Katie Schuster Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Assist Accounts Payable, Procurement and Finance Departments in providing application support for process improvements for different operation systems to further gain and provide operational efficiencies• Maintain the Electronic Imaging, ImageNow and AP Lawson financiall system set up to support ongoing organizational changes, including work flow design, testing, and monitoring of the imaging approval queues• Support the Accounts Payable, Procurement and Finance Departments of user documentation and company wide imaging and financial system end user training and end user issue resolution• Coordinate and validate sub-system feeds into and out of the imaging and AP systems• Responsible for performing the AP/PO, AM, and GL month end closes• Responsible for maintaining chart of account requests, including development, testing, and implementing• Maintain the vendor master file, including validating W9 and Vendor Request Forms, adding and inactivating vendors as needed• Assist in other areas such as development of project plans, application troubleshooting, end user hotline support, and special projects as assigned• Assist the Accounts Payable, Procurement, and Finance Departments in various assignments as necessary

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Assist Accounts Payable, Procurement and Finance Departments in providing application support for process improvements for different operation systems to further gain and provide operational efficiencies• Maintain the Electronic Imaging, ImageNow and AP Lawson financial system set up to support ongoing organizational changes, including work flow design, testing, and monitoring of the imaging approval queues• Support the Accounts Payable, Procurement and Finance Departments of user documentation and company wide imaging and financial system end user training and end user issue resolution• Coordinate and validate sub-system feeds into and out of the imaging and AP systems• Responsible for performing the AP/PO, AM, and GL month end closes• Responsible for maintaining chart of account requests, including development, testing, and implementing• Maintain the vendor master file, including validating W9 and Vendor Request Paperwork, adding and inactivating vendors as needed• Perform daily and weekly reconciliations for the Expense Report and Perfect Commerce systems• Assist in other areas such as development of project plans, application troubleshooting, end user hotline support, and special projects as assigned• Assist the Accounts Payable, Procurement, and Finance Departments in various assignments as necessary• Assisted with creating the new Accounts Payable and General Ledger companies in the Lawson software program for the new Dream Center Education Holdings company

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Process high volume of invoices for payment• Responsible for assisting with processing refund checks to students and lenders• Process check runs for all of our locations• Responsible for credit research as assigned• Help with testing projects when needed when implementing a new system• Back up the A/P Supervisor when they are out of the office and in various meetings to ensure the A/P Department continues to run without interruption• Responsible for processing monthly & weekly metrics reporting• Assist with training as needed

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Processed accounts receivable, accounts payable, employee expense reports, employee time sheets, and purchasing and travel credit card statements• Performed all month end procedures within Deltek accounting software• Prepared financial statements and other managerial reports needed for internal and external use• Converted GAAP financial statements to fit IASB standards to report financial statements to home office in France with the use of Excel• Tracked capital expense budget and fixed assets, including keeping track of capital costs, maintaining asset information, tagging assets, and verifying depreciation schedules• Created purchase orders within Deltek accounting software, matched invoices to purchase orders, receipted product against purchase order in Deltek accounting softwareAccomplishments: Started my career as an Accounts Payable Specialist for Converteam Inc., a sister company, and received promotion in January 2008 to Financial Analyst position for Converteam Naval Systems Inc., based on my performance when Converteam Naval Systems Inc. was created. As the Financial Analyst for this company I was responsible for initiating and maintaining the new accounting software, Deltek, for Converteam Naval Systems Inc.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Updated collections report weekly to reflect accurate past due accounts• Produced collection reports for management use• Made contact with customers regarding past due accounts• Entered rebate information into an Access database for rebate program, as well as assisted with processing of rebate checks in Quickbooks software

Camp Hill, Pa

• Performed extensive research and analysis on vendor accounts• Generated weekly and monthly reports detailing the debit balance vendor accounts for internal use• Made recommendations to write off or transfer vendor accounts based on vendor history to management• Processed vendor discontinuance forms as needed• Updated MS Access database used to pull data regarding vendor accounts, as well as the weekly and monthly reports needed• Retrieved data off of microfilm as needed for vendor researchAccomplishments: Started my career with this company as a department clerk, and in less than a year received a promotion as a Debit balance Researcher I. Within another year received another promotion to Debit Balance Researcher II. Received the Associate of the Quarter award in recognition for my efforts and willingness to go above and beyond when needed, and being a team player in my position.