Karla Flanagan
Spanish Fort,AL
Summary
Motivated accountant proficient in ms office and accounting software. Bringing several years of hands-on experience managing payroll functions and maintaining accounts payables. Independent and self-motivated team player possessing outstanding mathematics and analytical abilities.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
2007
2007
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Accountant
Riviera Utilities
Foley, Alabama
08.2023 - Current
- Processes all Accounts Payable invoices and ensure invoices are processed and paid on a timely manner.
- Verifies the posting of details of daily business transactions to proper departments and accounts in subsidiary journals or computer files or departmental general ledgers from computer generated operational accounting transactions and records.
- Maintains, reconciles, and balances subsidiary accounts and ledgers to general ledger accounts on an as needed basis.
- Reconciles bank statements, investigates and resolves discrepancies.
- Enters data into financial programs using computer interfaces.
- Reviews, capitalizes, and financially closes Vegetation Management and Fleet work orders, created for every maintenance and capital job.
- Verifies requests for payments to vendors from company purchasers, reviews supporting authorizations and documentation, verifies correctness and accuracy of accounts charged, resolves inaccuracies or insufficiencies, and generates timely payments.
Accountant
South Baldwin Regional Medical Center
Foley, Alabama
07.2021 - 08.2023
- Assists the Controller and Accounting team in aspects of accounting and accounts payable.
- Preparing check requests for payment, reviewing AP statements.
- Verification of terms and conditions within contracts pertaining to payments.
- Monthly close operations, account reconciliations, calculating statistics, trial balances, preparing and distributing financial reports, prepare and review journal entries.
- Monthly/yearly reporting to regulatory agencies and corporate office.
- Preforms Petty cash and revenue audits.
Business Service Associate - Purchasing
Gwinnett County Government
Lawrenceville, Georgia
03.2015 - 08.2021
- Receives, codes, processes, reconciles, and maintains a variety of purchasing requests, payment requests, maintenance agreements, invoices, accounts receivables, and/or other related documents.
- Reconciles financial reports against records.
- Researches and resolves complex payment or receivable problems.
- Serves as a liaison between assigned section or division and other employees, external agencies, the general public, and/or other interested parties.
- Reviews bids for conformance to standard guidelines and procedures such as ensuring forms are completed and signed, reviewing price totals for accuracy, and completes internal forms when necessary.
- Receives and evaluates standard bids, selects vendors based upon price, quality and standards, and generates applicable purchase orders.
- Serves as Department Liaison and point of contact for Suppliers and Vendors on communications and submittals.
- Manages the procurement process to ensure applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and County ordinances are followed.
- Follows all policies, procedures and guidelines for the purchase of services and goods.
- Assists with developing and tracking budget and department information, such as recommending budget figures, maintaining balances, researching discrepancies, and preparing related financial reports.
- Reconciles financial reports against records including Department bank deposits greater than $100,000.00.
Administrative Clerk
Gwinnett County - Community Services
Lawrenceville, Georgia
07.2014 - 03.2015
- Provides administrative support, making travel arrangements, researching information, generating totals from calculations, and providing related support.
- Reviews, researches and enters information to department reporting systems.
- Assists with tracking budget and department information, such as maintaining balances, researching discrepancies, and preparing related financial reports.
- Preparing and processing of divisional annual budget.
- Collects monies, issues receipts, and balances monies received daily.
- Processes incoming and outgoing purchase orders, vouchers, price agreements, payments, and petty cash disbursements.
- Performs basic office duties, such as copying, filing, faxing, typing standard documents, preparing, sorting, and distributing mail and entering data.
Education
Mill Creek High School
Hoschton, GASkills
- Account reconciliation
- Financial reporting
- Invoice processing
- Budget management
- Accounts payable
- Accounts reconciliation
- Procurement processes
Certification
- Local Government Finance Officer
- Capital Improvement Program Debt
- AdministrationGovernmental
- AccountingIntroductory Budget for Local GovernmentInternal
- Controls Purchasing Treasury Management
Timeline
Accountant
Riviera Utilities
08.2023 - Current
Accountant
South Baldwin Regional Medical Center
07.2021 - 08.2023
Business Service Associate - Purchasing
Gwinnett County Government
03.2015 - 08.2021
Administrative Clerk
Gwinnett County - Community Services
07.2014 - 03.2015
Mill Creek High School