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Kathreen M. Umali

Milpitas,CA

Summary

Seeking a position where extensive experience will be further developed and utilized.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Payroll Specialist

Custom Drywall, Inc.
05.2017 - Current




  • Assisted employees with inquiries regarding their paychecks, deductions, and other related issues, providing clear and concise communication.
  • Provided customer service to employees regarding payroll inquiries and issues.
  • Performed calculations in overtime, vacation, and sick hours to provide accurate data to payroll processing database.
  • Verified and submitted timekeeping information for accurate and efficient payroll processing.

Job Cost Report Specialist

CUSTOM DRYWALL, INC.
05.2017 - Current
  • Provides detailed financial analysis and reports of expenses, includes breakdowns of project costs, forecasts of remaining expenses
  • Monitoring and analyzing costs, cooperating with project managers to help them meet budgeting goals
  • Verifying costs with vendors and suppliers.
  • Leveraged advanced analytics tools to derive actionable insights from collected data, providing valuable input for decision-making processes.
  • Ensured compliance with company policies and relevant regulations throughout the entire reporting process.
  • Conducted regular reviews of existing reports, identifying opportunities for enhancements or updates as needed.
  • Provided training to team members on report creation tools and techniques, improving overall skillsets within the department.
  • Assisted in the development of internal guidelines and best practices for report writing to maintain consistency across all departments.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather relevant information for comprehensive reporting.
  • Conducted thorough research on industry trends and best practices in reporting methodologies to stay current with evolving standards.
  • Actively participated in meetings with clients or stakeholders, presenting findings effectively through clear communication techniques.
  • Increased stakeholder satisfaction with improved report presentation, visualization, and readability.
  • Implemented quality control measures to ensure accurate and reliable reports were produced consistently.
  • Streamlined report generation process for increased efficiency and timely delivery.
  • Optimized reporting systems by implementing automation techniques where appropriate, reducing manual workload and increasing efficiency.
  • Mentored junior staff members in developing their own expertise within the field of reporting.

Accounts Payable Specialist

CUSTOM DRYWALL, INC.
  • Perform the full cycle of accounts payable duties including but not limited to encoding and entering invoices accurately in a timely manner, preparing and posting journal entries, preparing approved invoices for payment or weekly check – run
  • Set up new vendors and collecting W-9 for the new vendors and maintain vendors files and record
  • Resolve accounts payable issue with the vendors
  • Fulfills various business tax and regulatory compliance requirements, including 1099’s, IRS TIN number and business license renewal and registration
  • Process and maintain the payroll tax return on a weekly basis and Quarterly and yearly Payroll Federal and state Tax
  • Prepare monthly reconciliation for vendor statements and multiple bank accounts
  • Prepare internal reports as needed and participate in monthly financial closing
  • Perform all the general duties/special projects as assigned.

Administrative Assistance

Guess? U.S.A.
01.2001
  • Monitor all office supplies
  • Received all office supplies from the supplier
  • Issued office supplies in all stores nationwide

Accounting Clerk (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll)

Unipak Designs, Inc.
06.2016 - 05.2017
  • Perform monthly, quarterly and annual accounting activities including reconciliations of bank and credit card accounts, coordination and completion of annual audits, and reviewing financial reports/support as necessary
  • Analyze and report on financial status including income statement variances, communicating financial results to management, budget preparation and analysis
  • Improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions
  • Maintains subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, and posting transactions
  • Balances subsidiary accounts by reconciling entries
  • Update and prepare payroll records by entering changes in exemption and insurance coverage
  • Prepare checks for payments
  • Prepare Sales Commission
  • Generate Invoices
  • Customer Service Resolve customer complaints via phone, email, and mail
  • Use telephones to reach out to customers and verify account information
  • Greet customers warmly and ascertain problem or reason for calling
  • Assist placement of orders, refunds, or exchange.

R & D Support

Solaria Corp.
04.2016 - 05.2016
  • Checking the defected items from the production
  • Support and helping the solar panel layout.

Office Intern

MCR Integrated Design Systems, Inc.
01.2016 - 02.2016
  • Perform accounting and clerical functions to support the Office Manager
  • Research, track and resolve accounting problems
  • Compile and sort invoices and checks
  • Issue checks for accounts payable
  • Ensure customers payments and refunds
  • Input type vouchers, invoices, checks, account statement, report and other records
  • Process bills for payment

Sr. Accounts payable Specialist

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Philippines Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2015
  • Process high volume accounts payable for trade accounts (PO Invoices) & non-trade accounts (Non PO Invoices)
  • Check all the invoices and encoded correctly with the GL
  • Handle documentation & processing of debit memo
  • Analyze details of accounts (AR trade, AP-trade, AP Non-Trade)
  • Determine and generate monthly accruals and other fixed expenses for the month end closing
  • Conduct daily cash balance.

