Amanda Clarke

• Leading and mentoring the staff accountant, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in daily operations.
• Supervise Accounts Payable Department to ensure timely vendor payments with complete documentation and approvals and initiate outgoing wires to vendors.
• Performing monthly journal entries and account reconciliations, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Analyzing and investigating variances to budget and prior year in areas of responsibility and providing actionable insights for financial decision-making.
• Overseeing delivery expenses and shipping income to ensure and enhance profitability.
• Updating monthly metrics for inclusion in financial statements, contributing to comprehensive financial overviews.
• Assisting in annual audits by providing requested documentation and ensuring compliance with GAAP.
• Coordinating bi-annual physical inventory of the warehouse, collaborating with multiple departments to ensure accuracy.
• Preparing and submitting Canadian duty drawback requests and filing monthly Canadian taxes.
• Filing monthly state sales tax using Vertex tax software, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Utilizing Great Plains software and modules to perform monthly depreciation of assets and year-end closing procedures.

• Maintained general ledger accounting system
• Reviewed input from system modules for accuracy and completeness when integrated into GL (A/P, A/R, GRN and Inventory)
• Prepared monthly GL account analysis reports and various ad-hoc reports for management
• Member of SAP implementation team
• Researched all fixed asset documentation for system conversion
• Organized and completed fixed asset inventory and tagging
• Reconciled all bank statements and monitored daily cash activity for accuracy and reporting to management.
• Provided work papers supporting financial statements for annual audit
• Completed monthly and quarterly tax filing
• Collaborated with different teams to improve processes and reporting
• Assisted with physical inventory and generated all inventory reports
• Composed process documentation for all accounting duties

• Collaborate with business customers to identify process improvements
• Implement technical solutions to meet business needs
• Support the ongoing requirements of the Finance department
• Complete documentation including functional specs, test cases, and business process procedures
• Organize and assist in year-end closing process
• Audit data systems to ensure accuracy

SAP Experience-

• Experience with SAP FICO including accounts payable processing, accounts receivable processing, SAP Finance reporting, BW reporting.
• Lead Functional Analyst for SAP Asset Management implementation.
• Test Lead for SAP JV automated upload program development
• SAP project team member responsible for test script development.
• Lead functional Analyst for implementing billing Integration with Business Systems Quote Server and SAP.

• Identified billing issues and assisted Business Systems in improving effectiveness and efficiency in the Quote Server billing process
• Perform internal audit of G/L accounts for internal and federal compliance
• Provide documentation and support for audit requests
• Prepare monthly bank account reconciliations and daily cash reviews
• Monitor accounts and prepare financial statements.
• Perform quarterly internal audits of inventory with the SQM team
• Performed accounts payable functions
• Reduced AR balances by over $5 million in first 6 months
• Managed 401K internal audit
• Reconciled monthly and weekly payroll files for completeness and accuracy