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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
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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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