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Canonsburg, Pa

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Senior AP Coordinator supports a team of five AP Coordinators (three full time), training of Oracle and Wennsoft. Responsibilities include: Reviewing daily payment runs, invoice resolutions, responding to vendor inquiries, running payment clearings in Wennsoft. Reviewing 4 inboxes for immediate pay vendors, utility invoices, and sending those for approval and uploading approval once returned, any invoice issues. Review posted batches for accuracy on Invoice numbers, General Leger accounts and dollar amounts . Batching daily keying, editing the batches, and coaching team on fixing issues.

Andover, Ma 01810

As the Accounts Payable Supervisor responsibilities included managing a team of 5 customer service specialists, developing and implementing process improvements along with system training on SAP Environments, customer service techniques, and PowerPoint creations with my team. Supporting the Disbursements Manager, the Accounts Payable Manager, and the Accounts Payable Team were also key responsibilities.  Maintained three check runs, while transitioning to a shared service environment, increasing our weekly check runs to (6) (Average of 22 M. Weekly) Managed Foreign & U.S wire payments for AP & Treasury (9.4 M Monthly) accurately Successfully trained 2 Senior Accounts Payable Assistants on month end closing procedures allowing them to inherit the responsibility  Sole SAP tester for internal and external auditing procedures Championed multi-divisional policy adoption, securing key internal alignment of procedures in a shared service environment.

Andover Ma 01810

Smith & Nephew, Inc. Andover, MA 01810Senior Accounts Payable Assistant (2003 – 2012)The Senior Accounts Payable role supported the Disbursements Manager, the Accounts Payable Manager, and the Accounts Payable Team with the daily functions. Processed full cycle assigned vendor invoices, Procurement Card Administrator & reconciled procurement card transaction. Other responsibilities included assisting with month end closing procedures, journal entries, wire payments, and legal fees. Supported the shared service creation & transition (AP divided into T&E & AP Teams) Took over the Supervision and training of contractors on Smith & Nephew’s procedures and systems Trained new Manager on Smith & Nephew’s policy and procedures Developed/Implemented process improvements on invoice processing SAP environment training and “how to” of invoice resolution for AP staff Volunteered for SAP testing of internal and external auditing for compliance procedures to ensure the SOP guidelines are followed by pulling data entry reports and pulling selected backup by audit to show compliance.  Successfully took over the auditing of check run data. Ensuring needed check requests were included, miss keying of Invoices or invoice numbers were caught and fixed, removing discounts from debit memos.

Andover, Ma 01810

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