Lara Kelso Email & Phone Number

Hillsboro, Missouri

• Provide influential leadership, coaching, and mentorship to a team of eight employees and facilitate training programs; plan and coordinate workflow and delegate tasks. Direct the daily administrative operations of the.
• Direct the accounting operations; handle accounts payables and receives, analyze all financial data, prepare bank deposits, create budget forecasts, reconcile accounts and calculate and process payroll
• Manage the human resources activities; lead the talent acquisition initiatives, conduct orientations, update confidential personnel files, administer benefits, and ensure compliance with strict guidelines
• Plan and coordinate the annual audit, maintain all financial records, collaborate with the company’s external accountant to facilitate the audit, submit direct records, and identify and mitigate complex risks
• Prepare domestic adoption application approval letters and paperwork, confirm payments, create account files, track all packets, respond to adoptive parent inquiries, and enrolled parents in training
• Organized and seamlessly executed events and activities to maximize facility exposure; establish key relationships with donors, plan and coordinate the company picnic, and oversee donor newsletters

Hillsboro, Missouri

Festus, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

• Supervised, coached, mentored, and evaluated a team of 10 employees and facilitated training programs to maximize the potential of staff; fostered a positive work environment to maximize team morale, productivity and.
• Effectively negotiate workout situations with customers in an effort to secure payment and establish effective payment arrangements; minimize the delinquency rates and maximizes accounts receivable
• Successfully improved the efficiency and productivity of the department through the implementation of the skip tracing methods; increased the amount of located customers and mitigated financial risks
• Oversaw the orderly liquidation of retail and lease receivables while ensuring minimal loss; present repossession recommendations, processed redemption of collateral, and provided witness testimony

St. Louis, Missouri

• Managed the major territory, consisting of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana; conducted on-site audits of Chrysler dealerships to ensure compliance with policies and procedures. Proactively identified.
• Conducted internal audits of dealership title work and physical audits of the new and pre-owned inventory; lead book audits to ensure timely payments to Chrysler and administer disciplinary actions

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Counseling

Bachelor Of Arts, Business Administration