LaTonya Y. Barnes
Owings Mills,Maryland
Summary
Experienced, results-driven Procurement operations professional possessing over twenty years of experience in enhancing reporting, optimizing efficiencies, and exceptional service quality across cross-functional environments. Adept at analyzing problems and identifying creative solutions, Highly dependable self-motivated support professional with the ability to blend organizational, technical, and business acumen ensuring operational and service excellence. Responsible Technician with excellent troubleshooting, customer service and analytics skills coupled with more than 20 years of experience.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Technician, Procurement Operations
CareFirst
Owings Mills, Md.
05.2018 - Current
- Manage and execute standardized reporting and ad-hoc analysis from various sources and systems to accommodate business needs and requirements of sourcing, business unit and supplier
- Assist in Spendata software implementation project and collaborate with Users and tool developers to create customized specifications for data mapping to increase reporting efficiency and improve data integrity
- Developed, updated, and streamlined standard operating procedures (SOPs) and Job Aids in compliance with established internal controls and policies
- Train and host sourcing refresher sessions for onboarding associates and business units on Ariba requests and database navigation to maintain consistency and data integrity and auditing purposes
- Provide helpdesk support, managing over 100 requests per month, to end-users, business units and suppliers by expeditiously handling Ariba access and project-related requests and trouble-shoot technology-related issues; routing escalated requests to appropriate IT technical support team
- Maintain Strategic Sourcing invoice shipping and receiving exceptions incurred in Ariba by identify and communicating requirements to clear exceptions to end user and supplier in compliance with established internal controls and policies
Research Service Analyst
Johns Hopkins University, School of
Baltimore, Md.
02.2016 - 05.2018
- Coordinated submission of grant proposals for new and continuing projects using electronic submission systems (i.e., COEUS, ASSIST, Workspace, Grants.gov, etc.) utilized by various federal, private, and commercial agencies
- Assisted with budget development based on Principal Investigator's (PI) input and project needs, staying within university and sponsored guidelines for inflation, fringe benefit and indirect cost rates
- Ensured timely and accurate coding and processing of invoices, check requests and travel expense reimbursements
- Produced ad hoc sponsored research project-related reports from various sources and systems to analyze divisional variances and identify financial trends
- Monitored expenditures during monthly reconciliations, including to verify budget and expenditures to ensure compliance with university policy and departmental controls
Content Financial Analyst
Discovery Communications
Silver Spring, MD
11.2010 - 01.2016
- Prepared monthly balance sheet reconciliations on content-related program payables, prepaid and development accounts to review with FP&A Finance Director
- Reconciled and prepared monthly balance sheet reconciliations specifically for TLC network and communicated any accruals, budget variances and journal entries to Corporate Accounting and key stakeholders
- Managed departments general ledger and cost center accounts by ensuring all content-related transactions were applied to appropriate account/cost center and if necessary, processed monthly journal entry transactions in SAP, if needed
- Entered data and maintained all content-related projects and associated production and talent payment schedule in SAP
- Participated in User Acceptance testing and provided recommendations to maintain data integrity and ensure all content -related records were successfully migrated from Microsoft Access to SAP
Financial Coordinator
Discovery Communications Inc
Silver Spring, MD
12.2000 - 11.2010
- Entered and maintained content-related project production and talent payment schedules in Microsoft Access and SAP and met with Corporate Finance leadership team to review open payable balances
- Submitted coded invoices, required approvals including ACH and new vendor account set-up documentation and to Accounts Payable team for prior to invoice due date
- Created and distributed reports on internal and external finances, audits and budgets
- Completed journal entries, reconciliations and account analysis to prepare quarterly financial documents and general account management
- Gathered all necessary documentation for scheduled and random audits for financial reporting and SOX compliance
Education
BBA - Accounting
University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)
College Park, MD03.2024
High School Diploma -
Northwestern High School
Hyattsville, MD03.1994
Skills
- Software Applications:
- Knowledge and use of technical software applications appropriate to specific work activities - PeopleSoft, Outlook PowerBI, Oracle, Ariba and Spendata
- Data Extraction: Adept to extracting and manipulating data from various reporting environments to produce complex reporting for senior management and global team
- Data Validation: Knowledge of and ability to understand and resolve data inconsistencies or variances
- Demonstrated knowledge of Procurement, Strategic Sourcing and/or Category management concepts and ability to initiate and execute variety of work-related items and projects
- Staff education and training
Timeline
Technician, Procurement Operations
CareFirst
05.2018 - Current
Research Service Analyst
Johns Hopkins University, School of
02.2016 - 05.2018
Content Financial Analyst
Discovery Communications
11.2010 - 01.2016
Financial Coordinator
Discovery Communications Inc
12.2000 - 11.2010
BBA - Accounting
University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)
High School Diploma -
Northwestern High School
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