A Noel

Experienced financial professional with over a decade of progressive leadership in accounts payable, procurement, and financial management across public and private sectors. Proven ability to lead high-performing teams, implement internal controls, streamline AP/AR processes, and ensure SOX compliance. Adept at building strong vendor relationships, resolving complex discrepancies, and driving operational excellence in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.

Accounts Payable Manager - R&S Pharmaceuticals - Fountain Run, KY

(2025-07)

Accounts Payable Manager with extensive experience leading end-to-end AP operations in fast-paced, high-volume environments. Proven ability to manage full-cycle accounts payable functions, including accurate and timely invoice processing, strategic payment scheduling, and comprehensive vendor management. Adept at driving efficiencies, strengthening internal controls, and supporting organizational financial goals through data-driven insights.

• Direct all full-cycle accounts payable operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and adherence to company policies and regulatory requirements. Supported month-end and year-end close activities, including reconciliation and accruals.
• Streamline AP workflows by identifying inefficiencies and implementing process improvements, significantly reducing processing time and operational costs.
• Partner closely with accounting teams to support month-end and year-end close activities, including account reconciliations, accrual preparation, and variance analysis.
• Leveraged AP data analytics to identify spending trends, improve cash flow management, and provide actionable insights to senior leadership.

Accounts Receivable Specialist - R&S Pharmaceuticals - Fountain Run, KY

(2025-01 - 2025-07)

Support R&S/AkKare finance department through cross-functional team collaboration. Support functions include managing cash reconciliation, daily and monthly R&S bad debt reports, monthly reconciliation reports, regular and immediate holds queues, customer updates, R&S weekly draws, and R&S email submissions.

• Quickly identify customers with unpaid balances and past due invoices. Work closely with sales and the customer to effectively close the payment gaps. Reduced bad debt 30% from $3.9M to $2.7M between January 2025 and July 2025.
• Collaborate with the R&S/Avkare team on a weekly basis to regularly capture $3.5M+ net income for R&S.
• Produce financial reports for monthly close for senior leadership; reconciliation and bad debt reports.

Procurement Specialist - Dollar General - Goodlettsville, TN

(2023-07 - 2025-01)

Support Dollar General's Procurement department through enterprise-wide collaboration. Maximize procurement savings via key strategies, tactics, and develop new reporting methods to effectively find viable projects and execute projects, such as late purchase order reconciliation, compliance tracking, purchasing, and team cohesion.

• Maintain Capital and Expenditure compliance on new and existing capital requests and expense contract review requests for the procurement department and Dollar General, direct involvement with Senior Directors, Directors, Senior Managers and Managers daily to provide the most accurate data trends.
• Developed tracking system for late purchase orders, to gain the upper hand in attaining and monitoring purchase order compliance. Work directly with vendors, and stakeholders weekly to ensure billing/payments are made allowing for the closure of orders in a timely manner. Provide weekly reporting to senior leadership on results to show trending data for fiscal compliance.
• Responsible for the procurement of store supplies for both warehouse fulfillment and at the store level.

Accounts Payable Coordinator - Dollar General - Goodlettsville, TN

(2022-04 - 2023-07)

Support Dollar General's Accounts Payable department through enterprise-wide collaboration. Support function includes processing invoices for payment in a timely manner, invoice auditing, invoice entry on both capital and non-capital procurements.

• Upload and process multi-million dollars in invoice submissions, for swift and accurate payments in support of Dollar General to include taxes, contracted procurements, beer and wine sales, drop shipment additions/deletions with a reported production rate of 28.43% (with a goal of 25%) in 2022.
• Maintain batch uploads. Analyze and audit invoice uploads to ensure 100% accuracy to maintain mission readiness in accordance with Dollar General's mission and vision, including Coupa audit/approval >7K in just four months.

Accounting Manager - See Rock City, Inc. - Lookout Mountain, GA

(2021-10 - 2022-02)

Support the finance and accounting team of See Rock City, Inc. identities by managing day-to-day general accounting and financial functions. Supervisory accounting manager overseeing daily operations of the accounting team including accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash receipts, general ledger, treasury, capital asset reconciliation, weekly check runs and fixed asset activity and procurement.

• Monitor and analyze accounting team's work to develop more efficient processes and procedures with the use of all available resources that garners high level accuracy to enhance workflow if daily operations to maintain accurate audit compliance.
• Facilitate the process for providing auditors with required documentation timely to ensure clean audits are conducted. Current audit found clean and legally sufficient.
• With the guidance of the scheduled calendar, compile and distributes monthly and annual financial statements in a timely manner for preliminary and final review and approval.

Program Control Analyst - VSolvit - Nashville, TN (Fully Remote out of Ventura, CA)

(2021-05 - 2021-08)

Responsible for all financial functions on a Department of Defense contract; fiscally managed corporation government contract. While providing direct support on contract for the Department of Defense, ensured monthly financials were executed expeditiously and properly without flaw, while striving to streamline financial processes.

• Brought new business practices for monthly reporting. Designed checklists which provided internal checkpoints leading to error free monthly reporting.
• Managed an incrementally funded multi-million-dollar governmental contract ensuring all program funding was accurately accounted for to support monthly transactions, travel, and ensured procurement actions were executed in accordance with fiscal law.

Director of Financial Services - Bridge Senior Living - Richmond, VA

(2020-10 - 2020-12)

Managed all business, accounting, and finance operations in support of Imperial Plaza, a 32-acre senior living community with four high-rise apartment buildings, encompassing over 900 units. Managed administration staff ensuring proper financial operations were conducted and are in line with Bridge Senior Living's mission, vision, and core pillars.

• Supervised Business Office staff and operations in the processing of payroll, invoices, and receipt of payments from residents, while maintaining corporate policies and procedures relating to cash, accounting, collections, purchasing, and budget were followed and maintained.
• Managed accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR) and all property financial functions, and reporting; assisted corporate accountant in creation of timely and accurate monthly financial statements.
• Managed all cash functions associated AR; $1.5M monthly to include rent, dining, and tenant rent. Implemented process to overturn $555K in AR revolving bad debt. Made up 28% within five days of implementation.

Senior Pricing Analyst - Wellpath - Nashville, TN

(2019-10 - 2020-08)

Senior Pricing Analyst supporting all corporate accounting finance pricing functions, providing analysis and development, and pricing models for approved contract pricing initiatives. Managed pricing program management and developed fair and reasonable pricing models by leveraging quantitative data trends and current pricing strategies to determine financial impact.