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Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas

Bentonville, Arkansas

Bentonville, Arkansas

Analyze financial data, evaluate trends and financial risk, and make recommendations to business partners based on findings.Use multiple systems such as Retail Link, SAP and Hyperion Essbase to review financials, to obtain relevant reporting needed to determine inventory status at facilities, obtain supplier item detail and history, check supplier invoice status, review supplier agreements, and track POs within the supply chain.Perform complex analysis of claims to reconcile estimated inventory returns to actual using supply chain knowledge to determine any errors or missing data.Identify, recommend, and support projects and the implementation of process improvements, business solutions, and action plans.Create claim receivables, collect payment, and negotiate claims and payments directly with suppliers.Take on additional responsibilities as needed.Achievementso Took a broken and neglected process with an outstanding unbilled balance of $3.2M and through extensive research and analytics made recommendations to business partners to reduce the risk, corrected errors, and then carried out the action plan to bring the process to a current status.o Resolved recurring billing delay issue by investigating and discovering additional available reporting which had been unknown to department and implementing its regular use.o Streamlined direct import store/club inventory return billing which had charges hitting several general ledger accounts sporadically by working with logistics team and tech team to combine all charges into a single general ledger account thereby increasing accuracy and efficiency in billing.o Took on additional responsibility of managing team of ten during peer supervisor’s three month leave of absence and successfully implemented system and process changes during this time while still fulfilling all other critical supervisor responsibilities.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Gathered compliant sub-ledger information from other teams around company.Performed account and profit center reconciliations and analysis adhering to SOX controls, GAAP, and the Corporate Controller’s Recon Policy.Analyzed and researched sub-ledger to general ledger account out of balances, developed and executed action plan to resolve within 60 days, made recommendations and provided training to business areas to address root causes.Met strict deadlines for aging, account fluctuation responses, reconciliations, and month end closing entries.Achievementso Reduced by 81% quarterly average of reconciling items in direct imports account reconciliation through continually focused communication with business area.o Reduced account deferred revenue account reconciliation time by 15% by merging profit center level reconciliations into one larger all-company reconciliation.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Performed manual Excel manipulation of monthly carrier payment files in order to reconcile to payments received.Posted team journal entries and validated accuracy of postings.Collaborated with team to complete monthly reconciliation workflow process.Submitted appeals for payments not received from carrier for items posted within ACSM/WARP/POS.Achievementso Cut out one full day of waiting for carrier payment files to be sent by email or available on carrier sites by resolving FTP site issue allowing carriers to upload large payment files for team to immediately access for monthly process.o Created Excel pivot table accuracy check reducing time spent on AT&T payment file manipulation by 20% and improving reconciliation upload accuracy.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Processed payments received within compliance standards.Researched payments received with insufficient remittance advice.Applied payments received against open receivables or journalized to correct accounts.Communicated with internal and external customers to exchange information and aid in resolving issues.Maintained account sub-ledger of payments received and balanced against general ledger account.Achievementso Improved the Accounts Receivable department relationship with Canada division and gained customer trust through diligent and proactive communication.o Exceeded monthly goal metric of 15% Canada unapplied cash every month in role.

Springdale, Arkansas

Oversaw student accounts invoicing and receivables.Handled student account communications and assisted students and parents with account inquiries.Performed accounts payable and accounts receivable functions including reconciliations and deposits.Prepared journal entries for credit/debit card payments and donations received.Achievementso Improved student and parent perception of business office through proactive communication and intentional personal interaction.o Bettered time efficiency of student receipting by 20% by learning software capabilities and eliminating hand-written receipts.o Reduced weekly paper waste by 83% by implementing use of electronic formats for the majority of weekly deposit reports and by using double-side printing for weekly deposit reports.

Alpine, Texas

Processed financial transactions and services and answered customer service inquiries.Worked proof and corrections process to validate accurate posting of all branch associates’ business day financial data.Completed daily financial reporting for balancing vaults and teller drawers.Achievementso Kept a consistently high level of accuracy in all daily personal financial transactions and reports.o Developed trusting customer relationships through continual positive interactions.