General Ledger management including working knowledge of journal entries and debits / credits and account reconciliations. Prepare and distribute monthly trial balances. Prepare and distribute monthly intercompany transactions between Headquarters and subsidiaries. Perform a reconciliation and reporting of various one-off transactions to/from. Create and validate monthly, quarterly and annual reports and ensure financial information has been reported accurately. Create and distribute monthly financial analysis tools used by management. Assist with the monthly consolidation of Headquarters and subsidiaries financial statements. Generate and distribute to management financial reports & books used to analyze the business monthly. Assist with special projects as needed. Assist Treasury as needed.

Analyze account history should decide which accounts warrant immediate attention and decide if customer is allowed to receive extra credit increases or not. Researched and reconciled any discrepancies with payments received, batches posted and bank balances. Work proactively with other departments in identifying and resolving accounts receivable related issues. Examined, prepared and processed chargeback notifications with valid back up to the customer for payment in order to avoid releasing debt to outside collection agency. Prepared journal entries, participated in monthly closing, and reviewed inter-company accounts. Actively involved with multi organizational project to develop streamline order placement to cash process within SOX guidelines. Corresponded via email and telephone collecting on past due accounts, resolving disputes and questions, researching misapplied payments, errors in contracts, and other discrepancies. Improved the processing of payments by streamlining the billing integration process. Collected payments for customer billing and posted to general ledger. Assisted users to identify and solve software problem. Trained and supervised ten employees involved in accounts receivable. Managed daily office operations by organizing, planning and prioritizing work load, performing administrative activities and training and developing new staff. Resolved customer concerns, complaints, and inquiries using exceptional problem solving skills. Prepared small balance write offs and reviewed GL for inaccuracy. Developed credit analysis tool for evaluating creditworthiness of new and existing customers. Implemented a contingency plan for the critical functions of the Accounts Receivable team by ensuring everyone was successfully cross trained.

Understand and Perform daily applications of cash receipts to customer accounts for Menasha locations. Understand foreign currency and dual currency cash applications. Apply credit card payments and credits. Understand and perform application for non-sales related items and returned checks. Provide credit departments with supporting documentation of ACH, wire, and credit card discrepancies between payment and open invoices. Adjust customer accounts as authorized by the Menasha Credit Departments in order to reflect the accurate receivable balance. Reconcile cash receipts by reviewing reports and recording information in Excel spreadsheets to ensure proper handling and accountability of cash receipts. Provide back up to the Accounts Receivable Coordinator as needed. Provide back up for the cash application audit process as needed. Provide guidance to credit department personnel, corporate accountants and external auditors in understanding the Accounts Receivable process and its impact on the General Ledger. Provide back up for the Vendor master portal for Vendor ads and changes. Assist in special projects within the department. Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsible for resolving deduction discrepancies on SAP for Channels accounts (Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Target, CVS, Walgreens, and Dollar General). Processed daily payments of trade (Foods, Snacks, and Beverages) deals and actively monitored deduction balance and associated reports to sustain target controls. Ensured charge-backs are issued to the customer and sales in efforts to drive collections on invalid claims. Collaborated with Sales Finance and Business Units by preparing projected spreadsheets to allocate funds. Participated in Accrual Liability reviews quarterly. Reviewed of weekly payables in (pre-payment). Weekly monitored of REDGE to identify customer coupon re-payments. Reviewed and prepared monthly invoices and forward for payment processing to Shared Services. Assisted managers with the running of monthly reporting on status of business and escalation protocol. Created and collected on chargeback activity on SAP. Applied knowledge of functional discipline with basic knowledge of PepsiCo structure and the business to impact area of responsibility. Assisted management with budgeting and forecasting. Completed administrative task (coping, faxing, arranging meetings, etc.) including additional request from management.