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Linda S Robinson

Elgin

Summary

Dynamic Accounting Supervisor with extensive experience at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, excelling in financial reporting and invoice management. Proven leader with strong organizational skills, adept at implementing process improvements and enhancing cash flow management. Recognized for achieving timely collections and fostering team development, ensuring accuracy in financial operations.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Accounting Supervisor

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
Columbia
03.2011 - Current
  • As Accounting Supervisor for Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits of South Carolina and Florida, my responsibilities and duties are to oversee the collection of past-due invoices from suppliers, ensuring timely payments, and managing a team of Supplier Billing Clerks and Accounts Payable. Two employees are in Columbia, Columbia, South Carolina, and two employees are in Miramar, Florida. This role involves supervising, training, and providing guidance to the collection team, as well as implementing strategies to recover outstanding balances. As a supervisor, my role includes process improvement, researching discrepancies, and preparing reports for management, including processes in SAP and the Supplier Billing portal, and conducting regular meetings to address monthly status reports regarding billings. Performing financial oversight in recommending write-offs for uncollectible invoices to the division controller and implementing a strategy to recover outstanding balances. Compile month-end billing backups to send to our corporate Shared Services team for final processing, as well as processing month-end interfaces for all automated billbacks. Oversee the processing of supplier samples and financial depletions. Prepare journal entries monthly, and as directed. My direct manager, to whom I report, is the Assistant Controller for the company.

Accounts Receivable Supervisor

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
Columbia
04.2007 - 03.2011
  • Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is the largest wine and spirits distributer in the country. As Accounts Receivable Supervisor, I held the following responsibilities and duties: Supervise, coordinate, assign, train and review the work of six team members of the accounts receivable department, reconcile bank statements, oversee cash receipts/deposits, examine and verify accuracy of work and authorize routine refunds, credits, adjustments and transfers relating to the customer accounts. The position required me to be responsible for the collection of insufficient debts, prepare items for the cities magistrate/solicitor’s office and the Department of Revenue, prepare and forward documents to the Secret Service as necessary for research, resolve work related problems through preparing, submitting and progressing reports, maintain and monitor the accounts receivable records including the posting of payments and adjustments ensuring accuracy and completeness, run various daily, monthly and yearly reports and statements, provide explanations and other assistance to customers and sales managers/consultants regarding customer accounts, invoices, payments, and adjustments, ensure overdue accounts are identified, monitored and that appropriate action is taken. My direct manager, to whom I report, is the Assistant Controller for the company.

Accounts Receivable Representative

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
Columbia
08.2003 - 04.2007
  • As an Accounts Receivable Representative the following daily duties were performed for operations: Count and calculated (cash) funds received from customers daily, reconciled all out of balance conditions from customer invoices using the AS400 system by way of 10 key numeric/data entry, performed error corrections to customers payments and invoices for the companies South Carolina branches, collector-researched outstanding accounts via telephone calls/fax, and prepared accounts, funds, and checks daily for bank deposit. In this position, I reported directly to the Accounts Receivable Supervisor.

Biology Teacher

Florence School District #3
Lake City
07.2002 - 05.2003
  • The South Carolina Department of Education in 2002 was in critical need of science teachers, and holding a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology, I decided to offer my experience. The position allowed me to conduct class discussions, lectures, and other appropriate learning activities in Marine, Environmental Biology and Biology Applied courses, provide students with course documentation for the state of South Carolina, relate instruction/materials to course objectives, use examples and illustrations such as transparencies and handouts for effectiveness of course descriptions, as well as grade and respond to students’ written assignments and parents deem necessary.

Inclearings/Reconcilement Coordinator

Carolina First Bank
Lexington
06.1998 - 07.2002
  • Carolina First, the South Financial Group, which during my tenure was the largest publicly-traded bank holding company headquartered in South Carolina, awarded me the opportunity to serve as Coordinator for the Inclearings Department of Check Processing, overseeing all incoming cash letters, reconciling all out of balance conditions by way of the AFS software. The coordinator position allowed me to process individual customer’s checks through the BancTec reader sorter, debiting customers accounts, as well as having the opportunity to train new employees in 10 key numeric entry/data entry while being responsible for meeting mandatory transaction balancing in a specified time daily. This leadership role also enabled me to receive a Certificate in Supervisory Training from Midlands Technical College. As an Encoding and Error Corrections Specialist with Carolina First Bank, I performed error corrections to customer and teller accounts, encoded and balanced daily transactions received by the different branches, and trained new employees in error corrections and check processing. This part-time position, because of my performance, allowed me to assist with the setup of the Citrus Bank Operations in Jacksonville, Florida. Carolina First awarded many opportunities throughout the years I was employed. After assisting with the operations in Florida, I was promoted to Proof Department Coordinator, which entailed coordinating the daily operations of twenty-five proof operators, researching customers' Treasury, South Carolina Tax, and Loan payments, and balancing transactions received from the Carolina First branches.

Education

Masters of Health Services Administration -

Strayer University
Columbia, SC
04.2008

Certificate - Supervisory Training

Midlands Technical College
Columbia, SC
06.2001

Bachelor of Arts - Biology

Columbia College
Columbia, SC
05.1999

Skills

  • Strong organizational and leadership skills
  • SAP software
  • Financial reporting
  • Invoice management
  • Problem solving
  • Internal controls
  • Financial reporting systems maintenance
  • Auditing procedures
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Key team player, but able to work effectively independently
  • Month-end closing
  • Expense tracking
  • Attention to detail
  • Cash flow management

Affiliations

  • Seven Years as Lancaster Area Women's Missionary Society Treasurer (26 Churches)
  • Eight Years as Columbia Conference Branch Women's Missionary Society Treasurer (3 Areas, 90 Churches)
  • Presently (2 years) Seventh Episcopal District Women's Missionary Society Treasurer (State of SC, 6 Conferences, 500+ Churches)

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Accounting Supervisor

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
03.2011 - Current

Accounts Receivable Supervisor

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
04.2007 - 03.2011

Accounts Receivable Representative

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
08.2003 - 04.2007

Biology Teacher

Florence School District #3
07.2002 - 05.2003

Inclearings/Reconcilement Coordinator

Carolina First Bank
06.1998 - 07.2002

Masters of Health Services Administration -

Strayer University

Certificate - Supervisory Training

Midlands Technical College

Bachelor of Arts - Biology

Columbia College

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