MICHELE COOK
Phone: 972-***-****
Crandall, TX **114 Email: ad0ew0@r.postjobfree.com
Dorfman Milano Hat Company July 2021 to current
Sr AP Associate II
• Daily Accounts Payable duties: Including reconciling, entering and processing invoices for payments. All aspects of AP duties.
• Process and reconcile statements from vendors
• Confirming and updating vendor information and payment instructions
• Processing vendor payments on bank portal
• Process the AP email box
• Resolve vendor issues and provide customer service for vendors and inside corporate team members
• General miscellaneous accounting projects
Austin Industries January 2020 to March 2021
Cash Position Manager
• Daily Corporate Treasury duties: Including positive pay verifications, previous day and current day reconciliations.
• Process weekly cash forecasting for reporting to corporate office for liquidity positioning.
• Relaying bank activity reports to required departments :i.e Incoming funding, intercompany funding, stop payments and cashed checks.
• Process Cash Accounting rules in TMS system.
• Process ACH’s and wire transfers
• Review monthly analysis statement from banks for accuracy.
• Review and approve and/or process documentation for required custody accounts.
• Reconciling general ledger accounts
• Month end closing and balancing, including reconciling and reporting
• Training Treasury
• General miscellaneous accounting projects
Amtrust Group/Republic Underwriters Insurance Inc. January 2007 to January 2020 Treasury/AP Supervisor
• Daily Corporate Treasury duties: Including positive pay verifications, previous day and current day reconciliations.
• Process weekly cash forecasting for reporting to corporate office for liquidity positioning.
• Relaying bank activity reports to required departments :i.e Incoming funding, intercompany funding, stop payments and cashed checks.
• Process Cash Accounting rules in TMS system.
• Work with training and implementation of new TMS system.
• Process ACH’s and wire transfers
• Review monthly analysis statement from banks for accuracy.
• Review and approve and/or process documentation for required custody accounts.
• Corporate Accounts Payable duties: Including verifying, coding, and paying of corporate invoices and purchases
• Reconciling general ledger accounts
• Assisting the Budget Control manager with yearly budget and reconciling monthly outages in the distributed item reports for upper management
• Intercompany invoicing and reconciliations
• Identify, review and code fixed asset invoices. Reconcile fixed asset general ledger accounts
• Month end closing and balancing, including reconciling and reporting
• Training Treasury and accounts payable staff and reviewing daily work for corrections
• General miscellaneous accounting projects
ECOM USA May 2002 to January 2007
Accounts Receivable/Treasury
• Apply domestic and foreign payments for multiple companies into various accounting programs
• Create weight, quality and bank fee adjustments for customers
• Reconcile agers and customer accounts
• Daily import and verifications of invoices for multiple companies
• Weekly collection calls
• Borrowing Base reporting
• Month end reconciliations and reporting
• Training other personnel for Accounts Receivable department
• Create foreign and domestic wires daily
• Create templates for wires
• Contact banking institutions regarding wires and bank accounts
• Liaison with other departments regarding accounts receivable and payments
• Monthly reconciliation of multiple bank statements
• Special projects and research
Aurion Technologies, Inc. March 2000 to December 2001 Accounts Payable Manager
• Organize accounts payable department
• Review weekly check run and back up
• Prepare weekly reports for controller and CFO for check runs
• Reconcile vendor accounts
• Liaison with vendors
• Hire, train and supervise accounts payable personnel
• Assist controller with various month end projects and reporting
• Monitor and audit expense reports
• Assist Accounts Receivable, Purchasing and Inventory departments
• Liaison with auditors
• Maintain storage of prior year's documents
Precept Transportation Services January 1999 to March 2000 Accounts Payable Manager
• Organized and restructured accounts payable department
• Instituted system coding for various vendors
• Organized and instituted accurate filing systems
• Gained control over general ledger coding for transportation and corporate entries
• Hired and trained accounts payable personnel
• Assigned special projects and research by division president and controller
• Liaison between transportation president and multiple subsidiary locations regarding accounts payable
• Review daily check runs, (over 1000 checks weekly)
• Sign checks up to $50,000.00 limit
• Prepare reports for CFO regarding check runs weekly
• Prepare month-end reports for controller, CFO, and president
• Special projects and research
Mesquite Credit Union August 1996 to July 1998
Branch Supervisor
• General teller duties
• Train new tellers
• Vault balancing
• Opening new accounts
• Credit card processing
• Title work
• Reorganize and rebuild insurance department
• Maintain customer accounts, including CD and money markets Education:
Eastfield Community College in Business Management Brookhaven Community College in Accounting
Rice University Certified Treasury Professional course SKILLS: Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook. Prelude, Acuity, Sage, Navision, CIMS, PeopleSoft, and Imageright, Oracle, Apprise, multiple banking portals