Sandra Scheel Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

• Prepare and enter into Great Plains all journal entries. This includes the posting of all cash for the hospital and relaying all of the cash information daily to the Central Billing Office as well as upper management• General Ledger functions and the full cycle month end/year end process.• Financial Statement review to identify and clear all variances.• Prepare all balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis.• Assist in acquisitions which included creating processes for the accounting for newly acquired entities.• Enter all entries into the fixed asset system to include acquisitions as well as deletions.• Working with the Finance team to prepare monthly reports and analysis.• Assist with quarterly and yearly audits.• Maintain SOX compliance for this publicly traded company.

Houston, Texas Area

• Handled the month end close making the appropriate journal entries from the receivable system in Tier and made sure that all aspects of revenue balance from the standpoint of daily charges, accounts receivable, cash payments received, appropriate write-offs such a bad debt and contractual allowances, etc.• Prepared and entered into Great Plains all journal entries for all revenue for the Clinic.• Reconciled all revenue balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis. • Responsible to reconcile all charges for each patient on a daily basis to make sure that all payments are reflected correctly on the statement each day. Handled all refunds to the patients who have overpaid their accounts at the time of discharge. • Worked with patients and their families to collect balances that are outstanding at time of discharge to include full payment, payment plans and ultimately forwarding the account to outside collections in the event that payment cannot be collected in house.• Maintained numerous Excel worksheets and schedules to keep track of the various programs that that are part of the Clinic’s business model.• Supervised the cashier position which is responsible for handling all of the cash that comes into the clinic, from payments received on patient accounts to donations received for the Menninger Foundation.

El Paso, Texas Area

• Worked with owners in finding start-up capital to begin operations of their restaurant.• Developed accounting policies and procedures for the startup company.• Developed human resources and payroll policies and procedures and trained upper management in their use.

El Paso, Texas Area

• Reorganized the Accounting Department so that the Financial Statements were more accurate and in accordance with GAAP.• Developed cash flow systems to ensure that the Aged Accounts Payable was being addressed and that all sales staff were being supported monetarily. • Made payments to international companies in appropriate currencies.• During my tenure the company went from average sales per invoice of 100 cases of tequila to 1,000 cases. This was due to a change in the method of distribution from the Spirits Distributors to teaming up with the Anheuser Busch distribution system. Also, inroads were made to expanding distribution to more states and also other countries such as England and Germany.