Sarah Avery Email & Phone Number

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Working in a fast paced Information Technology department, I provide a variety of clerical, administrative, and secretarial support for the leadership team, as well as the IT staff. • Effectively performing all areas of meeting coordination, including; Outlook scheduling, catering, PowerPoint presentations, video conferencing, AT&T Connect conferencing, Telepresence conferencing and phone conferencing, in a high paced Information Technology department. • Use SQL, Clarity, MS Access, Tableau and Excel to design and produce reports for management. • Coordinating events, monthly associate meetings, flu clinics, health screenings, catered events and team building activities. • Provide communications via Outlook, Yammer, SharePoint and OneNote.• Make travel arrangements. Helping associates to understand the Corporate Travel online reservations system and the travel policies. • Conduct new employee orientations to assist with the on-boarding process. Work with offsite Human Resources representative to ensure all paperwork is completed in the appropriate timeframe. • Keep a high level of confidentiality while handling personnel files and information.• Served a high level role in running our PEER recognition program. • Assist business leaders and project teams with the design and maintenance of their SharePoint sites. • Set up our charitable giving events by working with association representatives to collect information about their organizations and how the money will be used. Presenting a different organization each month to encourage and collect donations. • Front desk coverage to greet and assist visitors to the office. • Process expense reports for Vice Presidents and Directors across multiple departments.• Submitted weekly Payroll files for onsite and offsite team members.

My role was to manage an A/P processing team that was responsible for multiple business units of Ingersoll Rand. • Provided system and guideline training to processing teams. Traveled to Juarez, Mexico to train off-site teams. • Wrote training manuals and guideline manuals utilized by processing teams and Ingersoll Rand buyers.• Evaluated the processing team’s workload and made necessary adjustments to ensure that invoices were flowing evenly among the different business units. • Was the main point of contact for Ingersoll Rand buyers when there were system issues, or for help with processing high priority invoices. • Designed and implemented many process improvement measures, helping the department to realize savings, through lowered processing costs. • Use SQL to mass-process invoices and run tests on the workflow.

Collaborated with the client to design, maintain and update IT processes to ensure the most effective handling of invoice processing. • Conducted weekly status calls with the client and followed up with team members to correct and stabilize workflow issues. • Monitored the accounts payable workflow system, making sure invoices were properly routed. • Worked with development team and client to design and implement changes to the workflow. • Wrote test scripts for the UAT team and helped train them on the unique process flow of the system.• Produce Ad-hoc reports as requested.