Frances Kerneckel
Seabrook,TX
Summary
Detail-oriented Bookkeeper with over 30 years of experience, well versed in payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial reporting and general ledger maintenance and balance sheet reconciliation. Used my knowledge of accounting systems and operations to test software programs and create procedures for systems implementation and process streamlining and training .
Overview
45
45
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Bookkeeper - Controller
Market Doctors Direct, Oceans 23, Dickinson Bayou
02.2024 - Current
- Established QuickBooks accounting system to reflect accurate financial records.
- Implemented new accounting processes to decrease spending and work flow downtime.
- Streamlined bookkeeping procedures to increase efficiency and productivity
- Coded or matched daily bank and credit card uploads for daily processing to maintain current financial status.
- Administered payroll by collecting timesheets and calculating employee hours.
- Maintained and processed invoices, Cash receipts and deposits
- Reconciled company bank, credit card and line of credit accounts, investigating, and resolving discrepancies.
- Developed monthly, quarterly and annual profit and loss statements and balance sheets.
- Created New Hire employment process to obtain necessary documents.
- Completed Unemployment claims.
- Annual filing of 1099's .
- Weekly Production budget completion and spending analysis spreadsheet.
Senior Bookkeeper
DRDA CPA PLLC
03.2023 - 02.2024
- Provided comprehensive accounting support for multiple companies by managing functions like payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable and business expense processing
- Complied with local, state, and federal laws and requirements
- Input financial data and produced reports using Quickbooks desktop and online
- Developed monthly, quarterly and annual profit and loss statements and balance sheets
- Reconciled company bank, credit card and line of credit accounts, investigating, and resolving discrepancies to keep accounts audit-ready
- Made adjusting general ledger entries when necessary
- Helping clients choose proper QuickBooks software to use that would benefit proper reporting, classes, locations, etc
- Filing Texas Sales Tax and Quarterly payroll reports and annual payroll reports
Controller
Paskey Construction
03.2022 - 02.2023
- Led in the implementation of computer software upgrade and training the accounting staff on the updates and various new process for streamlining and more detailed reporting
- Reconciled all the bank accounts, clearing out all invalid entries for an accurate bank balance and created daily bank reconciliation process along with positive pay reports.
- Reconciled all Balance Sheet accounts, made adjusting entries according to the CPA recommendation for year end2021 closing and tax filings
- Review P&L statements for proper job costing and account coding
- Created estimate(s) and more detailed job cost reports for monthly job cost meeting and forecasting and WIP completion
- Vendors check payments and loan payments maintaining cash flow compliance
- Created loan amortization schedules on all loans to have principal and interest values upon entry payment/invoice and quick view of loan balance
- Updated note payable workbook for owner use.
- Workers Compensation Audits
- Annual 1099, W2 filings.
