Lameika Elliott
Murfreesboro,TN
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level account payable position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
ACCOUNTING/LEAD CLERK-DSD
Kroger Company
04.2023 - Current
- Responsible for processing invoice payments, auditing and reconciling related accounting tasks, balancing accounts and other accounting tasks as assigned
- Handle correspondence between company and vendors
- Maintain all accounting functions assigned to the desk
- Demonstrate the company s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Closed loop – Warehouse
Kroger Company
09.2018 - 10.2021
- Audit daily Closed Loop reports
- Process manual invoices for payments within terms agreement
- Initiate stop payment requests for lost or stale dated checks
- Prepared and Submitted Journal Entries daily
- Balance assigned accounts providing appropriate support documentation
- Research inquiries from vendors and division staff
- Prepare detail for internal/external auditors
- Research and process rejects daily in Vendor Payment System
- Ability to research vendor correspondence
- Ability to research and navigate in CICS Regions and AS400 system (Kroger ERP system)
- Provide adequate and accurate balance sheet detail as related to period end closing.
Real Estate
Kroger Company
05.2018 - 09.2018
- Reviewed, audited, approved or denied Real Estate Expenditures bills timely and in accordance with the provisions of our Real Estate legal documents
- Communication with Landlords and 3rd Party shopping center owners, negotiating disputes with our Landlords while also maintaining positive working relationships
- Approval of bills and monitoring of payments through a workflow approval process using Real Estate Management
- Facilitated a timely approval process by the Manager as well as the Divisions, and/or addressing questions or problems along the way
- Maintenance of Real Estate Management database
- Worked with Divisions to ensure that unforeseen variances in Real Estate Expenditures payments are known and qualified at the Division level
- Assisted the Manager in creating, reviewing and utilizing meaningful reports consisting of historical Real Estate Expenditures data, and use reports to monitor, anticipate trends in payments, as well as understand if we are seeing fair prices across the board
- Assisted the Manager in determining and executing upon other creative best practices in this payables area in order to reduce our overall cost or time spent auditing these bills
- Assisted in preparation of quarterly performance budgets and variance reports for Divisions and G.O.
Education
Medical Assistant/Leadership -
Anthem Career College
07.2015
High School Diploma -
McGavock High School
05.2004
Skills
- Communication (written and oral)
- Exceptional Customer Service
- Account Updates
- Journal Entries
- Decision-Making
- Microsoft Office
- Accounts Payable
- Balance sheets
- Annual reports
- Critical Thinking and Analysis
- Account reconciliation processes
- Team Building and Leadership
References
- Monique Burford, Monique Homestyle Cooking, Owner, 615-440-1288 or 615-228-3499
- Shantopia Cruz, Kroger, Manager, 615-970-9944
- Tameka Burns, Professional Accountant, Professional, 615-608-2169
Timeline
ACCOUNTING/LEAD CLERK-DSD
Kroger Company
04.2023 - Current
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Closed loop – Warehouse
Kroger Company
09.2018 - 10.2021
Real Estate
Kroger Company
05.2018 - 09.2018
Medical Assistant/Leadership -
Anthem Career College
High School Diploma -
McGavock High School