1. MICHAEL SMITH
Miami, Florida 305-846-0263 mbsmith314@gmail.com
Objective:
As a successful Career IndependentContractor and ConsultantI have worked in Fortune 500 Companies, including Google, Clifbar and Timbuk2 .
In these companies I have saved expenses & recovered revenue, streamlined departments, and saved major accounts. Now living in Florida, I seek
to find a permanentposition with a company where I can be stable and grow within the company/position. In this position my objective would be
to stay in the Accounts Receivable, Payable and Operations. I have a strong background in account and bank reconciliation as well.
KEY SKILLS
1. Billing & Invoicing (Thousands of pages)
2. Accounts Receivable, Bank Deposits, Cash Applications.
3. Customer Service Supervisor of up to 20 -Representatives.
4. Aging & Credit, Chargebacks, AMEX portal recon.
5. Finance, Journal Entries, P&L to Revenue Recognition.
Bank Recon, up to 8 inter-companies, Variance Analysis.
Project & Cost Accounting.
6. Accounts Payable & Expense Reports, ADP Expense.
7. Collections & FDCPA
8. Operations & Shipping, Returns, Inventory Control, Claims,
Manifest, Logistics.
9. Dept. & Business Development:,Streamlining Process’,
Procedures, Manual Writing,Training, Vanguard
Reconciliation, Flex Benefits. Gov’tand Private Sector.
10. Law Firm Experience, TrustAccounts, Payroll through
QuickBooksand Wells Fargo Software Programs.
11. Restaurant, Hospitality, Software, Hardware, Gov’t, Leasing,
Wholesale, Fashion, OSHA,Perishable Industry Experience.
SYSTEMS USED
1. MAS 90 & 200, Great Plains, Oracle, Solomon, People Soft,
J.D. EdwardsAS400, Quick Books Pro& Online
2. Platinum, Magic, M.O.M,Peachtree
3. World Ship, UPS and FedEx Portals.
4. LAN Mark, Squirrel, Tempworks, Time slips
5. Cforia, Cyber source,
6. TRAX, FIAS2, Gmail, Chrome
7. Wells Fargo Payroll, Compeat,
8. Participation with 4 software conversions & have trained
Great Plains and written “how to” & “Employee”manuals.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Contractor, MiamiArea
2009 – Present
Nextwave Funding – Submissions Specialist
Miami, FL
SNI Staffing, Internal Position –A/R,-Collections
Hollywood, FL
4G Recycling - BillingSpecialist
N. Fort Lauderdale, FL
One Bal Harbour Resort (Thompson Legal) -Recon
Analyst - Bal Harbour, FL
FL Keys Restaurant Mgmt. - Staff Accountant.
Key Largo, FL
Contact Communications- Finance Dir./Property Mgr.
A/P – Miami, FL
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES CONTRACTING IN FLORIDA
Review applicationsfor defaults return to ISO’s for
incorrectlyincompletely filled out or instant Decline.
Run credit checks through Experian and Transunion,
multiple checks through NAMAA.
Regional collections, phone/email contact. Invoicing,
Cash applications/posting and audit, spreadsheet
preparation, Credits/Debits, cash posting for internal
forecasting
Entering weights/costs/ commodities into Ceitrade
system. Attaching all documents (RWN, BOL, Reports)
Reconciling BOL’s to Received Weight Notice. Prepare
statements after research and deduction to bring Mgmt.
articulated for efficiency to prevent flow of shipments
being entered so payments can be paid and received
Reconciliationsfor Rooms and Food & Beverage,
Transfers, Wires, Random Payroll, Fees, Bank Charges
2 years of bank statements -Reconciled to GL -Creating
the matrix – Identifyingproblems making
recommendations in Excel.
Bank Recon (8 Inter-companies – 1 year in arrears) J/E
Upload into Compeat, J/E corrections and reclassification.
Bank uploads for reconciliation. AP payments against
invoices. Office Management. Large AMEX Recon.
Payable invoice entry via journal entry
EFT Payments (via journal entry), Portal payments (I.E.
Pepsi and Fintech), Workingwith Cooking staff/Food &
Beverage orders
Created Expense reporting structure for company. Vendor
Balance Detail reconciliation. Cut 150k in annual expenses.
