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Rochelle Sanders

Summary

Strategic Finance Manager with a proven track record in enhancing productivity and efficiency. Expertise in financial analysis, budget management, and risk assessment to foster growth and sustainability. Strong communication and leadership skills facilitate navigation of complex financial environments and achievement of organizational goals.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Production Finance Supervisor

Omnicom Productions, LLC
Los Angeles
09.2022 - Current
  • Support and collaborate with the Production Team, Business Affairs, and Intercompany partners with Finance and Accounting needs.
  • Point of contact for all finance and accounting escalations.
  • Update company-wide finance policies, procedures, and deadlines in the Jira system.
  • Monitor all internal and external matters, and requests received from three different email aliases, to ensure resolutions and response times.
  • Provide training and direction to support four full-time staff members: two billers, assign, review, and approve all invoicing to ensure accuracy; production finance analyst, supervise the closing of projects and the accuracy of information provided in billing meetings; AP specialist, review and approve invoices and credit card entries and coding.
  • Create a process for billing purchase orders, production project review, project status reports, PSR billing meetings, collections, accounts payable, and credit cards, as well as credit card coding for a seamless and timely workflow that significantly improved AP payments and invoice entry by 40%, WIP by 80%, and AR and collections by 60%.
  • Construct AP, WIP, AR, collections, and intercompany reporting, and accuracy.
  • Building and implementing project status reports to calculate accurate revenue.
  • Assist with rush payments, vendor and customer setup, and credit checks in the Credit Voyager system.
  • View project budgets and contracts for revenue, profit.
  • Administer quality controls, ensuring GAAP compliance, network AP, and client billing requirements.
  • Point of contact for the shared services teams and Network CFO for processing, reporting inquiries, and audit backup.
  • Coordinated audits and facilitated communication with external auditors.

Finance Manager

MH-VCCP
09.2019 - 09.2022
  • Support and collaborate with Account Management, Production, and Media teams bi-weekly on the development and tracking of project budgets, while highlighting key issues that may impact profitability, and accurately recognize revenue for the month.
  • Facilitate finance operations, reporting, and business operations with the CFO.
  • Build a capital project financial analysis tool to compare project expenses to the budget, to identify overruns and changes.
  • Generate client project cost transfers and splits, WIP JEs, and cost allocations, along with analytics for revenue-related accounts.
  • Coordinate intercompany agreements with sister agencies to establish shared costs or shared revenues.
  • Maintain billing schedules and client collections.
  • Analyze project expenses, identify areas of improvement, and ensure audit backup for all transactions.
  • Financial planning and analysis for existing and new client contracts.
  • Manage all aspects of accounting, including journal entries, account reconciliations, month-end close process, budget preparation, and bi-weekly cash forecasts.
  • Improved balance sheet reconciliation, both in timeliness and accuracy, helped achieve 6 audit adjustments compared to 25 or more adjustments in previous years.
  • Implement controls, and improve the procure-to-pay flow and purchase order creation.
  • Workamajig ERP implementation and company-wide Workamajig mentor and guide.
  • Realigned the AP process; developed paperless invoicing, expense reports, credit card coding, and the approval process.
  • Process payroll for the San Francisco and New York offices, approx. 100 employees.
  • Vendor setup and maintenance, credit card application, and invoice processing.

General Ledger Accountant

4505 Meats
02.2018 - 01.2019
  • Support and collaborate with Production and Intercompany teams with business needs.
  • Resolve all internal and external matters, and requests received from three different email aliases.
  • Provide training and direction support to three full-time staff members: Biller: Assign, review, and approve all invoicing to ensure accuracy; Production Finance Analyst: Supervise the closing of projects and the accuracy of information provided in billing meetings; AP Specialist: Review and approve invoices and credit card entries and coding.
  • Create a process for billing purchase orders, production project review, project status reports, PSR billing meetings, collections, accounts payable, and credit cards, and credit card coding for a seamless and timely workflow.
  • Maintain WIP, AR, collections, and intercompany reporting.
  • Building and implementing project status reports to calculate accurate revenue.
  • Assist with Rush payments, vendor, and customer setup.
  • View project budgets and contracts for revenue, profit.
  • Administer quality controls, ensuring GAAP compliance, network AP, and client billing requirements.

Billing/ Accounts Receivable Specialist

Optimizely
10.2016 - 02.2018
  • Manage companywide billings (1,000+/month), accounts receivables; daily payment application: credit card: Stripe for USD, EUR, and GBP currencies, and ACH, lockbox.
  • Lead Collections, including two part-time Collections Specialists.
  • Produce daily invoicing through bill runs and vendor submissions in NetSuite and Zuora.
  • Review and process contracts in Salesforce to ensure accuracy for billing schedules, products, and legal changes.
  • Develop and implement training systems, and work cross-functionally with Engineering, Sales, and Legal teams on various projects.
  • Research and resolve revenue discrepancies.
  • Provide accurate ad hoc reporting and monthly revenue recognition.

Billing Specialist

Pandora Media
05.2015 - 10.2016
  • Audit contacts in Salesforce to ensure the accuracy of billing (500-700 per month), and analyze and upload third-party impression reporting.
  • Communicate cross-functionally with the credit and collections team on delinquent accounts, troubleshoot with the Engineering team for Oracle Cloud implementation, reporting, and server issues, and collaborate with the Sales team for contract accuracy.

Education

Accounting And Finance -

California State Universtiy
Hayward, CA

Associate of arts- AA - Liberal arts and sciences/ Liberal studies

City College of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Skills

  • Strategic planning and financial management
  • Effective communication
  • Problem solving
  • Attention to detail
  • Team collaboration
  • Analytical thinking
  • Budget oversight
  • Leadership development
  • Accounting optimization
  • Organizational skills
  • Excel and Google Sheets proficiency
  • Workamajig and Zuora expertise
  • NetSuite and SAP knowledge
  • Oracle and QuickBooks proficiency
  • Salesforce and Dynamics AX experience
  • Billing cycle management
  • Accounts receivable and payable management

Timeline

Production Finance Supervisor

Omnicom Productions, LLC
09.2022 - Current

Finance Manager

MH-VCCP
09.2019 - 09.2022

General Ledger Accountant

4505 Meats
02.2018 - 01.2019

Billing/ Accounts Receivable Specialist

Optimizely
10.2016 - 02.2018

Billing Specialist

Pandora Media
05.2015 - 10.2016

Accounting And Finance -

California State Universtiy

Associate of arts- AA - Liberal arts and sciences/ Liberal studies

City College of San Francisco

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