Debra Lebel Email & Phone Number

Woodstock, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

- Proactively provide timely execution of tasks and administrative support to the Chief Accounting Officer, including daily calendar scheduling, meeting preparation, legal document signature and storage, and verbal and written communication to internal and external stakeholders. Astutely manage diverse client relationships. Handle matters that are confidential and time-sensitive with discretion.- Attend staff and department meetings. Anticipate, prioritize, and deliver prompt service to the accounting leadership team’s and staff’s needs and requests. Actively develop relationships and create a vast network of resources to streamline tasks to support business goals, enhance productivity, and fulfill expectations between leadership, partners, and clients. - Prepare transportation and hotel arrangements,. Arrange and coordinate virtual, onsite, and offsite meetings, including meeting space, catering, equipment, etc. Accurately prepare, review, and process expense reports.- Responsible for the Oracle function of processing and facilitating the coding and payment of invoices for check distribution, ACH, and wire requests for multiple entities.- Coordinate the onboarding of team members and contractors, including badging, equipment, connectivity, work environment needs, and supplies.- Obtain fully executed letters of engagement, NDAs, representation letters, etc., from Cox’s various consulting partners; facilitate DocuSign requests and organize them in a repository for future reference. - SME and central point of contact for the cost-saving CPE program for company CPAs to earn credits tailored to Cox's initiatives and businesses using the in-house National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) sponsorship program. The responsibilities include setting up qualified courses, keeping abreast of State Board requirements, managing the SharePoint site for NASBA document storage, and modifying the course instructional playbook.

Greater Atlanta Area

Manage vice president’s calendar scheduling meetings with direct reports, leaders, and clients across Cox companies in addition to current and potential suppliers. Answer and manage incoming calls and correspondence; receive and interact with internal and external stakeholders.Act as liaison for matters that are confidential and time sensitive.Prepare travel arrangements including group travel and events; accurately complete expense reports in Concur.Arrange and coordinate onsite and offsite meetings including catering, equipment, and other resources.Prepare, proofread and edit reports, communications, presentations and other documents.Coordinate with HR and Corporate Facilities for on boarding, move and work environment needs including equipment, space planning, mail distribution, maintenance and operation of personal and shared office equipment, and office supplies.Contribute to Company’s goal of cost reduction by lower cost alternatives in food and beverage alternatives at catering events, reallocating slightly used equipment, and focused cost avoidance.

Provided administrative support to Chief Operating Officer, VP and Director of International Risk Management department including heavy calendar management, departmental reports, maintain department’s master filing system, various administrative projects, organizing and coordinating meetings and conference calls, arrange travel itineraries, interface with management preparing correspondence and reports and order office supplies.

A full-service provider of advanced digital video, high-speed Internet and telephony services over its own nationwide IP network, as well as integrated wireless services in partnership with Sprint. Cox Enterprises' annual revenues exceed $10 billion.Effectively managed and performed quality analysis on data entered into Cox Communications' Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) Contract and Reporting Database. Consolidated and accurately input contract information from excel spreadsheets into MDU database to provide a strategy tool which enables users to negotiate contracts with customers to achieve quota and revenue success.Recommended database enhancements to development team and project manager.

ChoicePoint employs 5000+ associates in two continents with 2008 revenue of $240 million. ChoicePoint is the premier provider for comprehensive credentialing, background screening, direct marketing, authentication, and public records services to businesses and nonprofit organizations. ChoicePoint was purchased and now operates as part of Reed Elsevier's Lexis Nexis Risk & Information Analytics Group in 2008.Identified by management as having an excellent skill set for Quality Control operations which lead to a QA support position testing web-based applications and backend applications. Produced test plans and test cases from project business requirements and technical design documents. Logged and tracked defects during testing and followed up with programmers to ensure the defects are resolved.Performed a variety of software testing, including installation, functional and regression on all enhancements to new and existing business applications. Supported production installations by running functional and regression test scripts after code deployment.Supported multiple projects simultaneously, able to prioritize projects and report accurate status and testing progress. Proven communication skills with development and project teams during the testing cycle.Experience with Mercury Quality Center: Test Director and Quick Test Pro.Experience with project tracker Xplanner; XML and soapUI.

Business management support for CIO and VP level including calendar maintenance, expense report reconciliation, scheduling meetings and conference calls, travel arrangements and equipment requests. Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and Lotus Notes.Able to handle matters that are confidential and time sensitive.Manage incoming and outgoing phones and emails for key correspondence that warrant immediate attention.Coordinate on-site and off-site meetings and events including meeting materials, hotels and catering.Act as first point of contact for customers and maintain internal and external professional relationships. Perform administrative functions for department associates such as travel arrangements, meeting lunches, ordering office supplies, filing, fax, mail distribution and new employee setup. Process all personnel transactions forms for terminations, transfers and salary changes and vacation requests.Maintain departmental data spreadsheets and prepare presentations, reports and correspondence.Assist executive and direct reports on various complex project assignments including departmental budgets.

As an Executive Administrative Assistant, I efficiently supported the CIO of Technology and managing Directors in the corporate office. Facilitated weekly IT staff meetings including compiling agendas, record minutes and capture action items for post-meeting follow-up. Assisted CIO in managing emails for correspondence needing immediate attention such as meeting notices, vendor visits, contract information, human resources issues and information on special projects. Additional responsibilities included assisting direct reports with scheduling conference calls and meeting rooms, requisitioning office supplies, coordinating facility requests, travel arrangements, expense report reconciliation, and complete requests for new positions, promotions, salary changes and terminations; PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheet reports. As a Regional Coordinator, I correlated and distribute weekly staffing and productivity reports from 40 branch locations. Created various reports to compare and track budget variances from actual to prior year. Maintained salary roster and organizational chart of the 150 departmental employees.

Direct support to Director of Mid-Market Services at IBM in the Business Innovations Services department.Business management support including calendar maintenance, email management, travel arrangements, meetings and conference calls scheduling and submission of status reports.Provide administrative support to direct reports and team members during on-site meetings.Responsible for plotting and shipping of internal and external client deliverables - Visio process charts (DesignFlow). Maintain plotting report and associated recovery from client billing.Provide pre-meeting support by developing agenda for weekly staff meeting; record minutes and action items for post-meeting follow-up.Coordinate off-site meetings including hotel, catering and meeting room requirements.

Direct support to CEO of Technology and Vice President of Marketing.Business management support including calendar maintenance, travel arrangements, expense report reconciliation, meetings and conference calls scheduling.Manage telephone calls and complex inquiries for both internal and external customers. Provide appropriate responses and directs calls to the proper managing area.Special project assignments involving spreadsheets, presentations and tables related to financial, billing or timelines.Manage technology area of 200+ employees including organizational charts, facility requests, meeting requirements and timesheet data entry. Managed Access database for annual employee evaluations and salary changes.Maintained inventory of copy room, office supply area and conference rooms.

Direct support to Assistant Vice President of Information Technology Development. Business management support including calendar maintenance, expense report reconciliation, meetings and conference calls scheduling. Provide support to departmental teams identifying priorities and action items necessary to meet the project objective. Manage desktop inventory of technology area for auditing. Organize files; distribute mail and order office supplies.