Audit of properties restructuring the accounts preventing
late payments and Bank Forced Insurance. AMEX Recon.
Recon for DHL, Trans Group and UPS – all were 90+
past due – saved all shipping accounts. Office
Management.
Multiple Bank and Intercompany Reconciliation; caught up
6 years of Bank recons between 4 different Banks
Power of Attorney for responsibilities with the Florida
Dept. of Revenue. Tax Preparation, 944, 941, FormUCT-
6, 1099.
2. MICHAEL SMITH
Miami, Florida 305-846-0263 mbsmith314@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Contractor, San FranciscoBay Area – Silicon Valley California
1993 – 2009
Google - Collector, Recon Specialist- Mountain View, CA Stellar Solutions- Staff Accountant - Mountain View, CA
Argent Hotel - Credit Mgr.,
Billing/Collections/Receivable Mgr. S.F., CA
Nelson Personnel, Internal Position – Collections,
Recon. Napa, CA
The Industry Standard- Biller, CollectionsReceivable
Mgr.-San Francisco, CA
Clifbar – Deduction Specialist - Berkeley, CA
IKON-Contract & Billing Lead - San Francisco, CA Tibco – A/R Mgmt. - San Jose, CA
The Industry Standard - Biller, Collections, Receivable
Mgr-, San Francisco, CA
Timbuk2 – Credit Mgr. – San Francisco, CA
Omega Performance– Billing, Receivable Administrator
Lead- Sausalito, CA
Rebecca Beeson Clothing Designer – Collector, Recon
Specialist - San Francisco, CA
International Microcomputer Software Inc. - Biller,
Collections, Receivable Mgr., Customer Service Mgr. –
San Rafael, CA
ClickSafety – Great PlainsStaff Accountant - Alamo, CA
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES CONTRACTING IN CALIFORNIA
Eliminateddelayed payments, Sales Support,.Money
recoveryfrom badaccounts in 10’s of thousands of dollars.
Accelerated-billing processes by re-constructing
Credit/Billing departments creating abetter billing systemto
translate to a client as someof theseinvoices were 500 pages
thick,utilizingaSummarysheet.
Invoice processingup to 1000 (thousand) daily for Billing.
Collections,. Complex reconciliationof commercial,
consumer andbank accounts.Openorders and backorders,
including order processing,sales approvals,invoicing,
creditsrefunds,RMA’s.
Expense approvals forGov’t -Military Contractors.
Review and codeexpenses inAccounts Payable,entering
invoices dailythrough
Lead person forcontracts andaddendato successfully
formulate asystem ofabstracts usedinbilling process and
tracking of appropriate fees and variablecosts for eachclient
eliminating correctionsto invoices and time spent on charge
backs.Month end Close.
Benefit and Vanguard reconciliation
Confidential Gov’t Contract Billing
Collections throughTimeSlips – aStaffing Agency billing
application.
ReconciliationfromEmployees time cards to paychecks for
various companies theEmployees had beenplaced.
Facilitated full billing cycle;updatedand maintainedclient
and project databases.
P&L to RevenueRecognition.Book various timeand
materials to projects;Journalentries,Project/cost
accounting.
Set up and monitoredlicenseagreements,installment
schedules, account ledgers, Month EndClose.
Billing B2Bforcomputer purchasesin SiliconValley.
RestructuredrelationshipfromAccounts Receivableto
Collections.
Invoicing and account reconciliation.
Hired specificallyto collect onaccounts that werealreadyup
to 2 years past due
RestructuredBilling and Invoicing for subscription billing.
Daily deposits (thousandsof checks},credit cards and
upwards to 20k walk in deposit. “Direct Mail”.Daily.
Customer Service Supervisor of20 TelesalesReps
Reconcilinginvoices andaccount to the Factor and pulling
invoices back fromtheFactor that they werenot ableto
collect successfully collecting internally.
EDUCATION
College of Marin – Accounting Excel Indian Valley College – AccountingAutomotive Santa Rosa, J.C. – Applied Mathematics
D.O.T – Certified Weigh Master (Dept. of Transportation)
LinkedIn Account: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-smith/4/565/835