Todd Abney Email & Phone Number

Frisco, Tx, Us

• Review and process invoices ensuring appropriate documentation, accurate coding, proper approvals and compliance with purchase order and non-purchase order policies and procedures. • Manually process approximately 3000+ invoices weekly. • Assists with troubleshooting problem invoices.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Supervise the billing, accounts payable department, and a staff of four for a PR/Advertising agency. • Identify and research invoice discrepancies by analyzing backup reports. • Created and analyzed daily and weekly metric reports, identifying opportunities to decrease invoice clearance lag and increase productivity.• Approve and produce all media check runs, wire payment details, and check voiding. Maintain and update vendor database and set up new product codes when needed. • Resolve vendor and internal questions. Conduct annual employee performance reviews. • Institute progressive discipline plans. Complete ad-hoc projects for management. Actively participate in weekly status meetings. • Instrumental in adopting an EDI system to receive and process vendor invoices, resulting in an increase in productivity.• Produce media billing drafts and client billing for 45 different clients.• Produce client production/general expense billing for a limited number of clients.• Assists Controller and Accounting Manager with year-end cash management.• Assists media teams and account executives with client year-end closings.• Verify vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.• Recruited, hired, and coached 10 employees while expediting onboarding through one on one training. • Outlined the results of upgrades and fixes of the interactive accounting system in presentations to management.• Manually process vendor invoices through the AP accounting system.• Facilitate the collection of unpaid items in support of brand managers.• Established / supervised process to address / rectify errors in prepaid, asset / accrual account allocations, resulting in major time reduction by GL staff for accurate reconciliation.

• Reported to the Assistant Controller and managed a staff of 11 direct and 10 indirect employees.• Managed the media billing and accounts payables department.• Researched vendor and internal questions. • Processed media check runs for 3 companies.• Created and analyzed daily and weekly metric reports for the Controller, identifying opportunities to decrease invoice clearance lag and increase productivity.• Verified vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.• Assisted employees with troubleshooting problem invoices.• Conducted yearly employee performance reviews.• Hired, terminated and trained employees.• Developed 4 training manuals and standards operating procedures.• Coordinated approximately $850M AP and Billings for all Publicis U.S. clients.• Served on the team to interview Executive level candidates.• Resolved accounting discrepancies and irregularities ensuring 100% accounting accuracy.

• Oversaw the media billing and accounts payable departments ensuring the accuracy of supporting documentation, approvals, and coding for 400 co-op invoices processed each week.• Trafficked weekly co-op radio spots to more than 400 hundred stations.• Produced weekly billing to our client for all invoices received.• Researched vendor and internal questions.• Assisted with design and implementation of trafficking, accounting and discrepancy system that transformed a handwritten rotation schedule for over 400 radio stations into an automated system.• Generated weekly sales reports/graphs for client.• Generated client statements.• Conducted annual employee performance reviews. • Managed and developed 6 team members to exceed organizational goals.• Managed all weekly vendor check runs.