Kelly Gonzales
Denver,CO
Summary
Detail-oriented finance professional specializing in accounts receivable and treasury operations. Expertise in cash management, process improvements, and client relations, with a history of successful collections and effective billing practices. Adept at fostering cross-functional collaboration to achieve optimal financial outcomes.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Receivable Specialist
Vistar
02.2026 - Current
- Reviews AR aging reports and determines items to follow-up for 4000plus hotels including 60 national accounts.
- Assists with the development of effective collection methods.
- Investigated billing discrepancies and implemented effective solutions to resolve concerns and prevent future problems.
- Contacted vendors to resolve payment issues, ensuring timely resolution and maintaining strong vendor relationships.
- Monitored unapplied cash balances and identified potential write-offs or bad debt expense accruals.
- Prepared monthly statements for customers.
- Supported audit processes by providing necessary documentation and account information.
- Raised critical issues for further investigation.
- Processed new customer forms to set up accounts in system.
Treasury Analyst
Anuvu Corp
12.2020 - 07.2024
- Ensures sufficient daily liquidity for domestic and international accounts, including the execution and settlement of FX deals, daily investing or borrowing, debt pay downs, and intercompany financing transfers, regularly monitor the levels of global cash to ensure maximum use of cash.
- Creates and enters wire transfers/ACH payments from several bank accounts to facilitate payments for the various entities.
- Utilize Trovata bank reporting to ensure all bank accounts are reporting balances and transactions correctly and that auto tagging is correct.
- Recommend and implement improvements to cash management process.
- Establish strong relationships with shared services, tax, payroll, legal, business partners and executive management team.
- Administrator to domestic and international banking relationships - managing access, changes/adds/deletes.
- Ensure that treasury operations adhere to treasury policies, governance policies, and internal controls.
- Ensures compliance with internal controls and standards.
Accounts Receivable Coordinator -Cash Application Specialist
Ball Metalpack, LLC
04.2019 - 12.2020
- Post all payments received via Corporate Trade Payment, ACH, Wire and scanned live checks for 400 customer accounts.
- Analyze accounts to discover discrepancies and resolve all variances promptly.
- Communicated irregularities or payment issues with customers, sales team, and administrative staff, including CFO, to ensure prompt resolution.
- Prepare daily cash reconciliations.
- Accomplished a successful transition of new ERP workflow.
- Organized tax exempt certificate spreadsheet.
Sr. Treasury Analyst-Banking Administration
First Data Corporation
09.2016 - 08.2018
- Verified SharePoint Banking System Requests against corporate policies to determine access permissions for 48 online banking portals, managing over 1600 banking accounts.
- Trained on corporate cash desk, utilizing debt and investment vehicles to effectively consolidate and maximize cash resources.
- Monitored Denver Treasury email inbox, handling issues such as banking system password resets and troubleshooting banking login problems.
- Orchestrated annual audit for over 300 system users, ensuring compliance with internal controls and security protocols.
- Participated in regular audits (internal and SOX) that included testing and review of processes.
- Completed letters / emails for AML requirements to complete payment user requests.
- Ensured the integrity of Treasury Policies is up to date and uploaded onto Global Policy website.
Treasury Analyst-Compliance
First Data Corporation
02.2015 - 09.2016
- Consolidated bank accounts of multiple acquired companies to streamline financial operations.
- Oversaw all operations related to 1,500 company bank accounts to maintain financial integrity and regulatory compliance.
- Completed bank KYC (Know your customer) processes and documentation to support regulatory compliance.
- Coordinated monthly signer verification process to ensure compliance with banking regulations.
- Facilitated legal review and translation of bank contracts (underlying relationship documents, systems, and products) with FDC counsel and outside counsel.
- Provided assistance with internal and external audit confirmations.
- Engaged in discussions during project calls to identify and outline the banking services required for account openings and acquisitions.
- Managed international bank accounts with respective in-country Owner Associates.
- Gathered appropriate legal and entity documentation, signatures and other required bank documentation.
- Provided Bank Reference Letters and accurately completed ACH Vendor forms for multiple accounts receivable groups to facilitate transactions.
- Process includes entering and maintaining the account and GL string in Oracle.
Staff Accountant-Account Services and Settlement Accounting Division
First Data Corporation
10.2008 - 07.2014
- Prepared monthly billing invoices for 165 brokers/clients and recorded journal entries for negligent debt, expense, and revenue accruals to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Managed account receivables by organizing invoices, processing receipts, and reconciling accounts to maintain accurate financial records.
- Prepared daily cash reconciliations and all month-end adjusting entries.
- Reconciled ledger accounts including cash, receivables, payables, and retained earnings.
- Maintained prepaid amortization schedules for data storage software contract.
- Executed transition of Account Services workflow from another site to Denver, streamlining operations and enhancing team collaboration.
Staff Accountant-Consumer Operations Division
First Data Corporation
10.2005 - 10.2008
- Balanced and loaded daily reports for TeleCheck redeposit and returned accounts, maintaining financial accuracy.
- Supported monthly financial close by preparing necessary documentation and entries.
- Prepared and entered weekly and monthly journal entries.
- Recorded state trust deposits for TeleCheck Recovery Services, ensuring accurate documentation for Treasury Department transfers.
Accounting Clerk-TeleCheck Service Department
First Data Corporation
09.2001 - 10.2005
- Completed daily reconciliations, journal entries, monthly reporting, and analysis in accordance with department standards.
- Verified completeness and accuracy of reports / adjustments and submitted to accounting from the Check Processing Group.
- Ensured proper recording of payments in financial systems, confirming deposits into appropriate bank accounts.
- Reconciled payments to the collections system.
- Submitted variances to Check Processing Group for correction in collections system, facilitating accurate financial reporting.
Skills
- Accounts receivable expertise
- Payment processing
- Excel
- Account reconciliations
- Credit and collections
- Aging analysis
- Dispute management
- Accurate payment posting
- Month-end closing
- Statement issuing
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Accounts receivable software
- Microsoft Excel
- Data entry
- Spreadsheet management
- Cash management
- Process optimization
- Compliance adherence
- Audit procedures
- Effective communication
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Client Account Management
- Team collaboration
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Cash applications
- Cross-functional collaboration
Volunteer Leadership
- Food Bank of the Rockies
- Denver Public Schools
Timeline
Accounts Receivable Specialist
Vistar
02.2026 - Current
Treasury Analyst
Anuvu Corp
12.2020 - 07.2024
Accounts Receivable Coordinator -Cash Application Specialist
Ball Metalpack, LLC
04.2019 - 12.2020
Sr. Treasury Analyst-Banking Administration
First Data Corporation
09.2016 - 08.2018
Treasury Analyst-Compliance
First Data Corporation
02.2015 - 09.2016
Staff Accountant-Account Services and Settlement Accounting Division
First Data Corporation
10.2008 - 07.2014
Staff Accountant-Consumer Operations Division
First Data Corporation
10.2005 - 10.2008
Accounting Clerk-TeleCheck Service Department
First Data Corporation
09.2001 - 10.2005