Lissa Falcon
Orange
Summary
Results-driven accounting professional with over 15 years of expertise in expense coding, payroll processing, and financial reporting. Proven ability to leverage advanced analytical skills and ERP systems to enhance financial accuracy and operational efficiency. Committed to innovating financial operations through meticulous reconciliation and strategic vendor management while fostering collaboration among teams to achieve seamless operations in dynamic environments. Recognized for a strong focus on process optimization and adaptability to evolving business needs.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Payable Manager
Consumer Portfolio Services
08.2024 - Current
- Streamlined invoice processing workflows, enhancing accuracy and reducing processing time.
- Implemented comprehensive vendor management strategies to strengthen supplier relationships.
- Led cross-departmental audits to ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures.
- Developed training materials for accounts payable staff, improving onboarding efficiency and knowledge retention.
- Collaborated with finance team on month-end closing processes, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
- Mentored junior staff in best practices for invoice reconciliation and dispute resolution techniques.
- Managed accurate and timely processing of over [Number] invoices per month.
- Reduced payment discrepancies with thorough invoice review, analysis, and reconciliation efforts.
- Reviewed monthly expense reports for accuracy, identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies.
- Closely monitored accounts to post timely payments and resolve billing discrepancies.
- Collaborated with other departments to resolve billing issues promptly and maintain accurate financial records.
- Supported audit processes with well-organized documentation of accounts payable transactions, minimizing errors or discrepancies found during audits.
- Spearheaded process improvements initiatives resulting in increased efficiency within the accounts payable department.
Accounts Payable Manager/Staff Accountant
United Auto Credit Corporation dba Vroom
05.2021 - 07.2024
- Produce monthly financial results and close processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Review and explain monthly financial variances, aiding executive decision-making.
- Develop accounting procedures to improve customer allowances, collections, and expense control.
- Lead accounts payable team, enhancing invoice processing efficiency, reducing time by 15%.
- Support year-end financial audits, preparing schedules and addressing inquiries.
- Managed daily bank reconciliations and credit card accounts, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Developed and implemented new accounting procedures, significantly enhancing receivable collections and overall expense management practices.
- Facilitate year-end financial audits by preparing schedules and addressing inquiries, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
- Accurately coded expenses using historical data, budgets, and other sources for precise ledger entries.
- Ran weekly A/P aging and employee expense reports, recommended payments, and monitored cash flow.
- Initiated ACHs and wires to clients and vendors, ensuring timely and accurate transactions.
- Reconciled A/P accounts monthly, verified entries, and compared system reports to balances.
- Process annual 1099 reporting accurately and timely.
- Maintain current and accurate records for W-9s and certificates of insurance for each vendor.
Accounts Payable Manager/Payroll
Branded Online Inc
11.2017 - 04.2021
- Accurately coded expenses using historical data, budgets, and other sources for precise ledger entries.
- Ran weekly A/P aging and employee expense reports, recommended payments, and monitored cash flow.
- Initiated ACHs and wires to clients and vendors, ensuring timely and accurate transactions.
- Reconciled A/P accounts monthly, verified entries, and compared system reports to balances.
- Processed vendor payments, invoices, and expense reports, maintaining compliance with GAAP.
- Conducted meticulous reconciliations of A/P accounts, bank feeds, and transactions, maintaining impeccable financial records and historical data integrity.
- Liaised with managers and vendors, addressing inquiries promptly and maintaining positive relationships while ensuring compliance with payment procedures.
- Implemented efficient systems for tracking payments, expenditures, and vendor documentation, significantly improving accounts payable workflow and accuracy.
- Streamlined A/P processes, enhancing accuracy and efficiency in expense coding, payment processing, and account reconciliations.
- Optimized cash flow management through strategic A/P aging analysis and timely vendor payments, ensuring financial stability.
- Maintained impeccable financial records by conducting meticulous reconciliations of A/P accounts, bank feeds, and transactions.
- Provide payroll and human resources support.
- Process all new onboarding (i.g.proper documentation, background checks, explaining benefits).
