Amber Carlson Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Paris, Fr

Leads the U.S. accounting function, which includes general accounting, intercompany accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, financial reporting, balance sheet management, and royalty management. Owns the monthly close process, systems close through financial reporting to Air Liquide Group Head Office and Air Liquide Advanced Materials consolidation.

Paris, Fr

Paris, Fr

Supervise a staff of three accountants including those responsible for the Payroll, Intercompany and Corporate G&ACoordinate annual target and quarterly reforecast process and monitor actual spend to budget providing quality information and customer service to assist in managing budgetsResponsible for calculating corporate allocationsWork with external firms to facilitate accounting and monitor results for pension, group medical, ultimate liability, and worker’s compensationResponsible for accounting for income taxes including working with the tax department for various tax accounting issuesReview and approve journal entries ensuring that proper support is providedReview and approve my direct reports balance sheet reconciliations in ARCSEnsure that all departments are adhering to the monthly close calendar deadlines in order to meet our reporting goalsAssist with our external audit requirements and validate that we are providing quality work Assist with internal tax requirements needed to complete Federal and State tax returns

Paris, Fr

•Supervise a staff of three accountants including those responsible for the Payroll and Accounts Receivable subsystem close•Review and approve journal entries ensuring that proper support is provided•Prepare the monthly balance sheet reconciliation responsibility list •Review and approve my direct reports balance sheet reconciliations•Monitor and assist in making changes to the Chart of Accounts•Ensure that all departments are adhering to the monthly close calendar deadlines in order to meet our reporting goals•Responsible for maintaining and preparing the Other Income report monthly•Assist with our external audit and tax reporting requirements and validate that we are providing quality work •Change Operator for our conversion from Oracle 11i to Oracle R12 which went live in July 2015•Trained as backup for Payroll, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable subledger month end close•Involved in campus recruiting for business positions•Trained to use Workday for Payroll month end reporting needs

Paris, Fr

• Produce capital commitment and expenditure reports• Complete analysis of notable projects monthly• Assist in the preparation of board schedules• Responsible for monitoring approved projects to ensure project expenditures are recorded properly and in compliance with Group Policy• Perform journal and project accounting sub-system entries to ensure the Project Accounting system agrees with the General Ledger• Assist in preparing analysis and reporting for Audits, Dossier, and AD HOC requests• Supervise and support the Staff Accountant• Deal closely with the business units to ensure that deferred cost and revenue is correctly applied to projects• Assist in the implementation of the physical inventory of movable fixed assets• Assist in the reconciliation between the physical inventory results and the fixed asset register

Paris, Fr

• Support the day to day AR activities• Responsible for AR audit, tax, and management periodic reports• Prepare monthly AR Flash Reports to meet deadlines• Responsible for AR subsystem to GL reconciliation• Prepare and post journal entries as needed• Setup and implementation of Oracle AR for Mexico and Trinidad and training of personnel• Provide support for Mexico month end AR close process

Paris, Fr

• Posted AR interface to GL• Performed monthly close process• Prepared twenty AR to GL reconciliations in a timely manner• Booked manual journal entries as needed• Coordinated resolution of un-reconciled items• Processed miscellaneous payments, intercompany transfers, returned checks, and unidentified payments• Processed and applied credit card and wire payments• Supported cash applications team as necessary• Prepared Tax, Audit, and Unclaimed Property schedules as needed• Deposited and balanced live checks in office

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• Performed cash application for daily lockbox and daily credit card and ACH deposits• Balanced cash receipts to cash posted on a daily basis• Posted credit card payments to account and applied payments• Reported and researched as required for general ledger account research• Researched and followed up on short/over pays with customers• Prepared deposit batches and remittance for live checks received• Entered adjustment/write-off items onto the accounts as directed

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• Observed/Reviewed and participated in the month-end close cycle and balance sheet reconciliation process• Participated in the weekly projection process• Assisted the accounts payable clerk in processing transactions• Worked within operations to understand the dispatch process• Residential transfer project with cash applier• Processed journal entries• Entered monthly operational statistics• Observed/Prepared a CER (Capital Expenditure Request) package

Bba, Accounting

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