Andrew Lester Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Consultant with Elior-NA assigned to lead team of over 75 employees consisting of Directors, Managers and various levels of staff accountants. Areas of responsibilities include General Ledger, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Client Billing, Fixed Assets, Rebate Accounting and Business Tax for over 1,500 food service locations across.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Direct US and India operations of more than 60 manager and staff level FTE’s for multiple groups within Financial Shared Services
• Provide leadership for the accurate and timely processing of over 1 million invoices that total over $12 billion in payments annually while ensure performance measurements are achieved
• Responsible to identify and implement various process improvements to drive efficiencies and cost reductions within Financial Shared Services, (automated process for utility invoices, upload of vendor invoice data.
• Responsible for the timely and accurate calculation of multiple national marketing partners consisting of over 60k monthly customer activations valued at approximately $5.5 million per month
• Direct/lead Financial SSC-AP transition team for merger & acquisition activity

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Manage high volume accounts payable shared services operations as well as several supporting functions
• Successfully integrated the acquisition of the AP operations of Adelphia Communications, consisting of an additional 16k vendor records and over 30k additional monthly invoices
• Developed and implemented internal key controls, policies and procedures as well as updated existing policies including TWC Disbursement Approval Levels, P-Card Policy, Foreign Tax Reporting, T&E and PO Policies

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Managed Accounts Payable Regional Operations, T&E Operations as well as other supporting departments such as Vendor Maintenance, AP Help Desk, Cash Disbursements & Financial Assistance
• Responsible for 1099-MISC reporting and IRS filing of over 20k 1099-MISC reportable vendors
• Served as Department Lead for multiple special projects and process improvements
• Integration of 42 Divisions
• Establishment of Accounts Payable Shared Services departments and operations
• Design and implementation of internal metric reporting

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Manage Accounts Payable Compliance and Quality Review functions for multiple partners as well as client integration and process improvement projects

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Manager of Best Practices / Process Improvement Department
• Maintained statistical reporting for senior management
• Managed internal audit functions
• Handled special review functions for bank executives

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Managed Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and trust accounting functions
• Responsible for generating financial statements for top level management for multiple company divisions
• Performed conversion of accounting and financial reporting software
• Participated and contributed to short- and long-range financial planning

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Analyzed and perform collection efforts on High-balance accounts for multiple national commercial clients

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance

Bachelor Of Science - (Bs) Coursework, Accounting

Associate Of Science - As, Business Administration And Management, General