Office Manager
Anchor Industrial Services
04.2017 - 03.2022
- Began my position by learning the company business and creating processes and procedure to streamline the accounting, HR department and operations departments
- Cash Management: Daily Positive pay exception approval bank reconciliation
- Verify all checks and deposits are entered equally into Working Accounting System
- Track spending and collections to project Cash Flow
- Payroll: Daily employee time entry and reconciling with to verify entry
- Weekly Payroll processing
- Weekly941 deposit payment and Quarterly940 and941 filing
- Monthly Workers Compensation filing
- Quarterly Unemployment filing and payment
- Accounts Payable & Purchasing: Cleaned up vendor accounts, addressed past due invoices, and collected reimbursement on duplicate payment
- New Vendor setup(s) process created, as to obtain information to creating vendor files containing credit information, credit application, W9 and COI if necessary
- Established procedure for issuing purchase orders and collecting receiving documents to timely process vendor invoices for payment and taking discount deductions when beneficial to company cash flow
- Weekly ap check run that would be support the cash flow projection
- Ach Payments for Loans, Expense reports and other expenses that did not fall within a/p check run
- Accounts Receivable – Collected on past due accounts
- Implemented process for weekly and monthly lump sum project invoicing
- Maintain customer billing rates in system according to MSA and contract agreed rates
- Maintaining45day DSO customer aging
- Created job cost tracking report to analyze with labor rates and supplies
- General Accounting: General Journal entry of prepaid items into expense accounts
- Monthly accrual entries to report cost and sales into proper month
- Month end reports- P&L Statement, P&L Statement by job, Profitability by items, Sales by class
Accounts Payable Manager
Evergreen Environmental Services
06.2012 - 03.2022
- I started as a Branch Administrator, moved into regional Branch Administrator Manager and then into the Accounts Payable Manager at corporate location
- Purchasing - Training all locations (11) on the proper data entry of daily - and blanket purchase orders
- Explaining the importance of proper g/l coding and month of posting expense to revenue and the type of purchase order to issue, expense, equipment or work order
- Assisted branches in tracking the status of purchase order, for either extension or closing which would eventually be used in month end accrual Accounts Payable - Daily management of three (3) other accounts payable employees
- Reviewing all invoices entered for proper data entry on the g/l account code, vendor information, and posting
- Enter all priority invoices for weekly check run, and wires
- Running open accounts payable and cash requirement reports to assist controller and CFO with weekly check runs and cash management
- Printing checks for6 different account types
- Creating month end accruals and verifying with customer statements and purchase order status report from vendors
- Building and Maintaining vendor relationship
- Team member for the new accounting software implementation from Mas90 to Viewpoint
- Created procedures for the purchasing and accounts payable entry modules for Viewpoint system Assisted Branch Managers with budgeting, forecasting, job/work order costing reports and equipment utilization
Branch Administrator
Aquilex Hydrochem
02.2009 - 05.2012
- Payroll- Entry of all time sheets, verifying with customer gate logs for billable entry
- Entry of benefit hours and training hours
- Assisting employees when disputing missing time
- Accounts Receivable- Proper entry of all service sheets, verifying all employees and equipment are billed to customer
- Collection calls on any invoices that become past due and assisting customer with any disputed charges
- Maintaining under60 days outstanding
- Accounts Payable- Data entry of purchase orders with proper pricing, job number(s) for job costing and G/L account for G/L reconciling
- Matching vendor invoice with purchase order, verifying cost before processing for payment
- Making any month end accruals for proper G/L period expensing Month End- Final job closing, posting all customer invoices and account payable invoice for the period
- Making any accruals for the period that are necessary
- Verifying prelims for correct accrual / cost posting made by corporate branch
- Reports - Assisting the branch manager with sales forecasting one quarter
- Monthly cost tracking, checking for profit/loss percent at month end
Accounting Clerk
Accountemps
06.2008 - 11.2008
- Temporary position consisting of heavy invoice reconciliation between client software and end user software systems
- Analysis of errors in entry
- Determine which items need to have entries and which items needs reversal
- Assisting in clearing up accounts receivable aged detail with correcting cash application
- Cleared aged report of90 -120 days
Sr. Accounting Clerk
Apical Div, Kaneka Texas Corp
07.2001 - 02.2008
