Taylor Cooper
New Orleans
Summary
Dedicated professional in the hospitality industry focused on customer satisfaction and fostering a positive team environment. Strong sense of diligence and reliability, consistently striving for improvement in all aspects of work. Thrives under heavy workloads, finding fulfillment in the stimulation it provides to an ever-growing mind. Driven by a continuous desire to expand knowledge and embrace new opportunities for learning.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AP Specialist/ General Cashier
Hilton
11.2022 - Current
- Process of daily invoices.
- Give change and due backs to employees
- Count daily deposits
- Bank counts/audits
- Issue banks and contracts
- Prepare change orders for hotel
- Daily use of the purchasing system to match invoices with purchase orders.
- Identify, research, and resolve problems & discrepancies - will involve other departments.
- Reconcile vendor statements.
- Perform end of month accruals and journal entries.
- Review and reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts.
- Assist in monthly counting of house banks.
- Assist in audits by providing requested information and details.
- Assist in internal controls processes and ensuring adherence.
- Bank counts
- Credit Card Recs
- Log all parking receipts
- Monthly inventory for outlets
- Updating spreadsheets with new information each month
- Updating vendor contracts as they come in
- Ensuring that insurance is up to date and on property when groups arrive
AP specialist /rooms analyst
Omni Hotels
01.2020 - 10.2022
- Make sure all invoices are paid and processed in birch street
- Audits throughout the hotel
- Month end duties
- Reaching out to venders for payment/outstanding balances
- Creating invoices for our contract services
- Editing/approving time cards
- Answering any guest responses through Expedia or booking
- Monitor cancellations and deposits due
- Room blocks for groups
- Making sure rooms are serviced every 90 days
- Walk through rooms with housekeeping/engineering
- Getting any payments from guest to reconcile any balances on folio
Accounts Receivable Specialist
The Sheraton of New Orleans
12.2016 - 12.2019
- Process all refunds.
- Make adjustments to group and guest accounts.
- Collect all payments and charge accounts.
- Close out and all final billing
- Commissions calculations
- Rebates and Comps calculations
- All accounts payable
- Balance account at end of each month.
- Running monthly, weekly, and quarterly reports
- Organizing night audits, transactions for each day, and journal entries to balance accounts and cash transactions.
- Uploading files to general ledger
- Making sure paper trail and g drive is backed up accurately
- Sending out daily, quarterly and weekly reports to department heads
Education
High school or equivalent -
Warren Easton Senior High School
New Orleans, LACertificate in Hospitality Management -
Delgado Community College
New Orleans, LA12.2022
Skills
- Procurement
- Accounts Receivable
- Microsoft Excel
- Windows
- Purchasing
- Communication skills
- Customer Care
- Leadership
- Inventory Control
- PeopleSoft
- Operations management
- Balance sheet reconciliation
- Oracle
- Analysis skills
- Clerical experience
- Accounting software
- Hotel experience
- Customer Service
- Typing
- General Ledger Accounting
- Journal Entries
- Hospitality
- Data Entry
- QuickBooks
- Cashiering
- Cash Handling
- Project management
- Accounts payable
- Cash register
- POS
- Account reconciliation
- Financial concepts
- Adobe Acrobat
Certification
- Microsoft Office Specialist, Present, Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.
- Driver's License, Valid
Personal Information
- Willing To Relocate: Anywhere
- Authorized To Work: US for any employer
Timeline
AP Specialist/ General Cashier
Hilton
11.2022 - Current
AP specialist /rooms analyst
Omni Hotels
01.2020 - 10.2022
Accounts Receivable Specialist
The Sheraton of New Orleans
12.2016 - 12.2019
High school or equivalent -
Warren Easton Senior High School
Certificate in Hospitality Management -
Delgado Community College
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