Ruth Ern

Background

About Ruth Ern

Experienced in private accounting at distribution, wholesale and retail levels. Forecasting, budgeting, effective collections and credit management, orderly payables and master scheduling of support tasks are interrelated activities. Set up and diligent fine tuning of ERP system are performed to maximize usefulness and reliability. Interpreting company goals and policies to create functional synergy in the accounting process is key in the approach. Maintaining general ledger evaluations, transaction maintenance practices & hard close on month and year end are all valuable to the stability of company records. Year over year evaluation assessments, adherence to good practice assisting outside financial analysis and responding to audits are all part of the picture. The HR focus has included benefits management, organization and presentation of open enrollment activities. In it has been a switch from Vacation/Sick to PTO in time away from work management; payroll management; Cobra interface; and Workers Compensation compliance and follow-up to minimize future effects on costs of insurance as well as ExMod rating. Other functions are employee performance improvement plans; evaluations; disciplinary matters; dispute investigations; reporting to appropriate governing agencies. Specialties: Ability to interface company goals with ground level functionality to support the achievement of the goals. Practical and reliable reporting for both Accounting and HR; attentiveness to precision in maintaining General Ledger. Personnel management & motivation. Forecasting & budgeting. B2B communications winning optimal results from both vendor and customer relations ranging from collections activities on the customer/distributor side to utilizing services and support on the vendor side.