Catherine Schutze
Lake Jackson,TX
Summary
Accounts receivable professional with 30+ years committed to high standards and delivering results. Extensive experience with managing receivables, reducing delinquency rates, and improving financial processes. Known for strong team collaboration and adaptability to changing business needs, leveraging skills in financial analysis and customer relations.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Receivable/Billing Manager
HomeSafe Alliance
Houston, TX
08.2024 - Current
- Oversee the Billing & Document Controls teams.
- Analyze aging reports to identify past due invoices and prioritize collection efforts.
- Resolve billing/payment issues related to missing documents, rate discrepancies, and other discrepancies.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including Document Controls, Operations, and other departments to address billing inaccuracies and resolve issues impacting financial transactions.
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies and internal controls.
- Manage month end close activities for A/R including cash forecast, internal control responsibilities and ensure transactions are recorded timely and accurately.
- Record journal entries for cash adjustments, including invoice payment discrepancies, AP return bank payments, monthly interest and other ad-hoc adjustments needed.
- Provide weekly cash collection and billing data to corporate leadership.
- Conduct regular audits to ensure that document control/billing procedures are followed.
- Manage, train, and lead the operations of the billing and document control teams by providing guidance and support to enhance their skills.
- Develop and implement procedures for managing move orders and ensure they are processed timely and accurately to maintain a low unbilled GL.
- Perform weekly metric reviews to ensure efficient team performance.
- Complete annual performance reviews.
Cost Control Manager
KBR
07.2005 - 08.2024
- Prepare budget profit and loss variance explanations.
- Evaluate actual cost trends against budget with ability to recommend any forecast adjustments.
- Identify potential program financial risks to elevate to management.
- Monitor schedule/milestones to facilitate adjustments to estimates to complete and process scope changes.
- Analyze/modify cost estimates and re-baseline programs as required.
- Prepare forecasts using program resource estimates with appropriately applied rates and factors.
- Knowledge of project management, scheduling, and control account planning concepts.
- Knowledge of direct and indirect costs.
- Develop price/cost estimates utilizing established pricing concepts and applications.
- Analyze program funding requirements and track subcontractor costs & fee.
- Assist in developing presentations and reports for internal and external customers.
- Develop and conduct long- and short-term objectives and balance multiple priorities.
- Be able to present monthly reports to corporate executives, management and or government personnel.
Manager, Accounting/Receivables/AP
09.2019 - 02.2023
- AP Receiving Group:
- Oversee the Service A/P Receiving Department – Review of vendor invoices for accuracy project GL cost coding and post in OnBase.
- Provide reporting for PSR meetings, metrics, and ad-hoc reports for the leadership team.
- Approve FI invoices in OnBase.
- Review and approve journal entries for proper GL coding.
- Contributed to writing and implementing all procedures for the Service Receiving group.
- Annual performance reviews for direct reports.
- FCPA Champion for all GSUS
- SOX self-audit for workflow documentation; participate in internal auditing.
- Provide quarterly project data sheet that includes annual revenues and information related to Anti-Corruption practices for each project.
- Compliance Sensitive GL Account reviews
- Employee Receivables:
- Manage all GSUS petty cash accounts to ensure transactions are recorded accurately.
- Approve replenishments for petty cash accounts.
- Reconcile bank account for Diego Garcia project.
- Prepare and post bad debt journal entries.
- Ensure coding is accurate for project related expenses.
- Monthly reporting: performance metrics and other reports as required.
- Monthly accruals and GL reconciliations.
AR Accounting Supervisor
07.2005 - 09.2019
- Streamlining process improvement opportunities.
- Prepare and post bad debt journal voucher; establish bad debt reserve amount.
- Negotiated payment arrangements and settlement of accounts.
- Ensure coding is accurate for project related expenses.
- Responsible for BOE (forecasting) for new and close-out projects.
- Provided leadership for 30+ staff accountants by monitoring and supervising the daily collection activities; assigned workload strategies.
- Annual performance reviews for direct reports.
- SOX self-audit for workflow documentation; participate in internal auditing.
Lead AR Analyst
ExxonMobil
05.2003 - 07.2005
- Provided guidance and support to junior members of the AR team, fostering a collaborative environment that facilitated individual growth and team success.
- Automated routine tasks using Excel macros or other tools, increasing productivity levels within the AR team significantly.
- Ensured compliance with relevant regulations by conducting periodic internal audits of AR processes and controls.
- Supported sales team efforts by validating sales orders for proper pricing, discounts, terms, and credit approval prior to processing invoices.
Lead AR Analyst
NetiriaOne
11.2000 - 05.2002
Credit & A/R Analyst
Weyerhaeuser
05.1998 - 11.2000
Education
BBA - Management
University of Houston – Downtown
Houston, TX12.2015
Skills
- SAP, Deltek (Costpoint), OnBase
- A/R (Invoicing & Billing)
- AP (Service Receipts)
- FCPA Champion (GSUS)
- Pricing/Cost Estimates
- Budget/Forecasting
- Advanced Excel/Word (Pivot table/V-Lookups)
- Complex Problem Solving
- Month End Close
- Leadership and Communication Skills
- Project Coding
Timeline
Accounts Receivable/Billing Manager
HomeSafe Alliance
08.2024 - Current
Manager, Accounting/Receivables/AP
09.2019 - 02.2023
Cost Control Manager
KBR
07.2005 - 08.2024
AR Accounting Supervisor
07.2005 - 09.2019
Lead AR Analyst
ExxonMobil
05.2003 - 07.2005
Lead AR Analyst
NetiriaOne
11.2000 - 05.2002
Credit & A/R Analyst
Weyerhaeuser
05.1998 - 11.2000
BBA - Management
University of Houston – Downtown