Lauren Marr Smith Email & Phone Number

Chesterfield, Missouri, United States

Missouri, United States

United States

Saint Louis, Missouri

• Manage a team of 8 direct reports including areas of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Reception, and Service Administration.• Investigate and resolve payment discrepancies.• Manage project/program deadline and execution• Prepare bad debt customers for collections process.• Responsible for maintaining Audit Compliance and Corporate Policy & Procedures.• Hire, motivate, and train office staff.• Oversee location budget with a strong focus on revenue generation.•… Show more • Manage a team of 8 direct reports including areas of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Reception, and Service Administration.• Investigate and resolve payment discrepancies.• Manage project/program deadline and execution• Prepare bad debt customers for collections process.• Responsible for maintaining Audit Compliance and Corporate Policy & Procedures.• Hire, motivate, and train office staff.• Oversee location budget with a strong focus on revenue generation.• Maintain customer account maintenance.• Conduct multi-location consolidation billing.• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting for location: AR aging, Lost Business, and Revenue. Show less

Greater St. Louis Area

• Provide executive support to a six-member C-Suite and their teams. • Lead Marketing Coordinator for multiple regional and national trade show conferences, design and create client proposals for the Marketing Management Team, and Request for Proposals (RFPs) for Sales Team through Salesforce application. • Event Coordinator for Trade Shows, Special Events and Promotions. Collaborate with numerous outside vendors to host quarterly employee engagement events. Responsible for scouting… Show more • Provide executive support to a six-member C-Suite and their teams. • Lead Marketing Coordinator for multiple regional and national trade show conferences, design and create client proposals for the Marketing Management Team, and Request for Proposals (RFPs) for Sales Team through Salesforce application. • Event Coordinator for Trade Shows, Special Events and Promotions. Collaborate with numerous outside vendors to host quarterly employee engagement events. Responsible for scouting locations across the country, working with event managers and catering companies. Creating and sending detailed interactive evites for quarterly and year-end events and coordinating attendee gifts for events.• Manage Weekly Sales Reporting for Sales and Account Management Teams.• Travel Coordinator: Manage a high volume of Concur Travel & Expenses for entire C-Suite and home office employees; which includes airfare, hotels, restaurants, venues, events, car services and gifts, both domestic and international. • Accounts Payable: Create payable invoices, posting payments, reconcile of corporate bank account, expense approvals, corporate credit card expense management.• Recruitment: Provide support with sourcing, resume review, formatting and job board research.• Develop PowerPoint decks, written correspondences, proposals and financials for various audiences, quarterly town hall meetings, both live and virtual, and quarterly board meetings. Show less

Greater St. Louis Area

• Executive Assistant: support four Finance GFO Managers and the CFO by managing monthly expenses, access requirements, travel reservations, organized and prepared meeting/committee material, meeting minutes, and any additional requests as needed.• Lead Administrative Coordinator: mentored, trained and developed the administrative staff of three that provided support for 160 team members.• Event Coordinator: collaborated with Corporate Properties, for scheduled events, location… Show more • Executive Assistant: support four Finance GFO Managers and the CFO by managing monthly expenses, access requirements, travel reservations, organized and prepared meeting/committee material, meeting minutes, and any additional requests as needed.• Lead Administrative Coordinator: mentored, trained and developed the administrative staff of three that provided support for 160 team members.• Event Coordinator: collaborated with Corporate Properties, for scheduled events, location scouting, and managing vendor relationships for Recruiting, Team Member Engagement and Department Social Events. Coordinated team member engagement events, team community service outings, recognition events, and monthly town halls. • Early Talent Liaison for Finance Placement: recruitment, resume review, scheduling interviews for 850+ candidates from across the country, and managing incoming staff and alumni. • Employee Engagement Council President /IT Access/Web Coordinator• Developed Cost-Based Activity Report (which provided visibility to the workload vs. individual ratio, to ensure adequate staffing needs) and process work flows used by individuals to complete daily responsibilities.• Conducted training sessions on how to extract data from Hyperion Essbase and updated monthly Costing Packets for various Service and Operations business support groups. • Organized staff placement, onboarding, and training.• Constructed department process improvements, best practices, and policy and procedure documentation. Show less

Responsibilities included but were not limited to; building relationships with new and existing individual customers as well as managing small and large business accounts, ensuring customer satisfaction, staying current on products and services, maintaining at the top of performance reviews, metrics, and key initiatives, conduct interview, reviewing candidates, and hire new sales representatives, lead, coach, and develop new and existing sales staff, accurately documenting employee time… Show more Responsibilities included but were not limited to; building relationships with new and existing individual customers as well as managing small and large business accounts, ensuring customer satisfaction, staying current on products and services, maintaining at the top of performance reviews, metrics, and key initiatives, conduct interview, reviewing candidates, and hire new sales representatives, lead, coach, and develop new and existing sales staff, accurately documenting employee time reporting, staff scheduling, daily inventory, nightly cash deposits on multiple registers and payment machines as well as store safe accuracy, and opening and closing daily operational needs, Show less

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba)

Diploma