- Payroll processing experience through ADP, Tri-Net, and Paychex.
- Entering and reconciling payroll.
- Handle Initial Claim and Payment Certification for employer’s work sharing certification (payroll week) and distribute forms.
- Collecting timesheet data and payroll information.
- Processes payroll on a bi-weekly basis.
- Entering data into payroll and administrative databases and software programs.
- Calculating wages, benefits, tax deductions, commissions, etc.
- Process annual 1099 reporting accurately and timely.
- Maintain current and accurate records for W-9s and certificates of insurance for each vendor.
Accounts Payable Manager/Payroll
De Silva Brothers & Co
04.2015 - 10.2017
- Provide payroll and human resources support.
- Process all new onboarding (i.g.proper documentation, background checks, explaining benefits).
- Payroll processing experience through ADP, Tri-Net, and Paychex.
- Entering and reconciling payroll.
- Handle Initial Claim and Payment Certification for employer’s work sharing certification (payroll week) and distribute forms.
- Collecting timesheet data and payroll information.
- Processes payroll on a bi-weekly basis.
- Entering data into payroll and administrative databases and software programs.
- Calculating wages, benefits, tax deductions, commissions, etc.
- Preparing and processing paychecks and cash deposits.
- Maintaining accurate records of payroll documentation and transactions.
- Preparing and distributing income statements.
- Responding to payroll-related inquiries and resolving concerns.
- Performing account balance and payroll reconciliations.
- Preparing financial reports for accounting and auditing purposes.
- Preparing periodic payroll reports for review by management.
- Assist with special projects, as needed.
- Other essential duties as assigned.
- Maintaining a high level of accuracy when coding expenses by using historical information, budgets, and other sources to ensure items are correctly recorded in the general ledger.
- Running weekly a/p aging report and recommending payments as well running employee expense report.
- Maintain and monitor cash flow by reviewing banking activity and provide daily cash log to CFO.
- Initiate all ACHs and wires to clients and vendors (month end, preliminaries, vendors, and terms).
- Monitor all credit card transactions and schedule payments.
- Ensuring all new contractors and vendors submit all proper documentation (contracts for service, W-9, payment remittances).
- Reconcile all a/p accounts month end (bank feeds, all bank account transactions, invoice accruals).
- Handle all bank transfers and make bank deposits (scanning and mobile).
- Receives, validates, and processes all recurring and submitted invoices for payment.
- Processes transactions for all vendor payments, recurring and submitted invoices, vouchers, employee expense reports, check requests, and other payment-related documents including receiving, coding, validating approval, and ensuring accuracy and timeliness in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, company policies and procedures.
- Keeps track of all payments and expenditures, including payroll, purchase orders, invoices, statements, etc.
- Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
- Maintain electronic and physical records related to vendors, payments, invoices, vouchers, expense reports, check requests, and other payment-related documents.
- Maintains historical records.
- Pays vendors by scheduling pay checks and ensuring payment is received for outstanding credit.
- Responds to all manager inquiries regarding invoicing and payments respectfully, accurately, and timely.
- Process annual 1099 reporting accurately and timely.
- Maintain current and accurate records for W-9s and certificates of insurance for each vendor.
- Prepares analyses of accounts and produces monthly reports.
- Assures all accounts payable processes and polices are adhered to.
- Train team and cover AP tasks when team member was out.
- Streamlined payroll processing for 200+ employees bi-weekly using ADP, Tri-Net, and Paychex, ensuring timely and accurate payments.
- Implemented a new vendor documentation system, reducing processing errors by 30% and improving compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Partnered with HR to enhance onboarding processes, leading to a 20% increase in new hire satisfaction and faster integration.
Accounts Payable Manager/Payroll
Silver Imports
07.2009 - 03.2015
- Provide payroll and human resources support.
- Process all new onboarding (i.g.proper documentation, background checks, explaining benefits).
- Payroll processing experience through ADP, Tri-Net, and Paychex.
- Entering and reconciling payroll.
