Vicki Moree

Experience

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  O-I

  Jun 1990 - Jul 2019

  SAP Business Expert and Power UserAll the responsibilities of the Senior Accounting Supervisor listed below but expanded to include all Corporate companies and locations. Additional responsibilities include responsibility for all corporate balance sheet accounts and Sarbanes Oxley procedures and controls.Fraud Investigation – 39 years’ experience. Provide experienced support to company investigators working on internal fraud and other employee related cases. Provide expert testimony in trials. Show less SAP Business Expert and Power UserResponsible for all aspects of financial accounting for five company Divisions.GL Administrator for Engineering Group/Month-end Closing/ Monthly and quarterly account analysis, reconciliations and reports - Responsible for collecting and analyzing data and preparing journals for the SAP month end close process for company codes. Responsible for ensuring the accuracy of GL data. Duties include generating the SAP load file, loading to Consolidations, troubleshooting load issues, and verification of load results. Prepare various monthly/quarterly account analysis, reconciliations and reports. (Capital Tie Out, Royalty Receivables, Engineering Labor Hours, GCNA Engineering Services, International Engineering Services, Prepaid Accounts, Miscellaneous Accruals, Reserves, etc.)SAP Functional Expert/Power User – Responsible for troubleshooting, system design changes, business process design and changes, testing and implementation. Works on a daily basis with the SAP process team to troubleshoot issues and implement system enhancements. Responsible for training, educating, and assisting Engineering Group users with all SAP related issues. Coordinates between Users and I.T. group to resolve issues and implement corrective action. Proficient at General Ledger, CO, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Projects Systems, and CATS modules. Spent 2 years as part of the SAP implementation team assisting with the system design, planning, development, testing, deployment, and training phases of the project.**Continued** Show less **Continued**Business Warehouse Power User/Reporting Administrator – Responsible to creation of reports for the Engineering Group company codes. Duties also include verification of reporting data and training users to run reports and manipulate report data. Reports include the monthly Engineering Group Balance Sheet review, Details of Royalty and Technical Assistance, Capex analysis, Engineering Details, Labor reports, Miscellaneous Income and Expenses, and ad-hoc reports upon request, etc. Prepare reports used by the tax department for company filings and royalty/technical assistance governmental reporting.Supervisor/Mentor – Responsible for training, supervising and mentoring Engineering Group Accounting staff with their duties including, fixed assets, engineering cross charges and invoices, project setup, 901S system, CATS labor tracking, equipment sales reporting, JDE payables processing, etc. Also complete annual Performance reviews for direct reports.Regional Capex Administrator/ Investment Management Administrator/ Capex Projects manager – Responsible for administering the Capex process for the Engineering Group. Duties include database updates, correcting errors, substitute approvals, maintaining the approval structure. Responsible for maintaining the capital budget and assigned projects in SAP Investment Management. Duties include balancing capital dollars between projects and within WBS elements within the same project. Also monitoring overspending and notifying users when supplemental approval is required. Responsible for balancing budgets between capex project elements (capital, deferred, expense), approving all spending on capex projects, reporting, project capitalization and closing request.**Continued** Show less **Continued**Engineering Projects Administrator – Maintain the Projects accounting system for the expensed Engineering projects. Duties also include troubleshooting, training, reporting, and monitoring activity. Also included is maintaining the table of billable projects, monitoring the billing process and fielding questions.FI Invoice Coder Approver/ PR Approver – Responsible for FI (manual) AP invoice review, coding with correct account numbers, cost accounts, and WBS (project) numbers, and invoice approval. Responsible for project-related purchase requisition review and approval. Engineering Support - Handle a myriad of duties and inquiries in connection with providing administrative support for everyone in the engineering & machine manufacturing/equipment sales group. This includes approval requisitions, fielding questions regarding T&E’s and travel issues charge accounts, and any other administrative or technical issues that people need assistance with.Royalty Accounting - Responsible for the accruing, recording and reporting of Royalty payments globally from licensees and affiliates. Work with them and the Machine Manufacturing Manager in establishing the annual royalty plan. Follow-up for the collection of delinquent accounts.Sox -Document and maintain policies and files related to Sarbanes Oxley to ensure GGT compliance. Show less Financial Systems AdministratorAdministrator and Business Owner for the SmartStream general ledger system - Responsible for the ledger processing to close the books at month end and year end on time, including year-end debt roll up and propagation. Also responsible for development activities, approving security access, scheduling nightly ledger processing, troubleshooting, master data maintenance (accounts, entities, etc.), manually loading files from external systems, opening and closing process and reporting periods, assisting with the resolution of trouble tickets, maintenance and running allocations for business units, account analysis, providing Sox controls, and generating data and reports as requested by auditors and other 