Lori J Smith

**** ******* **** **

Katy, Texas **449

832-***-****

Email: ad18ou@r.postjobfree.com

I have an extensive background in finance. My current position involves complete order entry and process follow-thru from sales order to delivery to customer. I am extremely detailed oriented. Ability to work with multiple departments to ensure complete accuracy along with order fulfillment. Very people and goal oriented. Team player, willing to meet requirements to fulfill my job duties. Keep track of scheduling requirements daily/weekly. Reliable, honest, hardworking person.

Experience:

Texan Tree Depot & Nursery (Sold property) September 2021 – June 2023

Sales/Account Receivable/Payable

Responsible for the daily operations of assisting clients in person or by phone, answering questions and making sales of trees and shrubs. Quoting jobs, purchasing of material and delivery of material to jobsite.

Balancing sales, paying bills and invoicing vendor in QuickBooks. Collection of outstanding balances owed from customers. Make bank deposits.

CJ’s Yardworks Inc. (Sold business)

Katy, Tx 77494 December 2019-August 24, 2021

Bookkeeper

Responsible for pricing trees/plants with vendors for all commercial/retail landscaping jobs. Ensuring all material is of high quality. Scheduling deliveries and billing the job.

Prepare payroll through Affiliated on a weekly basis. Ensuring accuracy and timely reporting.

Maintaining records as needed.

Talk to customers on the phone to assist them.

Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable

Human Resource responsibilities for new hires.

Ashley Gardens Nursery (Owner retired)

Katy, Tx 77450 March 2014-November 2019

Sales Manager/Administrative Assistant/Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable/Human Resources

Responsible for pricing commercial jobs, ordering product, coordinating delivery with other department, input all orders in Quick book. Follow thru with request from start to finish insuring accuracy and completion of request.

Do analysis on profitability of job once it is complete.

Answer calls from customers on availability.

Assist customers that come in to purchase products using Quick Books.

Make sure that we balance out at the end of day.

Training of new employees that work at the soil yard.

Accounts payable/Accounts Receivable.

Reconcile bank accounts & Capital One on a monthly basis.

Weekly processing of employee payroll using ADP and cash payroll.

Daily processing of bank deposits for both nursery & soil yard.

Handle any problems that may arise during the day.

Human Resource responsibilities for new hires.

Pavestone

Katy, Tx 77494 APRIL 2012-FEBRUARY 2014

Administrative Assistant/Accounts Payable/Sales

Answer incoming calls from vendors. Input orders and check availability of product. If product not available request production. Follow thru with request from start to finish insuring accuracy and completion of request in a timely manner for delivery or pick up.

Code and input account payable invoices daily. Make sure information is correct and billing amounts are correct.

Responsible for the employees gathering information for monthly inventory of the yard. This is approximately 800 different pavers/wall product in varying color. After information is collected I input into excel spreadsheet and then into JDE computer system & correct any variances.

Community Bank of the Ozarks APRIL 2010-MARCH 2011

Sunrise Beach, Missouri 65079

Financial Analyst

Financial analysis of existing and prospective business and consumer loan applicants.

Ordered appraisals, title work and verified documentation needed to complete loan processing and posting to Sparek system.

Complied income taxes for loan customers existing and for potential clients.

Modernized the posting and record keeping of all other assets and other real estate.

Balanced the portfolio on a daily basis.

Compiled reports for the Board Meeting monthly.

Continued to do responsibilities of the Cashier/HR/Payroll Administrator for 6 additional months.

Cashier/VP/Human Resources JAN 2007-JULY 2010

Director/Payroll Administrator

Reconcile all banking correspondents’ accounts.

Hiring of all new employees benefits & yearly sign-ups

Process payroll for 50 employees

Reporting as needed to FDIC

Supervised 15 people

Directly reported to President/CEO of bank

Handled questions from State & FDIC examiners. Providing information and answering questions as needed.

Modernized the pre-paid balancing of accounts.

Paying bills as needed.

