Shawn Barker
East Orange,NJ
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Specialist
Noodle Partners
04.2024 - Current
- Manage entire AP cycle encompassing vendor onboarding, invoice processing, and scheduling payments for all payment methods.
- Managed internal controls for vendor onboarding requirements, vendor contract collection, invoice workflow updates, and vendor profile updates.
- Developed monthly spend reports to track spend in order to align with company budget to assist with P&L flux analysis.
- Evaluated all company T&E expenses, discovering potential cost-saving measures. Introduced revised expense policy aimed at reducing unnecessary spending in key areas.
- Executed financial reporting, managing prepaid accounts, schedules, reconciliations, and month-end accruals.
- Executed annual audits by generating schedules and collecting and consolidating invoice information. In addition, to ownership of the yearly 1099 process.
- Accountable for all configurations during Ramp implementation of Bill pay, Procurement, Treasury, and Expense reimbursements.
- Effectively communicated with clients about payment needs and kept updated, detailed and accurate ledgers.
- Developed reports for senior management to outline expenditures, vendor spend, and forecasting.
Accountant
Healthfirst
02.2019 - 06.2023
- Prepared and processed journal entries to record in general ledger and maintain consistent documentation as part of monthly financial close across multiple entities
- Account reconciliations and reported monthly P&L flux analysis and variances including revenue with explanations
- Collaborated with senior leaders to create operating budgets and initiate financial planning
- Queried data and developed detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and create revenue and expense forecasts
- Queried data from data warehouse using SQL to generate reports to validate data used in financial reporting
- Collaborated with internal departmental FP&A & Billing teams to create operating budgets, review comparison to actuals and initiate financial planning forecasting
- Participated in internal and external audit processes to establish accurate financial records and comply with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and regulatory requirements.
Accounts Payable Team Lead
Healthfirst
03.2016 - 02.2019
- Received vendor invoices, validated for accuracy, and routed for approval to prepare for payment processing
- Reconciled company bank, credit card and line of credit accounts, investigating and resolving discrepancies to keep accounts audit ready
- Reviewed detailed expense reports to facilitate reimbursement in accordance to T&E policy
- Identified opportunities and risks in accounts payable process to improve standard operating procedures
- Served as SME during NetSuite to Workday ERP implementation based on accounting requirements and user needs, assisting with system builds, testing and deliverables
- Configured T&E module of Workday and assisted with update to company expense policy.
Education
Bachelor Of Arts - Psychology
California University of Pennsylvania
California, PA05-2010
Skills
- Complex Reconciliations
- P&L Flux Analysis
- Trend Analysis
- Financial Management and Reporting
- GAAP Accounting Practices
- High Attention to Detail
- Vendor Management
- Internal controls
- Process improvements
- Relationship building
- Financial Modeling
- AI Automation
- System Implementation
- Revenue and Expense forecasting
Timeline
Accounting Specialist
Noodle Partners
04.2024 - Current
Accountant
Healthfirst
02.2019 - 06.2023
Accounts Payable Team Lead
Healthfirst
03.2016 - 02.2019
Bachelor Of Arts - Psychology
California University of Pennsylvania
Systems
- Workday, Netsuite, Concur (AP & Expese), Ramp, Coupa, Ascend, Tableau, Blackline, Excel (pivot tables, vlookups, xlookups), Google Suites, and SQL.