Sue Heitzman Email & Phone Number

Fort Mitchell, Ky, Us

Property and Investment Accountant for a privately owned real estate development company. *Responsible for accounting of retail, development, and corporate office building including CAM costs for Cincinnati, OH and Danville, VA shopping centers. *Accountant on construction development of 26 unit condominiums in Mariemont, OH and a 25 apartment building development in S. Lebanon, OH.*Trained and managed AP clerk on financial reporting of two entities, which resulted in her expanding her knowledge of accounting and what it means to overall financial reporting.*Created and control processes for escheatment to the state for unclaimed property, which resulted in fewer unclaimed checks and therefore less funds escheated to the state.*Managed and organized United Way Campaign for 5 years.

In this multi-national publicly held wire and cable company duties included accounting contact for 43 SG&A department leaders with regard to SG&A forecasts and budgets. Responsible for providing accounting assistance to 18 plants finance managers both domestic and foreign. Monthly activities included forecast, budget vs. actual variance analysis, account reconciliations, and month end processing.*Assistant to Controller of NextGen Fiber, a joint venture minority company established in 2002.*Assistant to Internal Controls Manager in establishing business procedures, control objectives, and controls activities as a result of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Set up training program of audit software and conducted training session of internal controls audit software to users.*Corporate financial contact for over 18 U.S. and International manufacturing locations providing assistance as requested.*Prepared month end closing entries and analysis of specific P&L accounts resulting in accuracy of general ledger and financial statements.*Created uniformed excel files and distributed instructional documentation for annual SG&A budgets to departments and consolidated department budgets for corporate budget reporting.*Backup Treasury Analyst including transferring of balances between bank accounts and wiring funds to vendor. Authorized to transfer up to $50 million in funds.*Participated in corporate and plant annual audits with the outside accounting firm, which verified accuracy of financial statements.*Reconciled the bank statement with general ledger, which included activity from 18 plants and corporate with monthly check activity of approximately $35 million.*Created and controlled processes for escheatment to the state for unclaimed property.*Managed and organized the United Way Campaign committee for 5 years.*Member of Emergency Response Team for 4 years.

Accountant and Assistant Purchasing Manager for privately held food-processing company. Duties included general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, collections, fixed assets, purchasing, and inventory.*Performed full charge accounting functions which include cash management, accounts receivable, collection of aged receivables, resolving customer deduction, accounts payable, check processing, control journal entries and general ledger, track fixed assets and capital expenditures, and perform period and year end financial closing, which resulted in accuracy of financial statements.*Filed payroll reports including state, local, and federal income taxes, workers compensation, state and federal unemployment taxes, and filed forms W-2, W-3, 940, 941, 1096, and 1099.*Input daily production reports and verified inventory levels, which determined inventory on hand for future production requirements.*Assistant Purchasing Manager responsible for forecasting raw materials and packaging requirements for production, ordering materials, input material receipts, and running production schedules, which verified raw material and packaging inventory for production.*Prepared reports for year end audit review and worked directly with outside accounting firm, which validated financial statement accuracy.*Back up for payroll processing, order entry, and invoice processing, which resulted in coverage of job duties in clerk's absence.*Managed the clerk responsible for accounts payable and payroll.

Top producer of work output, in this publicly held Communication Company, with 684 orders completed per month vs. group output average of 406 orders. Performed inventory of voice and data equipment. Trained new personnel on all aspects of billing. Member of Quality Improvement Team.

Controlled commission accounting for entire U.S. sales force of this worldwide software company. Processed monthly reports including sales quota, performance revenue generated by sales representatives, commission recap, and payment summary sheets. Assisted outside accounting firm with corporate review.

In this privately owned paper export company my duties included control of accounts payable, accounts receivable, monthly closings, sales and costs summary. Also processed invoices, forecasted disbursements, reconciled bank statements, calculated quarterly and yearly sales statistics. Worked with outside audit firm with year-end audit of financial statements.