MARGARITA SOTO
Marseilles, IL ****1
815-***-**** *********@*****.***
Objective: A position providing the opportunity to further develop and
apply skills and experience in a growing company.
Experience: Hollywood Casino
August 2005 - Present
Accounting Clerk
. Conduct revenue audit of various retail, food and beverage
areas to ensure gaming procedures as well as company
procedures are followed by operations.
. Consolidate information for revenue reporting.
. Prepare necessary statistical spreadsheets in compliance
with gaming regulations.
. Responsible for providing financial, administrative and
clerical services.
First National Bank
July 2002 - May 2004
Bookkeeper
. Investigates customer complaints about service, billing or
statements.
. Examines computer printouts and/or microfilm to determine
accuracy of customer complaint and determine responsibility
of error.
. Respond to telephone requests for information concerning
saving or checking accounts.
. Maintain files of customers requiring daily transfer of
funds.
. Compare previously prepared bank statements with cancelled
checks and prepare for distribution.
. Accept stop-payment orders and flag customer accounts.
. Review reports to monitor client accounts and verify
transactions.
. Type account information obtained from customer on record
card and enters into the computer.
First Midwest Bank
January 1999 - April 2002
Account Reconciliation
. Balance bank operations general ledger accounts
(Certificate of Deposit, non-post, proof suspense, Federal
Reserve) on Excel.
. Create spreadsheets to maintain financial records and enter
charges or overpayments to customers' account following
bank regulations.
. Verify and post detail transactions, such as funds received
and disbursed.
. Responsible for investigation recovered or lost items by
interfacing with other departments.
. Provide back-up support to finance departments as needed.
. Involved in the banks' planning process.
. Participate to identify ways to improve balancing
efficiency.
Margarita Soto 815-***-****
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Harris Bank
November 1996 - January 1999
Returned-Item Processor
. Returned unpaid checks from correspondent banks, branches
or individual customers to adjust and balance accounts.
. Operated data entry equipment to code, input, verify and
post transactions for automated processing.
. Examined checks to determine which to process and informed
law enforcement officials on forgeries.
. Proof and balanced work to ensure accuracy of data.
Bank of America
September 1994 - May 1996
S-4000 Coordinator
. Assisted management in scheduling staff, their performance
and job production.
. Coordinated activities to workers engaged in operating
machines to encode, add, cancel, photocopy and sort checks.
. Handled deadlines, discrepancies and set short term goals.
. Kept the work flowing on a day to day basis from one area
to another.
. Requested equipment maintenance and repair from vendors.
. Managed a staff of twelve.
Data Entry Specialist
. Entered alpha, numeric or symbolic data from source
documents.
. Review checks for negotiability and endorsement.
. Prepare clients' check remittance packages according to
specific instructions.
. Responsibilities included attention to detail and ability
to work time deadlines.
S-4000 Operator
. Use of an S-4000 encoding machine to code checks.
. Sort checks by deposit time.
. Review checks and photocopies for errors and omissions.
. Block checks of the end of a run.
. Prepared control tickets and reconcile differences that
occurred.
. Prior to encoding, performed maintenance and repair on
machines.
Office Skills:
. Ten key by touch.
. Bookkeeping principles
. General Ledgers
. Bank Reconciliation
. Balance Sheets
. Computer Skills
. Excel and Microsoft Word
. Excellent phone, customer and employee relation skills.
Education: Thomas Kelly High Chicago, IL
Daley College (1993-1995) Chicago, IL