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Inna Martin

Peoria,AZ

Summary

Self-motivated, determined, detail oriented, comfortable working with large amounts of data while also communicating data findings, motivating team members to cultivate a collaborative work environment, strong listening skills, excellent team player as well as working alone, well organized, exceptional analytical/problem solving skills, ability to collaborate with diverse cultures, approachable and personable, able to follow standard operating policies and procedures, able to quickly and accurately learn new concepts, interface to all levels of organization and explain concepts clearly, assertive, understand how to interpret numbers and data ensuring effective decisions, seamlessly and effectively setting managing expectations, enthusiastically taking on challenging projects.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Settlement Operations Lead

Early Warning Services, LLC
10.2019 - Current
  • Assist the manager in staff management responsibilities including employee selection and training
  • Manage daily activity assignments to ensure department objectives and SLAs are met
  • Provide technical and functional training to subordinate staff
  • Complete daily settlement balancing and reconciliation activities utilizing the designated application
  • Perform quality control reviews on completed reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness
  • Follow existing operating procedures adhering to audit controls, and recommend modifications to improve quality, controls and efficiency
  • Engage in triaging issues and working with internal and external teams as needed
  • Provide metrics for settlement systems and issue tracking, using appropriate tools, which may include database interface via ad hoc queries, or existing system reports
  • Maintain documentation of processes, procedures and internal controls
  • Inform participants for upcoming settlement changes or other observations that may have a processing impact or other issues
  • Support the company’s commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data
  • Participate in disaster recovery events for all applications, identify gaps and processing procedures

Settlement Operations Analyst

Early Warning Services, LLC
05.2018 - 10.2019
  • Complete daily settlement balancing and reconciliation activities utilizing designated applications
  • Perform daily funding reconciliation for transactional activity to support customers
  • Report application defects internally and support product and delivery managers regarding that as needed
  • Assist partners and provide instructions for daily discrepancies and required adjustments
  • Perform monitoring and validation within settlement application to ensure processing was timely and complete
  • Complete workflow tickets to ensure proper classifications and appropriate level of detail and resolution steps in each ticket
  • Work with other support teams to assist them in researching consumer inquiries related to payment transactions

Accountant II

Blackhawk Network
04.2017 - 05.2018
  • Manage period close process for assigned area
  • Record journal entries (re-class, write-off, accruals, true-up)
  • Provide analysis and support, monitor key drivers
  • Perform AD-HOC analysis to support business for timely reporting and aging reports

Settlement Analyst I

Blackhawk Network
11.2015 - 03.2017

Managing AR for 74 Distribution Partners (US and International) and multiple Card Partners

  • When necessary working with Accounting, IT, Maintenance Standards and other related business parties such as Customer Service and Account Managers to address Partner questions and concerns
  • Handle reconciliation issues
  • Working with banks and partners on funds recovery for rejected ACH auto drafts
  • Creating write-off journal entries for cards settling to MID
  • Own the communications from a centralized mailbox for the partners I am assigned to
  • Coordinate necessary adjustments resulting from recon/research with the appropriate teams and partners
  • Testing a new reconciliation tool and providing detailed analysis of discrepancies and factors triggering them
  • Doing cash apps, cash moves, write-offs for customers in Microsoft Dynamics AX

Accountant I

Blackhawk Network
05.2014 - 10.2015
  • Initiating weekly adjustments for open and closed loop cards
  • Validating refund requests from alliance and card partners
  • High volume transaction and card level research and reconciliations
  • Creating journal entries to general ledger (re-class, write-off, accruals, true-up) in Microsoft Dynamics AX managing the month close process for assigned area
  • Trend analysis
  • Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts
  • Validating account set ups for new partners and the existing ones if change of banking information occurred (SOX control) and creating penny tests to validate the flow
  • Updating ticket matrix and providing detailed analysis upon request
  • Maintaining existing and create new reports to provide pertinent information to internal and external users
  • Updating access refund database and preparing the reports
  • Reviewing refund language in CRCL for distribution and card partners
  • Working on improvement of the entire flow of refund process and on void automation process
  • Preparing card level details for re-classed cards for each period
  • Corresponding with internal and external personal

Education

Master’s degree - Business Administration

National University of Life And Sciences of Ukraine
Kiev, Ukraine
01-2006

Bachelor’s degree - Business administration

National University of Life And Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
Kiev, Ukraine
01-2004

High School -

Kovel Regional High School
Kovel, Ukraine
01-2000

Techincal/Computer Skills

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Reversal Inquiry and Balance System (RIBS), SQL AquaData, Microsoft Dynamics, Service Now, Serena, SaleForce, Splunk, TRACS, Microsoft Word, Outlook, English, Russian, Ukrainian

Languages

Ukrainian
English
Russian

Timeline

Settlement Operations Lead

Early Warning Services, LLC
10.2019 - Current

Settlement Operations Analyst

Early Warning Services, LLC
05.2018 - 10.2019

Accountant II

Blackhawk Network
04.2017 - 05.2018

Settlement Analyst I

Blackhawk Network
11.2015 - 03.2017

Accountant I

Blackhawk Network
05.2014 - 10.2015

Master’s degree - Business Administration

National University of Life And Sciences of Ukraine

Bachelor’s degree - Business administration

National University of Life And Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

High School -

Kovel Regional High School
Inna Martin