Romona Hall

Experience

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  Biogen Idec

  Aug 2001 - Jan 2011

  Lead team member in providing overall support and coverage of the finance phone and email help desk to resolve issues. Identify, document and performed analyses, for AP process improvements. Developed user guides for AP processors. Responsible for key vendor relations. Interact with external vendors and internal customers on key issues and processes that impact Accounts Payable. Performed EDI imports, Web ADI processes, accruals and general ledger posting. Trained new AP and Customer Services employees on Oracle and 170 Markview systems. Assisted AP with manual invoice entry in times of high volume backlog. Show less Responsible for AP data entry with a high level of accuracy. Skilled in identifying and resolving the root cause of payment/invoice hold issues. Provide Customer Service to external vendors and internal employees. Decreased redundancies and helped streamline the invoicing process by assisting with the implementation of the 170 Markview invoicing system rollout. Trained all new AP employees at the RTP location on Markview and assisted with the site rollout of Markview which affected all employees at the site. Preformed auditing of travel & expense reports to insure meeting SOX compliance and helped employees understand corporate polices Show less

  • AP Customer Service Rep/AP Client Services Analyst

    Nov 2007 - Jan 2011

  • Sr Accounts Payable Assistant I

    Feb 2005 - Nov 2007

  • Accounts Payable Specialist

    Aug 2001 - Feb 2005
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  Patheon Inc.

  Mar 2011 - Jun 2012

  Accounts Payable Lead - Shared Services

  Provide AP assistant with the Implementation of Bottomline/PaymodeX system which impacted all US & Canadian sites. Visited the sites to understand their process in order help implement Bottomline, Trained employees on SAP & Bottomline as well as manual entries of AP invoices for all sites. Performed travel expense uploads, month-end close process, accruals, AP invoice entry, SAP check runs, wire payments through JP Morgan ,transaction clearing in SAP. Superior Customer Service to internal and external customer phone & helpdesk inquiries. Developed User Guides for AP processes. Monitor Paymode system and resolved holds/failed/parked issues promptly. Show less

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  United Therapeutics Corporation

  Jun 2012 - Oct 2018

  Sr. Accounts Payable Specialist

  Created desktop procedures for the Accounts Payable processes. Trained/Mentor for new employees on AP processes. Provided assistance to transition the Accounts Payable department to the RTP office. Managed AP email inbox. Processed wire and cash position payments. Worked with Purchasing and vendors to resolve invoice or payment issues. Liaison on Vendor Maintenance. • Responsible for processing invoices, coding to the proper GL, cost center and internal order.• Manage the AP email inboxes for invoices and inquiries. • Responsible for preparation and processing of wire and cash positions payments. • Liaison for Vendor Maintenance setup or updates, trained other employess. • Create & Document AP processes, evaluate existing processes and, provide feedback on potential process improvement. In addition, test changes/updates to current processes as the work flow processes are enhanced. • Trained & Mentored all new Accounts Payable employees. Show less

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  Biogen

  Oct 2018 - now

  • Senior Analyst,Center of Expertise, Procurement Operations

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Sr Analyst I Procurement

    Mar 2022 - Aug 2024

  • Analyst Procurement

    Oct 2018 - Apr 2022