Ramona Elam has over 13 years of experience in accounting roles including accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, and customer service. She has a proven track record of processing invoices and payments, maintaining vendor and customer records, and assisting with financial reporting. Currently, she is seeking a staff accountant position where she can utilize her skills in accounts payable, data entry, and use of financial systems like IBM AS400 and Microsoft Office.

1. RAMONA M. ELAM
1904 CROWN AVE, CINCINNATI, OH 45212, (513) 316-4459, RAMONAELAM@YAHOO.COM
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Professional Strengths: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, Expediting, Order/Data Entry,
Customer Service, Vendor Relations, IBM’s AS400, Microsoft Office, FundEZ, E-Tapestry, and Sadi.
Professional Experience:
Luxottica (08/04/14-10-25-2014)
Staff Accountant
• Code and review all invoices, check requests, and expense reports for appropriate documentation, approval,
and coding into their proper entry into the financial system prior to payment. Record PO’s on PO log.
• 1099 maintenance, W9 maintenance, assist controller with monthly status reports, monthly closings and
other projects as needed.
• Create, process, and mail all checks, invoices, and statements. Clear all monthly statements and investigate
or fix any discrepancies or variances.
• Record bank fees, reconcile bank statements, create deposit ticket reports in Excel with pivot tables,
process special price vouchers, sort and distributed all mail, create and mail different documents to send to
our donors or customers requesting special price vouchers.
Novelart Manufacturing Company Inc. (04/2013-12/2013)
Accounts Payable Specialist
• Review all invoices, check requests, and expense reports for appropriate documentation, approval, and
coding into their proper entry into the financial system prior to payment.
• Receives, researches and resolves a variety of routine internal and external inquiries concerning account
status, including communicating the resolution of discrepancies to appropriate persons.
• Prepares batch check runs twice a week for regular checks and prepares daily ACH payments for the
controller.
• 1099 maintenance, assist controller with monthly status reports, monthly closings and other projects as
needed.
• 13 years of experience in IBM’s AS 400 or 500 and Microsoft Office
Keidel Supply Company Inc. (02/02/2000-05/02/2012)
Accounting Clerk (02/2012-05/2012)
• Sort and distribute all incoming and outgoing mail.
• Enter invoices into the system and distribute them to the proper person or department for approval. (All
invoices have to be approved before payment.)
• Create, process, and mail all checks, invoices, and statements.
• Clear all monthly statements and fix any discrepancies.
• Check references and set up new accounts in the system.
• Support the purchasing department with order entry, expediting orders, scheduling deliveries, checking
order confirmations, matching receiving, debits, credits, and vendor returns.
Purchasing Specialist (01/2008-01/2012)
• Enter, process, acknowledge, receive and expedite all purchase orders.
• Schedule all truck deliveries coming in and out of the warehouse.
• Approve all invoices and clear any pricing or quantity variances.

2. • In charge of debit memos, credits, vendor returns, inventory management and file maintenance.
Accounts Payable Specialist (01/2004-12/2007)
• Enter invoices into the system and distribute them for approval.
• Answer all A/P calls and support A/R department and company receptionist when needed.
• Create, process, and mail all checks.
• File invoice payments, customer files, debit memos, and accounting reports.
Front Greeting Receptionist (02/2000-12/2003)
• Greet and direct clients, answered phones, took messages, and helped office with paper work and filing.
Education:
Associates of Applied Business and Accounting Technology, Brown Mackie College, Cincinnati, Ohio (06/2009),
GPA: 3.46