Office Administrator Human Resources

Tammy Grisez

Carpentersville IL *****

Phone 847-***-****

Email Address: ***********@*****.***

Profile/Summary:

An individual with 27 years of experience in bookkeeping, purchasing and business advising and administrative roles with a high level of confidentiality, integrity, and professionalism, and who is experienced in coordinating complex office operations, managing day to day business functions, human resources, vendor relations, and inventory control.

Relevant Experience:

B&C Pro Office Solutions Inc. 1/2021 - current

Started own company to provide bookkeeping and business management from home. On contract to 3-4 clients providing monthly, quarterly and annual payroll, bookkeeping services. 940, 941, 1120, 1099 reporting as required Office Administrator/ Full Charge Bookkeeper

Sunrise Transfer Inc - Elk Grove, Illinois 4/2017 – 6/2022 (out of business) Responsibilities:

• Maintain all bookkeeping responsibilities, including payroll and quarterly taxes, assisting with fiscal reporting

• Maintain all purchasing, sourcing products and services, saving company over $122,000 in first year

• Maintain all vendor and customer relationships

• Manage all HR issues, benefits and an active employee advocate while maintaining employer goals

• Assist IT issues as needed

• Audit accounting system and make corrections to bring accurate Office Administrator / Full Charge Bookkeeper

Abrading Methods Inc. - Elgin, Illinois 3/2016 – 11/2019 (sold company) Responsibilities:

• Maintain all bookkeeping responsibilities, including payroll and quarterly taxes, assisting with fiscal reporting

• Maintain all purchasing, sourcing products and services, saving company over $15,000 in first year

• Maintain all vendor and customer relationships

• Manage all HR issues, benefits and an active employee advocate while maintaining employer goals

• Assist IT issues as needed

• Audit accounting system and make corrections to bring accurate Operations and Office Manager

Professional Interiors Decorating Inc. - Arlington Heights, Illinois 10/2005 - 3/2016 Responsibilities:

• Provide proposals for commercial and residential painting, re-decorating contracts

• Follow up on proposals provided, accountable for product pricing based on costs, researched and provided replacements while working with customers in changes

• Schedule painting teams for jobs as scheduled, confirm all supplies are available to the teams

• Managed day to day accounting, daily invoicing, collections and assist in all fiscal reporting

• Managed HR records, weekly payroll, payroll taxes, vacation schedules, benefits

• Have worked full and part time over the years for this company but always maintaining payroll and generalized bookkeeping responsibilities

Purchasing Manager/Office Manager 07/2001 - 06/2011 (closed ) ZPS-CNC USA Inc. - Wauconda, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Hired and direct all support personnel, dispatched service department, managing schedule, billing

• Developed and implemented all procedures, policies and practices for purchasing spare part inventory, resolving vendor discrepancies, warranty issues

• Managed ocean and air importing, exporting activities, and negotiated LTL services to ensure customer requirements and expectations

• Researched, sourced and purchased all business-related services and products

• Accountable for product pricing based on costs, researched and provided replacement parts

• Created and maintained all company records, in addition to customer and vendor documentation

• Managed HR records, bi-monthly payroll, vacation schedules, training, manage benefits

• Managed day to day accounting, daily invoicing, collections and produced all fiscal reporting

• Arranged bi-annual travel to Czech Republic for trade show conferences and company meetings Executive Administrative Assistant 09/1998 - 10/1999 Pronto Communications - Addison, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Managed five cellular phone and service centers of 30 employees, scheduling, payroll and fiscal reporting

• Solely operated, supported and maintained Wisconsin sales market

• Exclusively responsible for securing contract for 280 phone lines with the Chicago Board of Trade Purchasing Manager/Assistant to Chief Operations Officer 11 /1991 - 08/1998 (sold company) Illinois Recycling Services, Inc. - Chicago, Illinois Responsibilities:

• Position created to organize fourteen divisions in six states

• Created Purchase Order System for use by all divisions, including Blanket Purchase Orders and vendor stock storage for long lead items, to be vendor distributed and invoiced as needed

• Successful vendor negotiations and supplier search methods, leading to company savings in excess of $350,000 in first 6 months in position

• Sourced, negotiated national and local contracts for services and products based on bid requests to fulfill divisional and corporate requirements, budgets

• Supported operations departments while ensuring quality, timely and accurate, inventory requirements and maintaining final budgetary approval

• Hired and directed all support personnel, trained new operations managers on company purchasing policies and practices in order to strengthen company financial status while developing strong relationships between divisions

• Supported the COO with daily operations, scheduling and reporting requirements

• Support Coordinator in fleet maintenance department. Scheduled and billed vehicle, compactor and baler repairs and completed all monthly divisional reporting and billing, with a support staff Other Experience:

Volunteer 06/2015 - Current

Multiple Dog Rescue

Foundations Responsibilities:

• Provide a safe home to rescued puppies for foster-based animal rescues. Interview and process adopters, new fosters. Participate in fund raising events and organizing adoption events

• Involved in safely transporting animals from one location to another and to vet appointments Volunteer 09/2011 - Current

Prince of Peace Lutheran Church - Schaumburg, Illinois Responsibilities:

• Vacation Bible School. Various artwork tasks for children's summer services

• Prepare mailing lists via Mail Merge for upcoming events

• PADS volunteer April thru October

Education

• Currently enrolled MS Office Mastery Bundle (Power Point, Access, Advanced Excel) online with estimated completion date June 2025

• Indiana University Northwest Gary Indiana and Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Illinois

• Basic High School, Henderson Nevada, diploma

Credentials

• Member of SHRM (Society of HR Management)

• Highly Skilled in MS Office Suite Products

• QuickBooks Desktop and Online, previous Pro Advisor Certified

• Quicken

• Sage 50, 100

• Asana

• Slack

• Dropbox

• MS Teams

• Teamviewer

• Jobber

• Peoplease

• Paychex

• Paylocity

• Salesforce

• Calendly

• TaxRight

• Remote Desktop and VPN

• Adobe Acrobat Pro

• Square

• Google Sheets

• Open Phone

• MiCamp Online Merchant Account

• Established knowledge of warehouse equipment including pallet jacks and 5K monotrol pedal forklift

• Proficient in International and National Purchasing, Importing/Exporting, and Vendor Negotiation

• Knowledge of Customs and Logistics

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