Brian Mitchell

Experience

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  TASCORP at IBM

  Mar 1995 - Aug 1996

  Accounts Receivable Coordinator

  In this short-term position, I had the opportunity to work on sensitive accounts for one of the world’s foremost tech companies. I generated invoices, identified and investigated accounting mistakes, handled billing adjustments, and reviewed and reconciled financial reports. In addition, I coordinated with the collections team to develop plans for capturing unresolved payments. Highlight:• As a trusted asset, I managed over $100k in monthly receivables for the company.

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  Elm Heating & Cooling, Inc.

  Aug 1996 - Mar 2019

  Led all day-to-day administrative and financial operations, supervising of the revenue cycle process including functional responsibility over accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and budgeting. Recommended changes in operational and management actions to improve standard operating procedures by presenting comparisons on cost, risks, and benefits. Delivered additional supporting to all ongoing business operations, including project coordination, scheduling of service calls, troubleshooting internal issues, training new hires, creating maintenance agreements and service contracts, and the timely execution of contracted projects.Key responsibilities & accomplishments included:✅Responsible for tracking and maintaining inventory for all supplies and equipment; ensured inventory control needs are consistently met by improving and developing inventory management process and procedures.✅Created schedules, business forecasts, and plans based on sales, historical usage and product/service trends; analyzed revenue data and developed strategic plans that realized sales goals.✅Increased the efficiency of the financial processing by over 54% after facilitating transition to a fully electronic system for monitoring and managing organizational finances.✅Supported corporate growth from $2M to $6M growth YoY by 2010 through the effective management of accounting and administrative aspects of a merger with competitor (Eck, Inc.). ✅Saved $130k between 2013 and 2016 by planning and implementing new phone system, reducing need for manual staff operation. ✅Delivered customer support and service, addressing customer inquiries regarding service or installation and conducted semi-annual reminder calls to existing client for service.✅Designed account-processing workflows that accommodated and supported 9-12% annual growth since 1998 without need for additional personnel overhead costs. Show less Originally brought on as an assistant, I quickly expanded beyond my responsibilities and began developing and implementing improvements to our A/P and A/R practices which resulted in enhanced processing and project management capabilities.Key responsibilities & accomplishments included:✅Supported the organizational accounting function, implemented best practices in A/P-A/R, cash flow management, and transactional monitoring that eliminated errors, increase efficiency, and prevented loss.✅Designed account-processing workflows that accommodated and supported 9-12% annual growth since 1998 without need for additional personnel overhead costs. Show less

  • Office and Accounting Manager

    Oct 1999 - Mar 2019

  • Accounting Assistant

    Aug 1996 - Oct 1999
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  VAUGHAN'S HORTICULTURE, L.L.C.

  Jul 2020 - Aug 2022

  Billing Specialist
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  McHUTCHISON

  Jun 2023 - now

  Billing Specialist