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Survivalist Inc. is a 7 figure ecommerce company and the leading company in its space.

Savona, Italy

As Regional Control Analyst I provide cash collections and AR support and ensure overall customer satisfaction as the face to the Granite client. This position is also responsible for ensuring metrics are kept on the billing group while maintaining service level agreements set by the Director of Accounting and Global Billing Manager. Prepare weekly region AR summary while leading AR review with region service team to ensure Granite objectives are met or exceeded. Partner with finance directors and service teams to resolve accounts receivable issues. Complete the quarterly DT/DF account reconciliation with GE counterparty ensuring receivable accounts are in balance utilizing schedule posted by GE.

Florence Area, Italy

As Billing Auditor I monitor, regulate and approve invoices from Granite towards our GE partners. I work in Florence and report directly to HQ in Tampa, Florida to the Directors. My main mission is to reduce the amount of time payments remain pending in order to keep funds coming in necessary for future projects. I have weekly/monthly and quarterly reporting deadlines and act as the middle-man between Granite and Nuovo Pignone SpA in order to resolve any Disputes that could delay invoice payment. And continuously seek new ways to improve/simplify our current processes.

Florence Area, Italy

I currently manage the largest client portfolio of GE Oil&Gas customers. My main activities are collections related, contacting customers for payments, checking bank accounts and liaising between our Project Managers and customers to recover payments.As an experienced English Teacher, I also give weekly English lessons to my colleagues.

Florence Area, Italy

This position entailed monitoring all of GE's shipments outside of Europe has all the appropriate customs declaration and shipping documents. I was also in charge of making sure all of Turbomachinery's sales invoices were confirmed, allowing sales to be recognised inside the appropriate financial quarter. And lastly, I was responsible for invoicing our customers for all of the on site activities carried out by GE's specialists all over the world, this entails verifying the contracts and liasing between top management and the customer.

Country Accountant for APL ITALIA in GenovaAmerican President Lines is one of the top ten cargo shipping companies in the world. At their office in Genova I was in charge of two departments, Accounts & ClaimsFor the Accounts dept. I was in charge of monitoring, approve or rejecting the invoices that were received from our clients in Italy and abroad by authorising their payment. Each month I would create a report for Top Management in Spain and London in which I would highlight and explain every expense incurred during the previous month's operations thus trying to continuously reduce operational costs, and in doing so, always trying to find innovative solutions to reduce costs for the company.For the Claims dept. I would receive customer’s claims for damages incurred during transportation. It was necessary to examine the claims carefully to identify the cause of the problem. In some cases the claims would be refused and others accepted. In case of a legitimate claim, depending of the value of the damages I would decide to hire an external surveyor or investigate by myself to find an acceptable solution for both parties (APL & claimant).

Genoa Area, Italy

In 2006 as a result of the takeover of P&O Nedlloyd srl by Maersk Line I was offered an interesting opportunity with the new company, so I transferred from Milan to Genova where I would accept a position in Finance at Maersk Line's Italian Headquarters. In the Finance dept. my first duties were to essentially close the financial part of the now non existing P&O Nedlloyd srl. those duties were as follows:-paying the existing unpaid invoices to P&O's customers -soliciting payments from customers to P&O for invoices unpaid.-funds transfers between P&O accounts and Maersk Line's accounts-instructing the P&O back office in India and authorizing the payments of the last outstanding invoices.During this period I was also working on Maersk invoices, in the first year I worked exclusively with payments in and out. I would monitor the Company's bank accounts daily for payments and closing any outstanding invoices with the payments made to Maersk. In the second year at Maersk I moved to the collections side of Finance and was in charge of soliciting payment from over 300 italian customers with the goal of ever-decreasing Maersk's outstsanding balance.

Agency Controller in the Finance dept. for P&O in MilanI worked as Agency Controller monitoring carefully the financial activities of our third party agents in the Mediterranean where P&O didn't have offices (Cyprus, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, Greece, Egypt, Lybia, Syria, Turkey), these agents used P&O funds to pay for local services. In more detail, my duties were as follows: - Checking, paying and refusing of invoices - Credit collections- Bank transfers to Agents- being in close contact with the Back Office in India

As Head Cashier I was in charge of all business customers and anything higher than five thousand euro transactions-payments, withdrawals and bank transfers for both private customers and business customers both in Ireland and abroad - remitting and ordering money for the bank and ATM machine- Foreign exchange cashierI was also responsible for the bank's safe and all of it's contents and all the security precautions regarding the safe, keys, codes etc.

Dublin

For a year I worked as Store Manager for a store in the centre of Dublin selling typical Irish souvenirs. My main duties were to order stock from suppliers and sell the merchandise in the store, open and close the store each day, balance the cash and organise the staff roster for the weeks ahead.

Degree, Sports Science

Sports Science, Sport Science

Fitness & Leisure Management