Experience

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  McElroy Manufacturing, Inc.

  • Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

  • Manager, Accounts Payable and Receivable

    • Apr 2014 - Mar 2016
    • Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

    Managed a staff of 3.5 FTE's (AP Specialists) responsible for timely and accurately processing and payment of approximately 60,000 invoices valued at $20 million annually. Also responsible for billings for manufacturing sales orders to McElroy's Sales Channel Partners (distributor network) valued at approximately $80 million annually. Significant Accomplishment: Implemented an electronic scan and storage project for AP vendor documentation. Also worked on a project to update and document current AP processes and AR billing processes.

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  Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group

  • Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

  • Manager, Accounts Payable

    • Oct 2005 - Apr 2014
    • Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

    Managed a staff of 23 FTE's (1 Manager, 2 Supervisors, and 20 Staff Assistants) responsible for successful and timely processing and payment of approximately 1.3 million invoices valued at approximately $4.8 billion annually. Additional responsibilities include implementation and rollout of automation initiatives such as JDE One World’s On-Line Purchase Order, Purchasing Card, and Global Expense Reporting System (GERS), and maintaining an operating budget of $1.4 million. Significant Accomplishment: Lead a successful re-engineering of AP process that significantly reduced invoice processing time from 33 days to 2 days, a 94% improvement.

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  American Airlines

  • United States
  • Airlines and Aviation
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manager, Payroll Tax & Accounting

    • Jan 2004 - Oct 2005

    Managed a staff of 25 FTE's (7 M/S, 18 S/S) responsible for auditing, reconciling, and reporting of payroll transactions as well as timely remittance of payroll deductions in excess of $3 billion annually. Specific deductions include taxes, garnishments, relocation, direct deposit, and 401(k). Also managed projects driven by corporate initiatives and/or changes in legislation, while maintaining an operating budget in excess of $1 million annually. Significant Accomplishment: Lead a project to implement electronic garnishment payments to local municipalities, thus eliminating payment delays and penalties and saving on check processing costs.

  • Manager, Disbursements Production

    • Mar 2000 - Jan 2004

    Managed a staff of 14 FTE's (3 M/S, 11 S/S) responsible for processing approximately 3.5 million invoices valued at $9.5 billion annually. Additional responsibilities included implementation and rollout of automation initiatives such as iPayables Internet invoicing, Purchasing Card, Electronic Data Interchange, and XMS for employee expense reporting, while maintaining an operating budget of approximately $750,000.00. Significant Accomplishment: Lead a successful implementation of AP direct deposit for employee reimbursements in conjunction with Payroll direct deposit. This initiative eliminated reimbursements by check.

  • Accounting Analyst, Payroll Tax & Accounting

    • Sep 1999 - Mar 2000

    Reconciled the SABRE payroll bank accounts and their corresponding General Ledger accounts. Also worked with the Tax Department to record non-cash income adjustments for SABRE Expatriate employees to accurately reflect taxable income for W-2's. Significant Accomplishment: Lead a project to transition/spin off SABRE payroll from AMR Corporation.

  • Cash Facilitator

    • Oct 1996 - Aug 1999

    Supervised a team of 3 Staff Assistants responsible for reconciling Canadian Airlines payroll bank and various general ledger accounts in excess of $25 million on a monthly basis. Also recorded and reconciled a monthly estimated cash balance of approximately $100 million dollars. Significant Accomplishment: Lead Cash Accounting team in maintaining a monthly standard of less than 500 unreconciled deposits and charges that were greater than 60 days old for 18 consecutive months.

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  Oxy

  • United States
  • Oil and Gas
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Oracle End Team User

    • Jan 1996 - Oct 1996

    Oracle Team End User Assisted in the design, development, and testing of the query module of the Oracle Financial System that allowed financial reports to be generated. Significant Accomplishment: Developed financial report queries and templates with very little training.

  • Lease Balancing Accountant

    • Jun 1989 - Jan 1996

    Recorded revenue based on the sale of natural gas and natural gas products. Also reconciled Accounts Receivable balances, worked with Interest Owner Relations to help resolve Royalty Owner disputes, and served as coordinator for monthly Gas Revenue closing activities. Also determined gas imbalance positions for approximately 160 company operated leases. This also involved completing cash settlements on lease imbalances with other working interest owners when necessary. Significant Accomplishment: Assisted in the design and implementation of an automated Gas Lease Imbalance System.