Experience

NC State Poole College of Management

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director Of Business Services

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Key Achievements:  Supervise and lead two teams, with three employees on Financials team and eight employees on Operations team, ensuring efficiency of College operations and as within University and State compliance.  Designed and documented new payroll reconciling process, maintaining process currently to make sure college was spending budgets correctly and making sure payroll aligns with budget.  Created, maintain, and documented new budget request process for College and units to make sure all requests were standardized for ease of training and ease of approval by Dean.  Constructed and documented brand new monthly report to business leads, maintaining now as this will help unit leads determine if they are spending within their budgeted amounts (the College never had a monthly report).  Trained new employees and lead refresher trainings for current employees, with a focus on accounts payable, customer service and NC State/Poole College guidelines.



North Carolina State University - College of Management

• Raleigh, North Carolina

• Accountant

  • Apr 2019 - Jul 2020



Best Buy

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sales Consultant

  • Nov 2014 - Feb 2020

  I worked in the Home Theater department as a sales consultant. In my department I sale appliances, televisions and accessories, home and car audio, home connections (routers and modems) and cameras. I am learning more about home and car audio as well as home connections but getting more comfortable everyday. I helped customers realize what they wanted and made sure they left with a great customer experience and satisfied they purchased everything they wanted and needed. I worked in the Home Theater department as a sales consultant. In my department I sale appliances, televisions and accessories, home and car audio, home connections (routers and modems) and cameras. I am learning more about home and car audio as well as home connections but getting more comfortable everyday. I helped customers realize what they wanted and made sure they left with a great customer experience and satisfied they purchased everything they wanted and needed.



UNC School of Government

• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial Officer

  • Aug 2017 - Mar 2019

  Key Achievements:  Supervised and led two employees to ensure achieving success and maintaining job duties and responsibilities.  Designed and trained faculty and staff on new ticket request system for financial and HR transactions, which streamlined the faculty and staff request process as well as added a way for upper management to create metrics for Business Office staff.  Developed and implemented new standard operating procedures (SOP) for School of Government financial transactions, which helped the School maintain proper UNC/State guidelines and regulations.  Created and implemented brand new procedures for School using different software programs (Learning Stream, TouchNet, ClientLine, and QuickBooks), which helped the School with the Accounts Receivable process (the School had never had a procedure before).  Re-wrote job descriptions for employees to modernize positions as competitive, making sure employees paid accurately and maintained proper job responsibilities.  Collected over $15K in old Accounts Receivable payments



NC State - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Accounting Technician

  • Nov 2014 - Aug 2017

   Created and maintained new purchase card system for College (550+ cards) and reconciled 70, as the College never had track of who was reconciling which pcards. The new process helped make sure all pcards were reconciled timely and efficiently.  Ensured all transactions paid on time by processing invoices, travel reimbursements, journal entries, vouchers, and requisitions for payment.  Implemented new procedures for team to maintain level of consistency and for adherence to College and University SOPs, to create standardization for processes and maintained compliance.  Trained new employees and led refresher trainings for current employees with a focus on accounts payable, customer service and NC State/Poole College guidelines.



NC State College of Education

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Accounting Technician

  • Feb 2009 - Nov 2014

  Key Achievements:  Contributed to College maintenance of financial equilibrium for all grants by processing all financial transactions for grants including payroll redistributions, invoices, journals, travel and requisitions.  Created a monthly burn rate spreadsheet, to accurately report how quickly faculty were spending their grants so faculty could make sure they were spending within their allotted grant budgets.  Correctly and efficiently maintained College budgets totaling $50,000,000 while assisting principal investigators to maintain projects, both expenses and budgets (including re-budgets when necessary).



NC State Materials Science and Engineering

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Manager

  • Jan 2008 - Feb 2009

  - Trained new Accounts Payable/Receivable co-worked - Processed closeouts, new awards and effort for PIs (Cost-Share) - Maintained spreadsheets for departmental accounts - Developed and assisted PIs to maintain projects, both expenses and budgets (including re-budgets when necessary) - Monthly reconciliation - Trained new Accounts Payable/Receivable co-worked - Processed closeouts, new awards and effort for PIs (Cost-Share) - Maintained spreadsheets for departmental accounts - Developed and assisted PIs to maintain projects, both expenses and budgets (including re-budgets when necessary) - Monthly reconciliation