CHRISTINE CLAYTON
KILN, MS *****
OBJECTIVE: Seeking a challenging position within a reputable company that is conducive to my career goal & where my skills are continually developed & utilized.
CAREER PROFILE: Detail-oriented, efficient & organized professional with extensive experience in accounting systems; Possess strong analytical & problem solving skills, with the ability to make well thought out decisions; Excellent written & verbal communication skills; Highly trustworthy, discreet, reliable, prompt & ethical; Resourceful in the completion of projects, effective at multi-tasking.
EXPERIENCE:
Operator/AAA Answerphone and Doctors Exchange – July 2014 – November 2019
Route emergency calls appropriately, paging individuals to inform about the calls, using paging and interoffice communication, perform clerical duties like proofreading, typing, accepting orders.
Payroll Clerk/Live Poultry Acct Clerk / Marshall Durbin – November 2011 – September 2013
Maintain payroll information by collecting, calculating, & entering data. Assured that employees were paid accurately & on time; collected time sheets & entered information into computer; double-checked aspects of payroll related to hourly wages & overtime. Resolved payroll discrepancies; Maintained operations by following procedures; Maintained employee confidence & protected operations by keeping information confidential.
Application Support & Accts Receivable / Pine Belt Mental Healthcare – February 2009 - April 2011
Primary team member for setting up billing for the new electronic medical records system; Provided telephone & on-site support for clinical applications; quality assurance testing during software development; site implementation, provided on-sight support & training for end users. Performed all billing functions with Vocational Rehab and Veteran Affairs, scheduled clients to enter treatment, processed accounts receivable, posted charges & payments to G/L, collected rent from clients.
The listings below are positions I held within the same company:
Advertising Supervisor / Hattiesburg American - March 2008 - December 2008
Managed goal setting for sales reps in order to reach companies budget; Reconciled through audits all commission payouts; Created weekly sales reports for manager; trained sales reps on new processes, Reconciled customer account discrepancies; Handled online sales including securing contracts, building ads, uploading them & reports on traffic to customer.
Financial Analyst / Hattiesburg American - May 2007 - February 2008
Built rates for Classified & Retail departments; Created reports to be used for budgeting purposes & commission accountability; Handled any area involving our front end & billing system; Prepared annual company accounts & reports; Worked with the Composing department to ensure all ads run as supposed to & researched any that did not; created reports to ensure errors are caught without costing the company revenue; worked closely with the advertising department training on the new front end system; entered & maintained contracts, wrote procedures; trained new employees & continued to be system support.
Payroll & Accounts Receivable / Hattiesburg American - November 2002 - May 2007
Managed payroll function for 140 employees; Monitored & recorded company expenses; prepared financial statements; Balanced Cash; Researched missing or misapplied payments; assisted customers with their billing; Administered bank drafts for customers; Audited commission payouts; Wrote & monitored weekly & monthly reports for our controller, publisher & corporate office.
MIS - Operations / Hattiesburg American - July 2000 - November 2002
Produced production jobs such as generating bills for customers, running end of the day jobs for carriers, calculated grace periods on accounts, handled writing of programs, sequels; provided system support to advertising, finance, & circulation; maintained the phone system; ran reports to be given to Finance to balance previous days work; closed the month & provided all reports to departments for monthly accounting figures; handled ADQ reporting for corporate; database cleanup; etc..
EDUCATION:
AA Computer Programming
JCJC, Ellisville, MS 1997 - 2000
REFERENCES:
Clara Boutwell - Owner - AAA Answerphone & Doctors Exchange - 601-***-****
Sherri McCain - IT Manager – Hattiesburg American - 601-***-****
Liz Cotton – Advertising Manager – Hattiesburg American – 601-***-****
Sheila Oliver – Accounting Manager – Hattiesburg American – 601-***-****