SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE Successful financial services professional with 15 years experience and has a so lid record of accomplishments emphasizing

a broad range of financially related m atters to include significant cost reductions, strategic planning, assets manage ment, and personnel training and development. PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE Orgill, Inc., Memphis, TN 1995 - 2011 Orgill, Inc is one of the top four Wholesale Distributors of Building Material, Household, and Lawn and Garden Products in the United States reaching over 1 bil lion in annual sales. Financial Accounting Associate 2007 - 2011

*Prepare various schedules and work up commentary for the month end financial s *Audit approximately 150 expense reports weekly averaging from $5 to $7,000 doll ars *Perform 143 reconciliations (expense and balance sheet accounts) to ensure the proper recording of entries *Maintain spreadsheets for various accounting needs such as rebates and sensitiv ity reports *Review and wire approximately $3M to $5M dollars of import invoices monthly *Accountable for all variances of import invoices monthly *Process Property tax payments for the Corporate Office and 6 distribution cente rs *Analyzed weekly freight bills and set up for payment *Process and maintain insurance certificates for 3500 vendors and to various cus tomers *Assist in preparing the budget for the next upcoming year averaging $30 to $50 million *Account for fixed assets using the FAS (Sage) 100 Software *Process monthly transactions to the general ledger *Audited and set up expense reports for 1500 +/- employee reimbursements *Promoted to Staff Accountant October 2008 Credit Assistant 1995 - 2007

*Prepared bank deposits *Monitored records of accounts receivable department, including cash receipts, c laims and overdue invoices for 300+ customers and 5+ Corporate Accts with multip le ship-to Accts *Applied Payments to customer ledger accounts *Helped resolve customer complaints pertaining to pricing, quantity errors and m iss applied payments *Generated daily reports tracking sales using Oracle and Excel *Verified and posted accounts receivable transactions to journals, ledgers, etc. *Researched and opened approximately 35 +/- new customer accounts monthly *Trained and worked with 5 credit assistants *Promoted to Credit Administrator September 1997 America Message Center, Memphis, TN 1983 - 1995 Answering Service in the greater Memphis area serving 300+ customers. Office Manager *Supervised 15-20 employees including hiring, termination and scheduling of shif

ts *Code Called (Sales) from the Memphis city phone book *Answered multiple line phones averaging 300 to 500 calls and dispatched message s according to customer specifications *Resolved customer complaints regarding miss-spelling, billing, or communication issues *Maintained accounting records for Accounts receivable and payable *Processed Payroll for 20+ employees *Maintained equipment for a Telescan Advantage Plus System with 20 trunks to ens ure it was running day to day EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS MBA: Finance Strayer University Memphis, TN Bachelors of Science: Accounting Strayer University Memphis, TN TECHNICAL SKILLS Certified in Microsoft Excel 2003 Microsoft Excel 2007 Microsoft Word 2003 FAS (Sage) 100 Software AS 400 Computer Software Meta-Viewer Oracle Type 65-75 wpm AWARDS & HONORS National Honor Society 1985