Venice, CA Accounts Receivables Temporary Consultant• Made calls and sent email notifications pertaining to collections.• Thoroughly reviewed and updated weekly aged receivables reporting based on collection efforts.• Processed credit applications and set up initial terms on accounts based on level of authority.• Drafted and sent demand letters & payment plan proposals on delinquent accounts and unresponsive clients.Playa Vista, CA Billing Supervisor Temporary Consultant• Managed Accounting email in-box and responded to client email inquiries accordingly. • Prepared, adjusted and sent invoices and account statements to clients on a monthly & quarterly basis.

• Managed collection and AR activities for an assigned portfolio of accounts, including contacting Sales colleagues and customers for unresolved balances.• Evaluated status of accounts based on a thorough review of weekly aged receivables reporting.• Adjusted credit terms on accounts based on level of authority.• Approved and places credit holds on or releases credit holds on sales orders based on customer account status and level of authority.• Researched and resolve open deductions on accounts pertaining to shortage, freight, pricing, advertising, damage, and trade spend disputes. • Prepared credit and debit memo requests and issue adjustments within level of authority.• Teamed with Sales in the research of customer disputes and deductions, following through to resolution in the form of collection or credit issuance.

• Responsible for billing and collecting commercial production fees from advertising agencies & clients.• Manage all aspects of AR aged receivables reporting & daily/weekly AR reports for the executive management team.• Collaborate with management team regarding cash flow, forecasting and budgeting.• Approve and upload all production actuals prior to wrap meetings. • Partner with internal (Production teams, Talent Management) and external (ad agencies, record labels, client-direct) customers to reconcile accounts as well as resolve outstanding issues. • Update & maintain the Job Information spreadsheet for the Accounting team.• Collect, review and approve all overages, cost plus back up, & purchase orders on internal charges received by Production.• Reconcile all cost plus elements, organize/distribute cost plus back up & final bill actualized costs based on CP reconciliation.

Accounts Receivables Accountant• Collecting box office admissions reporting & invoicing over 300 exhibitors on a weekly basis.• Providing assistance & resolution to external and internal client inquires.• Interfacing with sales, legal and business development departments to ensure all amounts due to the company have been invoiced & collected.• Communicating with past due customers to resolve issues & outstanding balances. • Maintaining & updating A/R reports: i.e., total receivables, incoming and outstanding payments. • Assisting in month-end & fiscal year close procedures.• Providing reporting & documentation as required for audit, bank financing and/or company requests.

• Trained & mentored two in-house Analysts and three Analysts at a third party accounting firm as well as new hires during the on-boarding process.• Served on & lead department training manual cross functional team for creating, drafting and formatting the department training manual.• Managed an A/R portfolio that included top 10 accounts (Target, Best Buy, and Ingram Ent.) for timely & persistent collections, deduction reconciliation and dispute resolution.• Interfaced closely with Front-End Operations and Financial Operations in analyzing, collecting, and reconciling account discrepancies as well as provide support to the Sales group when necessary. • Monitored proper allocation of cash receipts and assisted the Cash Application Group by providing and/or obtaining payment remittance detail from Accounts Payable. • Prepared and presented weekly invoice trend reports, bi-weekly deduction reconciliation reports, high risk reports and other various management reports.• Made recommendations on restructuring and negotiated debt settlement arrangements of aging receivables, discrepancies and delinquent accounts.

• Responsible for the Accounts Receivable portfolio of Domestic Syndication customers through collections.• Reconciled open items including invoices and partial payments with an annual reconciliation upward of $160MM.• Interfaced closely with Sales, Billing, Cash Apps, and customer Accounts Payables in analyzing, collecting and reconciling accounts.• Monitored proper allocation of cash receipts and assisted the Cash Application Group by providing and/or obtaining supporting documents from Sales and A/P.Performed thorough credit analysis on all accounts.• Partnered with Credit Manager to forecast, analyze and distribute critical management reports for month-end.

• Prepared and mailed film rental statements for 60 theatrical circuits with over 700 theatres; maintained detailed files on exhibitor accounts.• Applied and adjusted money received from exhibitors in Theatrical Distribution database daily.• Drafted and submitted correspondence to exhibitors.• Collaborated directly with Theatrical Sales, Booking, & Print Control staff to maintain and update exhibitor accounts on current and upcoming releases.• Collected and processed box office reports.• Reduced accounts receivable by collecting delinquent payments and box office reports.