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Santa Monica, Ca

Spearhead short and long term strategic financial planning and analysis. This includes preparing and maintaining budgets, forecasting and making analysis to provide actionable insights. Prepare, track and partner with department leaders to manage revenue forecasting pipeline. Proactively identify and communicate business opportunities and cost saving ideas to executive leaders to influence positive financial outcomes. Drive process change, support process best practices and implement cost saving opportunities. Collaborate with agency executives in financial part of client or vendor proposals and contracts. Manage and oversee agency cash flow. Manage and perform AR, AP, revenue recognition day to day duties. Manage and perform month end close duties including ensuring integrity of P&L and Balance Sheet numbers. Prepare and lead monthly and quarterly P&L reporting to executives including understanding and explaining monthly variances from budget and pipeline forecast. Reconcile monthly Credit Card statement to expenses. Perform weekly bank statement reconciliation. Post daily cash receipts. Manage the agency’s insurance plans

Sherman Oaks, Ca

Oversee Media Finance Analysts and day to day operations of Billing and A/P functionalities, which includes: Importing of all Radio and Television buys from Strata into Advantage on a biweekly basis. Generation of draft and live invoices for specific clients and media, including compiling invoices into proper format per client guidelines. Prepare accurate and timely estimate and reconciliation billing for all client media activity, establishing clear and manageable timelines. Electronic and hard copy file management. Create and analyze open items reports; work with media teams and A/P to resolve. Building relationships with clients, responding to inquiries, addressing all billing issues in a timely manner. Tracking of all cash in advance payments and applications. Assist with pulling of invoicing for internal and client audits. Tracking of client spend in accordance with fee structures to make necessary adjustments. Posting of all client payments. Perform collections duties on past due accounts. Maintenance of Budget and Billing documentation. Assist with month end close, including reporting, journal entries and reconciliations. Payroll and benefit processing. Monthly Bank reconciliation processing.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Review and approve worksheets, enter event bills for labor, create vouchers and back-up, and submit vouchers in WAWF or other billing systems.• Reconcile billings to CLIN’s and billing register and update budget with billing information. Reconcile billings in budget to CLIN re-caps.• Create and maintain budgets for new contracts and task orders. Track labor, ODC, and travel costs.• Monitor and ensure AR and WIP remains current. Proactively resolve issues. • Monitor credit memos and prepare monthly reports.• Review intercompany invoices for government clients to ensure all back-up and government requirements are met. • Request and process client refunds.• Develop and maintain relationships with client and payment offices.• Assist with month end SOX reporting• AP invoice review and vouchering

Prepare complex spend reports for planners and account directors, ensuring accurate detailed client reconciliations in compliance with agency requirements and tight deadlines, highlighting any potential problems within an account. AD-Hoc reporting, as needed. Professional communication with vendors, including requesting revisions, invoices and responding to payment inquiries; Acquiring necessary documentation to set up vendors within billing system. Audits/inputs vendor expense informationTimely account reconciliation of multiple clients within client-dictated deadlines and under 60-day timeline of agency requirement. Audits/inputs vendor expense informationConduct bi-weekly meetings with planning teams to discuss client status, reconciliation progress, and escalated issues.Rapidly learn and master varied computer programs and completed Code of Conduct and agency trainings. Mentor and train less experienced Billing AnalystsCompare vendor and planner reporting on client campaigns to identify potential billing discrepancies, and work with both parties until such discrepancies were resolved, then process vendor invoices and forward to client services for clearance. Approve Budget Authorizations for planning teams; confirming all signed documentation has been received prior to releasing money for purchasing. Reviews expenditures of teams to ensure conformance to budget.

Handled all AR and AP for two companies; Entered and coded all payables, including printing and releasing of checks. Posted payments daily, printed invoices, pulled tear sheets and sent out bills to clients Reconciled company website with credit card payments and applied them to proper accounts.Managed company credit card, made payment and created journal entry for GL ledger Processed freelance payments and AP payments for LA Weekly, as well as OC Weekly, on a weekly basis Monitored company spending, analyzed cost cutting measures; Created expense guidelines for this company, as well as other forms to assist in expense/mileage reimbursement Maintained and replenished the petty cash boxes dispersed throughout the companyAssisted with month end reconciliation Prepared and mailed the 1099 forms annually

Balanced the daily bank deposits. Posted all payments. Cleared all ads (provided approval to run in the newspaper). Followed up on weekly aging, and made collection calls. Configured weekly sales reports. Managed and kept track of total cash flow including petty cash.

Education record

Hs Diploma, Pre College

Activities and Societies: MESA, Latin Club, Academic Decathalon