Debra Pettes
Roswell,NM
Summary
Dynamic accounting and office professional with extensive experience at La Pinon, excelling in accounts payable and financial reporting. Proven ability to enhance workflow processes and ensure accurate billing. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail drive successful budget administration and payroll processing, contributing to overall operational efficiency in office setting.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Clerk
KC Sales/KC Land
Artesia, NM
04.2025 - 12.2025
- Manage accounts payable using QB desktop and other programs.
- Ensure bills are entered on a timely and accurate manner.
- Reconciling vendor account monthly statements.
- Daily deposits as needed.
- Reconcile monthly credit cards and bank statements.
- File and pay Gross Receipt Taxes monthly.
Accounting Clerk
KC Light Towers
Artesia, NM
04.2025 - 12.2025
- Manage accounts payable using QB desktop and other programs.
- Ensure bills are entered on a timely and accurate manner.
- Reconciling vendor account monthly statements.
- Issue invoices for services rendered.
- Working with dispatch and sales staff to make sure, customers are billed accurately.
- Input invoices to open ticket program used by some customers.
- Daily deposits as needed.
- Reconcile monthly credit cards and bank statements.
- Analyzing workflow process and offer support.
- Event coordinator.
- Answer calls.
- Daily filing.
Director of Finance & Administration
La Pinon
Las Cruces, NM
07.2023 - 02.2024
- Management of Accounts receivables.
- Management of accounts payables.
- Work closely with contract accountant.
- Budget monitoring for agency expenses.
- Ensure documentation of all financial records for preparation of annual audit.
- Board of Directors communication of minutes and reports.
- Attendance and taking minutes at Board meetings.
- Ensure billing of all funding sources.
- Ensure sexual assault coalition reports are completed and sent.
- Ensure inventory is updated and Accurate.
- Maintain office management procedure manual.
- Ensure equipment maintenance and ordering office supplies and new equipment.
- Monitoring of employee time sheets and payroll twice a month.
- Supervise and direct Accounting Assistant and Sanitation and Maintenance Specialist.
Case Manager
La Pinon
Las Cruces, NM
03.2023 - 07.2023
- Provide community resource information for victims of crime.
- Ensure victims and families are given information related to victim rights and victim compensation.
- Ensure victims and their families are provided with legal process information and medical options.
- Ensure grant reports are timely and accurate each month, quarterly and end of year for all funding sources in case management.
- Ensure all goals and objectives are met for all funding sources in crisis intervention.
- Maintain clear and positive communication with forensic interviewer, CAC Coordinator, Executive Director.
- Maintain judicial docket of upcoming trials and assist with statistical data, tracking case outcomes.
- Oversee counseling referral process and ensure victims who request counseling services are scheduled for an appointment.
- Maintain contact with victims to ensure all aspects of victimization have been addressed.
Patient Care Coordinator
Adventist Health
Mojave, CA
06.2022 - 02.2023
- Greets, receives and escorts patients/visitors, and notifies necessary personnel of their arrival.
- Answers multiple phone line.
- Gives appropriate attention to complaints/requests as needed.
- Receives, interprets, verifies and processes physicians' orders.
- Admits/discharges daily patients and creates charts.
- Completes and forwards all required information, charts, records, documents as requested.
- Requests previous patient records from medical records as needed.
- Maintains department records, reports, statistics.
- Identifies current status of patient's insurance, as well as range of benefits.
- Identifies and collects co-payments and limits of services for all patients.
- Provides appropriate forms to billing and other departments.
- Performs various confidential clerical duties including, but not limited to data entry, obtaining patient's signature for needed documents and/or consents forms, filing and answering phones.
- Helps schedule patient appointments.
- Help with authorization and referrals for outpatient services ordered by physicians.
- Obtains all necessary billing, insurance and other demographic information.
- Provides coverage and/or assistance when necessary to maintain quality standards of the department.
Insurance Verification
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
Las Cruces, NM
10.2019 - 05.2022
- Verify Ins.
- Retrieve ICD 10 codes from dx.
- Submit prior authorizations for inpatient stays.
- Send clinical information.
- Pull orders and surgery information and verify if authorization is required.
- Create accounts and maintenance.
- Discharge checklist for Medicare patients.
- Observation quality improvement tracking.
- Register patients in ER.
- Data Entry.
- Document accounts as needed.
- Worked reports for MSP and occurrence codes.
Refund Clerk/Reimbursement Spec
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
Las Cruces, NM
07.2010 - 10.2019
- Prepare bank deposits for facility and clinics.
- Balance physician deposits.
- Manage cash boxes in admissions area.
- Work with gift shop for daily closing of drawer.
- Balance monthly CRJ.
- Key in & batch out daily payments from all Insurance and patients.
- Key/adjust/correct charges.
- Refunds.
- Supply inventory and ordering.
- Work outliers.
Cashier
Carlsbad Medical Center
Carlsbad, NM
12.2009 - 07.2010
- Prepare bank deposits.
- Key in & batch out daily payments.
- Key/adjust/correct charges refunds.
- Collect payments.
- Answer phones & billing questions.
Phone Operator
Security Concepts
Las Cruces, NM
02.2009 - 05.2009
- Answer multiple lines.
- Call on-call doctors.
- Dispatch to security.
- Faxing, and filing.
Mental Health Tech
Mesilla Valley Hospital
Las Cruces, NM
01.2007 - 02.2009
- Watch of patients for self safety.
- Help with treatment and programming.
- Transport when needed.
- Daily paperwork.
- Charting on patients.
Receptionist/ Shift Manager
Supercuts
Las Cruces, NM
09.1998 - 05.2006
- Customer services.
- Answer phones.
- Monthly inventory.
- Prepare daily deposits.
- Supervise other employees.
- Hold monthly meetings with other receptionist.
- Scheduling.
- Cash out customers.
- Daily paperwork.
- End of the month paperwork.
Education
BLS -
American Heart Association
06.2024
Associates - Criminal Justice
DACC
01.2009
Associates - Business Accounting
DACC
01.2004
Skills
- Accounts payable
- Invoice processing
- Bank reconciliation
- Financial reporting
- Budget administration
- Data entry
- Problem solving
- Customer billing
- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Staff management
- Records management
- Tax preparation
- Payroll processing
References
Upon request
Timeline
Accounting Clerk
KC Sales/KC Land
04.2025 - 12.2025
Accounting Clerk
KC Light Towers
04.2025 - 12.2025
Director of Finance & Administration
La Pinon
07.2023 - 02.2024
Case Manager
La Pinon
03.2023 - 07.2023
Patient Care Coordinator
Adventist Health
06.2022 - 02.2023
Insurance Verification
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
10.2019 - 05.2022
Refund Clerk/Reimbursement Spec
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
07.2010 - 10.2019
Cashier
Carlsbad Medical Center
12.2009 - 07.2010
Phone Operator
Security Concepts
02.2009 - 05.2009
Mental Health Tech
Mesilla Valley Hospital
01.2007 - 02.2009
Receptionist/ Shift Manager
Supercuts
09.1998 - 05.2006
BLS -
American Heart Association
Associates - Criminal Justice
DACC
Associates - Business Accounting
DACC