TERESA WALES
Southfield,MI
Summary
Highly adaptable team player seeking challenges, aiming to contribute skills and experience to drive company growth.
Detail-oriented financial professional with a strong background in technology and data management. Skilled in quantitative analysis and a wide range of technical tools including SAP Business Objects, Microsoft Access (SQL), Oracle PeopleSoft Query, and Excel Power Query/Pivot. Experienced in supply chain and financial ERP process design, testing, and implementation with Lawson, Coupa, SAP, and PeopleSoft. Effective communicator of complex information across organizational levels. Focused on risk management and achieving optimal outcomes.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Financial Analyst, SCM Finance
Trinity Healthcare
Livonia, MI
09.2019 - Current
- Managed revenue-generating banking payable programs by overseeing banking and supplier relationships, as well as conducting program campaigns.
- Directly aided in growing revenue base from $5M in 2016 to $21M in 2023
- Developed annual budget for revenue programs and responsible for variance analysis on program rebates, departmental costs, and other related duties as required.
- Responsible for loss mitigation for revenue programs, including the development of key initiatives to circumvent revenue loss.
- Manage the system-wide purchasing card program, overseeing 52 program administrators across the US, 3,000 accounts, and $50M in annual spend. Responsible for Corporate Card user group and leads Corporate Card Monthly Meetings.
- Essential responsibilities included policy drafting, implementation for new acquisitions, development and maintenance of training/program material, and technical setup and support of the bank-provided electronic card management platform.
- Served as project manager of the ongoing accounts payable recovery audit and associated internal processing, tracking, and reporting for management.
- Subject matter expert and functional support for finance data tables across information systems within Supply Chain and Finance, and performed quantitative analysis of financial and business data for decision support to senior leadership.
- Provided analytical support and interpretations of operating trends in monthly dashboards for rebate programs.
- Processes bi-monthly cash sweeps to all the RHM's within PeopleSoft.
Financial Analyst, SCM Finance
Trinity Healthcare
Livonia, MI
03.2016 - 09.2019
- Responsible for the operations involving the company's cash management program
- Supports and maintains the cash management vendor programs
- Assists in monthly financial close including preparation of various reports
- Assists in conducting financial and business related studies and cooperates with other departments in gathering data and preparing analyses
- Supports and works with the sourcing and unified accounts payable department as part of Supply Chain
- Global administrator for the Corporate Card
- Program
- Through Bank of America and PNC bank
- Proving support to Regional Health Ministries
- Responsible for downloading and downloading weekly funding requests and reports
- Processing various types of invoice and payment file uploads
- Managing payment failure tracking.
Senior Accounts Payable Specialist
Trinity Healthcare
Livonia, MI
06.2015 - 03.2016
- Using Lawson, responsible for process management of problems that prevent payment of invoices
- Analysis, review and resolution of 3 way match problems, Edi, open payables and pay cycle process
- Processing credits and returns
- Ensuring adequate controls to safeguard the corporation assets and prevent duplicate payments and unauthorized payments
- Identify invoice problems; analyze root causes and works with administrators to initiate resolutions
- Open payables call log tickets
- Reviewing vendor statements and utilizing the vendor statement tool comparison
- Processing possible duplicate payment report and open payables reports
- Facilitate communication between vendors and departments.
Accounts Payable and Receivable
Tektronix, Inc.
Beaverton, OR
12.2010 - 03.2015
- Entering and coding A/P invoices, debit and credit memos in Oracle
- Full process of converting vendors to vendor payment credit card program including reconciliation of accounts
- Process and post A/R credit card payments
- Issuing P-cards and P-card audit process
- Receiving and applying all AR lockbox cash, ach and international wires in different currencies using Bank of America cash pro and Pay mode
- Processing and reviewing vendor's sales tax certificates
- Entering adjustments and credit memos including intercompany adjustments and journals
- Processing A/R refunds.
Accounting Clerk
Karman & Company, Inc
Santa Barbara, CA
12.2008 - 09.2010
- Entering A/P, A/R Invoices and credit memos in American Contractor Software
- Reporting inventory
- Assisting in Payroll and timecard entry
- English Interpreter for Spanish speaking employees
- Managing vendor accounts, generating weekly on demand checks
- Obtaining sales licenses and entering monthly sales tax reports for various cities and states
- Ensured compliance with accounting deadlines
- Prepared company accounts and tax returns for audit
- Processing sales orders and purchase orders
- Generating and mailing 1099 forms.
Bilingual Logistics Coordinator
American Communications
Santa Barbara, CA
05.2007 - 11.2008
- Coordinating shipments between accounting, sales and shipping department
- Translations English-Spanish and vice versa
- Open items reports
- Prepare and update monthly logistics
- Process sales orders, purchase orders, RMA’s and VRMA’s
- Arrange warehousing and transportation of products to customers
- Freight bill claims
- Customs forms and licenses utilizing Microsoft Great Plains
- Verify accuracy of physical inventory
- Place orders for equipment and provisions
- Processing commercial invoices for international customers.
International Administrative Assistant
Integrated Procurement Technologies
Santa Barbara, CA
08.2005 - 05.2007
- Download daily open procurement contract opportunities from various international and national websites
- Entering sales orders and purchase orders in Pentagon Software
- Preparing and entering online bids
- Purchase order expediting
- Translations English-Spanish and vice versa
- Prepared weekly confidential sales reports for presentation to management
- Managed the internal and external mail functions
- Provided telephone support
- Scheduled client appointments and maintained up-to-date confidential client files.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Tourism Business Management -
CEU Luis Vives University Business School
Madrid01.2003
Master of Science in Finance -
Northeastern University
Boston, MANotary Public -
State of Oregon
OregonSkills
- Bilingual English-Spanish
- Microsoft Office suite
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
- Word
- Excel
- Lawson
- PeopleSoft
- Oracle
- Great Plains
- SAP
- QuickBooks
- Pentagon
- Wave
- Business Objects
- Access
- Team player
- Challenges
- Self-motivated
- Highly adaptable
- Precise
- Auditing procedures
- Business Operations Analysis
- Corporate cost reduction
- Financial Management
Awards
- Inspire Award at Tektronix, Inc. Part of Danaher Corporation for converting 107 vendors to Vendor payment credit card plan in 2014.
- Inspire Award at Tektronix, Inc. part of Danaher Corporation 2013 for converting 74 vendors to vendor payment credit card 2013
Timeline
Senior Financial Analyst, SCM Finance
Trinity Healthcare
09.2019 - Current
Financial Analyst, SCM Finance
Trinity Healthcare
03.2016 - 09.2019
Senior Accounts Payable Specialist
Trinity Healthcare
06.2015 - 03.2016
Accounts Payable and Receivable
Tektronix, Inc.
12.2010 - 03.2015
Accounting Clerk
Karman & Company, Inc
12.2008 - 09.2010
Bilingual Logistics Coordinator
American Communications
05.2007 - 11.2008
International Administrative Assistant
Integrated Procurement Technologies
08.2005 - 05.2007
Bachelor of Arts in Tourism Business Management -
CEU Luis Vives University Business School
Master of Science in Finance -
Northeastern University
Notary Public -
State of Oregon
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