Overview
Work History
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VANESSA WASHINGTON

Summerville,SC

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Accountant

Arkwin Industries
Westbury, NY
07.2023 - 01.2025
  • Managed the AP function, including processing accounts payable invoices in Visual
  • Collaborated with purchasing and other dept to resolve discrepancies and vendor issues
  • Review uninvoiced receipts for old receipts on a monthly basis or as needed
  • Download weekly freight bills and company retail cards statements to AP inbox
  • Maintain daily invoices in Square 9
  • Process payments weekly on utilities sites
  • Prepare and process approved wire forms to pay special suppliers and/or international vendors into PNC
  • Updated Utilities spreadsheets monthly
  • File NYS utilities sales and use tax returns quarterly
  • Prepare and print weekly check runs
  • Manage and maintain Certify expense reporting/reimbursement process
  • Prepare journal entries and balance sheet recs for credit cards, vacation accrual and purchase receipts
  • Record financial transactions by journal entries into the system

Accounts Payable Administrator

AMETEK HUGHES-TREITLER
Garden City, NY
01.2010 - 07.2023
  • Match, verify, code and process inventory and expense invoices for 2 divisions in Oracle
  • Reconcile and resolve disputes and variances with suppliers
  • Develop relationships with suppliers
  • Collaborate with purchasing and receiving to reconcile and resolve unvouched receiving items
  • Maintained accounts payable files
  • Code and approve freight & duty invoices on the third-party system
  • Manage weekly preliminary and final checks run in an organized and timely manner
  • Verify and approve employee Purchasing and Travel expenses in Concur
  • Prepare and maintain Excel spreadsheets
  • Prepare monthly AP manual accrual for credit cards and unvouched invoices
  • Work with recent technology such as UiPath for more streamline automation
  • Set up a new vendor in Oracle and provide vendors with tax exempt forms as needed
  • Process and prepare manual checks for quarterly School & Property Sales Tax
  • Prepare 1099 Forms
  • Update standard cost and cost rollup weekly

Accounts Payable Administrator

World Alliance Financial
Melville, NY
09.2008 - 01.2010
  • Processing invoices daily into Peachtree
  • Reconciling vendor accounts weekly
  • Established new vendor accounts and maintained files
  • Process and ran aging for weekly check runs and monthly rent payments
  • Process and reconciled Corporate American Express account monthly
  • Process employees' expense report twice a month for reimbursements
  • Post wire transfers for payments weekly
  • Assisted the Controller periodically with special projects

Account Payable, Lead

THE ERGONOMIC GROUP
Westbury, NY
09.2003 - 07.2008
  • Input utility bills and invoices into accounting (ABACUS) system
  • Reconciled purchase orders to invoices and ensured correct g/l coding
  • Verified accuracy
  • Maintained files, including establishing new vendors and maintaining vendor numbers
  • Process employee monthly expense reimbursements
  • Process and run check twice a month for garnishments
  • Process monthly rent payments
  • Ran aging for weekly checks
  • Process and post-tax payments and wire transfers weekly
  • Researched discrepancies with vendors requested refund on credit accounts
  • Post-manual checks monthly
  • Post and printed all supporting documents for monthly closings

Accounts Payable Clerk

SIGNAL TRANSFORMER
Inwood, NY
01.2000 - 08.2002
  • Primary duties and responsibilities were to process various accounting records
  • Verified accuracy
  • Input accounts payable data in accounting system: research/match-supporting documents
  • Maintained accounts payable file including establishing new vendors, maintained uniform vendor numbers
  • Generated checks weekly and ran check register monthly
  • Ran checks for expenses, petty cash, and garnishments twice a week for various departments
  • Assisted the Controller periodically with special projects
  • Assisted Account Receivable with bank deposits and posting when needed

Timeline

Staff Accountant

Arkwin Industries
07.2023 - 01.2025

Accounts Payable Administrator

AMETEK HUGHES-TREITLER
01.2010 - 07.2023

Accounts Payable Administrator

World Alliance Financial
09.2008 - 01.2010

Account Payable, Lead

THE ERGONOMIC GROUP
09.2003 - 07.2008

Accounts Payable Clerk

SIGNAL TRANSFORMER
01.2000 - 08.2002
VANESSA WASHINGTON