Erika L. Friend

Currently, my job responsibilities are as follows, but not limited to:

• Process high volume accounts payable (weekly)
• Run and analyze monthly accounts receivable report
• Send AR past due invoices to customers, dealers and salespersons. Follow-up and collect on past due invoices.
• Perform GL entries
• Reconcile and expense company wide credit cards
• Reconcile bank
• Keep accounting operations compliant with all state, federal and local municipality taxes
• Sales tax compliance
• Audit accounts payable using weekly variance report
• Internal and external transactions
• Income and balance sheet auditing and reporting
• Work with outside CPA's and outsourced CFO
• Developed spreadsheet for online payable tracking and use
• Developed sales tax spreadsheet for Nexus tracking
• Cleanup of accounting processes and procedures
• Identified and recommended changes to existing processes to improve accuracy, efficiency and quality service.
• Interact with salespersons, customers and dealers
• Compose letters

• Business startup
• Manage all accounting and finance operations.
• Buy/sell antiques.
• Antique research and appraisals.
• Business plan writing
• Customer service
• Sales
• Website development
• Social media marketing.

As the only accounting administrator working for the Dayton division, I was responsible for:

• Entering accounts payable/invoicing
• Cash receipts
• Cost accounting
• Shipping,
• Month-end reconciliation
• Tracking PTO
• New hire onboarding
• Worked along side engineers to help keep their jobs organized via excel spreadsheets and file maintenance.
• Revamped the accounting office as it was in need of purging old files and updates for smoother workflow operations.

• Oversaw AR/AP/GL and payroll to keep finances accurate and current.
• Processed 401k contributions.
• Interacted with customers professionally by phone, email or in-person to provide information and directed to desired staff members.
• Handled new-hire orientation, background checks, and staff training.
• Devised new accounting record systems.
• Weekly cash flow forecasting.
• Weekly and monthly reconciliation of multiple banking accounts.
• General Ledger.
• Income statement reporting,
• Balance sheet auditing.
• Balance transfers.
• 1099 reporting.
• Year end close.
• Generate reports.
• Word/EXCL.
• Stock and bond liquidations
• New account creation
• Money movement from one company to the next
• Estate settlement processing
• Correspond with clients