Natercia Fernandes

• Performed Journal Entries for month-end and year-end close for Grocery Division.

• Analyze and maintain Period End Grocery Bottom Lines
• Maintain and tie out Balance Sheet schedules.
• Train coworkers on Excel4Apps (Wands) to streamline Oracle data retrieval, account reconciliations and reporting.
  • Helped department shorten monthly close from 12 days to 8 days.
  • Maintained Chart of Accounts in Oracle, supporting new accounts, departments, and locations.
• Prepare and email Frozen Weekly Subsidies to Procurement, streamlined by creating macros in Excel to reduce process time by more than half.
  • Prepared Vendor Price Plus and Digital Coupon Billing.
  • Prepared Frozen Diverter Sales & Gains File, streamlined by eliminating non-value added activities.
  • Reconciled Income & Subsidy between Gain Report and Ledger.
  • Prepared Promo Fund Summary for Quarter End Reporting for the Frozen Division Procurement, enabling informed decision-making based on reliable data.
• Train SAP to end users

• Worked closely with the Finance Leadership team to make sure that the scope and direction of the project was on schedule.
• Led General Ledger portion of Infor-to-Oracle transformation.
• Coordinated training sessions and meetings with finance teams and executive leadership.
• Mapped old system accounts to Oracle Chart of Accounts.
• Validated and tied out conversion data, reports, and tested interface conversions.
• Created streamlined Excel4Apps reports for AP and GL, simplifying reconciliation and reporting.
• Collaborated on year-end accrual processes and complex reconciliations.
• Key contributor on high-profile projects such as the new Instacart reconciliation, assisted the Manager of Tax with mapping old to new GL in UNICAP calculation, and other system process improvements, .

• Yearly Floral Sales & Operational Budget
• Provide monthly and quarterly Produce Division promotional funding reporting to Procurement, enabling informed decision-making based on reliable data; prepared invoices/deductions for promo funds.
• Prepared monthly journal entries and maintain account reconciliations for the Produce Division
• Analyze and maintain Period End Produce Bottom Lines
• Prepared and maintained weekly gross profit, sales, and export reports for Perishables.
• Managed gains/losses, cost corrections, and warehouse inventory control.
• Maintained balance sheet schedules and prepared monthly inventory and ledger reconciliations.

• Oversaw accounting operations for eight departments tracking $70M+ in third-party income.
• Managed AP/AR, general ledger, schedules, and operating budgets.
• Directed and trained accounting staff; prepared journal entries and reconciliations.
• Presented monthly financial results and variance analysis to managers and executives.

• Directed staff in AP, AR, general ledger, and schedules.
• Prepared weekly circular billing for members and managed marketing program administration.
• Provided Budget vs. Actual reporting and variance explanations to Advertising VPs.
• Updated circular schedules, managed new store openings, and supported member accruals.
• Managed advertising budgets and reporting for Marketing Segments.

• Payroll – Kronos system sign-offs for Wakefern associates at the Southern Perishables warehouse and the Frozen warehouse.
• General Ledger responsibilities - Commercial Bakery general ledger journal entries and period-end closings. Journal entries related to Paper Reclamation operation, Grocery West labor expenses, and Grocery Product Reclamation.
• Commercial Bakery Promotional Income and Expenses - Deposit vendor checks and process Vendor deductions in RAPID as instructed by Commercial Bakery category manager. Run weekly Price Plus expense report in QMF system and send report to Category Manager. Prepare and distribute weekly summary report of Promotional income and expenses.
• Grocery West labor invoice – Verify and process for payment by wire for weekly invoice payable to third party for labor expenses at the Grocery West warehouse.
• Paper Reclamation operation - Maintain log of paper bales sent to the recycling company. Post income received via electronic funds for paper bales to log bales sent to the recycling company. Reconcile open receivables at fiscal period-end and prepare accrual journal entry. Prepare and distribute period-end Income Statement for the Paper Reclamation operation. Prepare monthly bale report by store utilizing QMF system.
• Southern Perishables Warehouse Operations Report – Compile information received from warehouse manager into template for weekly distribution
• Special projects such as employee survey coordination to improve workplace satisfaction and implemented action plans with management.

• Performed journal entries, reconciliations, and general ledger support for the Grocery Logistics Division.
• Weekly Flash Sales Reports
• Weekly Cost Per Piece Reports
• Prepared Paper Reclamation Income Statement for Management
• Process 3rd Party labor invoice – Verify and process for payment for weekly invoice payable to third party for labor expenses.