Thomas Eldridge Email & Phone Number

Orange, California, United States

• Business Office Manager, Accountant, HR Director for Pennant Services (6-21 – 9-22) 1 year 3 months
• Responsible for all accounting function including A/P, A/R, Credit, Collection, Invoicing, HR
• Monthly closing and opening of books
• Invoicing, statements and posting of all funds daily, aging reports, bank deposits, credit card transactions, credit memos, past due notices, collections and purchasing
• Overseeing the operations of 5 departments and its employees
• Hiring, corrective actions, termination, posting job ads, interviewing

Irvine, California, United States

• Ran a department of 4 in cleaning up their receivables of over $40 million in the over 90 day past due column
• I lead our fantastic team in lowering their past due receivables by $22 million in the 90 days.
• Responsible for all the daily & monthly operations while overseeing the 4 accounting employees that included billing, posting, all account reconciliation, receivables, audits, contracts, with settlements, customer.
• Sage computer program utilized

Irvine, CA

I provided assistance on cleaning up year end issues and setting up the beginning of the 2020 accounting year. I investigated AP invoice discrepancies. I tied invoices to purchase orders and clients budgets. I reconciled their monthly bank statements and investigated credit card charges to their supporting documents and reconciled and entered charges into.

Lake Forest, California, United States

• Responsible for all the daily & monthly operations while overseeing 9 accounting employees that include billing, all accounts reconciliation, receivables, audits, contract, settlements, customer relations, review all.
• Negotiated yearly to save corporate revenue in credit card fees charged and shipping charges with shipping companies
• Created programs that decreased the DSO
• I communicated and interaction effectively with all management levels & other departments. Was involved with meeting to assist in having all departments work as a team
• I utilized outstanding people skills and role modeling skills with exceptional communication abilities to motivate all employees and customer that interacted with my department
• Aminco International was using a propriety program called TREK for their accounting (Google based)

Orange County, California, United States

• Corporate Collections Manager at Data Impact 6-2008 – May 2009 (1 Year)
• Collected over $2 Million which represented over 60% of their over 30 day+ past due payables
• Reduced their DSO by 40%, I updated all customer account information in their computer systems & improved documentation within their customer files
• Improved sharable information in the A/P and A/P departments & sales department
• Processed A/R invoices (billing) to all customers for 7 divisions. I utilized my outstanding people skills in regards to customer service and employee morale
• Used QuickBooks and Microsoft programs

Irving, CA

• Responsibilities included all deposits and cash applications with posting of payments to all invoices for 3 separated division of receivables totaling $220+ million in business
• Posted to General Ledger\Responsible for all credit checks and collection actions on all 1300 large and small business customers, independent business accounts.
• Collected over $2.5 million dollars owed in the 61 to 120+ day money in 9 moths totaling 67% on the collection of all past due money reducing their DSO
• I used Macola Computer Program & Crystal Reports along with Microsoft Products

Lake Forest, California, United States

• Responsibilities included receivables & payables along with billing, deposits, collections, all bookkeeping & maintaining all customers files and records
• I was responsible for all deposits & posting all payments into the financial program, created sales journal reports
• Maintained all workmen’s compensation and liability insurance records and payments
• Paid all invoices and maintained balances and budgets. Advised the CEO of all financial conditions. I maintained all Certificates of Insurance & used QuickBooks & Microsoft Products

Santa Ana, California, United States

• Oversaw the $5.1 Million dollar budget of Parks & Rec. budget and all line item expenditures
• Held weekly meeting with all manager and supervisors about budget items & expenditures
• Implemented budget projects
• I also processed material releases and purchasing requests
• Reviewed and advised on all grant spending
• I paid the City’s Parks bills in regards to Electric, Gas and Water expenditures