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Immokalee, Fl, Us

United States

Miami Beach, Florida, United States

• Oversaw routine department activities to ensure that they are completed accurately and on time.• Maintained accurate and complete financial, employee, and client records.• Compiled, analyzed, and reported financial information to management and government agencies.• Prioritized and organized departments duties and tasks, to achieve the organization’s objectives and goals.• Investigated, analyzed, and resolved invoice discrepancies.• Maintained up to date policies and procedures. • Monitored weekly payment runs to ensure successful transmission.• Ensured compliance with accounting policies and reporting deadlines.• Supervised associates to include, but not limited to training, coaching, performance management and problem resolution.• Took lead on new projects or integrations while performing detailed review of invoice codification.• Developed and maintained monthly recurring cash management reports and aging reports.• Acted as Project Manager of Internal audits, helping external auditors to collect relevant documentation following SOX Compliance Controls.Achievements: • Helped with creating, defining, and executing Accounts Payable controls under the eyes of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance with cooperation of Kaufman Rossin, implementing segregation of duties control and improving department efficiency by 80%.• Automatized ACH payments through NACHA files, reducing the time on payments from 2 days to 1/2 days.

North Miami Beach, Florida

• Collaborated with internal departments to gather, analyze, and interpret relevant financial data.• In charge of receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices.• Compared system reports to balances and verified entries.• Verified vendor accounts, pay vendors, and resolved purchase order, invoice, or payment discrepancies.• Efficiently processed full cycle Account Payable Invoices and Purchase Orders.• Processed both simple and complex invoices with cross-company codes and multiple cost center allocations.• Coordinated 3 match approval processes for Expense Reports and invoices.• Coded the General Ledger for each invoice and processed vendor payments.• Made all A/P trade Payments (ACH, Wire transfers, paper checks, online payments).• Reconciled credit card statements and bank reconciliations (Domestic and International).• Balanced Sheet Analysis (Cash Management).Achievements:• Changed incoming invoice and filing system from physical to paperless, reducing lost invoices in the mail and paper manipulation by 90%.• Involved in the ERP migration system from QuickBooks to NetSuite, collecting accounting data, reducing double posting and manpower efficiency by 70%.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

• Monitored the market for price fluctuations, ensured employees follow the established pricing policies, and making sure that store signage is in line with pricing strategies.• Created item prices and sales, based on analyzing invoices from vendors and the gross margin goal.• Estimated merchandise overhead and develops ways to reduce costs. Analyzes historical cost data to provide more accurate cost estimates and better sale pricing.• Identified and assessed customers’ needs to achieve great customer service satisfaction.• Handled customer complaints and provided solutions, possible alternatives, and follow-up.Achievement: • Helped to reduce the time for posting weekly sales by one day, through a pricing chart which showed pricing behavior by product.

Medellín

Organized Manager’s Agenda, arrange Marketing meetings and events such as (Rally, Annual Planning, Quarterly Planning, launches, promotions, employee events like New Years party, seasonal among others), Travel Arrangements and ensure that the expenses are properly allocated for this purpose, travel advances, attend area’s requirements and manage the database of the Marketing staff and give support with different analysis reports for each campaign.

Medellín

Company´s billing, drafting letters to Management, work certificates, constant relationship with suppliers, support on selection process and hiring employees, drafting contracts, settlement and payment of Social Security, payroll, vacation and employee rewards, Company’s Customer Service

Medellín

Provide advice on investment funds of the company such as interest rates, risk and time of permanence, carry out the transactions requested by the client such as opening, withdrawals, transfers and cancellations of investment funds. Inform about the news concerning to the stock exchange, give orientation to the client about the procedures for purchase of shares that were traded in the Stock Exchange Of Colombia.Provide financial information about Bank's products and procedures for opening new accounts settlements, transaction information about balances of personal loans, business and mortgage, advice on navigation Through the Web site page, attention to complaints and suggestions from customers and virtual online advice.

Foundation Degree, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law

Bachelor'S Degree, International Business/Finance