SUMMARY:

• Dedicated professional with proven credit control background, vendor support, billing, corporate overhead experience, customer service, bank reconciliations, month end close activities, account maintenance, superior client relations and superb organizational skills in order to efficiently manage the company’s client’s accounts.
• 20 years of high professional financial and administrative support
• Full cycle AR
• Able to function independently at optimal levels in a fast - pace professional setting
• Self-motivator
• Great problem solver
• Highly professional demeanor and great interpersonal skills
• Data Entry 10,000-11,000 kph
• Vendor Support
• Vendor Maintenance
• Accounting & Analysis
• ERP Implementations
• Process and Information Flow Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Internal Controls and Cost Management
• Operational Accounting: A/P, A/R, Billing,
• Payroll, Fixed Assets
• Month-end G/L Close
• G/L Coding by Cost Centers
• Reconciliations
• Audit Preparation/Liaison
• Corporate Overhead
• MSA Processor
• Treasury Operations
• Cash Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Regional Credit Controller

Responsibilities:

• Perform cash forecast analysis, bridging actual vs. forecast collections and
• Extensively involved in monthly, quarterly and year end close
• Recovered significant amount of outstanding debts about 65%
• Built relationship with customer and reinstated the accounts receivables.
• Prepare daily collection report based on incoming payment, revenue and receivables
• Resolves valid or authorized deductions by entering adjusting entries
• Reconciling and balancing general ledger accounts.
• Participate in the review and revamp of group credit control policy; as and when required
• Ensure 100% adherence and compliance to the group credit control policy
• Update and monitor credit application by new or existing customers
• Facilitate proper documentation, credit check and approvals before opening of credit accounts
• Ensure proper maintenance of all customers’ files-done on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
• Periodic monitoring on service agreements provided by external parties
• Compile and document periodic group credit control reports for management review
• Prepare and present report on monthly collection targets and actual vs. targets
• Assist the sales team; filed sales team and customers to resolve credit and sales issues
• Ensure proper accounting for revenue and receivable with the appropriate internal accounting controls
• Attend & handle customer request as well as sales enquiries and inter-related department issues
• Provide and support cash forecasting, planning, Accounts Receivable reporting and business support to credit team
• Summarizes receivables my maintaining invoice accounts; coordinating monthly transfer, etc.
• Decrease DSO from 2014 from 168 days to 80 days.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date customer details and account records.
• Responsibilities also include managing and maintaining debtors ledger of accounts involving collecting debt via the telephone, e-mail, fax and letter.

Confidential, Houston, TX

AR Accountant Supervisor/Executive Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Summarizes receivables my maintaining invoice accounts; coordinating monthly transfer, etc.
• Supervised 7 AR billing clerks
• Post revenues by verifying and entering transactions from lock box and local deposits
• Validating AP, AR, and incurred cost reports, resolving any discrepancies
• Resolves valid or authorized deductions by entering adjusting entries
• Reconciling and balancing general ledger accounts.
• Maintaining a major accounts receivable task and running all aging reports
• Set up monthly conference call for Brazil, China, Netherlands, and India
• Post customer payments by recording cash, checks, and credit card transaction
• Knowledgeable of the full cycle AR process
• Set and arrange all travel accommodations for the Finance team internationally
• Build and maintains rapport with all personnel to effectively meet company and client objectives.
• Completes expense reports as per Company Policy
• Payroll for UK employees working in US
• Completes expense reports as per Company Policy
• Deposit and post all daily cash using Chase check scanner
• Release orders for the UK and USA
• Set credit limits for customers and run credit check using Dunn and Bradstreet
• Summarizes receivables my maintaining invoice accounts; coordinating monthly transfer, etc.
• Month end run all reports and submit for all AR activity

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Credit Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collections on approximately 700 open credit accounts, 1000+ open invoices and $30M in AR and supporting e-invoicing compliance.
• Pro-actively work with sales, contract administration, project managers and treasury to ensure the collectability of AR.
• Implement collection plans to secure payment on a specific set of open AR.
• Generate reports related to financial performance of the company.
• Periodically work on special projects to support credit, collections and trade finance.
• Interact with multiple departments while focusing on protecting the cash flow of the company.
• Instrumental in keeping bad debt low.
• Ensure all credit applications and job sheets received are accurately and appropriately researched, completed, reviewed and entered in Dun & Bradstreet.
• Process demand letters as needed and follow up with collection of delinquent payments
• Meet and exceed DSO numbers and analyze credit worthiness of open credit accounts.
• Ability to review and advise client account if past due before account goes on credit hold

Confidential, Houston, TX

Manager for Collections Department

Responsibilities:

• Conducted orientation and for new employees.
• Research account issues and provided resolution to those issues by utilizing additional systems, exercising additional authority and contacting customers directly and indirectly.
• Monitored calls and coordinated team to ensure budgets was maintained in accordance with company.
• Meet and exceed monthly goal and budget and handled and resolved incoming complaints.
• Responsible for overseeing and leading daily operations of business included coaching collector.
• Assist Houston Police Department

Confidential, Houston, TX

Accounts Receivable Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Took responsibility of managing detail aging, computerized and manual cash batch
• Responsible for doing research, study, review and approve current as well as new customers for credit accounts
• Sometimes worked as communicator between management staff, suppliers, staff factory, customers, staff and factoring company
• Provide for new staff in the areas such as client relations, system operations and procedures
• Responsible for preparing routine entries and post financial transactions
• Prepared financial statements such as budgets, billing and cost report
• Responsible for handling cash and cash related transactions and issue receipts
• Also responsible for operating Electronic Data Interface (EDI)