Christina Brink Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Oswego, Illinois, United States

- Weekend Manager - Digital Marketing - Event Planning

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Aurora, Il

Resolve any customer reconciliations issues and remittance of relayed discrepancies, partnering with internal Business Units, for assigned key accounts (SAP).Lead the collection team by being the first in line to answer questions concerning problem accounts, issues, training, and policies.Create step action guides and onboarding training materials. Manage and provide training for all new hires and temporary contractors. Provide continued training for all current collectors.Review order requests and potential release compared to aging status and credit limit to determine if release is allowed, for assigned key accounts.Provide collection and reconciliation service for key accounts.Ensure customers are in line with approved credit limits and terms extended. Manage and analyze credit limits, limit increase requests, new account set ups and account change requests.Work with third party credit insurance providers and internal teams to manage customer credit files, updating and reviewing based on credit policies to minimize risk and exposure.Submit buyer review information to third party providers, upon request.Undertake projects as needed and directed to improve credit department processes and procedures.Gather and analyze data to assist in monthly department metrics and various reporting of accounts receivables.Complete ad hoc reporting and analysis as deemed necessary for department improvement and development.Assist in automation upgrades, process improvement, and streamline activities.

Aurora, Illinois, United States

Produce and distribute 24 Hour Fitness third party billing and reporting.Allocate customer payments to invoices along with posting deductions taken to reconcile to remittance and payment received (SAP).Obtain appropriate support material and create dispute cases based on deductions taken on payments.Offset dispute case deductions as they are resolved.Provide collection and reconciliation service for key accounts such as Amazon and Europa.Serve as back up for start to finish cash posting process; includes checking bank accounts for deposits, allocating payments to customer accounts, and identifying and researching cash receipts across U.S. businesses.Train new and current team members.Undertake various special projects as needed.

Temporary Assignment

Itasca, Il

Responsible for payable processes related to insurance markets including market relations, payments, timely discrepancy resolution and other accounting functions with an emphasis on timely payments, excellent responsiveness, exceptional customer service, research, analysis and complex problem resolution.Serve as key contact with assigned insurance markets; focus on expedient resolution of billing discrepancies in order to achieve three-way-match status in accordance with immediate and/or modified three-way-match procedures as applicable.Perform all duties in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, Corporate Financial Policy, BSD Policy and departmental procedures.Utilize Sagitta to perform accounting functions as well as any other aquired agency management systems including the conversion to Epic.Complete pre-month-end and month-end processes, duties and reports as assigned including but not limited to FPM required reports.Develop close working relationships with markets, producers, CSRs and others to achieve position goals.Partner with Gallagher Accounting Center in order to execute all steps in the payables process.Request invoices and supporting documents from carriers in a timely fashion; follow-up until received or escalated in accordance with procedure.Analyze, research and resolve problems.Thoroughly review disbursements for accuracy prior to check cutting.Research and resolve surplus lines tax discrepancies with the use of Sagitta, SLM, and Cognos.

Naperville, Il

Temporary position as part of the accounts receivable research and investigation project.A/R Research and Investigation - This group will be looking at the Direct Bills that fell out of the system to determine what next steps need to be taken and what the status of the A/R is. They will make a recommendation for the remedy and process the remedy in VMS. This group will also be moved into researching the PAC drafts that did not get processed from the original extract. And finally, they will be working on the missing invoice research.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

*Process benefits and personal lines direct bill commissions via One-Step in Sagitta. Search clients/policy numbers and enter premiums and commissions from statement received from insurance carrier*Process commercial lines direct bill commissions through Company Bill in Sagitta. Match up what has been invoiced by Account Managers on Company Bill screen to what appears on statement from insurance carrier. If a discrepancy, research by contacting appropriate account manager*Process due company statements. Involves researching to make sure money has not already been taken by the insurance carrier on the current statement. If okay to pay, process the statement via One-Step in Sagitta. Complete a check request form and give to Vendor Payables for payment to carrier*Direct Bill G/L Accounts. Involves pulling the GL report for the suspense account the first of the month and making sure all debits and credits zero out. Must be completed by end of the 2nd working day of the month. What remains should be your accrual for the following month. Prepare an accrual entry for Manager’s approval*Aged Accounts Receivable. Involves researching items on the report that are over $500 and 90 days old. This includes searching in Sagitta for possible double invoicing, items coded to a wrong department, etc. May involve contacting account managers, and carriers to resolve*Process journal entries as required in Sagitta. Mainly used to move money out of the suspense account to revenue/fee accounts or to other suspense accounts*Bank Reconciliations – Make sure all deposits that are in the bank account have been receipted

Norfolk, Virginia Area

• Prepare and reconcile daily bank deposits for multiple divisions• Post Agency Bill and Company Bill Cash Receipts• Print and file daily wire reports• Daily download of bank deposit information• Assist clients in resolving outstanding balances and reconciliations• Prepare and reconcile daily bank deposits for multiple divisions• Prepare daily cash receipts report• Complete month-end reports on a strict deadline including COA reports

Created and managed online dealer ads for Boat Trader.com.

Managed Payroll for a team of 10 people.Greeted Guests, scheduled appointments.Assisted salon owner with various business tasks.Managed the company books including accounts payables and accounts receivable.

Bsb/Acc, Accounting

Aab, Business

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