging, Open entries, and Unmatched Receipt report.
● Responsible for weekly reporting of metrics, Open payables Aging, Vendor statements, UMR Aging, percentage of direct to store invoices processed through EDI, and resources Temp and Perm.
● AP project manager for the implementation, training, and testing of BAAN ERP Software at the Shared Service Center.
● Established vendors and maintained the data for 1099 processing and escheatment accounts.
● Project manager to move the Corporate AP Share Service department with full cycle to Malaysia and training.
● Supervised a team of twelve employees at Corporate and Malaysia.
● Overseas invoice approval for Inter-company and Suppliers, scheduling payments, travel reimbursements, and wire payments.
● Sarbanes-Oxley Internal Auditing of the control matrix templates, testing the controls, and reviewing the controls within the company and remediation of control gaps.