3rd parties. Administrator for the SAP CFM Treasury system - Responsible for the processing to close the books at month end and year end on time, including generating the gain, loss and accrual transaction entries. Also responsible for master data maintenance (new accounts, etc.), troubleshooting, opening and closing process and reporting periods, assigning Trader authorizations, auditing manual journal entries, providing Sox controls, and reversing journal entries created by others in error.Administrator for the SmartStream Fixed Assets and Projects Systems - Responsible for the Fixed Assets and Projects processing to close the books at month end and year end on time. Also responsible for development activities, approving security access, scheduling nightly ledger processing, troubleshooting, master data maintenance, assisting with the resolution of trouble tickets, analysis, providing Sox controls, and generating data and reports as requested by auditors and other 3rd parties. **Continued** Show less **Continued**Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Financial Reporting systems – Extensive experience with Hyperion HFM and System 9 Financial Management. Responsible for opening/closing processing periods, loading journals, journal entry input, submission and approval, consolidations, extracting and loading general ledger balances for North America units, loading plant sales and metric data for North America units, extracting and loading fixed assets activity and balances for North America units, backup loading exchange rates, and generating data and reports as requested by auditors and other 3rd parties. Also responsible for creating the global Miscellaneous Income and Expense Reports. Experience also includes systems implementation and testing, metadata management, reporting, and rules editing.Inter-Company Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Administrator – Responsible for reconciling the global inter-company AP and AR Hyperion accounts. Also responsible for problem resolution between reporting entities. In addition, responsible for affiliate AR/Credit account management for invoices issued by North America entities, including past due invoices follow up for payment & cash application.Financial Reporting Owner – Power user responsible for granting security access, developing reports and assisting with trouble tickets for the following systems:• Business Object (GL)• Vista Report Repository (Consol & GL)• Chart of Account (GL)• PSR Viewer (GL)• OIEIS (Consol or HFM)• Hyperion Financial Reporting Report (Consol)• Access Report (Procurement card – GL)Other duties include: SAP Conversion Business Lead for GL Closing Process & Journal Entries & related Reporting, Procurement Card system development and reporting team member, Lean Six Sigma Kaizen team member, assisting with acquisition and divestitures.Key Contributions: Cleaned up North American General Ledger by closing over 100,000 inactive accounts. Show less Managed Credit, Collection and Accounts Receivable functionsResponsible for managing the credit, collections, and accounts receivable functions for all O-I international operations and the O-I Canada division. Responsibilities include new customer review, credit limit establishment, monitoring accounts for compliance with credit policy and terms, collection activities including customer contact, payment plan approval, sending an account for third party collections and representing the company in resulting lawsuits, when necessary. Responsible for supervising the accounts receivable specialists who apply cash, set-up and follow-up on deductions, and claims processing. Key Contributions: Reduced Canadian Past Due invoice balances by $18 Million USD. Show less Managed systems programmer analysts and provided a liaison between I.T and the financial business community for all financial applications.Day to day management of production support for all financial applications. On call 24x7 as needed torespond to and manage production application problems. In addition to managing production support, job responsibilities include management of enhancements to existing subsystems, new application development related to the modules being supported, and reviewing systems for improvements. Effectively worked with and managed Developers to bring projects to completion with good quality status, in a timely, efficient, and cost effective manner. Worked with end-users in a professional manner to gather requirements, perform testing, and final authorization/certification of the changes made.Key Contributions: Successfully managed major systems development activities and upgrades with on-time completions. Show less Managed the company Internal Audit Department resources.Developed long and short term audit objectives and implements strategies to achieve these objectives. Developed and maintained audit universes for each business unit with the objective of establishing an audit schedule consistent with the cycles of audit agreed to by management and the Audit Committee. Responsible for planning, coordinating, directing, and controlling selected audit reviews requiring a high degree of professional audit judgment and experience, such as that required for fraud investigations, and audits of complex international operations, etc. Directed, counseled, and instructed internal auditors and provided on-the-job training in auditing techniques. Conducted fraud investigations, and coordinated fraud investigations conducted by outside resources, at the request of executive management, including reviews of confidential representations, both internal and external to the Company. Maintained audit statistical data for presentation to the Audit Committee. Key Contributions: Successfully reduced audit time while maintaining adequate scopes and control reviews. Continually trained new Internal and External Auditors. Show less

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  Bozel North America

  Nov 2019 - now

  Director of Accounting & Finance