Megan Parido
Georgetown,KY
Summary
Adaptable Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables Accountant committed to accuracy and adept at both established procedures and industry- current tracking methods while adhering to generally accepted accounting practices. Capable of handling complex cash disbursement functions in a timely efficient manner. Ability to successfully complete high volume of Invoices, as well as analyze, or audit revenue and expense reports. Fluent in all aspects of accounting, highly experienced and easily adaptable to learn any software. Hardworking, reliable and extremely educated.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Budget Specialist II
CHFS Department of Public Health
12.2021 - Current
- Presently assigned to anywhere from 12 to 30 Local Health Departments out of 61 LHDs- for Entire State of Kentucky, comprised of all 120 KY Counties
- Audit Reviews, Fiscal Compliance Reviews, Budget Reviews, Budget Finalization and Upload, and Fiscal Year-End Closeouts for Local Health departments, daily assisting LHD's in revenue/ expenditures, and all financial questions.
- Bank Reconciliation, MCO Medicaid Revenue Reconciliation, DPH Revenue Reconciliation, and appropriate Revenue Spending Order
- Assisting Local Health Departments on daily basis, based on the Standards in the Administrative Reference Guide- as well as applicable KAR Legislation, currently direct LHDs on reclassifications, journal entries, budgeting and /or projecting revenue/expenses, heavily pointing them back to the data in financial reports and General Ledger Posting and Reviewing revenue, expenditures, coding patient service fees, and Medicaid Receipts MCOs, Commercial Insurance and Home Health Revenues
- Heavily involved in KYBARS/Workday project by implementing new Payroll, Financial and Personnel system used by 58LHDs attending daily meetings for brainstorming, data collection and consolidation, design/development, multiple testing on the FIN- Financial Side, helped create initial starting point of FDM crosswalk.
- Assigned as secondary contact for Banking ACH Integrations- which included both A/P ACH Files and Payroll ACH Files for 58LHDs
Retirement Counselor I
KPPA- Kentucky Public Pensions Authority
09.2021 - 11.2021
- Acquired skills in calculating retirement monthly contributions- heavily formula driven for Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3
- Advanced in 3-month prep course- to be able to determine eligible retirement dates for KERS, CERS and SPRS
- Calculation of retirement Monthly Benefit Calculation and IPS- Internal Purchase Service Agreements with variables specific to member, sick leave added, Pension Spiking, Bonuses, and multiple different Merit Service Types
- Utilized customer service etiquette, to sufficiently answer retirement questions of both Participating Members and Retirees
- Proficient in Member Self- Service Portal which is vital access to members and retirees
Accounting Coordinator
Heartland Automation
09.2020 - 05.2021
- Accounts Receivables for small manufacturing company, ensuring all invoices sent to customers for project related AGV mobile robots, pallet stackers, forklifts and conveyor systems- stand alone projects for TMMI, TMMK, TMMC, BMW, and Ford.
- Reconciled intercompany accounts on a monthly basis.
- Responsible for all web portal invoicing and A/R collections for spare parts and major projects, and Bank remote deposit all incoming funds
- End of month close out responsibilities cost tracking and uploading company credit card expenses, reconciling monthly credit card, and reviewing payroll labor time entry.
- Direct communication with project managers/engineers, responsible for tracking- and presenting progress of all project related materials and labor costs with project
- Backup for our Purchase Order agent and receiving clerk for receipt entries
Graduate Accountant II
State of Kentucky CHFS DAIL Dept of Aging and Independent Living
07.2018 - 09.2020
- Efficiently entered facility payments to long term care nursing homes, hospitals and rent payments for the deemed wards of the State of Kentucky Adult Guardianship clients to ensure that all facility payments were managed between, hospital, rent, SCL, Personal Care Homes, ABI- Facilities, LTCM nursing homes, and Mental Health Hospital Stays- for both Medicaid and Private Pay Guardianship Clients of State of Kentucky
- Monitored multiple databases which included KYGFIS and Medicaid Benefind, and JPMorgan Banking
- Promoted to Fiscal Manager February 2020, and supervised direct reporting staff of 7 Accountant Clerks and as well as direct communication daily in partnership with both A/R Clerk and A/P Clerk- for processing/receiving, along with solely responsible for reconciling over $20million
- Prepared daily bank reconciliation sheet of over $20 million balanced, prepared all taxes for deemed Wards of State of Kentucky, balanced the daily incoming ACH income of clients with verifying incoming bank deposits
- Ensuring check run was executed daily, and emergency checks cut, and prepared and processed void and reissue of payments for facility and Resident Trust Accounts
- Stepped up in Covid19 pandemic to ensure 4500 stimulus paper and ACH payments were remote deposited for all Guardianship Clients
Graduate Accountant I
State of Kentucky CHFS- DGA- Payables and Travel
10.2017 - 07.2018
- Well trained accounting professional with experience in State Government, responsible for all accounting/ accounts payable and processing of invoices in EMARS and KITS
- Invoices include but are not limited to contract PON2s, Master Agreements, POs, P02s, DOs and D02s also a wide variety of invoices for all DCBS offices
- Invoices for education grants, drug screens, hotels, interpreters, birth certificates, food stamps, refunds, education awards, property rentals, telephone bills, and many more- with extreme precision to detail- with any necessary approvals.