Sr. Cost Accountant

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Philippines Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2015
  • Monitor inventory of factory supplies, office and stationary supplies
  • Prepare inventory variance and issue production supplies
  • Conduct monthly stocktaking
  • Reconcile actual balance with book balance and investigate discrepancies
  • Determine inventory adjustment
  • Analyze details of supplies cost/expense accounts
  • Determine disposal of scrap items for the month
  • Monitor manual receiving report for the month
  • Monitor liquidation of advances
  • Analyze details of repairs and maintenance account and check variances against budget
  • Monitor allowance for repair and maintenance
  • Analysis of report and other fixed expense after Monthly closing settlement.

AP Payment Specialist

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Philippines Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2015
  • Processing of payments for P.O and NON PO Invoices
  • Generate payment vouchers
  • Monitor outstanding PO accounts payables
  • Prepare checks, letters of instruction and bank transfer form for domestic and foreign remittances
  • Accrue all importation charges for the month
  • Analyze interest income, other income-miscellaneous, other loss, other expenditure-others
  • Ensure accuracy payment application with vendors
  • Ensure accuracy of dataflow and reports generated.

Accounts Receivable Specialist

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Philippines Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2015
  • Maintain up to date billing system
  • Generate and send out invoices
  • Follow up on, collect and allocate payments
  • Carry out billing, collection and reporting activities according to specific deadlines
  • Perform account reconciliations
  • Monitor customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities
  • Research and resolve payment discrepancies
  • Generate age analysis
  • Review AR aging to ensure compliance
  • Maintain accounts receivable customer files and records
  • Follow established procedures for processing receipts, cash etc
  • Prepare bank deposits
  • Investigate and resolve customer queries
  • Process adjustments
  • Develop a recovery system and initiate collection efforts
  • Communicate with customers via phone, email, mail or personally
  • Assist with month-end closing
  • Collect data and prepare monthly metrics.

Administrative Assistance

Philips Semicon
01.2001 - 01.2002
  • Monitor all the receivable for the month
  • Determine all the uncollected receivables from the customers
  • Sending customers outstanding balances for the month
  • Generation of check payment
  • Organized all events in Mandarin and Manila Peninsula hotel
  • Monitor all office supplies every month.

Bank Teller and new accounts

Philippine National Bank
01.2000 - 01.1999
  • Provides account services to customers by receiving deposits and loan payments; cashing checks; issuing savings withdrawals; recording night and mail deposits; selling cashier's checks, traveler's checks, and series e bonds; answering questions in person or on telephone; referring to other bank services
  • Records transactions by logging cashier's checks, traveler's checks, and other special services; preparing currency transaction reports
  • Cross-sells bank products by answering inquiries; informing customers of new services and product promotions; ascertaining customers' needs; directing customers to a branch representative
  • Completes special requests by closing accounts; taking orders for checks; opening and closing christmas and vacation clubs; exchanging foreign currencies; providing special statements, copies, and referrals; completing safe-deposit box procedures.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Accounting Management -

University of Perpetual Help System
01.2001

Skills

  • Account analysis
  • Account reconciliation
  • Accounting information system
  • Accounts receivable
  • Accrual
  • Accounts payable
  • AP balance
  • AR Balance
  • Cost accounting
  • Debit and credit memo documentation
  • Attention to details
  • Fixed assets reconciliation and documentation
  • Multi-tasking
  • MS Excel
  • Office
  • Microsoft Word
  • Office Manager
  • Pivot
  • SAP B1
  • Cash Balancing
  • Payment Processing
  • Entry verification
  • Data inputting
  • Invoice Processing
  • Vendor Relations
  • Account Reconciliation
  • Quickbooks
  • Statement Review
  • Statement Reconciliation
  • Vendor Relationship Management
  • Payment Scheduling
  • ERP systems proficiency
  • Transaction reviewing
  • Payroll Processing
  • Credit Card Reconciliation
  • Report Preparation
  • Payroll Administration
  • Records coordination
  • Financial research
  • Purchase Order Management
  • GAAP principles
  • Tax Compliance

References

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Timeline

Payroll Specialist

Custom Drywall, Inc.
05.2017 - Current

Job Cost Report Specialist

CUSTOM DRYWALL, INC.
05.2017 - Current

Accounting Clerk (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll)

Unipak Designs, Inc.
06.2016 - 05.2017

R & D Support

Solaria Corp.
04.2016 - 05.2016

Office Intern

MCR Integrated Design Systems, Inc.
01.2016 - 02.2016

Sr. Accounts payable Specialist

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Philippines Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2015

Sr. Cost Accountant

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Philippines Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2015

AP Payment Specialist

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Philippines Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2015

Accounts Receivable Specialist

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Philippines Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2015

Administrative Assistance

Guess? U.S.A.
01.2001

Administrative Assistance

Philips Semicon
01.2001 - 01.2002

Bank Teller and new accounts

Philippine National Bank
01.2000 - 01.1999

Accounts Payable Specialist

CUSTOM DRYWALL, INC.

Bachelor of Science in Accounting Management -

University of Perpetual Help System
Kathreen M. Umali