Barbara Barnett Jones
Montgomery,AL
Summary
Dynamic Payroll Accountant with extensive experience at Norfolk State University, adept at processing payroll and reconciling accounts. Proven expertise in tax preparation and account reconciliations, complemented by strong organizational skills. Recognized for enhancing payroll accuracy and efficiency, ensuring compliance with regulations while delivering exceptional service to employees.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Payroll Accountant
Norfolk State University
Norfolk, Virginia
06.2024 - 07.2025
- Process on cycle and off cycle Payrolls
- Update chart fields account strings, withholding forms and direct deposits
- Set up Parking deductions
- Reconcile payroll and Virginia retirement reports
- Prepare journal entries for corrections to budget codes
Accounting Technician
Alabama Department of Commerce Workforce Development
05.2024 - 06.2024
- Updated and reconciled invoices and accounts
- Verified invoices to ensure WIOA and other federal funds are expended for allowable, reasonable and necessary costs
- Recorded information from invoices to computerized online budget systems or personal computer to assimilate information for reports
- Files contractor's monthly-computerized reports to verify daily posting and to ensure totals are correct for reports used by management
Accounting Clerk
State of Alabama Community College System
Montgomery, AL
06.2018 - 05.2024
- Process payroll and reconcile payroll reconciliation spreadsheet
- Enter and update employee benefits
- Update and email leave report
- Post account receivables, scan and file documents
- Reconcile FSA Spreadsheet
- Use 10 key adding machines to verify invoices
- Bookkeeping and reconciliation for books
Sales Associate
Dillard's, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
10.2022 - 01.2023
- Stocked, cashiered, and assisted customers
Payroll Specialist
Alabama State University
Montgomery, AL
09.2013 - 05.2018
- Process payroll, update and process tax worksheet, garnishments and other documents associated with payroll
- Print and issue payroll checks and set up direct deposits
- Updated bookkeeping and filing documents
Payroll/AP Clerk/Business Office Manager
Resurrection Catholic Missions/FWMCCC/Montgomery Children's Specialty Center
Montgomery, AL
07.2007 - 03.2013
- Entered vendor invoices to process payments timely
- Collected, sorted, distributed and prepared mail and courier deliveries
- Filed and maintained records
- Supervised office staff
- Used computers to enter, access, or retrieve data
- Entered time sheet information
- Prepared and transmitted payroll
- Prepared and processed garnishments, employment verifications, and pay rate authorization forms
- Assigned new employee badge numbers for time clock, exempt employee time sheets, insurance information, and direct deposits
- Enforced human resource disciplinary policies for payroll
- Prepared and processed leave requests
- Typed correspondence
- Billed for Medicaid payments
- Collected, reconciled, and posted SSI, Social Security, and Medicaid payments and withdrawals for account receivables
- Ordered supplies, prepared and reconciled petty cash
- Prepared end-of-month closing for accounts receivable and trust reports
- Distributed payroll and vendor checks
Customer Service Supervisor
Wal-Mart
Millbrook, AL
03.2007 - 06.2007
- Supervised overnight front-line retail operations
- Assigned employee breaks and lunch breaks
- Reconciled petty cash till
- Assigned employees to specific duties
- Provided customer service by greeting and assisting customers
- Responded to customer inquiries and complaints
- Processed till loans and reports
- Handled all front lines till drops for cash office including ATM and self-checkout tills
Cashier
Winn-Dixie
Montgomery, AL
12.2006 - 06.2007
- Greeted customers and provided excellent service
- Scanned products into computer using electronic scanning device
Food Service Worker
AAFES/Maxwell Air Force Base Food Court
Montgomery, AL
03.2006 - 09.2006
