Procurement Specialist
Resume:
BERNARD ADAMS
**********@*****.***
Detailed oriented and results driven Customer Service Specialist with more than 10 years of experience providing exceptional customer service. A qualified representative with a background in procurement and financial services. Experienced professional with proven track record of consistently demonstrating tact and diplomacy in dealing with both customers and associates. Acknowledged for taking initiative, for working well under pressure and for being a team player.
PROFRESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
10/18 – 04/20
IT PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST, hd supply – atlanta, ga
Maintain and monitor project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures.
Primary point of contact for all procurement services.
Make recommendations and assiste with developing procurement policies and administrative procedures; responsible for keeping abreast of changes in procurement trends.
Point of contact for various working groups.
Review planned orders, create requisitions for purchased items, and manage approval process.
Provides support to project managers and business leaders when requested.
Review executed SOW contracts to ensure that PR/PO are properly created and funded.
Create monthly GR’s based on monthly Planview time entered to ensure that contractor invoices are paid promptly.
Reviews, updates, and maintains purchase orders until they are closed.
Transmits and prioritizes approved Purchase Orders and supporting documents to supplier.
06/18 – 09/18
CREDIT & CUST SUPPORT SPECIALIST, cMG – atlanta, ga
Utilized 3rd party credit reports, trade references, and other available sources.
Analyze credit requests coming from a multitude of sources and ensure the proper entity’s credit is being checked (non-direct advertiser, buying agents, agencies and direct advertisers).
Analyze customer financial condition and authorize customer credit lines for both new and existing customers.
Receive and process customer credit card payments.
Analyze, approve, and/or reject all cash-in-advance broadcast and digital orders.
Frontline inbound phone responsibility along with the management of FRC-ARM group email inboxes.
01/18 – 05/18
BILLING SPECIALIST, cmg – atlanta, ga
Balanced & reconciled billing data.
Detected billing issues, initiated corrective actions, and resolved problems with customer billings with minimal supervision.
Reconciled any discrepancies found in billing processing.
Worked with other departments (sales, credit, and payment application, business system support analyst) to resolve billing issues and assist with collection, payment, rating or contract issues.
Analyzed, and reviewed accounts in order to create memo bills that accurately reflect customer balances.
12/14 – 12/17
BILLING SPECIALIST TEAM LEAD, Applus RTD – Houston, tx
Generated work reports based on supporting operational data such as time records, expense reports, and other project billable items including consumables and equipment.
Monitored and controlled daily project work orders and work report processing.
Quality checked invoices were correctly billed and priced before submitting them for payment.
Uploaded customer invoices into customer specific portals for timely payments.
Generated 400+ invoices on a monthly basis.
Supervised, managed, & trained newly hired team members.
09/09 – 12/14
PROCUREMENT CLERK, nrg energy, inc – houston, TX
Responded to staff inquiries regarding vendor procedures for the purpose of collecting information for the database.
Maintained vendor database by collecting and entering data into the computer.
Reconciled vendor statements and handled payment complaints and discrepancies.
Monitored invoices from clients and promptly contacted vendors for payments.
Researched and resolved accounts payable discrepancies.
Prepared purchase orders to meet requests of different internal departments and sent copies to relevant vendors.
EDUCATION
08/04 – 12/08
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, southern university and A&M college
Business Administration
3.536 GPA
08/01 – 05/04
DIPLOMA, b. t. washington high school for engineering professions
Graduated with a 3.7 GPA
SKILLS
Leadership
Skilled in SAP, Oracle, CRM, Axapta, MS Office
GAAP Knowledgeable (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)
Electronic Billing
Problem Solving
Adaptability
VLOOKUP & Pivot Tables
10-Key
Ariba
SAP ECC & S4
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