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Augusta, Georgia, United States

● Assists in cross-functional collaboration with HR leadership, hiring managers, recruiters, payroll team, and other HR personnel, resulting in a 15% increase in HR policy efficiency.● Streamlines the Status Change Form process, managing 100+ daily termination, pay, and position changes across four HR systems, ensuring a 99% accuracy rate and resolving issues within 24 hours.● Successfully maintains and updates employee records for 4,300+ employees and updates 50+ records daily with zero errors, ensuring compliance with all tax and legal requirements.● Generates and distributes weekly overdue I-9 reports, achieving a 100% compliance rate across all stores and Area Coaches.● Facilitates key HR functions including onboarding of new hires, triggering background checks, providing background check results, and conducting thorough reviews of employee termination history to determine rehire eligibility.● Recognized as Employee of the Month – August 2023.

Fort Gordon, Georgia

● Established efficient project setup and documentation procedures.● Monitored and reconciled customer payments, improving financial projections’ accuracy.● Assisted with preparation and reconciliation of monthly cost to complete projections, leading to a 10% increase in budget accuracy.● Facilitated processing of change orders and ensured Davis Bacon Act compliance.● Streamlined invoicing processes, resulting in a 20% reduction in invoice processing time and a 15% increase in billing accuracy.● Monitored projected customer payments and customer retention amounts for projects.

Beech Island, Sc

● Streamlined and managed proposal writing process, resulting in a 50% reduction in turnaround time.● Updated and maintained accounts receivable vendor information in accounting system and requested and provided updated certificates of insurance.● Reviewed purchase orders, pricing, and contracts for conformance to company policy and requested, monitored, and updated certificates of insurance.● Coordinated closely with Accounts Receivable Coordinator & Project Managers, ensuring a 95% on-time and accurate billing rate.● Maintained an up-to-date knowledge of markups and billing rates ensuring accurate invoicing for each project; Prepared timesheets and produced time and material billing workups and billing packages, reducing billing cycle time by 25%; Verified and approved employees’ time in construction management software prior to Payroll Coordinator processing weekly payroll.● Prepared and issued purchase orders, maintained detailed records of issued purchase orders, and purchased consumables and supplies for project managers and supervisors using company credit cards.● Assisted with the management and coordination of the dispatch and general office email accounts reducing email response time by 40%; Served as first point of contact for company and billing queries; was responsible for greeting visitors and answering, directing, screening, and forwarding all incoming phone calls; Received and sorted daily mail, ensuring timely distribution of important documents.

Augusta, Ga

● Provided exceptional client support for the RUN payroll application and ensured accurate and high-volume payroll data entry and new hire and employee maintenance; processed an average of 500 payroll entries per week with a 98% accuracy rate, while maintaining and exceeding region average in Client Experience Surveys.● Performed new feature setup and used on-line tools and other resources to research and respond to client inquiries; Assisted clients with tax changes for understanding, conducted research and follow-ups as needed.● Collaborated with internal clients/partners (401k, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Tax, etc.) and/or third-party vendors involved in providing services to identify and resolve issues and ensured these services met client expectations.● Achieved the most sales leads on the team for the month of December 2016, generating 20% of total leads.● Recognized as one of the Top 5 Associates of the Month – February 2017, demonstrating consistent high performance and dedication to customer service.

Waynesboro, Ga

● Enhanced efficiency by verifying descriptions, quantities, and pricing against purchase orders and ensured accurate processing of raw material, consignment, and other PO related invoices, resulting in a 20% reduction in invoice discrepancies.● Maintained items received register, resolved invoice discrepancies, and followed up on vendor credits owed.● Posted financial transactions to general ledger accounts and assisted in month-end processing including verification of the posting of all vouchers and check batches before monthly A/P data entry cutoff.● Processed vendor payments and kept payables in balance weekly and communicated with suppliers to answer questions regarding invoice problems and payment status.● Input payables data into accounting system; Generated weekly payables reports.● Maintained and balanced checkbooks and reconciled monthly bank statements for business banking accounts, achieving a 100% reconciliation rate.● Assisted with answering incoming calls and covered reception area as needed, ensuring seamless communication and customer service.

Augusta, Ga

● Opened and closed gift shop and provided customer service excellence in a professional manner while interacting with patients, families, and other patient care providers daily.● Operated and balanced daily cash drawer, prepared daily deposits, credit card reconciliation and assisted in preparation of daily financial documents and provided administrative support to Gift Shop Manager.● Opened, sorted, and routed incoming mail and assisted with answering inbound calls for hospital and campus delivery orders.● Unloaded and examined incoming shipments, rejected damaged items, recorded shortages, and corresponded with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.● Input merchandise into automated computer system using Counterpoint software and replenished and arranged stock on shelves and display counters.● Maintained gift shop inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level, anticipated needed inventory, placed orders for inventory and ran monthly inventory reports.

Aiken, Sc

● Opened and closed office each working day.● Conducted thorough in-person interviews with potential clients, using the company’spropriety tax software application.● Provided details to clients concerning appropriate company products and services and completed all related tax forms in accordance with policies and in compliance with legislation and regulations while auditing for accuracy.● Researched tax related questions and issues and responded to clients appropriately and within a timely manner.● Delivered messages, documents, and packages between all Augusta and Aiken Jackson Hewitt locations.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration - Finance

Cum Laude

Associate Of Science (As), Accounting

Honor Graduate

Certificate, Basic Business, Accounting

Certificate, General Accounting, Accounting