Advertising Accounting Manager
CurrentPerform diversified financial, sales, and management tasks. Audit paper daily, ensuring accurate billings, queue management of pending orders, credit application approvals and collection of past due balances. Balance aging accounts receivable system reports. Perform month end closing including preparing Journal Entries, record reviews, cash receipt and account reconciliations, expense accruals, and aging information for variance analysis. Also, handle bad debt reserve calculations, compile corporate A/R reports,Serve as company liaison with local law office. Worked with office filing suits to collect on past due accounts when necessary. Process Proof of Claims forms for bankrupt accounts.Supervise four direct reports and one indirect report. Interview and hire candidates to fill open positions, present annual performance evaluations, and train employees. Training involves sales department issues such as advertising orders, billings, new and existing clients, and resolving issues with sales managers/administration and sellers. Provide policy/procedure guidance used to remedy client disputes and billing/payment issues.► Saved company about $800,000 over four-year period by reducing bad debt through strict auditing procedures. Also, saved money through reduction of unnecessary employees. ► Developed online credit application and client contract forms, improving sales staff efficiency and workflow. Also, reduced time needed to store forms since automatic storage used for e-forms.► Created uniform process for queue management of pending orders. Cleared confusion of each employee using individual process and improved efficiency. ► Reduced past due and bad debt accounts, incorporating revised credit policy and training staff on compliance with new policy. Also, assisted with developing online payment system for advertisers. Resulted in reducing staff.► Re-evaluated staff duties and cross trained staff enabling complete coverage in times of staff reductions.
