Kirby Harris-Stroud
Elk Grove
Summary
I am a goal-oriented individual that is interested in a career path with heavy analytical duties and responsibilities. Highly astute, energetic, and team spirited with a strong work ethic able to fill numerous diverse roles in an accurate, precise, and highly ethical in all work-related assignments thus contributes to an organization's financial goals and objectives. I have comprehensive experience in environments with problem resolution, economic, and business functions, all in time-critical, fast paced and high-volume settings.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
AR Specialist
Radial Tire Wholesale
06.2024 - 03.2025
- Process accounts receivable transactions, including posting payments, issuing invoices, and reconciling customer accounts.
- Review and verify the accuracy of billing and collection data.
- Monitor customer accounts for overdue payments and follow up on outstanding balances.
- Collaborate with internal teams to resolve billing discrepancies and ensure timely payment collection.
- Prepare and maintain financial reports related to accounts receivable activities.
- Assist with credit analysis and evaluation of customer creditworthiness.
- Create new accounts.
- Perform account reconciliations and resolve any discrepancies or issues.
- Assist with month-end closing activities, including journal entries.
- Assist with hiring (interviewing, new hire paperwork, policy enforcement).
- Reviewed and reconciled customer invoices to ensure accuracy.
Financial Analyst 1
Stanford University
Redwood City
03.2023 - 03.2024
- Provide frontline support communication with campus clients for their financial transaction needs.
- Develop and maintain expertise across a range of subject areas, gaining sufficient familiarity with the associated administrative processes to be able to process client requests accurately and efficiently.
- Understand, apply, and ensure compliance with complex internal policies and external regulations which may require interpretation.
- Manage a high volume of incoming calls and support requests with the highest level of customer service.
- Collaborate with other financial departments as necessary to provide appropriate solutions and alternatives for clients.
- Follow Through and Follow Up with clients on pending requests.
- Educate clients regarding financial policies and procedures.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of desktop procedures and process documentation by identifying, documenting and reporting deficient processes, pain points and trends.
- Perform moderately complex finance functions, including structured analysis; data mining, identification and investigation of discrepancies and exceptions.
Client Account Specialist
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Oakland
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Performing account reconciliations.
- Assisting appropriate personnel with cash application.
- Researching, resolving and following up on deductions and appeals.
- Resolving billing issues.
- Communicating with clients regarding delinquent accounts, preparing and sending collection e-mails, negotiating payment plans, researching, analyzing and resolving problems by coordinating with the billing and handling attorneys, performing account reconciliations.
Senior Accounts Receivable Accountant
Novogene LLC
Sacramento
07.2019 - 09.2022
- Responsible for processing Accounts Receivable, Collections, and resolving customer Billing issues.
- Train new hires.
- Assists the department with various special projects and attends weekly meetings with China about Accounts Receivables inquiries and topics.
- Verifies receipt of PO's and upload them into the system.
- Verify, process and create invoices for sales and services rendered.
- Collect on accounts by sending invoice reminders and communication with customers via phone, email, fax or mail.
- Post and allocate customer payments by recording cash, checks and credit card transactions.
- Handle all special billing situations, respond to Accounts Receivable inquiries, requests and complaints.
- Create, review and process credit memos.
- Assist with developing new policies and procedures for the Accounts Receivable team.
- Work closely with sales and other departments to create procedures and policies.
AR Analyst
Mariani Packing Company
Vacaville
08.2018 - 07.2019
- Manages customer receivables ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of activities that impact aging and customer accounts.
- Specific Duties include but are not limited to: Process daily payment transactions from Lockbox activity using daily composite reports and other payments received via direct mail.
- Document, research and process payment discrepancies.
- Work closely with supervisor, customer service, logistics, sales, and brokers in determining customer payment discrepancies.
- Familiarization with multiple customer portals to obtain appropriate documentation regarding customer accounts.
- Credit adjustments issued for current reporting month compared to previous months.
- Maintain a list of key contacts for each customer account in S2K.
- Manages the collection activities by collaborating with the various team members such as Sales and Customer Service to eliminate all obstacles creating disputes/chargebacks with our customers.
- Other Receivable Activities and Responsibilities.
- Professionally handles all incoming calls from customers including returning the calls and expediting requests in a timely manner.
- Will interface with inside and outside auditors to share information and coordinate periodic reviews and where necessary drive the implementation of corrective actions.
- Input and post monthly revenue entries into the GL.
- Perform monthly receivable related reconciliations of designated GL accounts.
- Maintain and prepare reports for ledger accounts and analyze variance according to Account Receivable policies.
- Monitor and collect data from various customer locations and analyze credit exposure.
- Process Credit Hold Releases ensuring that credit exposure has been validated before release of company product.
- Manage customer deduction activities through the company deduction policy.
AR Specialist
Laughlin Falbo Levi Morsei
Oakland
06.2018 - 08.2018
- Preparing and verifying rate arrangements.
- Collaborate with attorneys, paralegals and others to generate pre-bills, monitor unbilled time, ensure timely billing and collections.
- Prepare billing reports, fee and disbursement summaries and prepare final bills.
- Electronic billing submission and follow up.
- Preparing and verify rate arrangements and ensure accuracy.
- Researching and respond quickly to inquiries regarding billing questions.
Collections/ National Billing Specialist
ALLDATA
Elk Grove
05.2016 - 06.2018
- Contact external customers who have invoices which are 60 days to 150 days delinquent and attempt to collect past due balances with the aid of the Account Managers and Sales force and encourage the customers to make future payments on time.
- Research and respond to all ALLDATA employees' written, emailed and verbal requests and questions regarding invoices, statements and general billing questions.
- Research and respond to all customers written and verbal requests and questions regarding invoices, statements and general billing questions.
- Receiving and sorting incoming payments with attention to credibility.
- Managing the status of accounts and balances and identifying inconsistencies.
- Issuing bills, receipts and invoices.
Education
Associate Of Arts - General Business
Cosumnes River College
Sacramento, CASacramento, CA
A.A. - Liberal Arts And General Studies
Humphreys College
Stockton, CAStockton, CA
Certificate - Admin. Update
Registered Process Server
Sacramento, CASacramento, CA
Skills
- Auditing and accounting support
- Report preparation
- Budget management
- Bookkeeping and reconciliation
- Data entry accuracy
- Customer relationship management
- Cash posting accuracy
- Legal billing expertise
Timeline
AR Specialist
Radial Tire Wholesale
06.2024 - 03.2025
Financial Analyst 1
Stanford University
03.2023 - 03.2024
Client Account Specialist
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
09.2022 - 03.2023
Senior Accounts Receivable Accountant
Novogene LLC
07.2019 - 09.2022
AR Analyst
Mariani Packing Company
08.2018 - 07.2019
AR Specialist
Laughlin Falbo Levi Morsei
06.2018 - 08.2018
Collections/ National Billing Specialist
ALLDATA
05.2016 - 06.2018
Associate Of Arts - General Business
Cosumnes River College
A.A. - Liberal Arts And General Studies
Humphreys College
Certificate - Admin. Update
Registered Process Server