Examine state programs, agencies, and operations. Share findings. Make recommendations to improve state performance, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Supported the Assistant Accountant and Senior Accountant in addition to basic clerical work as required. Assisted with reconciliation of general ledger for all student groups under the SALP umbrella. Reconciliation included bookkeeping, locating authorization of expenses incurred, and document tracking and filing for auditing purposes. Additional clerical work entailed knowledge and implementation of proper tracking techniques, as well as customer service between the accounting team and the PSU community. Required knowledge of Banner Financial System.

Performed administrative tasks including maintaining databases, scheduling meetings, typing letters and documents, and distributing mail, scheduling daily appointments, handling phone communication, and greeting clients.

Led a deliberative body of eight students to allocate a $14.5 million budget. Worked intensively with the University President and Vice Presidents to negotiate funding levels for student resources. Drafted and presented student government and university policy proposals. Wrote and distributed press releases, and maintained open and consistent relations with the press.Met regularly with students, faculty and members of the university administration to discuss the budget process, details of individual budgets, and rationale for decisions made by the committee; Assured overall operations of the Student Fee Committee, including timely processing of budget requests, processing reserve requests, and implementing student fee guidelines; Evaluated and trained members of the committee in viewpoint neutrality, the budget process, the online budgeting system, and monthly and quarterly reports used by fee-funded areas.

Performed all of the functions and duties in the absence of the SFC Chair; Recorded and published all meeting minutes for record keeping; Served as a representative on the Student Fee Committee; Applied skills in budgeting, organization, time management, program development, communication, conflict resolution and critical thinking; Developed skills and experience in advocacy, ethical decision making, political decision making, policy formation and implementation, and networking with professionals in university administration

• Developed a manual for all business office procedures, resulting in standardized operations. • Managed operation and maintenance of office equipment, maintained appropriate quantities of business supplies and maintained a database of supply sources for all business supplies. • Established and prepared monthly reports detailing the creation of new listings and individual charges to agents. • Entered listings into an online multiple listing service.• Checked every transaction file for accuracy and completion; prepared reports of every transaction; communicated with clients and vendors during transactions to ensure timeliness of completion on transactions. • Performed administrative tasks such as distributing the mail, scheduling meetings and typing letters and documents. • Scheduled daily appointments, handled phone communication, greeted clients, collected earnest money payments and posted accurate record of office receipts into computer.

• Entered listings into an online multiple listing service.• Checked transaction files for accuracy and completion; prepared reports of every transaction; communicated with clients and vendors during transactions to ensure timeliness of completion on transactions. • Performed administrative tasks such as distributing the mail, scheduling meetings and typing letters and documents. • Scheduled daily appointments, handled phone communication, greeted clients, collected earnest money payments and posted accurate record of office receipts into computer.