Katherine Demel Email & Phone Number

Sealy, Tx, Us

Sugar Land, Texas

• Responsible for creating bids and quotes for flexible packaging products.• Analyze current business to verify the profit margin of previously quoted business, resulting in the discovery of $500,000 in lost revenue• Perform cost analysis to determine the profitability of current production due to changes in the cost of production. • Accountable for creating and maintaining the sales forecast and budget report to communicate the analysis of the sales forecast vs. actual sales. • Work with the accounting department in developing and maintaining the cost model. • Assist the IT department to develop the sales opportunity and request for pricing programs, which increase productivity and decrease errors and miscommunications.• Implement new procedures and forms for the request for pricing process, resulting in a more stream-line process.• Assist Vice President of Sales and Executive Vice President with additional projects regarding sales and pricing. • Assisted with quarterly sales meeting and create PowerPoint presentations used for the meetings.

• Earned a promotion in May 2008 to the Financial Planning and Analysis department following excellent performance and demonstrated ability to quickly learn and master complex concepts.• Created and monitored annual and monthly departmental budgets for six departments. • Created and processed monthly forecasting for cash flow, accounts receivable and performance based payment invoices to the government. • Researched discrepancies regarding monthly expenses, budgets and forecasts. • Created ad-hoc reports as needed by department managers.• Created journal entries to correct account coding of vendor invoices and employee expense reports. • Responsible for processing reports and researching contractual billing information. • On a monthly basis, processed and verified coding on over 200 expense reports.

• Responsible for processing, tracking and reviewing invoices for After Market Sales and performance base payment. • Collaborated with government agencies, commercial customers, accounts recievable and sales to increase speed of receivables and prevent interruption of service to clients. • Developed modeling tools to forecast cash flow, accounts receivable and performance base payment. • Created month-end general ledger reconciliation reports and journal entries for five accounts and sales accruals. • Developed over 30 individual CLIN reconciliation reports to track the billing and payments on government contracts. • Contributed to internal and external audits with government and external auditing firms. • Created a credit policy for all departments to adhere to, in addition to performing credit checks on commercial customers. • Performed weekly collections of delinquent accounts for commercial and government customers. • Processed bank statements and lockbox reports daily for cash applications to customer invoices.

• Manually created monthly invoices, credit memo and debit memos. • Verified correct customer and billing information for invoices. • Verified invoices were processed and posted in Oracle for monthly financial reports. • Created and processed Excel and Oracle month-end reports. • Assisted in the researching and collecting past due invoices, in addition to reconciling monthly bank statements. • Trained and supervised temporary employees. • Assisted Sales Managers with new customer requirements by creating a credit policy, in addition to performing credit checks on commercial customers.

• Processed invoices and expense reports for approval and payment. • Assisted in writing monthly board reports, in addition to proof reading and transmitting news releases. • Purchased and tracked corporate promotional items. • Assisted with employee and community events.• Performed computer and general office support.

• Processed accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, monthly expense checks, bimonthly invoices and purchase orders.• Reconciled monthly bank statements. • Performed wire transfers for foreign employees. • Assisted project managers and sales managers by entering and updating projects in the resource management system. • Assisted in preparing tax information forms. • Assisted Vice President of Human Assets with new employee process and performed computer and general office support.

Graduate Certificate, Accounting

I received a Graduate Certificate in Accounting from the University of Phoenix. My focus was learning the aspects of Cost Accounting.

Master, Business Administration; Finance

Activities and Societies: Officer with the MBA Student AssociationGraduated with a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis.

Bachelor, Business Administration; Marketing

Activities and Societies: Officer with the American Marketing Association student chapter. Received honorable mention in the Yellow Pages.