Kathleen Butts
Finance
Calistoga ,CA
Summary
Effective Accounts Payable Supervisor offering excellent skills in recruiting, relationship building and customer service. Works cooperatively with financial team members to streamline cash flow and reduce vendor costs. Significant contributor to monthly and quarterly financial reporting to executive management. Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence. Astute professional highly skilled in payment processing, vendor management and overhead reduction. Talented individual versed in Quickbooks and Peachtree software. Over 4 years working with a Luxury Brand Winery who dealt with hundreds of companies within the Wine Industry as well as balancing Multiple Intercompany entities around the World.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Accounts Payable Lead & JR Accountant
Domaine Chandon Inc
Yountville , CA
02.2021 - Current
- Implemented new accounting processes to decrease spending and work flow downtime.
- Reached out to Vendors & Suppliers to verify and Updated Master Data accounts.
- Updated new system to add scanning software to read all invoices which helped decrease discrepancies.
- Processed payments weekly for multiple accounts. Manage payment controls and assured no exception of accounts.
- Reconciled account information and reported figures in General Ledger. Completed & reported AP GL rec file each month.
- Reconciled month-end totals for timely and accurate reporting of financial information.
- Managed All Supplier accounts and built lasting
- relationships with suppliers.
- Created all journal entries for all Accruals & Mis-codings. I reviewed accounts, resolved coding areas and tracked recurring expenses for all accrual entries.
- Managed all Credit Applications
- Managed all COI applications and inquires.
- Reconciled all accounts for EOM Closing
- Managed Intercompany Reconciliation and timely resolve any discrepancies.
- Manage 1099 process and reporting, including the ongoing enforcement of proper tax coding and vendor master.
- Secure monthly recurring postings such as miscoding's, accruals, expense allocations, and SAP Settlements and Cycles. Manage the closing calendar and checklist to ensure all closing tasks have been properly and timely completed.
Education
High School Diploma -
08.1998 - 06.2002
Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology
08.2002 - 06.2006
Skills
- Budget monitoring
- Payment scheduling
- Purchase order management
- Audit support
- Expense tracking
- Internal controls
- General ledger maintenance
- Invoice processing
- Month-end closing
- Tax compliance
- Sales tax reporting
- Payment coding
- Account reconciliation
- Account reviewing
- ERP systems proficiency
- Financial reporting
- Entry recording
- Cash flow analysis
- GAAP principles
- Statement reconciliation
- Vendor relations
- Vendor engagement
- Vendor relationship management
Timeline
Accounts Payable Lead & JR Accountant - Domaine Chandon Inc
02.2021 - Current
Sonoma State University - Bachelor of Science, Kinesiology
08.2002 - 06.2006
Calistoga JR SR High School - High School Diploma,
08.1998 - 06.2002
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