Sales Audit Associate
CurrentComplete monthly cash reconciliation for over 65 North American retail stores.Conduct timely, continuous review, research and corrections to global daily sales audit exceptions for over 140 global locations to allow timely processing of financial information in the general ledger. By use of continuous accounting principles, responsible for early identification and resolution to potential issues that could would impact month-end accounting processes.Provide to management, identification for possible areas for improvement at the retail operations level to improve cash control and issues affecting accounting department. Provide retail district management teams, potential issues affecting customer and employee fraud. Responsible for the design and implementation of sales audit rules through the Oracle Retail SystemRespond and mitigate loss of North American retails store locations by providing prompt response and challenges to credit card chargebacks. In first 7 months of taking this task, helped reduce losses by customer chargebacks by over $100,000 compared to same period previous year. Identified, and reported retail store procedure weakness of credit card acceptance process, mitigating approximately $75,000 - $80,000 in further losses. Reduced further losses by identifying fraudulent purchase of brand gift cards in FY 2017 of approximate $53,000.