- Responsible for the auditing of Travel Vouchers for the entire Cabinet which included high volume of CHFS State government employees, majority of GSSW and any all travel statewide, calculating mileage, and checking all expenses claimed in travel reimbursements
Accounting/ Accounts Payable Clerk
Ball Homes Inc.
02.2014 - 10.2017
- Quality- focused A/P Clerk processing high volume of invoices, managing, and coordinating with vendors which include weekly and monthly subcontractors and all material vendors for the Lexington, Louisville, and Knoxville areas- of Ball Homes
- Analyzed purchase orders, contracts, invoices, check requests and other documents related to the accounts payable cycle with direct communication to vendors
- Cost expense reporting of all line items paid out in the home-building process which are both labor and materials costs
- Monthly Balancing a portfolio of over 30 monthly vendors totaling over $1 million, this includes completing reconciliations balance sheets reconciling any variances and calculating discounts, on a Net10/30 basis
- Weekly responsibility for processing and calculating labor subcontractor’s invoices for 10 new home subdivisions/neighborhoods with about 50 to 100 homes in each subdivision, processing invoices for over $175,000 every week in weekly bills, this also includes completing the detailed cost reports of over/under on budgets for all expenses incurred in the home- building construction process
- Facilitate weekly check run for Accounts Payable, with prompt monthly/weekly deadlines
Bank Teller and Customer Service Representative
First State Financial Bank
05.2011 - 02.2014
- Skilled bank teller completed all daily transactions cash handling, deposits and withdrawals, transfers, and checked incoming ACH deposits for customers
- All bank related functionality, balance my individual cash drawer daily
- Balanced the cash vault daily
- Educated customers on the variety of banking products- opened and closed bank accounts, CDs and provided customer service to all banking customers
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree Accounting -
University of the Cumberlands
Williamsburg, KY05.2011
High School Graduate -
Henry Clay High School
Lexington, KY05.2007
Skills
- Experienced Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables
- Proficiency in both daily and monthly bank reconciliation
- Accounting attention to detail with high volume of invoices
- Budget monitoring and planning
- Financial Forecasting and Revenue Forecasting
- Proficiency in following software systems:
- Microsoft Excel, to even pivot tables level
- Microsoft Word
- EMARS
- as400
- Medicaid Benefind
- KITS- invoicing process system
- KYGFIS ( Clients/Financial- DAIL Guardianship)
- Epicor
- CDP E-Report Financials
- Workday Enterprise
- KPPA MSS and KPPA ESS
Timeline
Budget Specialist II
CHFS Department of Public Health
12.2021 - Current
Retirement Counselor I
KPPA- Kentucky Public Pensions Authority
09.2021 - 11.2021
Accounting Coordinator
Heartland Automation
09.2020 - 05.2021
Graduate Accountant II
State of Kentucky CHFS DAIL Dept of Aging and Independent Living
07.2018 - 09.2020
Graduate Accountant I
State of Kentucky CHFS- DGA- Payables and Travel
10.2017 - 07.2018
Accounting/ Accounts Payable Clerk
Ball Homes Inc.
02.2014 - 10.2017
Bank Teller and Customer Service Representative
First State Financial Bank
05.2011 - 02.2014
Bachelor of Science Degree Accounting -
University of the Cumberlands
High School Graduate -
Henry Clay High School
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