Claudia Connerly

This resume represents a large portion of my accounting experiences.

More recent resume showing latest accomplishments (including management, administrative, accounting skills and experience available upon request.)

Professional Summary

Dependable, experienced, talented problem solver and focused Accounting and Office and Department Manager with 20 + years unprecedented accounting, A/P, payroll, client and team member skills, customer relations specialist, scheduling, organization and documentation. Mature, dedicated, hardworking, accustomed to managing multiple projects, teams members, added responsibilities and meeting deadlines.

Unsurpassed work ethic, attendance record, energetic and results-focused with success in developing and leading diverse teams and projects.

Work History

Holiday Inn West, 6 months

Managing Director of Sales, Marketing, Events & Catering

Commanded hotel sales department for 118 room, full service hotel. Included Administrative Assistants to General Manager, and Food and Beverage Manager. Sales, marketing, scheduling, revenue accounting, billing discrepancies/adjustments, organization of guestrooms, catering, meeting/event spaces and group travel management.

Candlewood Suites, 3 years

Executive Director of Sales & Marketing

Administrative Assistant to Executive General Manager and Operations Manager. Using background in Real Estate, created new sales department for 80 room hotel. Built clientele from ground up, with no previous records. Trained guest services and housekeeping in ways to support sales department. Analyzed all bidding sites and news to keep abreast of upcoming construction projects. Created/managed all online advertising. Updated Opera, hotel operating system, to comply with IHG regulations and trained staff to properly maintain system. Built customer based program for proper record keeping and accounting. Handled all reservation requests, contracts, leases, and billing/adjustments. Coordinated guest services, housekeeping and maintenance. Conducted final management inspections of clean guestrooms.

Crye-Leike Realtors, 10 years

Licensed Commercial and Residential Realtor

2011, voted “Favorite Top 10 Realtors in Arkansas by Soiree Magazine” judged by clients, peers, co-workers, lenders and mortgage companies based on personality and problem solving skills. Multi-Million dollar producer. Develop networks of attorneys, lenders, inspectors and contractors. Evaluated mortgage options to assist my clients with obtaining suitable financing. Analyzed data and property values to determine loan/value ratios. Prepared/approved all legal listing, sales, offer HUD1 accounting and closing documents. Held license even after going to work for Candlewood Suites, working evenings and weekends. Didn't renew license because I felt I wasn't able to give the attention my clients deserved and needed.

Richard Glatter Jewelry, Little Rock, AR 3 years

Cost Accountant & Financials Preparation

Built computerized system for items sold to AFFES (military online website).

Switched company to MAS 90 system for better tracking purposes.

Kept detailed records of, manufacturing, overhead based on estimates, costs of materials in a daily changing commodities market, items price listings and maintained inventory values. Compiled budget data and documents based on estimated revenues, expenses, payroll and previous budgets profit/loss records.

Recorded, balanced all general ledger and bank records for company CPA at each month end.

Payroll, general ledger balancing and adjustments

Prudential Bache Securities, Dallas, TX, 1 year

Annuities Department Cashiering Manager

Personally handled all cash transactions for Annuities Department at company’s largest branch in Dallas, TX.

Daily/weekly/monthly general ledger data entry and reconciliation management within Prudential Bache central accounting software program.

Researched and delicately handled any account descriptions for clients.

Oversaw thousands of paper files for each client for backup purposes.

Williams and Anderson Law Firm, Little Rock, AR, 3 years

Accounts Payable and Administrative Assistant to CFO

Full charge accounting in the area of Accounts Payable.

Completed all data entry, general ledger entries, general ledger balancing, researched and tracked approximately 40 attorneys personal credit card charges, making sure each were re-billed to clients.

Maintained budget for CFO

Handled all research for large vendors having thousands of individual charges each month, such as court reporting, temp legal secretaries, mock juries, etc.

Responsible for all W-2 and 1099 reporting at year end.

Stephens Incorporated, Little Rock, AR, 4 years

Accounts Payable and Administrative Assistant to Controller and CFO

Researched and reported activity of all municipal bonds. Analyzed daily principal and interest due clients at actual P&I close date.

Booked travel arrangements needed for all parties needed for signature of new municipal bond signings at the Fed Reserve in Chicago, Il.

Attended and arranged for secure transfer of bear bonds from Chicago to New York for safekeeping at Irving National Bank.

Verified and documented bear bonds for distribution before leaving Irving National then returned to Little Rock for proper verification and distribution.

Progressive Medical, Little Rock, AR, 8 years

Medical Sales Representative & Independent Liaison for Mid-America Eye & Tissue

Built client base for new company and vendors through marketing, visits, appointment planning and cold calling.

Worked closely with six local hospitals within their individual procurement departments, orthopedic/transplant surgeons, hospital operating/surgical room departments and donor families making sure everyone had the necessary education, training and surgical knowledge of human donor organs, tissues and bones.

Monitored hospital inventory to insure products needed for surgical implementation were available.

Represented a multitude of other capital equipment, surgical and disposable hospital vendor needs.

Full charge booking for and Administrative Assistant to Vice President/Owner.

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