Making sure General Ledger balanced on a daily basis, opening new g/l accounts.

Problem resolution on a daily basis for Operations, New Accounts & Tellers.

Gathered all information for the monthly Board meeting.

Generated reports as needed for the quarterly call report.

Balanced the vault on a daily basis.

Reconciled the ATM balancing for the previous 5 years as it had never been done.

Responsible for Investment Portfolio balancing and booking.

JP Morgan Chase Houston, Texas (25 YEARS) MAR 1980-JUNE 2005

Consumer Loans JUNE 2001-JUNE 2005

Maintain a quality standard in the ALS booking process of 98% and meet the volume requirements of 20 per day based on total volume.

Maintain daily funding logs for end of day balancing at 100%.

Perform research for problem resolution related requests using system knowledge and resources to successfully resolve while maintaining the Chase values in the process.

Perform semi-annual collateral audit process while documenting and correcting and errors found.

Perform daily mail “dual” control process and log incoming documents received and verified to fax copies.

Service star quarterly winner for 2004.

Chase Auto Finance FEB 1997-JUNE 2001

Indirect Documentation Analyst

Responsible for analyzing contracts and documents for accuracy and validity. Contacting vendors with problems on them.

Meet goal of 70 contracts per day booked. Returned coupons, flat cancellations and reserve corrections.

I took pride in my job and enjoyed helping others with questions, training, and still maintained my daily minimum of auto loans processed.

Traveled the states I was responsible for. Meeting and helping our dealers.

Team of month four times in 2000.

Employee of the year in 2000.

Texas Commerce Bank Houston, Texas (Purchased by JP Morgan Chase) FEB 1993-FEB 1997

Consumer Loan Operations/Accounting Clerk

Responsible for daily reconciliation of Split dealer and Conventional dealer reserve accounts for all branches.

Set up all new dealer accounts on ALS system and maintained LanFund System.

Dealer disbursements and dealer control lists.

Troubleshooting all indirect dealer problems and reconciliation’s of accounts on Excel.

Balanced $350MM student loan portfolio allocation monthly.

Reconcile 205 Indirect dealer portfolios and cleared outstanding items as needed.

Weekly balancing of three outside Student Loan vendor accounts.

Balanced Student loan sale clearing account daily.

First City, Texas Houston, Texas (Purchased by Texas Commerce Bank) 1991-1993

Student Loan Sales Reconciliation Analyst

Responsible for the daily reconciliation of the various General ledgers and DDA accounts for statewide student loan operations with total outstanding balances of $41MM.

Packaged student loans for sale to a third party.

Represented the bank at various student loan functions throughout the state.

Provided courteous, professional and timely response to customer’s inquiries relative to loan sales.

Provided insight into the department’s budget, goals and objectives related to loan sale

Administrative Secretary for Retail Operations Managers 1989-1991

Responsible for accumulating, compiling, creating and distribution of various management reports for the Retail Operations Managers, Main Office Branch Manager, Houston Region Branch Operations Managers, DeNovo and other Retail Administrative personnel.

Also performed other support functions necessary to the management of the Retail Operations area.

Time Deposit Accounting Analyst 1988-1989

Responsible for the daily reconcilement’s of the Time Deposit System for 9 branches.

Interact with the personnel of all branches in clearing outstanding reconcilement items and training bank personnel as needed.

Performed Data Entry and Entry verification functions.

Administrative Assistant 1985-1988

Reconciling, typing, mailing and verifying all 18 Operation center’s ATM, DDA, LOC, Savings, NSF’s statements, Time Deposit and Official checks.

Lead Reconcilement Clerk 1983-1985

Assisted the department supervisor in providing supervision to 9 full time employees and activities toward the timely, accurate and courteous delivery of the system reconcilement functions for the North Operation’s Center location.

Bookkeeping Supervisor 1980-1983

Responsible for the first line supervision of 6 FTE’s and activities toward the delivery of the bookkeeping functions, ensuring policies and procedures where met.

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