Experience

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  Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group

  • Analyst

    • Jan 2006 - Present

    Marketing Admin. & Finance, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Reconcile general ledger and balance sheet accounts for Sales, Marketing, Loyalty, Commissions, Payroll, and Car Sales. Review accounts for accuracy, research and resolve accounting related issues/problems. Prepare accruals and journal entries for month-end process. Prepare and upload payroll entries. Provide variance analysis at month end review. Research returned Travel Agent Commission checks and determine if they need to be voided/reissued or sent to unclaimed funds. Approve all invoices for yellow page placement, ensuring compliance with contract for all US and Canadian advertising. Coordinated moving several departments between buildings, including scheduling phone and pc removal and set-up.Accomplishments: Audited and researched yellow page program where invoicing had discrepancies dating back many years. Cleared up all outstanding issues bringing account current allowing DTAG to benefit from a 12% discount for timely payment. This amounted to a savings of over $500K over a 6 year period.Streamlined process and brought current thousands of Travel Agent returned/unclaimed commission payments and was able to clear the accounts of these outstanding balances.

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  Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group

  • Analyst

    • Jan 1999 - Jan 2005

    Developed and monitored budget for Training, Development and Continuous Improvement. Forecast and accrued monthly expenses. Reviewed, edited and coded invoices and expense reports. Prepared collateral and brochures for advertising in-house classes and training programs. Scheduled/coordinated training classes, programs, and transitions at HQ and in the field. Included scheduling hotel and planning set-up of room, as well as, planning all meals for participants. Required working closely with trainers and vendors to stay on budget. Initiated and coordinated the outsourcing of our training manuals to a print on demand vendor. Accomplishments: Developed and maintained Training Department’s budget which increased from $250K to over $1M during my tenure.Came in on budget despite economic downturn and a corporate merger involving very large scale training projects.Cataloged all media and created a database for a Training Library. Enabled employees to view a list of all available items, and to check out those items, for the first time in the company’s history.Initiated and implemented a plan to outsource all training manuals to an outside, ship on demand, third-party vendor saving the company both time and money.

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  Dollar Rent A Car Systems, Inc

  • Staff Assistant

    • Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

    Prepared state annual report forms, business license applications/renewals, and sales/use tax returns for all Dollar locations. Assisted in monitoring property tax compliance/assessments. Monitored compliance with state and federal tax reporting dates. Gathered information for sales and use tax audits. Compiled data for department budget and maintained tax library. Developed and maintained tax department filing system. Composed and typed correspondence, reports and tax documents.Accomplishments: Applied for and obtained Business Permits for all Dollar Rent-A-Car locations, as parent company completely separated brands.Started with boxes of records, contents of which were in no discernable order, and created a complete, functional filing system for the new department.

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  Accounting Principals

  • Marketing Assistant

    • Jan 1996 - Jan 1997

    Reconciled bank account, coded, entered and issued A/P for Gas Services, including all manual checks. Prepared monthly journal entries and entered them into Excalibur. Prepared Louisiana Severance Tax, Texas Report of Natural Gas and OCC monthly reports, as well as, the quarterly Louisiana Oilfield Restoration Fee Report. Computed and prepared monthly accruals and gas allocations.