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Thames Ditton, England, Gb

Ensured the successful completion of reconciliations and journal entries for global inventory• Enhanced accrual processes to improve quality and clarity of calculations• Improved inventory valuation reconciliations to tie to reporting and provide variance analysis• Reconciled AP Purchased Materials account to clear over 1,000 open items• Supported audit of annual physical inventory count at Toronto, Ontario warehouse facility• Administered and provided training for Oracle Fusion reconciliations and tasks

Thames Ditton, England, Gb

Ensured the successful completion of reconciliations and journal entries for US and Canada• Developed month-end close process improvements to increase speed, accuracy and clarity• Implemented, administered and provided training for Oracle Fusion reconciliations and tasks• Reconciled scores of aged items from cash reconciliations, many aged over 360 days• Coordinated the preparation of documents prepared-by-client for annual consolidated audit• Led a corporate initiative to change costing methodology from standard to actual

Boston, Ma, Us

Coordinated the implementation of Trintech’s Cadency software for reconciliations and task management, and redesigned accounting processes for efficiency gains.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Joined team responsible for reviewing the UPS organization’s current accounting procedures and making recommendations to gain efficiencies and enhance effectiveness through change levers such as system enhancements, policy changes, and automation through Robotics Process Automation (RPA)• Documented the current state of accounting processes by reviewing internal policies, reading desk level procedures, and interviewing end-users on topics including allocations, prepaid amortization, and payroll, using the information to identify the root cause of the problem• Collaborated with IT partners including business analysts, application developers, and system architects to solution the root cause identified in the discovery stage, identifying several alternatives and making a final recommendation• Coordinated the implementation of a global intercompany process to speed the entry and approval of expense charges between entities• Guided the development and/or implementation of RPA to fully or partially automate multiple cash reconciliations, the export of cash transactional data from the GL to the reconciliation working file, the creation of a property tax accrual journal, the addition of the annual net income entry to the retained earnings reconciliation, and the activation of vehicles in the fixed asset system• Coordinated the publishing of a corporate policy for system certification of account reconciliations prepared in the Blackline reconciliation tool, engaging with senior management and internal audit to ensure that sufficient controls were in place • Conducted reviews with stakeholders to ensure initiatives were progressing as expected and that roadblocks were identified and mitigated• Designed and executed test scripts in partnership with IT for assigned initiatives• Developed training materials and conducted in-person training for assigned initiatives• Used project management tools to record progress and provide feedback

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Established framework for onboarding new employees, using feedback from management to identify priorities and set up the checklist necessary to ensure a successful initiation• Worked together with human resources to onboard employees, taking responsibility for introducing new hires to basic UPS accounting concepts and ensuring that they were properly set up on all integral accounting systems• Developed continuing education courses and presented the content in modules to over 150 employees on topics such as accounting policy changes and account reconciliation guidelines• Provided feedback to the web development team for enhancing the internal training site, focusing on improving the user experience when scheduling training sessions, managing attendance, and issuing classroom credit to attendees• Co-chaired the building’s United Way campaign, raising $36K and exceeding the current year goal by 43%

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Managed group of eleven administrative accountants and one specialist (team-lead) accountant• Used the Blackline account reconciliation software application to approve approximately 250 reconciliations on a monthly basis, verifying that each reconciliation adhered to company policy (in accordance with US GAAP), properly aged and classified the open items that made up the balance, and contained proper supporting documentation• Spearheaded the reduction of aged items in the account reconciliations by supporting the accountants with follow-up and analysis• Ensured the timely and accurate completion of the monthly book close• Reviewed and approved several hundred journal entries on a monthly basis, validating the accuracy of the entries and confirming that the corresponding detail supported the net amount of the entries• Analyzed balance sheet variance explanations, reviewing their reasonability and ensuring that the accountants followed up on missing, incomplete, or invalid explanations• Developed team through training, individual discussions, and biannual performance reviews

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Managed group of six administrative and specialist programmers• Led the development and maintenance of an accounting web site used for functions such as journal entry completion status, P&L account allocations, and P&L variance explanations• Coordinated database maintenance and development• Supervised the administration of a third party software reconciliation tool from BlackLine Systems by ensuring the completion of user maintenance, account grouping and maintenance, monthly reporting, and system imports• Approved daily account reconciliation used to validate that all balances and transactions in the Oracle General Ledger were imported to the BlackLine system• Coordinated the biannual Separation of Duties (SOD) compliance audit, compiling the user list, identifying the auditors, and following up with the auditors to ensure that all users were valid and had only the needed access to the system• Worked with BlackLine product development team to identify bugs and required enhancements to their Enhanced Reporting module. • Created training documents and trained users on functionality such as running, creating, and scheduling reports• Outlined requirements for UPS’s use of BlackLine’s balance sheet Variance module, working with the vendor to develop grouping capabilities for balance sheet categories and testing enhancements such as import functionality, ensuring that changes initiated by the vendor were successful and met the needs of UPS • Communicated changes in the application, ensuring that users were informed of modifications, problems, issues, and enhancements that would impact their work• Drafted corporate policies and procedures related to UPS’s use of the application, specifically outlining the approval process for reconciliations and the proper classification of open items both generally and specifically• Managed the identification of bugs and enhancement needs, communicating them in weekly calls with the vendor

