Anita Bedford has over 20 years of experience as a senior accountant and accounting manager. She has worked in a variety of industries including manufacturing, food distribution, investment banking, and non-profits. Her experience includes preparing financial statements, managing accounts payable and receivable, budgeting, and implementing accounting software. She currently works as a plant accountant for Technicolor, where her responsibilities include producing financial reports, managing customer contracts, overseeing accounts payable, and providing training to junior staff.
1. Anita Bedford
1112 Arbor Lakes Circle, Sanford, FL. 32771
770-314-2691/awbedford07@gmail.com
Senior Accountant
Senior Accounting experience with over 20 years of strong technical and managerial skills;with industry experienced
in manufacturing, food distribution, investment banking, and non-profit environments, supporting medium to large
companies. Collaborate effectively with senior’s partners,managementand staff, auditors and vendors and cliental in
supporting, resolving and improving general/advanced accounting functions and financial analysis/ reporting
requirements. Provide technical and SME support for accounting application development, computer mastery of
accountsoftware and tools to include;
QuickBooks Oracle AS400 Epicor JD Edwards
Great Plains DataWorks Member Track MS Excel Sales Force
Professional History
PLANT ACCOUNTANT
Technicolor, Kennesaw, GA 05/2013-Present
Technicolor,a worldwide technologyleader in the media and entertainment.
My duties are supporting Technicolor’s Entertainment Services segment, for the packaging distribution of media
products for optical disc distribution (DVD and Blu-ray™ discs) in North America.
Current responsibilities include:
Accounts and Financial Statements –producemonthlyand year end statements, and maintainbilling,account
receivables and payables,depreciation forecasting,propertyand fixed assets.Prepare annual auditschedules,
documentation and reconciliations, as well as monthlyrevenue and expense forecasting.
Customer contracts – manage invoicing and/or problem resolution, system billing, improved customer
relations,and setup of customer billing templates within Epicor.
Supervision Accounts Payable – review and analyze accounts payable, invoices, assign GL coding for cost
distribution.
Supervision ofPersonnel – provide supervision,mentoring,and training for junior accounting personnel.
SME support – System conversion from AS400 to an Oracle web based application and reporting system.
ACCOUNTING MANAGER 04/2012-05/2013
Bonamar Corporation, Kennesaw, GA
Bonamar Corporation,aka Sebastian Seafood is a private importer/exporter providing seafood processing and
distribution ofpremium crab meats and fish.
Responsibilities included:
Manage Staff - 2 personnel and control ofmonthly revenues in excess of $2 million dollars.
Daily Cash Management – prepare daily cash projections and manage payments to export suppliers.
Product Inventory Managementand Reconciliation – working with Operations Manager to maintain inventory
accuracy.
Financial Reports - prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial reports for senior staff and audit
requirements.
Payroll and Taxes - generate weekly payroll and tax reporting through ADP.
2. ACCOUNTANT/ OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR 05/2010-04/2012
Caymus Partners, LLC, Atlanta, GA
Caymus Partners,LLC is a private investmentBankingCompanydealingin middlemarketsize companies with Mergers
and Acquisitions,Private Placements ofCapitals,and Financial and Strategic Advisory.
Primary duties included the management of office activities to include the overseeing, planning and organizing of
activities within and outside the institution.
Responsibilities included:
Accounts payable processing system – designed and implemented new procedures that alleviated the
managing partners ofredundancytracking of accounts payable.
Producing financial reports,i.e.; balance sheets,profit/loss,and statements in changes ofworking capital.
Centralized QuickBooks Accounting – eliminated the multi-entry process of spreadsheets, developed the
procedure to consolidate the use of QuickBooks for companyaccounting needs.
FINRA Consolidation – eliminated the need for outside consulting firm for the as sistance of compliance
reporting and record keeping,resulting in an annual saving of $5,000.
BOOKKEEPER /OFFICE ASSISTANT 09/2009-05/2010
QualiStaff Staffing Services, Kennesaw, GA
QualiStaff Staffing Services, LLC is a full service staffing service in Kennesaw,Cobb County, Georgia.
Contract supportat the corporate office for Weight Loss Enterprises,Inc.,of Georgia,a personal weightloss
managementcompany.
FINANCIAL MANAGER /OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR 02/2003-08/2008
Camp Fire USA - Alabama Council, Birmingham, AL (United Way partner)
Camp Fire USAis a non-profitorganization that fosters leadership,provide caring,trained mentors to work with children
and youth, engaging them to give service and make decisions in society.
Responsibilities included:
Established and Setup QuickBooks – setup QuickBooks from manual system.
Preparing – monthly and annual operational budgets ofup to $1 million.
Monthly Grant Tracking – monitor and track monthly and revenue and expenses to ensure compliance with
grant contract.
Supervision - and training of office personal
Prepared Financial Reports - quarterly and yearly accounting reports for Board of Directors and United Way
stakeholders.
Train and developed staff to use MemberTrack software – developed procedures for staff to utilize software
and reconcile to general ledger.
ASSISTANT CONTROLLER 10/1994-02/2003
Guzzler Manufacturing & Federal Signal, Birmingham, AL
Federal Signal is a leading global designer and manufacturer of Industrial Vacuum Trucks, solutions that serve
municipal,industrial and institutional customers,a $30 million dollar manufacturing company.
Responsibilities included:
Developing monthlyand annual budgets and reports
Working with subsidiarycompanies in reconciliation ofinter-companytransactions.
Prepared financial information for use by internal managementand parentcompany,
3. Liaison with internal and external auditors.
Supervisor of accounting staffof four personal.
STAFF ACCOUNTANT 10/1986-10/1994
Southern Ductile Casting, Bessemer,AL
Southern Ductile Casting,a privately held companycategorized under Foundries-Steel,specializes in manufacturing
& industrial supplies.
Worked directly with comptroller reconciling accounts payable/receivablesub ledgers to generalledgers,bank
reconciliation and monthlyreporting for managementand corporate.Additional duties includedpreparing audit
schedules for annual audits and month end close.
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville,AL
Completed 5th
year of Accounting to qualify to sitfor CPA, 1986
Bachelor's Degree Business,emphasis in Accounting and Management,1985
Nunnelley State Technical College, Childersburg,AL
Associates in Accounting,1983