Rachel Rost Email & Phone Number

Michigan, United States

• Served as liaison to the commodity team, corporate, business unit, plant finance, and materials management personnel regarding physical location utility and telecommunications vendor payments.• Ensured tracking and timely submission of utility and telecommunications invoices to avoid loss of services, large deposit requirements, and late fees.• Upheld adherence to the organization’s payment and approval policies and procedures.• Produced monthly hourly and salary payroll reconciliations for all North American Motorparts locations.• Managed inter-company payables accounts, including old-item research, cleanup, and reconciliation.• Tracked and reported uncashed checks and escheats for all North American vendor accounts.• Researched and resolved accounts-payable-related issues and debit balances. • Supported department with projects as needed, including factoring files preparation, vendor master maintenance, and audit process documentation updates for shared services.

• Converted a chart of accounts from a Hyperion to a OneStream financial system. • Updated and maintained user security in the OneStream financial system.• Obtained and managed process documentation as requested by internal audit.• Converted user security files from paper to electronic. Completed other special projects as requested.

• Maintained price information required to accurately drive invoicing systems.• Resolved price discrepancy disputes between corporation and customers. • Documented team processes and created a departmental process manual.• Completed monthly reporting required to support various business metrics used by management to determine total expense of pricing errors and disputes.• Partnered closely with Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing to ensure an accurate, efficient, and successful pricing process.• Updated Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, process documentation, and management testing.

• Prepared monthly reconciliations between corporate and all inter-company entities.• Posted monthly journal entries to GL, including accrued and pre-paid expenses. • Monitored and reconciled fixed assets and Construction-in-Progress (CIP) activity.• Prepared monthly reconciliations for balance-sheet accounts for over $500,000.• Updated Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, process documentation, and management testing.