Committed Accounting Manager with 15 years of experience in the Accounting field. Multitasks and successfully handled up to $70M AR. Proactive and goal driven with excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Manager
Expeditors International of WA
01.2022 - Current
Managed a team of two supervisors and nine agents.
Maintained effective collaboration and teamwork within the Accounting department while having team members in 3 different buildings.
Worked with all departments to develop strategies that minimized the bad debt impact, improved collections, and strengthened our financial stability.
Verified discrepancies and resolved clients' billing issues
Provided exceptional customer service by addressing client inquiries promptly and professionally.
Streamlined month-end closing procedures resulting in reduced processing time without compromising accuracy or completeness of the reports generated.
Completed monthly and quarterly internal audits.
Accounts Receivable Supervisor
Expeditors International of WA
10.2018 - 12.2021
Daily review and follow up on reserve items, send out bad debt report daily to give the branch visibility of what is pending
Have weekly meetings with all products to review ops actions and escalate to upper management when necessary
Managed several high priority accounts worth $20M while supervising team of 4 agents
Reduced credits on AR from $2M to $500K
Work with Sales and Products to ensure every customer has established credit
Reduced aged file count on Housebill Accruals and Revenue Recognition report
Financial review of Margin Analysis, MTD, QTD, and YTD
Assisted Accounting Manager on month end duties: Expense Review, Service Center accrual and monthly payment, Labor and Security accrual, Files over $10K reporting and comment retention, Distribution Occupancy Reclass, and Distribution Cost Allocation
Completion of annual reviews and quarterly 1:1s with AR team
Trained and developed team in service center
Knowledgeable on Expeditors internal control policies: System access and Termination audit, IDM Employee status audit, MRC/RRM review, Credit Provisions over 90 audit, receipt audit, and disbursement audits
Accounting Support - Imports
Expeditors International of WA
02.2018 - 10.2018
Supported product in reviewing and resolving AR issues and was successful in reducing their bad debt impact
Assist Product Manager in resolving payables issues
Continue to manage the high priority AR accounts: HPE, HPI, Delphi, Aptiv, and Mahle
Accounts Receivable Agent
Expeditors International of WA
08.2015 - 02.2018
Managed high priority accounts such as HPE, HPI, Delphi, Aptiv, and Mahle
Consistently reviewed all invoices on each account weekly to ensure invoices were received and customers were processing invoices for payment
Followed up with the customer and escalated to product as needed
Contacted customers with past due invoices to secure payment dates
Posted all incoming payments received daily
Effective liaison between customers and internal departments
Investigated and resolved customer inquiries and complaints quickly
Accounting Specialist
CEVA Logistics Inc.
01.2010 - 08.2015
Monitored status of accounts receivable and payable to facilitate prompt processing
Followed up with clients to secure payment dates on all open AR invoices
Sent out a weekly recap to upper management on open AR and current issues
Entered and received Purchase Orders into Oracle system
Communicated with suppliers to reconcile invoice payments
Managed payroll operations for team of 50 employees
Skills
Highly Organized
Experience in Leadership and Management
Experience in Accounting Operations
Honest and Dependable
Efficient
Accomplishments
Successful completion of the Expeditors Leadership Course
Successful completion of the Expeditors Supervisor Program
Successful completion of Assessing Employee Performance Program