Cathleen Cook
Trenton,NJ
Summary
Meticulous Accounts Payable Specialist with advanced accounting, mathematical, and software experience. Successful at keeping accounts current and accurate for compliant financial recordkeeping. Well-organized, diligent, and focused professional.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Accounts Payable Specialist
Hollingsworth Logistics
11.2023 - 05.2024
- Ensured timely payments for all invoices, maintaining strong relationships with vendors and suppliers.
- Reduced invoice processing time with accurate data entry and timely vendor communication.
- Reached out to vendors and customers to verify information and follow up on client issues.
- Facilitated dispute resolution between company departments and vendors regarding payment issues or discrepancies in invoicing.
- Updated vendor information regularly, ensuring accurate contact details and banking information for prompt payments.
Accounts Payable Specialist
PDM, Package Design and Manufacturing
03.2017 - 10.2023
- Performing day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, and recording accounts payable data
- Implemented a 3-part match
- (Purchase order, BOL or packing list and Invoice) Supplier invoice input for 5 plants using Epicor
- Verifying and investigate discrepancies
- Facilitate payment of invoices through check or ACH
- Negotiated early payment terms with vendors
- Generate report for aged payable clean-up
- Assisted Controller with month end COS for all 5 plants and inter-company clearing
- Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounting payable principles
- General-ledger data entry skills along with a knack for numbers and hands-on experience.
Administrative Assistant
PDM Package Design and Manufacturing
03.2017 - 10.2023
- Multiple facilities production planning in the U.S
- Accounts Receivables
- Strategic Production Planning
- Inventory Operations and Control
- Microsoft Excel
- Inside sales, and data entry
- Purchasing, component ordering
- Production Scheduling
- Data entry in ERP system
- Supplier Contracts
- System Maintained updates and reporting.
Purchasing Manager
United Systems Group, Tube Wright
03.2016 - 03.2017
- Overseeing Purchasing Department, purchasing material for U.S
- Michigan and overseas plant in Mexico
- Worked closely with Production and Shipping Supervisors keeping cost and inventory tracked efficiently
- Data entry, Physical Inventory, and Cycle Counting Daily
- Data Analyst and scrap reporting
- Physical inventory and bank audits
- Production team supervisor backup
- Assisted in writing ISO work instructions.
Purchasing Agent
Nematron Corporation
04.1997 - 02.2016
- Manufacturer of Industrial Computers
- Buying/Purchasing: Used Materials Resource Analysis (MRA) System to determine purchasing requirements and ensure materials are available for production requirements
- Production: Act as interim Production Manager as necessary
- Coordinate efforts with Production to monitor shipment/sales/part shortages, etc
- Run Bill of Materials (BOMs) and sales, shipment reports
- Sales: Provide interim customer service and inside sales support
- Inventory Control: Complete daily cycle counts, review daily reports on component use, enter data; run variance reports
- Shipping and Receiving: Manage the department
- Receive incoming shipments, verify counts and inspect quality requirements
- Accounting: Prepare and email invoices
- Produce accounting reports including accounts receivable / payable, audits and credit memos.
Education
Associates in AABAS -
Washtenaw Community College
01.2016
Skills
- Payment Processing
- Entry verification
- Data inputting
- Invoice Processing
- Account Reconciliation
- Vendor Relations
- ERP systems proficiency
Certification
Conlin-Hallissey Travel School, 1990
Timeline
Accounts Payable Specialist
Hollingsworth Logistics
11.2023 - 05.2024
Accounts Payable Specialist
PDM, Package Design and Manufacturing
03.2017 - 10.2023
Administrative Assistant
PDM Package Design and Manufacturing
03.2017 - 10.2023
Purchasing Manager
United Systems Group, Tube Wright
03.2016 - 03.2017
Purchasing Agent
Nematron Corporation
04.1997 - 02.2016
Associates in AABAS -
Washtenaw Community College
Conlin-Hallissey Travel School, 1990
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