Jake Shigetomi
Pomona,CA
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
AP/AR Manager
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ASI
Pomona, CA
06.2025 - Current
- Lead 15 AP/AR Student Team in Student Financial Services Department to ensure timely and accurate completion of weekly/month-end tasks.
- Review, audit, and process disbursement requests and purchase orders (200-300 weekly). Manage ACH transactions and check processing to ensure timely vendor payments.
- Oversee invoicing, reconcile deposits for ASI entities, and track student organization or club funds.
- Manage cash safes, prepare Deposit Bags for BRINKs twice a week, and teach students’ cash handling policies per CSU Guidelines. Keep deposit logs updated based on Departments, Student Clubs, etc.
- Provide customer service for all payment/deposit inquiries to students, vendors, CPP Departments.
- Reconcile Student Clubs P&Ls to ensure clubs remain in compliance with yearly budget.
- Collect W9 Forms from new vendors and prepare annual 1099 reporting.
- Perform Quarterly Reconciliation/Aging Reports, Year End Reconciliation/Aging Reports, and assist with Year End Journal Entries.
- Prepare Year End Accruals, Journal Entries and manage Open POs based on different University Departments to ensure balances per account match between ASI and other University Departments and ensure budgets have not gone over budget.
- Lead and guide ASI/University with new Processing Systems for both the AP and AR Departments.
Lead AP/Junior Accountant
JFC International
Commerce, CA
11.2023 - 06.2025
- Lead 4-person Head Office AP department to ensure timely and accurate completion of daily/monthly tasks.
- Review and approve to pay 4-5,000+ AP Entries weekly from 22 branches across the US (Check, ACH, Wire, Online).
- Create AP Entries (300+) weekly for invoices accrued by Head Office and release accruals as directed by Accounting.
- Process approved AP entries by creating bank files to upload into our primary bank to submit payments.
- Download daily bank activity to verify Online payments submitted in the AP system and then manually assign them check numbers in our AP system to document information in Excel tracker for presentation to Accounting manager.
- Create and maintain Vendor Profiles/ID’s for 5,000+ new and existing vendors in our ERP System.
- Collaborate and communicate timely with various departments and external vendors to answer inquiries related to payment status, account information, and payment information.
- Create ad hoc journal entries with attached audit support for reclass of payments, business gift deductions, intercompany transfer of funds, expense accrual, and all other assigned Jes to support Month End Close.
- Record and process multiple state tax and FTB payments for Head Office and various branches.
- Facilitated implementation of SAP Concur and CLC Lodging for employees to resolve expense reimbursement issues.
- Discussed workflow with Concur and CLC to finalize vendor contracts that satisfy company requirements.
- Trained and mentored branch managers and their employees to navigate both interfaces to properly report any expenses and coordinate hotels for driver’s delivery trips.
- Create and own monthly KPI reports of both Concur and CLC activity – highlighting volume of reports submitted, total cost of monthly expense reimbursements, average cost of reimbursement per report, and percentage of each expense type requested.
Fund Accountant
Cortland Capital/Alter Domus
Brea, CA
06.2019 - 10.2023
- Updated and reconciled cash workbooks weekly with fund’s daily bank activity, tracking commitments, monthly accruals/amortization, Capital Facility Drawdowns/Capital Calls, and various other entries by client.
- Perform initial bank reconciliation worksheets for review and approval by upper management.
- Prepared supporting internal worksheets to track Audit payments, Tax payments, and Payables Reconciliation Invoices of the respective entities to support all trial balance reports.
- Assisted with Financial Statement Tie-Out workbooks that ensure report packages tie to Capital Roll Forward and TB.
- Prepared and uploaded journal entries, payables, and batch allocations from cash workbook via Yardi.
- Completed Reporting Packages for investors, which consisted of reports pulled from Yardi to verify no variances amongst the fund(s).
- Prepared PDF statements via ReportPro (sharefile platform) and verified amounts in ReportPro to Excel Financial Statements Tie-Out worksheets.
Timeline
AP/AR Manager
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ASI
06.2025 - Current
Lead AP/Junior Accountant
JFC International
11.2023 - 06.2025
Fund Accountant
Cortland Capital/Alter Domus
06.2019 - 10.2023