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Shared responsibility with a team of five UPS employees to transition account reconciliations from Excel worksheets to the BlackLine account reconciliation software application• Set up and modified user profiles in the BlackLine application, establishing access to entities and teams as approved by management• Developed and tested twenty-two customized reports, working with representatives from BlackLine to identify bugs and to ensure requirements were implemented• Drafted and distributed training materials for custom reports and conducted training sessions with local administrators in UPS’s global accounting sites• Participated in weekly status calls, identifying system bugs and enhancement needs, following up with the BlackLine representatives for resolution• Completed various monthly administrative tasks in the BlackLine system necessary for maintaining current data in account reconciliations

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Coordinated the movement of nineteen accounting positions from Scranton, Pennsylvania to Dublin, Ireland (seventeen administrative and specialist accountants and two supervisors)• Developed a transition timeline and monitored the progress of transitioning work through checklists, ensuring that all work successfully transitioned to Dublin by the end of September 2012• Transitioned all work on time• Trained newly hired accountants and supervisors on tasks commensurate with their positions, providing them with the skill set to process journal entries in the Oracle General Ledger, to maintain fixed assets in the Oracle Fixed Asset Subledger, to analyze P&L variances, and to prepare and approve balance sheet account reconciliations • Documented and taught accounting processes unique to UPS, communicating both theory and practical application. Processes documented included cash reconciliations, non-cash reconciliations, currency clearing, intercompany transactions, intercompany settlements, accounts receivable workflow, and accounts payable workflow

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Assisted in the development of procedures for recording local GAAP adjustments and for filing local GAAP financial statements• Participated with other members of the corporate implementation team to develop the reconciliation template for local GAAP balances• Traveled to local GAAP accounting conferences in Mexico, Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and the United Arab Emirates, training participants in the new standardized corporate procedures• Covered several of the new corporate statutory accounting concepts in conference training sessions, explaining the proper techniques for documenting and recording journal entries, generating local GAAP trial balances, and creating a reconciliation between the local GAAP statutory filing statement and the general ledger trial balance• Reviewed the local GAAP transactions from several countries whose management teams attended the conferences and provided guidance on how those transactions should be integrated in the new process • Guided the country F&A teams in the development of desk level procedures so that all local GAAP entries were documented for timely filing and contingency planning• Helped the country F&A staffs establish a timeline for completing all steps in the new process, ensuring that the timeline would result in an on-time statutory filing• Performed the responsibilities commensurate with International Accounting Supervisor - Europe position

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Traveled to several countries to analyze and to help resolve accounting issues specific to those locations• Provided feedback and assisted in developing reports to upper management explaining the accounting issues and proposed resolutions. Along with data supplied by other teams on the project, saw that information used to determine the need for a more standardized local GAAP accounting process and ultimately the creation of global accounting centers• Trained the local accounting team in China on the intercompany freight accounting process and helped them to develop a more consistent process for reconciling the intracompany transactions between China companies• Worked with the accounting team in Greece to document and improve the process of reconciling their local accounting system with the Oracle General Ledger

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Managed group of thirteen administrative and specialist accountants • Developed team through training, individual discussions, and biannual performance reviews• Approved approximately 300 reconciliations on a monthly basis, verifying that each reconciliation listed the open items that made up the balance, contained proper supporting documentation, and tied back to the balance in the general ledger• Ensured the timely and accurate completion of the monthly book close• Reviewed and approved several hundred journal entries on a monthly basis, validating the accuracy of the entries and confirming that the corresponding detail supported the net amount of the entries• Analyzed P&L variance explanations, reviewing their reasonability and ensuring that the accountants followed up on missing, incomplete, or invalid explanations

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Special Assignment transitioning accounting work for the Europe Region HQ from Biel, Switzerland (January to June) to Brussels, Belgium (July to September). Special Projects in Throop, PA from October to December until promotion.• Worked with several colleagues to develop a procedure for properly implementing a new intercompany policy• Instrumental in preparing and analyzing the trial balances for European countries whose local accounting systems were decommissioned and integrated into another system• Coordinated the European District’s efforts of obtaining the information needed to properly decommission the local accounting systems, fielded questions from the country finance and accounting teams, and solicited their feedback to ensure an accurate transfer• Traveled to several countries to work with the local staff toward resolving accounting issues and to assist them with applying corporate accounting policies and procedures