Deborah Ames Email & Phone Number

Alameda

Alameda, CA

Solely responsible for all aspects of Royalty Accounting at Celera. Developed a database and systematic approach to ensure timely and accurate payment of up-front license fees, milestones, annual minimums, quarterly royalty payments and reporting obligations to licensors. In-depth knowledge of contractual obligations for complicated and varied Intellectual.

Alameda, CA

Interpreted contracts for financial implications, calculated accruals, analyzed variances, queried /extracted SAP data and created complex Microsoft excel workbooks (using v-lookup and pivot tables) on a daily basis. Calculated a complicated high exposure quarterly revenue adjustment under tight deadlines. Accuracy and methodology verified by audit..

San Leandro, CA

Reviewed royalty contracts and calculated quarterly royalty payments. Discovered prior period overpayments to 18 licensors resulting in $144,000 in royalty offsets. Analyzed 23 months of source data (factory purchase orders, accounts payable invoices, customer purchase orders, and customer invoices) in response to audit inquiry and created a Microsoft.

Concord, CA

While at Chevron USA Production Company I was one of three principle members of an interdisciplinary team that developed new work processes, organizational alignment, and manpower recommendations for a group of 300 employees in anticipation of conversion to a new accounting system (SAP). I quickly learned the capabilities of the new system, studied.