Marcus Maher Email & Phone Number

The Maher Group, Inc.

 >Deliver audit review presentations to clients, offering process improvements and stop gaps for areas of lost revenue. >Analyze client data on invoices, general ledgers and purchase orders to develop and execute programs to maximize profit recovery. >Promote efficient operations for clients by providing recommendations to improve work processes. >Oversee training and development on company standard audit procedures and software use for new and existing employees. >Negotiate claims with client vendors to optimize profit recovery while protecting valuable client vendor relationships. >Oversee accounts payable audits providing complete data analysis of payment history to locate erroneous payments, including duplicate payments, paid credits, statement reconciliation, unrecovered allowances and unrecovered discounts. >Oversee promotional audits including vendor contract compliance, comprehensive review of all types of promotional allowances, complete invoice cost review and confirmation of cooperative advertising. >Consistently located 20% to 30% additional profit recoveries during secondary audits behind industry leading companies. >Consult with clients on data and contract retention practices in order to consistently increase profit recovery annually. >Provided marketing direction including assisting in the creation of all marketing materials used to target new clients.  >Increased sales by contacting, building and maintaining professional relationships with potential and existing clients.

Greater St. Louis Area

 >Development and maintenance of Audit Assistant© software, including a user friendly graphical user interface with over 40 proven profit recovery audit programs used to complete a comprehensive audit for our clients.  >Enabled the transition from a manual audit company to a software based audit company with the development of Audit Assistant© software and increased revenue by 600%. >Designed and managed company web site and client web pages used to store their claim information and ad hoc reports.  >Maintained the companywide e-mail system and developed a paperless claim system resulting in a significant cut in cost and more timely claim resolution.  >Data conversion, analysis and annual setup of multiple data types and formats for new and existing clients.  >Accounts payable and promotional auditing, including vendor contract compliance and review of all types of promotional allowances. >Deliver results to clients through the development of value added reports from company data and audit findings.  >Developed Claims Management System© that created and stored all profit recovery audit findings claim information.  >Setup of all internal and remote employee workstations with the proper security to protect client data and proprietary software. >Proficient in Microsoft Visual FoxPro which is a relational database management system that uses structured query language(SQL) to create auditing tools and produce views and reports for the end user to assist in profit recovery auditing.  >Created a corporate relational database management systems that stored and maintained company accounts receivable information and granted password protected user access to edit and run report.

Greater St. Louis Area

 >Accounts payable audits providing complete data analysis of payment history to locate erroneous payments, including duplicate payments, paid credits, statement reconciliation, unrecovered allowances and unrecovered discounts. >Promotional audits including vendor contract compliance, comprehensive review of all types of promotional allowances, complete invoice cost review and confirmation of cooperative advertising. >Responsible for sales by contacting, building and maintaining professional relationships with potential clients. >Development and implementation of more efficient and profitable audit procedures.