Experience

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  Blue Crane

  • Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

  • Accounting Specialist

    • Aug 2023 - Present
    • Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

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  COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 300

  • Lake in the Hills, Illinois, United States

  • Office Manager / Principal Secretary

    • Jun 2017 - Jun 2023
    • Lake in the Hills, Illinois, United States

    Assist and respond to parental, staff and public inquiries and concerns regarding school operations and activities. Communicate verbally and in writing on behalf of the principal. Process the purchasing, receiving, and payment of building supplies and vendor services. Oversee and maintain large projects assigned all year-long. Scheduling appointments for the principal and assistant principal. Collect all building revenue / bank deposits and manage the building budget. Timekeeper – check and verify employee work time, perform necessary corrections, obtain time sheet corrections, and verify available benefit time. Prepare extra pay sheets for payroll, along with contracts for staff. Confirm staff coverage utilizing district absence system and find substitute staff for absences to cover classroom teachers. Send student fee statements home per the district policy. Prepare cash boxes for all building activities. Prepare all monthly financial reports. Orient and train new staff members on district policy and procedures. Upload all news articles and calendar items for the school calendar and website. Maintained and scheduled all student confidential meetings for case workers / staff.

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  District 300 Foundation for Educational Excellence

  • Algonquin, IL

  • Performing and Fine Arts Chair / Marketing and Public Relations

    • Jun 2008 - Jun 2023
    • Algonquin, IL

    The District 300 Foundation for Educational Excellence is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization that seeks out and makes available resources in order to extend, enrich and enhance learning opportunities for all District 300 students. Grants are awarded to teachers that focus on Literacy, Performing and Fine Arts, Science and Technology and Student Leadership.

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  The Art Institue of Chicago

  • Chicago

  • Gallery Volunteer

    • Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
    • Chicago

    Gallery volunteer

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  District 300 Schools

  • Algonquin - District Office

  • Infinite Campus Data Team Specialist

    • Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
    • Algonquin - District Office

    Infinite Campus Data Team Specialist Data analysis, verification of data in Student Information System; isolation of corrections; preparation of various reports for end user verification and necessary corrections to ensure data integrity of enrollment, fees, schedules, courses, grades and other data required for state and federal reporting and in support of data driven decisions. Creation of ad hoc reporting to provide staff with information outside of system generated reports.

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  Community Unit School District 300 - Lincoln Prairie

  • Lake in the Hills

  • Secretary

    • Jul 2013 - Dec 2015
    • Lake in the Hills

    Responsible for daily attendance, registration and scheduling, Infinite Campus accounts, fees, reporting, letter design and policies and procedures.

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  Swiss Bank Corp.

  • Chicago, IL

  • Associate Director – Finance and Control

    • Aug 1988 - Aug 1996
    • Chicago, IL

    Manager of the accounts payable and accounts receivable departments of a multi-billion dollar international bank, whose responsibilities included interacting with the accounting, tax and treasury functions to ensure that all invoices and cash receipts were recorded properly. Lead the on-line conversion for all payables and receivables, which were previously done manually for the company. Acted as the general ledger administrator and prepared all 1099 tax documents for its vendors and brokers. Audited and coded all invoices and receipts to the general ledger. Maintained all monthly accruals and reconciled all company travel advances. Prepared the budget for the Payroll and Finance & Control departments. Recorded all payroll transactions and reconciled the payroll journal entries to the payroll registers. Responsible for a staff of 4 accounting clerks.