Ray Morris
Pittsburgh
Summary
Dedicated accounting professional proficient in daily financial operations, including accounts payable, receivable, and bank reconciliations. Leverages analytical skills to maintain accurate records and assist in financial reporting, ensuring compliance and efficiency across various departments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Accountant
Gant Travel Management
12.2024 - 01.2026
- Perform daily accounting duties including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and general ledger entries
- Ensured financial records were aligned by reconciling bank statements.
- Assist in month-end and year-end closing processes
- Maintained accurate financial records and documentation to uphold compliance
- Processed employee expense reports to ensure timely reimbursements
- Supported senior accounting team with financial tasks to streamline operations
- Work collaboratively with other departments to ensure financial accuracy and efficiency
Staff Accountant
Common Plea Catering
10.2023 - 12.2024
- Processed large daily volume of payments and bills through third-party portals (Bill.com, TPP), ACH, checks, and credit card transactions in QuickBooks.
- Day to day business operations of accounts payables and receivables; entering sales, expenses, and invoices due to vendors of full-scale catering company and two restaurants.
- Five bank accounts and three credit cards that are reconciled monthly.
- Prepared customer order guides in Excel for goods sold to university dining halls and retail cafés, including end-of-month invoicing, adjustments, and payment collection.
- Assisted controller with timecard entries, bimonthly payroll processing, and commission reporting for managing partners and event planners related to catering services.
- Aided controller in compiling end-of-year financial statements.
- Event cash bar preparation and weekly bank deposits.
Invoice Coordinator
Development Dimensions International (DDI)
03.2024 - 09.2024
- Executed high-volume daily invoicing for client registered public workshops, events, and conferences through Oracle Cloud.
- Managed processing of monthly global intercompany invoices for chargebacks associated with client services and products.
- Coordinated monthly invoicing of salesperson expense reports using expense summary reports and attached receipts.
- Applying client prepaid commitments and labor dollars to invoices using referenced client contract numbers in oracle cloud.
- Registrations are entered through oracle cloud billing tab and invoice created or updated and applied to corresponding contract.
- Client contract or statement of work search using Dynamics 365 for invoicing details.
- Created contracts using Oracle when existing contracts were not available.
- Expense reports found through project code search in oracle cloud.
Accounts Receivable Representative
Thermo Fisher Scientifics
01.2023 - 01.2024
- Managed customer payment collections, processed cash applications, handled payment rejections, and facilitated invoice resubmissions to ensure consistent cash flow.
- Executed business-to-business collections, generated aging reports, and performed analysis to improve collection strategies.
- Reconciled invoices weekly to ensure accuracy in financial records.
- Conducted daily invoice searches, calculated taxes, and entered data into customer portals for accurate billing and timely monthly/quarterly reports.
- Reviewed customer portals and obtained information such as invoices, packing slips and proof of deliveries.
- Processed various credit card types for services rendered and goods purchased.
Corporate Trust Administrator
BNY Mellon
02.2021 - 03.2022
- Reconciled incoming cash transactions against ledger statements, researching errors and resolving discrepancies to ensure financial integrity.
- Performed cash and investment reconciliations to verify account balances.
- Matched incoming wire transactions with corresponding trades amounts and posted values into general ledger program, posted principal and interest loan payments in general ledger program.
- Posted daily ledger entries and trade loan transactions, ensuring accuracy in cash statement values using accounting software and adjusting for corrections.
- Calculated total monthly wire amounts for various business accounts, researched and referenced loan and trade documents.
- Processed invoice rejection resubmissions and accurately entered taxation into invoicing portals to maintain compliance.
Education
Masters of Accountancy - Accounting and Finance
Oklahoma University
Norman, OK05-2027
BS - Business Administration, Accounting Major
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV05-2018
Skills
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Cash Applications
- Bank/Credit Card Account Reconciliations
- General Ledger Invoicing
- Journal entry preparation
- Balance Sheet Analysis
- Subledgers
- Expense Reports
- Inventory
- Excel
- Data Entry
Systems Experience
- NetSuite
- Concur & Center
- QuickBooks (Online)
- Oracle cloud
- Excel
- Bill.com
- Globalware
- SalesForce
- TPP (Total Party Planner)
Timeline
Staff Accountant
Gant Travel Management
12.2024 - 01.2026
Invoice Coordinator
Development Dimensions International (DDI)
03.2024 - 09.2024
Staff Accountant
Common Plea Catering
10.2023 - 12.2024
Accounts Receivable Representative
Thermo Fisher Scientifics
01.2023 - 01.2024
Corporate Trust Administrator
BNY Mellon
02.2021 - 03.2022
Masters of Accountancy - Accounting and Finance
Oklahoma University
BS - Business Administration, Accounting Major
West Virginia University