•Supervise accounts payable activities, ensuring thorough documentation and verification of invoices, while conducting comprehensive financial analyses, including monthly journal entries, account reconciliations, and balance sheet reviews.•Review contracts for lease agreements, vendor services, and purchase orders to ensure stringent compliance with company policies, and contribute to the development and implementation of robust internal controls for precise financial reporting and regulatory compliance.•Lead the department’s financial operations, encompassing reporting, accounting, billing, collections, payroll, and budgeting, while providing strategic guidance on accounting and budgeting policies to enhance financial governance.•Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with banking, insurance, and external accounting personnel to streamline and optimize financial activities, resolving general ledger variances and discrepancies with precision.

•Efficiently oversee the entire accounts payable process, ensuring timely and accurate payment of invoices. •Diligently manage the accounts receivable function, including billing, collections, and the recording of incoming payments. •Conduct regular reconciliations of the accounts receivable ledger to ensure accuracy. •Accurately process payroll for all employees, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.

•Resolved payment discrepancies by communicating with vendors and developed strong working relationships to enhance efficiency.•Paid vendors by confirming accurate checks, scheduling payments, and ensuring precise coding and entry of invoices into the accounting system.•Analyzed and reconciled vendor statements, researched discrepancies between purchase orders and invoices, and provided customer service for accounts payable inquiries.•Reconciled monthly credit card statements against budget allocations, ensuring accurate figures, postings, and proper codes.•Calculated and prepared checks for utilities, taxes, and other payments, and prepared purchase orders and expense reports.