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Professional Summary
Motivated and detail-orientated bilingual Accounts Receivable Specialist seeking opportunity to demonstrate exemplary organizational, analytical, and problem-solving in the Finance Department of a growing energy firm. Highly creative Accounts Receivable Clerk with [number] years in accounting and finance. Results-oriented and solution-focused professional.
Skills
  • Expertise in invoice and payment transactions
  • Account reconciliation
  • Invoice coding familiarity
  • Analytical reasoning
  • Exceptional organization
  • Ethical approach
  • Advanced computer proficiency (both PC and Mac)
  • Strong in MS Access and Excel
  • Superior attention to detail
  • Customer relations
  • Accounting familiarity
  • Invoice processing
  • Microsoft Excel certified
  • Strong communication skills
  • Intuit QuickBooks specialist
Account reconciliationInvoice coding familiarityAnalytical reasoningExceptional organizationEthical approachAdvanced computer proficiency (both PC and Mac)Strong in MS Access and ExcelSuperior attention to detailCustomer relations
Work History
Associate, 04/2012 to Current
ConocoPhillips – Houston, TX
  • Communicate with client delinquent accounts via telephone and email.
  • Facilitate client disputes and billing inquiries to appropriate management team leader.
  • Document account regarding collection efforts and next steps in communication.
  • Analyze and review customer accounts for payment updates.
  • Collect accounts receivable in accordance with due dates, including account reconciliation, dispute resolution and payment confirmation.
  • Communicate with both internal and external customers globally to achieve improvement in collections.
  • Lead contact person for all AR audit requests.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with colleagues across multiple business units and functions to the organization to better understand AR amounts.
  • Participate in system testing for enhancements or issue fixes.
  • Monitored payments due from clients and promptly contacted clients with past due payments.
  • Created daily and weekly cash reports for accounting management.
Accounts Receivable Analyst, 04/2011 to 04/2012
Enterprise Products Company
  • Worked closely with other departments to determine current status of accounts.
  • Responsible for performing credit collections on past due accounts in the range of current to over 180 days delinquent.
  • Process AR interface files to Oracle from 12 different sub-systems.
  • Gather audit paperwork for AR interface internal audit.
  • Prepare weekly Accounts Receivable aging report to be distributed to entire company.
  • Making decisions with clear authority to write off balances according to strict guidelines.
Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist, 03/2001 to 04/2011
Enterprise Products Company
  • Responsible for daily cash applications of check/wire receipts and transfers for 1,000+ customers across 30+ bank accounts.
  • Process manual invoices and credit memos in the A/R system and ensure that they are reflected in the GL thereafter.
  • Research processing problems, contact departments and vendors to resolve problems, and expedite payment upon resolution.
  • Perform daily bank reconciliation of over 50+ bank accounts.
  • Manage process to set-up 20 customer accounts and draft their accounts through an electronic interface program.
  • Review delinquent customer accounts, and contact them via telephone or in writing for payment status.
  • Analyze assigned portfolio of customer accounts monthly for credit offsets.
  • Work closely with Financial Accounting, Revenue Accounting, Insurance, Tax, and Treasury to resolve unidentified and unapplied cash.
  • Train new staff members in areas of procedures and systems operations.
  • Trained [numbccounting principles and company procedures.
  • Supervised invoice processing, purchase orders, expense reports, credit memos and payment transactions.
  • Created daily and weekly cash reports for accounting management.
  • Coded and entered at least [number] invoices each day into the in-house accounting software.
  • Reconciled discrepancies between accounts receivable general ledger account and accounts receivable trial balance account.
  • Monitored payments due from clients and promptly contacted clients with past due payments.
  • Posted receipts to appropriate general ledger accounts.
Administrative Assistant, 04/2000 to 03/2001
Kelly Services/El Paso Energy
  • Managed highly confidential and sensitive materials, personnel changes, and business direction plans.
  • Budgeted, ordered, and tracked office supply inventory.
  • Maintained all executive and team leaders calendars/schedules.
  • Organized the details of special events, travel arrangements, corporate agendas, and itineraries.
  • Answered telephones, opened and logged mail, met and greeted visitors, and assisted in other clerical functions.
  • Arranged travel and meetings and coordinated office security and maintained key controls over access to confidential files.
  • Coordinated, scheduled and arranged meeting and travel calendars, including business and social events.
  • Obtained signatures for financial documents and internal and external invoices.
  • Screened all visitors and directed them to the correct employee or office.
  • Compiled company information and related material and distributed it to candidates.
  • Assisted with event planning, including associated travel and logistical arrangements.
  • Helped distribute employee notices and mail around the office.
  • Opened and properly distributed incoming mail.
  • Answered and managed incoming and outgoing calls while recording accurate messages.
  • Directed guests and routed deliveries and courier services.
  • Coordinated domestic and international travel arrangements, including booking airfare, hotel and transportation.
  • Managed office supplies, vendors, organization and upkeep.
  • Ordered and distributed office supplies while adhering to a fixed office budget.
Education
High School Diploma: 1 1
Houston Community College -
Sharpstown High School -
Skills
account reconciliation, Accounting, Accounts Receivable, approach, AR, bank reconciliation, billing, clerical, Excellent communication, oral, credit, Credit risk, client, direction, email, special events, Financial Accounting, GL, Insurance, inventory, team leader, materials, meetings, Access, Excel, mail, Microsoft Office applications, office, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, next, Oracle, PeopleSoft, personnel, problem-solving skills, Research, SAP, Tax, telephone, telephones, travel arrangements, Treasury, written
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • ConocoPhillips
  • Enterprise Products Company
  • Kelly Services/El Paso Energy

School Attended

  • Houston Community College
  • Sharpstown High School

Job Titles Held:

  • Associate
  • Accounts Receivable Analyst
  • Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist
  • Administrative Assistant

Degrees

  • High School Diploma : 1 1

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