SUMMARY

Experienced in hiring, training, coordinating and managing 1-30 employees.

Strong knowledge of Graham Toolbox, SAP, MC Office, Sage 300.

Assisted in implementation, and ongoing testing of SAP.

Ability to organize, coordinate and complete billings for multiple projects ranging from $5,000 to $5,000,000 each month.

Highly organized and results oriented with the ability to handle multiple assignments and work under pressure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graham Group Ltd. - Operational Accounting Clerk 2 June 2013 – Sept 2016 Winnipeg, MB

Administration, document control, cost/invoice review and entries, prepare and authorize routine payments of Subcontracts.

Data entry in either the operational computerized project management system (Toolbox) or the accounting system (SAP) in an accurate and timely manner.

Process and reconcile information received from operations and financial accounting.

Enter payroll, mileage, and living allowance into accounting system, meeting all union and vendor payroll requirements and processing deadlines. This includes submitting project assignment forms, TD4’s, reviewing time sheets, accurate entry of time, preparing/distributing pay stubs.

Establish and maintain good working relationships with project teams, clients and sub-trades.

Understanding and application of provincial and federal tax requirements.

Collaborate with and advise operations staff regarding set up for new projects as well as job costing, forecasting, and troubleshooting.

Collection of outstanding receivables, along with deposits of payments.

Monitor current department accounting systems and procedures in accordance with company policy and implement directed changes as required.

Review and understand contract terms and conditions in terms of billing and costing purposes.

Prepare and/or review owner progress billings ranging from $5,000 - $5,000,000, billing types include cost plus, lump sum and unit price.

Review changes made to due to errors, subtrade change orders, owner change orders or owner required changes.

Create journal entries.

Direct, monitor and evaluate the activities of the accounts receivable collections.

Recommend and implement changes as required to meet the needs of operations.

Verify compliance with internal controls, policies and procedures to provide support to branch and site employees.

Work with staff to ensure that all month end responsibilities are completed by the month end deadline.

Involved in the ongoing implementation of the company’s ERP system (SAP).

Perform various clerical tasks to organize and store accounting information.

Pioneer Window & Door Mfg. Ltd. – Administrative Assistant June 2011 - June 2013 Winnipeg, MB

Created a weekly, monthly and annual figures report, which contained percent of business overall and for each salesperson.

Hands-on accounting experience, handling monthly bank reconciliations, expense tracking, month-end and year-end reporting tasks, and assisting with the annual audit.

Performed accounts receivable and payable functions for manufacturing and construction expenses.

Created reports based on customer information to see which marketing strategies worked best.

Inventory Count/ Value

Process payments, record and tracked every sale and purchase order to ensure they were completed and installed in a timely manner.

Scheduled client appointments and maintained up-to-date confidential client files.

Safety Representative; created company policies, safe job practices and procedures, safety training, calculated monthly and annual injury stats, recorded monthly safety stats, held weekly training sessions with all employees, created and submitted the companies COR audit leading us to become COR certified as of March 11th, 2013.

Stitches & Urban Planet (YM. Inc) - Store Manager 2008, 2010 - 2011 Kamloops, BC & Winnipeg, MB

Open and/or closed store daily, created weekly schedules according to sales budgets and staff performances

Created a weekly figures report, which contained percent of business overall and for each department, which categories brought in the most dollars, percentage and also which categories are trending verse last year sales.

Held “One minute meetings” with the staff at the beginning of their shift to communicate sales expectations and loyalty goals for the store and individually.

Ensured that staff met the hourly sales goals

Attended sales meetings in Vancouver to help improve our visual standards and sales in our own stores

Attended conference calls to help improve our visual standards and sales in our own stores

Trained, coordinated and manager 1-30 employees on product knowledge, selling, merchandising, and inventory counts

Merchandised the store weekly according to specific Plano grams, directives, current promotions and markdowns, while ensuring the store was price and signed appropriately.

Received stock daily and ensured cartons were arriving and on time, shipped out transfers and recalls on a weekly basis.

Operated computerized cash till and calculated change, balanced tills and cash deposits at closing.

Manitoba Public Insurance - Clerk 2/3 2009 - 2010 Winnipeg, MB

Answering the phone and assisting customers and body shops with any questions they may have in regards to their claim or direct them to where they need to go.

Opening, stamping and sorting incoming mail. Preparing outgoing mail and packages. Help in preparing cheques for pick up. Receive cheques for claims for small claims court and over payments.

Setting up reserves and payments for U-drive bills, tows, final repair accounts, property damage and car seats

Greet customers, direct customers for appointments, answer any questions customers may have, give out surveys, and assign T/L files, auto-close non-contentious files. Take subrogation, special account services and other cash debit, credit and cheque payments

Garage Sales Representative-revising claim with customers who are coming in for their estimate, confirming deductibles, auto loss of use, Third party information, liability and informing customers what to do with a car seat if it was involved in an accident.

Confirm customers are eligible to take their road test on prelims and finals. Log in customers for their road test, which in tales checking on IWS that they are eligible to take the test and the vehicle registration is valid.

Completed Claims Processor and Estimating Systems Clerk training.

Sport Chek- Department & Sales Manager 2005 - 2008 Kamloops, BC

Open and/or closed store daily, held daily meetings to communicate sales expectations for the store and specific departments.

Trained, coordinated and manager 1-30 employees on product knowledge, selling and merchandising

Ensured that staff met the hourly sales goals.

Created weekly schedules according to sales budgets and staff performances.

Attended outerwear and footwear expert camps. From this information We created, implement and trained staff on product knowledge, care, selling, etiquette and merchandising for clothing, outerwear and footwear departments.

Merchandised departments according to specific layouts, key products, and weekly ads, while ensuing departments were priced and signed appropriately.

Operated computerized cash till and calculated change, balanced tills and cash deposits at closing.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

2004 - 2014 St. Maurice Academy, U of W Collegiate and Garden City Collegiate

Coached grades 9-12 girls and boys volleyball

2015 - 2016 Wildest Dreams – Assiniboine Zoo

An evening when the zoo is closed to the public where sick, and under privileged children with their families can come and enjoy the evening at the zoo, and various other activities.

EDUCATION

2013 - 2016 Red River College Winnipeg, Manitoba

Accounting Certificate (5 courses left to complete)

2006 - 2007 Thompson Rivers University Kamloops, British Columbia

Partial Bachelor of Business Degree

2000 - 2004 Garden City Collegiate Winnipeg, Manitoba

Completed grade 12 – Bilingual graduate – French

SOFTWARE

SAP – Worked in various T-codes within modules CA, CA-TS, IS-EC-CEM, BC-ABA, FI, FI-GL HR, MM-PUR, MM-IV, MM, PA-PA, PS-IS-REP-ACC, PS-REV, PS-IS, SD-SLS, SD-BIL and SD

Excel – Completed Microsoft Excel 2010 Level 3/Advanced with CTC Train Canada – create outlines, manipulate data, subtotal, pivot tables and reports, goal seek, vlookup, create and use macros and forms.

Sage 300 – Worked in Sage 300 at Red River College in Financial accounting 1 and 2 courses.

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