Jill Foster
Kansas City,MO
Summary
Staff Accountant/Accounts Payable Specialist with over 30+ years of work experience with an exceptional track record of accurately handling financial responsibility in fast-paced and deadline-oriented environments.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Specialist
Northtowne Auto Group
Gladstone, MO
11.2025 - Current
- Managed complete accounts payable and receivable cycle, ensuring timely processing of invoices and payments.
- Enters and codes invoices into the Reynolds and Reynolds system, reconciles monthly statements, and issues and mails accounts payable checks.
- Oversees all customer accounts, posts payments, issues and mails monthly customer statements, and collects past-due balances.
- Reconciled vendor statements and resolved discrepancies efficiently.
- Communicated with vendors to negotiate payment terms and resolve issues.
- Established new credit accounts and prepared 1099 reports while assisting with month-end closing through journal entries and other tasks.
- Collaborated with finance team to streamline billing processes and improve accuracy.
Accounts Payable Specialist
Central Power Systems & Services
Liberty, MO
09.2020 - 10.2025
- Managed all accounts payable functions to ensure timely processing.
- From receiving invoices, invoice distribution in Concur, obtaining approvals, coding expenses, matching invoices to purchase orders, keying invoices into Procede, reconciling vendor monthly statements to open Accounts Payable files monthly and using those statements to create disbursements.
- Processed all ACH, credit card, and checks for Vendor Letters M-Z and all company expense reports, boot allowances, and safety glass reimbursements, and company benefit vendors.
- Organized and maintained documentation for vendor payments, facilitating efficient record-keeping.
- Created and organized new vendor files for easy access.
- Set up and maintained new vendor files.
- Maintained, reconciled, and processed all 1099s each year.
- Processed payments yearly for all branch Tax and Personal Property Taxes.
- Executed annual payment processing for branch tax and personal property taxes, ensuring compliance and timely submissions.
Staff Accountant
Kessinger Hunter Management
Kansas City, MO
07.2016 - 08.2020
- Reviewed and reconciled financial statements for accuracy.
- Processed invoices from receipt to distribution, including reconciliation and data entry for efficient check runs.
- Managed accounts payable processes efficiently.
- Investigated outstanding balances and addressed vendor inquiries.
- Used Purchase Orders and RDFs from other departments to ensure materials and services were accurate.
- Entered payroll hours for the Operations Department.
Accounts Payable Clerk
SPEC Building Materials
Kansas City, KS
10.2008 - 10.2015
- Handled invoices and expense reports for salesmen at 16 different branches.
- Executed check runs to ensure timely payments and maximize discounts.
- Managed invoices and expense reports for salesmen across 16 branches.
- Generated check runs to meet weekly payment deadlines.
- Researched and resolved accounts payable discrepancies.
- Calculated discounts and any special buy information and paid against PO set up at branches.
- Posted receipts to general ledger accounts for accurate financial tracking. to appropriate general ledger accounts.
- Reviewed expense reports for accuracy and compliance with disclosure standards.
- Verified expense reports for accuracy and compliance with disclosure requirements.
Education
Some College - Accounting
Maple Woods Community College
Kansas City, MOHigh school diploma - General
Excelsior Springs High School
Excelsior Springs, MOSkills
- Accounts Payable Management
- Debits & Credits
- Bank Reconciliation
- Accounting Software
- Account Reconciliation
- Journal Entries
- Great Plains
- SAP
- Concur
- Procede
- Reynolds and Reynolds
- Expense Management
- Invoice processing
- 1099 reporting
- Expense coding
- Discrepancy Resolution
- Time tracking
Timeline
Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Specialist
Northtowne Auto Group
11.2025 - Current
Accounts Payable Specialist
Central Power Systems & Services
09.2020 - 10.2025
Staff Accountant
Kessinger Hunter Management
07.2016 - 08.2020
Accounts Payable Clerk
SPEC Building Materials
10.2008 - 10.2015
Some College - Accounting
Maple Woods Community College
High school diploma - General
Excelsior Springs High School