Carolyn Perkins
Accounting Clerk
Anchorage,AK
Summary
Results-driven Accounting Clerk employed with Waste Connections, US for 22.5years. Adept at maintaining meticulous financial records, ensuring regulation compliance and meeting company expectations. Excellent at managing multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast paced work place.
Demonstrates strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills, with proven ability to quickly adapt to new environments.
I excel in fostering interpersonal relations with a collaborative approach. Patient at training to build-up a trainees confidence within their responsibilities and feel more empowered within their professional abilities.
Maintain a positive attitude and a commitment to continuous learning, growth with the highest level of integrity.
Successfully streamlined processes, created detailed task specific step-by-step documents, enhancing accuracy.
Efficiency in financial reconciliation, passionate about tax and state regulatory filing, debt recovery initiatives and report audit proficiency to quickly identify errors and equipped with strong problem-solving skills.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Clerk
Waste Connections, US
10.2010 - Current
- Process between $5,000.00 to $200,000.00 in house, ACH and corporate payment transactions daily to maintain accurate reconciliation.
- Audit multiple errors reports, daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly to locate corrections needing to processed for accurate account start and stopping services.
- Reconcile five local and corporate, bank statements daily ensuring gl coding proficiency, balancing and compliance with company and regulated contingency policies.
- Review and post transactional debit and credit adjustments to confirm calculation accuracy, coding and cash aging application for approximately 20-25 co-workers.
- The direct Accounting Clerk over-seeing multiple districts within our state Division.
- Maintain meticulous financial records for upper management audits and reporting purposes.
- Assist in preparing multiple weekly financial excel workbooks to support managerial review and forecasting monthly and fiscal budgeting.
- Update system with semi-annual and annual price increases by line of business and gl codes.
- Maintain proficiency in understanding and abiding by state regulated tariffs for the Division.
- Update and maintain monthly, four excel workbooks to track fuel cost and projections.
- Update tariff filing pages and file fuel with the Regulator Commission of Alaska semi-annually.
- Internally process, file court claims and track all bankruptcies.
- Audit payable invoices, create allocation spreadsheets for supporting documentation and create PO's for tracking and reconciling P-Card transactions.
- File monthly and quarterly sales tax for 20 zoned Municipal and Borough areas.
- Audit and track tax exempt billable accounts for filing accuracy and corporate audits.
- Process credit and debit card refunds. Process check refunds, audit to confirm cashed or void and reissue if check is stale.
- Review and request unclaimed payments with the State of Alaska.
- Prepare our Division for billing deadlines and processing dates to meet corporate expectations.
- Mail three types of past due letters monthly.
- Suspend and stop accounts for non-payment monthly.
- Assist customers with invoice, payment and service inquires.
- Create detailed process step-by steps for all Accounting Clerk job duties for transactional accuracy and training purposes.
- Prepare the state Division for billing deadline dates to meet corporate exceptions.
- Review monthly billing invoice example files and give approval for generating invoices.
- Maintain four work emails to process many inquires internal and externally.
- Assist in potential and bad debt collections, prepare accounts to be written off to our external collection company, process third party collection communication, process bad debt recoveries in house to report to agency, adjust bad debit receives paid to agency directly, reconcile monthly and year contingency reports for all lines of business.
- Audit account inventory monthly to identify and correct discrepancies. Report to corporate annual.
Dispatcher
Waste Connections, US
03.2007 - 10.2010
- Coordinated daily dispatch operations, ensuring timely delivery of services and resources.
- Contacted all customers that would have any type of service delay, daily.
- Operated live radio communication for four lines of business, daily
- Monitored approximately 22 driver locations to optimize route efficiency and special services daily.
- Handled customer inquiries and provided support to resolve issues effectively.
- Implemented standard operating procedures for dispatch workflows to meet company integrity core value.
- Charged all additional fee's provided by drivers, daily for three lines of business.
- Reconciled daily hauling and disposal cost transactions.
- Maintained two work emails to assist internal and external customer service inquires.
- Reviewed all daily scheduled and on-call routing events.
Education
High School Diploma -
Auburn Adventist Academy
Auburn06-1998
Skills
- Invoice preparation and review to give approval
- Detail oriented, meticulous in accurate task processing and proficiency
- Administrative and Accounting support, variance resolutions, data entry
- Daily, weekly, bi-weekly and month-end reports
- Debt collection, bad debt write-off's bad debt recovery
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Adobe, RMO (internal software)
- Bank and gl reconciliation
- Regulatory and tax law compliance
- Tax preparation
- Accounts payable and receivable
- Interpersonal relations
- Training and mentoring
Accomplishments
- Achieved employee of the year through accurate auditing, refining processes to increase accuracy and time management, demonstrated a high level of integrity, excellent internal and external customer service, receiving positive customer acknowledgements and re-enforcing reliability within company attendance policy.
- Quarterly bonus's for effective debt collection results and created recovery excel workbooks for accurate reporting and tracking.
Timeline
Accounting Clerk
Waste Connections, US
10.2010 - Current
Dispatcher
Waste Connections, US
03.2007 - 10.2010
High School Diploma -
Auburn Adventist Academy