Renita Draper
Accounts Payable Specialist
Sherman Oaks,CA
Summary
Extensive experience in Accounts Payable: Pay cycle processing and reconciliation, Month End Processing, Vendor Setup and Issue Resolution; Demonstrated experience in managing small work teams and developing training for Accounts Payable Policy and Procedures. Maintained files for 1099 and W8BEN vendors. Worked with 2 and 3 way PO matching. Industries with work experience, Manufacturing, Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Automotive, and Nonprofit.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
AP Accountant
Community Health Councils DBA Rising Communities
03.2023 - 05.2025
- Monitor AP email inbox for all incoming Payment Request Forms (PRF’s)
- Review and process all PRF forms in Sage Intacct
- Kick back any incorrect PRF’s
- Setup up new vendors in Sage Intacct and forward W9 and banking information to payroll
- Prepare aging report for vendor payments
- Select vendors from approved aging report for payment in Sage Intacct
- Print vendor checks from Sage Intacct
- Create Amex excel spreadsheets and reconcile charges
- Process Amex charge off in Sage Intacct
- Assist with audit process as necessary
- Assist vendor with payment inquiries
- Assist with remote bank deposits as necessary
- Maintain lists for employee expense reimbursements
- Maintain list for 1099 vendor payments
- Completed Accounts Payable desk procedures manual
Accounting Financial Analyst
Beacon Hill Staffing Disney Hulu
07.2022 - 11.2022
- Process invoices for 5 marketing expenditures
- Research past due invoices for payment due dates
- Submitted ticket for research of invoices processed but not found in the system
- Updated invoice trackers for show titles with date processed and request ID number
- Link invoices to the correct invoice trackers
- Assisted with FY23 show title trackers
- Created folder for vendor MSA’s and SOW’s
- Assisted with WBS coding project (completed new and changed WBS creation requests)
Analyst, Planning Analyst & Analytics
Employment RedBull
05.2022 - 07.2022
- Collect information on open, eliminated and relocated positions using VLOOKUP and pivot Tables and passing the collected information to the correct HR person.
Financial Accounting Analyst
Russell Tobin Associates The Walt Disney Company
09.2021 - 04.2022
- Process Accounts Payable invoices for marketing expenditures
- Day-to-day general ledger activities, including preparing journal entries and account reconciliations in accordance with The Walt Disney Company accounting policies and procedures
- Research and prepare explanations for income statement and balance sheet variances for DMED’s Cable Networks
- Compile and analyze reporting for month-end, quarter-end and year-end close including: information related to TWDC quarterly earnings release, 10Q/K disclosures and MD&A (provided requested backup)
- Provide monthly and quarterly close assistance for other accounting team members
- Work closely with Finance and Operations to develop and refine relevant processes and improve efficiency.
- Assist management with ad hoc requests/special projects
- Review and update business process procedures
Accounts Payable Specialist
The Tennis Channel, Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica, CA
10.2012 - 11.2020
- Date stamp daily incoming mail
- Review invoice for past due amounts
- Code non-PO invoices
- Print PO invoice with a PO number
- Process all PO and non-PO invoices (upwards of 150 plus invoices)
- Prepare spreadsheets and pivot table for FedEx invoices and Verizon phone bills
- Prepare batches for weekly check run
- Troubleshoot vendor issues via phone or email
- Review and process expense reports
- Complete vendor maintenance forms for new and existing vendors
- Setup new ACH accounts for new and existing vendors
- Maintain AP vendor files
- Code invoices for monthly rents
- Successfully stepped into Accounts Payable supervisory role for six months – 100% accuracy and on-time check runs, ACH payments, and weekly check printing
- Reduced invoice approval time by 50% through establishment of internal vendor relationships
- Decreased number of past due invoices by requesting vendors send required documentation to the AP inbox vs. an external contact person
- Took initiative to learn how to complete month end accruals in Great Plains
Education
Associate of Arts Degree -
Montgomery College
Rockville, MDSkills
- Great Plains, Oracle, Access, Reynolds & Reynolds, PeopleSoft 71, SAP software, Navision 50, MASS00, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Business Suite, Microsoft 365 Operating knowledge of standard office equipment Teams, Zoom, Asana, and Share Point
- Invoice processing
- ERP systems proficiency
- Expense reporting
- Month-end closing
- Problem resolution
- Payment processing
- Statement review
- Vendor relationship management
- Problem-solving abilities
- Accounts payable
- Professionalism
Timeline
AP Accountant
Community Health Councils DBA Rising Communities
03.2023 - 05.2025
Accounting Financial Analyst
Beacon Hill Staffing Disney Hulu
07.2022 - 11.2022
Analyst, Planning Analyst & Analytics
Employment RedBull
05.2022 - 07.2022
Financial Accounting Analyst
Russell Tobin Associates The Walt Disney Company
09.2021 - 04.2022
Accounts Payable Specialist
The Tennis Channel, Santa Monica, CA
10.2012 - 11.2020
Associate of Arts Degree -
Montgomery College