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Sales Insurance

Location:
Lemont, IL
Posted:
September 13, 2014

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Resume:

G race WalusGrace WalusGrace Walus

***** ** ***** **. ******, I L 60439 Phone: 630-***-**** Cell: 630-***-**** E-Mail:

g **********@*****.***

Summary of Professional Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience in successfully recruiting, orienting, training and supervising personnel

• Leader in setting and achieving organizational goals

• Proficient in solving difficult cash f low problems, controlling costs, preparing meaningful financial reports, establishing

workable budgets and analyzing revenues and expenses

• Expert in soliciting, securing and managing commercial insurance policies and group health benefits

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Enthusiastic team player with sound business judgment

Experience

Office Manager and Accountant 1999 - Present

Global Cleaning, Inc., Lemont, Illinois

• Maintain accounting records; accounts receivable, sales, accounts payable, purchases, inventory, fixed assets, payroll and taxes

• Prepare and analyze financial reports; profit and loss statements, balance sheet and cash flow reports

• Reconcile bank accounts

• Establish business line of credit and secure long-term loans

• Hire, train, supervise, review and evaluate personnel

• Select, install and utilize computer hardware and software

• Acquire commercial insurance coverage, report and manage claims and monitor premium costs

• Solicit, secure and oversee group health insurance benefits

• Develop new marketing strategies to promote sales growth

• Handle day-to-day business operations

• Work with accounting firm, PM Tax Services, to reconcile and close-out fiscal year-end accounting records

Office Manager and Controller 1993 – 1999

Western Industries, Inc., Western Manufacturing, Inc. and Western Group Joint Venture, Cicero, Illinois

• Responsible for recruiting, orienting, training and supervising administrative and accounting staff

• Oversaw all aspects of staff performance; performance evaluations, progressive discipline, mediation of staff disputes and

g rievance procedures

• Involved in the development and implementation of a “Workers’ Safety Incentive Program,” which successfully cut workers’

compensation insurance costs by more than 50%

• Solicited and secured commercial insurance coverage; commercial auto, general liability, umbrella, workers’ compensation,

p roperty, inland marine, boiler and machinery and crime

• Reported claims and managed records for all lines of commercial insurance

• Obtained quotes and implemented group health insurance benefits

• Prepared staff wage, tax and benefits cost reports

• Monitored payroll tax compliance

• Prepared, analyzed and presented consolidated monthly financial statements to executive management

• Reviewed and analyzed accounts receivable aging and days outstanding reports

• Attended monthly collection meetings to determine sales write-offs and reserves for doubtful accounts

• Reviewed accounts payable aging and discounts taken/lost reports and authorized disbursements

• Monitored cash/credit line bank balances and reported daily to president

• Maintained detail property and depreciation reports

• Reconciled numerous payroll and concentration bank accounts

• Worked side-by-side with audit firm, Blackman Kallick, to reconcile and close-out fiscal year-end accounting records for

m ultiple entities

Education

Bachelor of Science in Business Management 2014

National-Louis University, Chicago, Illinois

Associate Computerized Business Systems and Accounting 1991

Robert Morris College, Chicago, Illinois

References

Furnished upon request

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