- Accounts Payable - matching invoice with good receipts, verifying price and GL/Cost center coding, receiving proper approval when needed, entry of invoice, check run and/or wire transfer(s)
- Working with purchasing and vendor on price discrepancies Maintaining excellent working relationship with vendors
- Working with salesperson on expense reports
- Yearly issuance of1099's Accounts Receivable - Post incoming checks received
- Collections on past due invoices, maintaining less than60days past due ageing, and notifying management of customer possibly in financial trouble, for further review
- Researching any invoicing discrepancies and maintaining excellent relationship with customer
- Credit (D&B) and reference check on all new customers
- Cash Management - Pulling Daily Bank activity and making proper General Ledger entry according to transactions
- Daily Reporting of actual cash and expenses (checks cleared)
- Setting up budget for future expectation on cash receipts versus expenses
- CIP - Fixed Assets - Tracking all expenses on capital projects
- Creating fixed asset applying depreciation according to the type of asset
- Month End Closing - Entry of all Accounts Payable, Receivable, Cash and Month end journal entries
- Processing, balancing and printing Cash, Sales and Purchasing month end closing reports
- Assisting Accounting Supervisor with calculating Cost of Goods, Inventory and Raw Materials final inventory flow and posting month end closing entries
- Reconciling Bank and Balance sheet accounts
- Audits- Creating Mid-Year and Year end audit schedules for outside audit firms
- Working with auditors in answering variance questions on audit schedules
- Other Duties- Back up Purchasing and Customer Service and Production departments when needed
A/R- Order Entry, Collections
A&A Machine
08.1997 - 03.2001
- Entry of all new customer orders and drawing, customer invoicing, posting of invoice payments, collection of past due invoices, checking and approving customer credit, and commercial invoices for international shipments
Operations Manager
Turtle and Hughes
01.1990 - 07.1996
- Managing overall day to day process of a ten-employee branch consisting of the Accounting, Counter Sales, Shipping and Receiving Departments
- Learned, created, and assisted in the implementation of procedures and instructions of ISO9002 Certification of the Texas City Branch
- Requesting, Experimenting and testing new computer programs to ensure proper application before system loading
- Purchased inventory to meet goals in inventory turns and service levels
- Processing vendor invoices and company expenses for on time payments and discounts
- Obtaining credit information for new customers, invoicing customer for all due sales and returns, and reviewing and collection on past due customer invoices
- Researching and responding to customer and/or vendor complaints
- The team became one of the top customer services - selling electrical supplies companies in the Texas City area
Billing/Accounts receivable
Wholesale Electric Supply
09.1979 - 08.1989
- Customer invoicing, posting accounts receivable for Houston, Clute, and Deer Park branches
- Research of customer disputed invoices
Education
Associate of Science - Accounting
Hartcourt Learning Center
Scranton, PA07-2000
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Texas A&M University
College Station, TXundefined
College of Mainland
Texas City, TXundefined
Houston Association of Credit Management (HACM)
Houston, TXSkills
- Microsoft programs - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Full-cycle accounting – A/P, A/R, Purchasing, Payroll, Payroll Taxes, Sales Tax, Financial Reporting (Profit and Loss and Balance sheet reviews)
- Cost – Project Accounting
- General Ledger Management and Balance sheet reconciliation
- Financial Documentation for CPA reviews
- Software programs: QuickBooks, Desktop and Online versions, SAP, Viewpoint, MAS90
- Detail Oriented, Well Organized with time Management Self-Motivated, Dependable and Resourceful
Certification
Certificate of Completion in Quickbooks Desktop And Online Software June2023 Intuit
Timeline
Bookkeeper - Controller
Market Doctors Direct, Oceans 23, Dickinson Bayou
02.2024 - Current
Senior Bookkeeper
DRDA CPA PLLC
03.2023 - 02.2024
Controller
Paskey Construction
03.2022 - 02.2023
Office Manager
Anchor Industrial Services
04.2017 - 03.2022
Accounts Payable Manager
Evergreen Environmental Services
06.2012 - 03.2022
Branch Administrator
Aquilex Hydrochem
02.2009 - 05.2012
Accounting Clerk
Accountemps
06.2008 - 11.2008
Sr. Accounting Clerk
Apical Div, Kaneka Texas Corp
07.2001 - 02.2008
A/R- Order Entry, Collections
A&A Machine
08.1997 - 03.2001
Operations Manager
Turtle and Hughes
01.1990 - 07.1996
Billing/Accounts receivable
Wholesale Electric Supply
09.1979 - 08.1989
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Texas A&M University
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College of Mainland
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Houston Association of Credit Management (HACM)
Associate of Science - Accounting
Hartcourt Learning Center
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