Aaminah-Nicole Leonard
**** ***** ******, *********, ** 44106
*************@*****.***
Personal Statement
I'm a friendly, loyal, dedicated disciplined individual. I have adaptability skills, detail-oriented skills, integrity, dependability, and, critical thinking skills. I am professional, as well as often taking the initiative, and an excellent time-manager, who is self-motivated, intelligent, problem-solving, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and flexible. I have the ambition to succeed in any given environment. Although I have extensive experience in the accounting industry I love to learn, and am always up to a challenge whatever the situation. I get along well with others, while also working efficiently on my own. I am an excellent communicator, who can communicate successfully with individuals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, providing quality service
Work Experience
Cleveland Job Corps: Accounting AP Clerk – Cleveland, OH September 5, 2023 – January 12, 2024
●Accurately process invoices, check requests, and Purchase Orders for payments
●Handling payments in an organized and timely manner.
●Streamlining the accounts payable process
●Process, verify, and reconcile invoices for Purchase orders
●Processes over 200 Payments per week
●Enter 3-way match of Accounts Payable invoices to Purchase Orders (Requisition, PO, invoice matching)
●Assist where needed with miscellaneous tasks within the accounting or adjacent departments
Care Alliance: AP / Payroll Accountant – Cleveland, OH March 2022 - January 2023
●Obtain primary financial data for accounting records
●Complete the AP and AR functions
●Report directly to CFO
●Process bi-weekly payroll
●Enter and post invoices into the financial systems
●Prioritize processing of invoices and payment of bills
●Compute and record numerical data
●Research discrepancies and credit memos
●Check the accuracy of business transactions
●Cash Management
●Reconcile accounts
●Assist with various finance department projects
Contracted Materion Inc.: Cash Application Administrator – Mayfield Hts, OH
August 2021 – December 2021
●Performs daily activities related to handling, processing, and depositing cash receipts in order to ensure prompt and accurate recording of payments to customer accounts.
●Daily processing of customer payments, including payments made by credit card, lockbox, ACH/Wire, branch deposits and posting to customer accounts.
●Balance cash daily, including cash transfers, and report the figures to the accounting department daily.
●Balanced all accounts for end of day reporting
Contracted Temporary: /MOEN / Technology Revenue Group – North Olmsted, OH
November 2020 to August 2021
MOEN A/P-A/R November 2020 – June 2021
●Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
●Review, verify and post invoices in system
●Perform weekly check runs
●Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoices/expense reports; recording entries.
●Post customer payments by recording cash, check, and credit card, ACH and wire transactions
●Apply customer credit memos.
●Provide information/support to Accounting team for month-end/year-end general ledger closing cycles. Maintain records of invoices, debits, and credits.
● Research unpaid customer invoices and/or discrepancies until issues are resolved.
●Place collection calls and emails to customer AP personnel. Maintain and develop relationships with customers to ensure timely and accurate processing of accounts receivable.
●Verifies validity of account discrepancies by obtaining and investigating information from sales, trade promotions, customer service departments, and from customers
Technology Revenue Group HR/Payroll June 2021 – September 2021
●Talent management
●Onboarding
●Compensation and employee benefits
●Training and development
●Compliance
●Payroll (track, verify and input hours, deductions and garnishments.
●Workplace Required Trainings
Accounts Receivable/Collections
Applied Industrial Technologies - Cleveland, OH January 2019 to June 2021
(Covid layoff March 2020 & Resigned June 2021)
●Monitor accounts to identify past due invoices and overdue payments.
●B2B collections calls. Maintain accurate records along with and reporting on collection activity and additional ad hoc projects as needed.
●Monitor customer accounts to determine credit status.
●Obtain payment commitments from customers (Promise 2 Pay).
●Troubleshoot account discrepancies. Analyze and reconcile customer accounts.
●Resolve customer issues.
●Evaluate accounts to determine release of orders on credit holds. Process payments via EFTs, ACH, electronics checks as well as process mailed checks. Utilized Citrix, SAP and OnBase.
Dispatcher Supervisor/Claims Processor
Border Transfer MA - Cleveland, OH December 2013 to December 2018
●Create pre-shift route monitoring report in J-Menu thru tracking board.
●Prepare post call sheets along with assign all post calls to dispatchers to assure quality customer service and delivery.
●Check routes verifying any Incomplete Deliveries. Enter incomplete's data onto Data Review/Recap Spreadsheet. Check for No Shut Offs, enter data onto the BTG (bridging the Gap) Spreadsheet. Maintain continuous monitoring of routes.
●Make sure drivers complete and hand in Bill of Lading sheet with stops, mileage and signature. Investigate all customer property or product damage claims for reimbursements
Accounting Clerk II
Cuyahoga County Fiscal Office - Cleveland, OH June 2000 to December 2016
●Keyed received vouchers to post to print checks form all Cuyahoga County subsidiaries.
●Receive printed checks and match up with the posted vouchers and convey check numbers on to vouchers.
●Hold checks and file them and mail out other checks.
●Prepared work to be accomplished by gathering and sorting documents and related information.
●Paid invoices by verifying transaction information; scheduling and preparing disbursements; obtained authorization of payment.
●Obtained revenue by verifying transaction information; computing charges and refunds; preparing and mailing invoices; identifying delinquent accounts and insufficient payments. Collected revenue by reminding delinquent accounts; notifying customers of insufficient payments.
●Three-way match., prepared financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends. Maintained accounting ledgers by posting account transactions.
Customer Account Specialist (Supervisor)
Ameritech - Brecksville, OH April 1996 to March 2000
●Processed inbound customer accounts calls Handling customer issues, questions, and selling cable and internet products.
●Accurately identified customers' account needs to maximize company's productivity & revenue.
● Selling products to new customers and upselling or adding new products to existing customer accounts.
●Processing new sales orders from start to finish and documenting all sales calls.
●Initiated follow-up outbound calls providing quality customer care.
●Responsible for timely resolution of customer complaints.
●Lead daily team and quota meetings and weekly coaching sessions. Handled all B2B clients, to maintain current account and to upsell new or upcoming products.
Education
Candidate - Bachelor of science in Accounting/ Human Resources
Colorado Technical University Online – Colorado Springs – December 2023
Medical Assistant
Remington College – Cleveland, OH - 2019
Associate of Science in Accounting
Sawyer Business College - Cleveland Heights, OH - 1999
Skills
Data Entry, Health Insurance, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Advanced Working Knowledge: MicroSoft365, Epic EHR/EMR, Concur, Invoice, Peoplesoft, Sage, Yardi, HRIS, Quickbooks, Quickbooks, (Online) - certififed, GAAP, Paychex, Accounts Payable, Bookkeeping, Brinks, SAP & SAP 2.0 (10+ years), Salesforce, Great Plains/Dynamics (10+ years), OnBase (3+ years), Citrix (10+ years), Peachtree, HRIS, Accounting (10+ years), Yardi, Accounts Receivable, Oracle, NetSuite (10+ years), ADP (10+ years) CT DataTrac, ERP Famous/Mainframe Database J-Menu, Decartes, Bullhorn front/back office, eVOLVE, PeopleSoft, NetSuite, Raizer's Edge, Xero, BLS Certified and HIPPA Certified.