Jennifer Appleton

• Prepare all month end journal entries for Third party and licensing revenue
• Ensure accurate reporting for B2C financials to upper management
• Manage reconciliation of Third party and licensing revenue postings and reporting
• Point of contact for financial inquiries on all B2C business
• Manage open receivables/accruals for B2C Third party & licensing Vendors to ensure payments are made.
• Review and approve Editorial, Services COGS invoices, and approve employee expense reports
• Maintain integrity of general ledger and chart of accounts.
• Provides reporting to upper management in addition to global management as needed.
• Review accounts, resolved coding areas, and track recurring expenses for accrual entry.
• Analyze variances between actuals vs budget/forecast figures, providing insights into business performance drivers for senior management review.
• Prepare backup and support for year-end financial statement audits
• Prepare monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
• Provide journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
• Review documents and accounts for discrepancies and resolved variances.

• Supervisory responsibility including interviewing potential new associates to provide feedback to management, training and coaching department staff, and reviewing journal entries and monthly reconciliations
• Preparation of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly sales reports
• Ensure accurate preparation and timely adherence to close deliverables
• Responsible for reporting of daily sales flash to upper management and business partner to the sales organization for all inquires on sales information
• Manage POS store polling process to ensure accurate and complete sales data posts to the General Ledger
• Designed policies and procedures of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks for all positions within the department to streamline processes
• Initiate and conduct loss prevention research for retail stores that result in employee credit card fraudulent findings
• Partner with Inventory and Store Operations departments to implement theft prevention processes

Accomplishments:

Inducted into the 2012 and 2013 management bonus program as a non-manager in recognition of efforts and success in bringing POS polling issues to closure

POS (Point of Sale) Project Implementation

• Monitored all data posted to the general ledger during pilot stages to ensure accurate data was received by POS and business partners
• Documented and monitored quantities and types of POS issues to report to internal and external teams
• Point of contact for internal and sales chain teams in an effort to identify root cause of POS errors.

• Analyzed and prepared month-end accruals
• Maintained daily bank account reconciliations within ReconNET to ensure accuracy of POS data
• Performed monthly bank to book reconciliations for all store accounts
• Created all journal entries pertaining to the banking process, including bank fees, accruals, missing deposits, deposit variances, and POS issues

Accomplishments:

Promoted to a newly created position of Senior Store Control Accountant after 14 months of employment.

• Prepared various analyses and reports in support of the Cash Accounting Department to enhance cost-effective cash accounting
• Performed downloads of information from financial institutions and internal sources in preparation of automated account reconciliations
• Coordinated store bank changes and acted as a liaison to domestic divisions to ensure that operational needs are being met.

• Audited, analyzed, and administered complex financial obligations to landlords in accordance with lease terms
• Negotiated with landlord and evaluated issues resulting in significant savings for the company
• Responsible for accuracy of Common Area Maintenance, Insurance, and Utility obligations
• Ensured proper accounting and payments under leases
• Provided support to internal and external customers by investigating and resolving tenancy issues.

• Customer service liaison providing instant solutions to both internal and external client base
• Analyzed system issues as well as prepared problem forms with explicit details
• Adhered to company procedures while auditing stores to ensure accurate documentation on audit trails as well as proper notation in the sales audit system.