Kate Parrish Email & Phone Number

Westminster, Md

• Hire, train and direct 16 accounts payable associates using multiple ERP applications.• Manage on average 13,000 invoices arriving via email, ftp and interchange for batching to data entry team. • Manage daily workloads to ensure accurate and timely processing. • Concur Administrator; maintain user profiles, user permissions, reporting and design.• Devise process improvements to increase efficiencies throughout AP using my project management background and IT resources. • Perform extensive financial reporting utilizing my proficiencies with MS Excel to organize and analyze data.• Prepare and distribute approximately 10K 1099Misc and 1,200 1042-S forms annually to include filing with the IRS.• Ledger account reconciliations.• Communicates both written and verbally with suppliers effectively.• Handle daily payment runs for ACH, wire and check printing.• Authors standard operating procedures (SOP) for various system functionalities, transactions, new processes and policies.

• Maintained and designed AP content on Intranet-based application for communication efficiency among various departments.• Developed and designed SOP related to SAP, accounts payable processes, sales and use taxes, 1099/1042 reporting and travel management for end-users.• Processed approximately 250 sales/use tax returns monthly• SAP Travel Manager Administrator maintaining the design, daily functionality, training, new user set up and distribution of various reporting.• Collaborated with Concur implementation and SAP connector teams during the configuration, design, and testing phases of the successful PRH platform rollout. • Concur Expense Administrator maintaining the daily functionality, assisting end users and distribution of various reporting. • Successfully lead the AP department during the Penguin Group merger overseeing all vendor integrations (AP, Royalties & Canada AP departments) and payables conversion for PRH US and PRH Canada Ltd. • Performed upgrade testing, configuration tasks and tested functionality of SAP, Vertex O and Vertex Sales & Use tax returns. • Analyzed the feasibility of and developed requirements for new systems and enhancements to existing systems and ensured that the system design fits the needs of the users.• Provided technical assistance in training, mentoring, and coaching professional and technical staff on complex matters related to assigned areas.• Attended educational coursework to develop and gain knowledge of various software, system implementations and compliance reporting.• Supported and provided guidance to colleagues and associates. Shared information and ideas with colleagues, as well as upper level management.