- Prepped, cooked, and took payments for food items
Front Counter Clerk
Dixie Service Cleaners
Montgomery, AL
05.2005 - 10.2005
- Operated computerized register to enter customer data
- Received and tagged laundry items
- Balanced daily till account accurately
Accounting Clerk
Leed Staffing/GKN Aerospace
Montgomery, AL
10.2004 - 01.2005
- Processed payroll labor reports
- Entered data and filed purchased orders for accounts payable
- Processed data in the general ledger accounts for closing entries of the month
- Used postage machine to stamp mail
- Sorted and distributed payroll and accounts payable checks
Supervisor
AAFES/Maxwell Air Force Base Food Court
Montgomery, AL
05.2004 - 09.2004
- Supervised shift operations for the preparation and sale of food items
- Maintained and processed accounting and management reports
- Ordered and counted inventory
- Processed all cash transactions
Accounting Clerk
L W Accounting and Tax Service
Montgomery, AL
01.2001 - 03.2004
- Efficiently prepared QuickBooks payroll, payroll reports, forms 941 and 940, quarterly wage statements
- Typed, faxed, copied, and filed documents
- Prepared tax returns manually and electronically
Account Representative
OSI
Montgomery, AL
08.2003 - 11.2003
- Called BellSouth customers to collect on past due accounts
- Processed credit card payments and set up payment arrangements on customers' accounts
Shift Manager
Church's Chicken
Montgomery, AL
03.2003 - 07.2003
- Provided customer service management for opening and closing of shifts
- Handled all cash transactions
- Ordered inventory
- Supervised employees
Cashier
Winn Dixie
Montgomery, AL
06.2002 - 11.2002
- Provided expedient customer service cashiering
- Scanned products using electronic scanning device
- Greeted customers
- Daily and accurately balanced till account
Secretary
Montgomery Association for Retarded Citizens/McInnis School
Montgomery, AL
05.1999 - 06.2000
- Completed administrative duties including typing, filing, and answering telephone
- Administered medication, processed payroll and monthly service reports
- Ordered supplies, copied and faxed paperwork
- Submitted data online, and scheduled conferences
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration/Accounting
Troy University
Montgomery, AL10.2025
Associate Degree - Accounting
Trenholm State Technical College
Montgomery, AL05.2001
Associate Degree - Stenography/Information Word Processing
Trenholm State Technical College
Montgomery, AL05.1999
Skills
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- Access
- WordPerfect
- Desktop publishing
- Payroll
- Tax preparation
- Account reconciliations
- Bookkeeping
- General office
Timeline
Payroll Accountant
Norfolk State University
06.2024 - 07.2025
Accounting Technician
Alabama Department of Commerce Workforce Development
05.2024 - 06.2024
Sales Associate
Dillard's, Inc.
10.2022 - 01.2023
Accounting Clerk
State of Alabama Community College System
06.2018 - 05.2024
Payroll Specialist
Alabama State University
09.2013 - 05.2018
Payroll/AP Clerk/Business Office Manager
Resurrection Catholic Missions/FWMCCC/Montgomery Children's Specialty Center
07.2007 - 03.2013
Customer Service Supervisor
Wal-Mart
03.2007 - 06.2007
Cashier
Winn-Dixie
12.2006 - 06.2007
Food Service Worker
AAFES/Maxwell Air Force Base Food Court
03.2006 - 09.2006
Front Counter Clerk
Dixie Service Cleaners
05.2005 - 10.2005
Accounting Clerk
Leed Staffing/GKN Aerospace
10.2004 - 01.2005
Supervisor
AAFES/Maxwell Air Force Base Food Court
05.2004 - 09.2004
Account Representative
OSI
08.2003 - 11.2003
Shift Manager
Church's Chicken
03.2003 - 07.2003
Cashier
Winn Dixie
06.2002 - 11.2002
Accounting Clerk
L W Accounting and Tax Service
01.2001 - 03.2004
Secretary
Montgomery Association for Retarded Citizens/McInnis School
05.1999 - 06.2000
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration/Accounting
Troy University
Associate Degree - Accounting
Trenholm State Technical College
Associate Degree - Stenography/Information Word Processing
Trenholm State Technical College