Project Manager/Accounting - Assyrian Cultural Foundation - Lincolnwood, IL
(2022-10)
Planned and executed a variety of events, including corporate meetings, holiday events, and fundraisers while managing all logistics from budgeting and vendor coordination to on-site event operations. Built strong client relationships and ensured high satisfaction by delivering tailored event experiences that met their needs as well as consistently staying within budget and achieving event goals.
- Plan and develop project ideas
- Maintains and monitors project plans and project schedules
- Monitors project progress and handle any issues that arise
- Ensures projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project
- Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation
- Upload and digitize 3,000 files into Image Silo Database
- Reporting and Database Management
- Refreshes and/or produces reports at the direction of the Operation Manager
- Provides direction and guidance on work assignments to other staff
- Audited employees on Training Tracking Portal (TTP) for Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA), As well, audited employees on Image Silo
- Works closely with team members across Operations (Billing, Staff Coordinator, Field, etc.) as well as the organization to ensure top notch service
- Maintains the confidentiality of proprietary and sensitive information, exercising sound judgment and discretion in any disclosure of information
- Adheres to all applicable federal, state, and local laws as well as applicable regulations and standards
Training Specialist - Assyrian Cultural Foundation - Lincolnwood, IL
(2022-02 - 2022-09)
- Provides pre-service training associated with specific in-home care skills through a mixture of lecture, group discussions and both knowledge-based and skill-building exercises; including role-playing, case simulations, and other experiential learning techniques
- Prepares and presents quarterly in-service trainings to current Home Care Aide staff, in accordance with IDOA requirements, including up to ten (10) training sessions per quarter
- Develops, organizes and maintains training manuals, multimedia visual aids, and other educational materials related to staff training curriculum
- Identifies and analyzes training gaps or needs, in collaboration with the Training Manager, in order to develop new training curriculum and to improve existing training
- Maintains accurate and timely data associated with training activities and training outcomes; prepares completion-of-training certificates for Home Care Aide staff; appropriately secures all training-related documentation in files
- Trained 1,200 Home Care Aids and kept them in compliance quarterly
Payroll/Benefit Specialist - Assyrian Cultural Foundation - Lincolnwood, IL
(2021-08 - 2022-08)
- Respond to all employee inquiries
- Prepare and process biweekly payroll for over 2000 exempt and non-exempt employees
- Perform all necessary activities to process in-house payroll including but not limited to analyzing, preparing, and submitting payroll data for new and current employees, benefit deductions, tax withholdings, and garnishments
- Administer and evaluate timesheets, help managers resolve time sheet discrepancies
- Prepare and process special payments and off-cycle payrolls
- Maintain accurate payroll records related to garnishments, and tax levies
- Submit tax deposit payments
- Post positive pay file and process stop payments
- Work with accounting team on reconciliation of payroll accounts
- Process year-end reports, including W-2, W-2c, etc.
- Conduct regular payroll audits and reconciliations to ensure the integrity of the payroll database
- Document and update procedures
- Polls electronic time clocks and reviews the downloaded information for completeness and accuracy
- Assists in compiling information for monthly, quarterly, and year-end payroll reports
- Sends benefits information and application materials to employees
- Provides general administrative support by preparing, scanning, and filling correspondence, forms and reports, and tracking deadlines
- Maintains confidentiality and privacy of employee and company sensitive data
Floor Supervisor - Bloomingdales- BCBG - Skokie, IL
(2015-11 - 2018-08)
- Utilized guest skills including greeting, understanding, exciting, suggesting, and thanking to drive sales
- Used Excel to record overall sales and to compare it with last year's data
- Supervised the customer interaction when manager was not available
- Collaborated with co-workers to provide customer service and drive sales through cooperative sales strategies
- Assisted in training new hire employees by explaining their responsibilities and their duties
- Completed cash and credit transactions
- Managed scheduling and assigning tasks for each associate
