Accounting and office work. I have a degree in Business Management.

Valerie A. Ritz

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Education

Alaska Pacific University

Anchorage, AK

Bachelors of Science in Business Management

Graduated with honors

Widefield High School

Widefield, CO

Graduated with honors

Employment

Jan 2006 – Current

Job title: Real Estate Investor/Realtor

Employer: Self /Ritz Consulting Corporation

Employer/broker: Landmark Homes, LLC and Century 21 Realty Solutions, Partners Real Estate

Duties: Real estate investing, developing and management. Manage 9 single family properties as well as a mobile home court with 45 spaces and an on-site manager in 3 other states. Part time realtor in Northern, AZ and now a full time realtor in Eagle River, AK.

June 2013 - June 2014

Job title: P/T Customer Service Associate

Employer: Navopache Electric Company, St. Johns, AZ office

Answered phones, received electric payments, start/stop electric accounts, resolved customer billing issues, inventory.

November 2007 – 2009

Job title: Library Specialist in St. Johns, AZ

Employer: Apache County

Duties: Help library patrons by locating material in our library or being a reference, check out library materials, check returned books back in and shelve, daily cash drawer balancing, weekly statistics, order books for shelf, summer reading programming, teen group adult facilitator, help with children’s story hour, cover at other branches as necessary.

August 2004 – Jan 2006

Job title: Finance Director

Employer: SuAnne Big Crow Boys and Girls Club

Pine Ridge, SD 57770

Duties: Financial reports, audits, payroll, A/R, A/P, grant reporting, debt forgiveness negotiation, fundraiser volunteer.

Quickbooks, Excel and Word software used.

January 2004 – August 2004

Job title: Accountant II

Employer: Bristol Bay Native Association

Dillingham, AK 99576

Duties: Assigned 10 – 15 grants to balance and prepare reports on. Had to have a working knowledge and a full understanding of moderately complicated, to very complicated, grant requirements. Prepared weekly financial reports for all grant managers. Balanced various department ledgers.

Cross trained for A/P and some comptroller responsibilities.

April 1999 – December 2003

Job title: Senior Accountant, General Ledger Accountant, Payroll Technician, Community Health Assistant Program (CHAP) secretary

Employer: Bristol Bay Area Health Clinic

Dillingham, AK 99576

Duties: Payroll Technician – assisted with bi-weekly payroll including tallying timecards for several different pay types, entering data, verified various data before subtracting from paychecks, printed checks and reports, balanced various employee health benefit accounts.

General Ledger Accountant – balanced and maintained various general ledger accounts, did all financial reporting on 20 + State, private and federal grants. Assisted grant managers with various aspects of their grants and produced monthly reports for them. Cross trained on payroll, A/P and both travel desks. Performed various comptroller functions as needed. Assisted with yearly audit. Research and filing as needed.

Senior Accountant – hired, trained, supervised and provided backup for the General Ledger Accountant and 2 Payroll Technician positions. Maintained investment balances in quicken software. Maintained employee retirement spreadsheet including timely payments into employee accounts. Helped resolve finance department issues between other departments or outside vendors. Assisted with annual departmental budget process. Assisted, to a greater degree, with yearly audit. Verified the accuracy of all payroll and A/P checks. Performed various comptroller functions as needed. Various research projects and maintained filing system.

January 1986 – December 1998

Job title: Customer Service Representative, Cashier, Discrepancy Customer Service representative

Employer: ENSTAR Natural Gas Co.

Anchorage, AK 99503

Duties: Cashier – received and processed payments of customer utility billings.

Customer Service – phone representative and rotation of customer service desk for walk-in customers. Set up utility accounts, closed accounts, customer billing research including re-reads of meters, meter exchanges and high bill investigations.

Discrepancy desk – reviewed all meter reads for 8 billing cycles (approximately 200,000 commercial and residential customers) before billings were printed and mailed to customer. During review looked for incorrect meter reads and potential problems. Pulled bills in question and initiated all necessary research to use as back up in order to correct the billing.

March 1984 - December 1985

Job title: Treasury technician

Employer: Municipality of Anchorage

Anchorage, AK

Duties: Received, processed and balanced mailed in utility billings for 4 different municipal utilities. Performed any necessary research regarding billing. Maintained filing systems. Occasionally, worked as a cashier “floater” to receive utility payments at various MOA utility locations.

Other interests and hobbies

Municipality of Anchorage Platting Board member (appointed)

Active church member & volunteer bookkeeper for 2 years using quickbooks software

Kids Kount – volunteer - secretary, treasurer

Boy Scouts of America – volunteer - den leader, merit badge counselor, fundraiser, activity chaperone, district committee member, Eagle Scout packet verifier, Eagle Scout mentor, Denali District Advancement Chair

Travel

St. Johns Booster Club – volunteer - Secretary, Treasurer, successfully obtained 501c3 designation for organization.

St. Johns Little League – volunteer - Treasurer

Apache County Planning & Zoning Committee member (appointed)

St. Johns 4th of July Committee/organizer

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