- Handle Initial Claim and Payment Certification for employer’s work sharing certification (payroll week) and distribute forms.
- Collecting timesheet data and payroll information.
- Processes payroll on a bi-weekly basis.
- Entering data into payroll and administrative databases and software programs.
- Calculating wages, benefits, tax deductions, commissions, etc.
- Preparing and processing paychecks and cash deposits.
- Maintaining accurate records of payroll documentation and transactions.
- Preparing and distributing income statements.
- Responding to payroll-related inquiries and resolving concerns.
- Performing account balance and payroll reconciliations.
- Preparing financial reports for accounting and auditing purposes.
- Preparing periodic payroll reports for review by management.
- Assist with special projects, as needed.
- Other essential duties as assigned.
- Maintaining a high level of accuracy when coding expenses by using historical information, budgets, and other sources to ensure items are correctly recorded in the general ledger.
- Running weekly a/p aging report and recommending payments as well running employee expense report.
- Maintain and monitor cash flow by reviewing banking activity and provide daily cash log to CFO.
- Initiate all ACHs and wires to clients and vendors (month end, preliminaries, vendors, and terms).
- Monitor all credit card transactions and schedule payments.
- Ensuring all new contractors and vendors submit all proper documentation (contracts for service, W-9, payment remittances).
- Reconcile all a/p accounts month end (bank feeds, all bank account transactions, invoice accruals).
- Handle all bank transfers and make bank deposits (scanning and mobile).
- Receives, validates, and processes all recurring and submitted invoices for payment.
- Processes transactions for all vendor payments, recurring and submitted invoices, vouchers, employee expense reports, check requests, and other payment-related documents including receiving, coding, validating approval, and ensuring accuracy and timeliness in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, company policies and procedures.
- Keeps track of all payments and expenditures, including payroll, purchase orders, invoices, statements, etc.
- Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
- Maintain electronic and physical records related to vendors, payments, invoices, vouchers, expense reports, check requests, and other payment-related documents.
- Maintains historical records.
- Pays vendors by scheduling pay checks and ensuring payment is received for outstanding credit.
- Responds to all manager inquiries regarding invoicing and payments respectfully, accurately, and timely.
- Process annual 1099 reporting accurately and timely.
- Maintain current and accurate records for W-9s and certificates of insurance for each vendor.
- Prepares analyses of accounts and produces monthly reports.
- Assures all accounts payable processes and polices are adhered to.
- Train team and cover AP tasks when team member was out.
- Streamlined payroll processing for 200+ employees bi-weekly using ADP, Tri-Net, and Paychex, ensuring timely and accurate payments.
- Implemented a new vendor documentation system, reducing processing errors by 30% and improving compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Partnered with HR to enhance onboarding processes, leading to a 20% increase in new hire satisfaction and faster integration.
Education
Associates Degree - Accounting
Santiago Canyon College
OrangeSkills
- Accounting
- GAAP
- Excel
- ERP
- Payroll
- Reconciliation
- Reporting
- Account reconciliation
Additional information
- Academic and Professional Qualifications
- 15 years of accounting work experience
- Strong accounting and GAAP knowledge.
- Excellent personal skills.
- Advance Excel skills - creating extensive reports using pivot tables, VLOOKUP, etc.
- Extracting data from ERP, etc.
- Good understanding of corporate financial principles.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a high level of attention to detail.
- Proactive and self-motivated accounting professional, able to think independently.
- Integrity and ethics that are beyond reproach.
- ERP knowledge in Sage, QuickBooks and SAP
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Accounts Payable Manager
Consumer Portfolio Services
08.2024 - Current
Accounts Payable Manager/Staff Accountant
United Auto Credit Corporation dba Vroom
05.2021 - 07.2024
Accounts Payable Manager/Payroll
Branded Online Inc
11.2017 - 04.2021
Accounts Payable Manager/Payroll
De Silva Brothers & Co
04.2015 - 10.2017
Accounts Payable Manager/Payroll
Silver Imports
07.2009 - 03.2015
Associates Degree - Accounting
Santiago Canyon College