ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ADMINISTRATOR at Supreme Steel LLP (2023-06 – Present)
- Investigate discrepancies, enhancing accuracy and trust in financial data.
- Coordinate team-building events, fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Manage end-to-end AP processes including invoice validation, payment processing, and account reconciliation while ensuring compliance with financial policies and resolving discrepancies.
- Streamline AP operations through meticulous vendor invoice review, systematic payment recording, and precise account reconciliation to maintain financial accuracy and integrity.
- Drive AP efficiency by implementing systematic payment protocols, conducting thorough ledger reconciliations, and resolving vendor discrepancies while supporting cross-departmental initiatives.
- Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to facilitate timely payments, resolve account discrepancies, and support company-wide financial objectives while contributing to team engagement.
- Execute meticulous ledger reconciliations and discrepancy investigations, ensuring financial data integrity while supporting cross-departmental financial objectives.
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ADMINISTRATOR at St. Michaels Health Care (2022-09 – 2023-03)
6 month contract position
- Responsible for full cycle AP for 6 distinct companies, including receiving, reviewing, and recording vendor invoices, arranging, and recording payments, and reconciling accounts to vendor statements
- Process outgoing payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Reconcile the AP ledger to ensure accuracy and for management review
- Verify and investigate discrepancies
- Prepare bank reconciliations for management review
- Assisted in month end with recurring entries and intercompany transactions
ACCOUNTING ADMINISTRATOR at Waste Logic Inc. (2021-01 – 2022-09)
- Responsible for full cycle AP including receiving, reviewing, and recording vendor invoices, arranging, and recording payments, and reconciling accounts to vendor statements
- Process outgoing payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Reconcile the AP ledger to ensure accuracy and for management review
- Verify and investigate discrepancies
- Prepare bank reconciliations for management review accounts
- Responsible for full cycle AR including preparation and issuance of a high volume of invoices, receiving, and recording customer payments, and tracking and analyzing overdue balances
- Correspond with customers regarding outstanding balances and to facilitate collection of same. Maintained a metric of 75-80% of customers paying within 30 days
- Generate reports for management review
- Prepare bank reconciliations for management review
ACCOUNTING ADMINISTRATOR at Flo-Back Equipment (2019-05 – 2021-01)
Various duties in support of Controller including processing of payroll and expense reports, corresponding with internal customers, and arranging meetings and travel
- Responsible for full cycle AP including receiving, reviewing, and recording vendor invoices, arranging, and recording payments, and reconciling accounts to vendor statements
- Process outgoing payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Reconciled the AP ledger to ensure accuracy and for management review
- Verified and investigated discrepancies
- Prepared credit and bank reconciliations for management review
- Prepared and posted journal entries
- Responsible for full cycle AR including preparation and issuance of a high volume of invoices, receiving, and recording customer payments, and tracking and analyzing overdue balances
- Correspond with customers regarding outstanding balances and to facilitate collection of same
- Generate reports for management review
- Prepare bank reconciliations for management review
- Implement process improvements to increase accuracy and efficiencies
CANADIAN SET-UP AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE LIAISON at Waste Management of Canada (2016-12 – 2018-03)
- Maintained threshold of customer impacting errors following an initial error rate reduction from 28% to 7% in my first year of employment
- Trained salespeople on internal operating systems
- Developed and maintained strong relationships with other departments including the Western Canadian and Phoenix sales teams
- Facilitated complaint resolution between internal departments
SENIOR OPERATIONS SPECIALIST at Waste Management of Canada (2015-12 – 2016-12)
- Acted as a liaison with drivers, management, and the City of Edmonton's residential contract team
- Responsible for payroll timekeeping for union and non-union employees
- Prepared and maintained various management reports
DISPATCHER at Waste Management of Canada (2015-05 – 2015-12)
- Responsible for dispatch of fleet of front-end loaders for Calgary and surrounding area
- Ensured drivers completed routes
- Acted as liaison between management and customers
EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONDER (2003 – 2013)
Employed in the oil and gas industry, which provided me with many transferrable skills such as building strong professional relationships, working under pressure and in high stress situations, thinking critically, and adapting seamlessly to changing job requirements/conditions.
OWNER/OPERATOR (1997 – 2003)
Owned & operated a Panago Pizza & Husky gas station in Morinville, AB, where I implemented several process improvements that resulted in increased revenue, effective budgeting with a reduction in actual vs. budgeted variances, improved cost efficiencies, increased employee retention and morale and improvements in bookkeeping processes and internal controls resulting in reduced accounting errors and internal controls risk.
