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Kamari Seals

Accounts Payable
Fredericksburg,VA

Summary

Creative and self-starting individual with strong organizational and planning abilities. Dependable professional with proven expertise in administrative support, client relationships, and customer service. Excels in both independent and team settings. Thrives in demanding environments, delivering outstanding customer service to enhance overall experience and contribute to bottom-line goals. Finance professional with a background in managing invoices, reconciling statements, and maintaining financial records. Recognized for reliability, adaptability, and fostering team collaboration to achieve organizational goals. Skilled in using accounting software, processing payments, and ensuring compliance with financial policies while consistently meeting deadlines in dynamic work environments.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Accounts Payable Clerk

Imperial Dade DBA. S. Freedman & Sons, Inc.
09.2015 - Current
  • Processed high-volume invoices, ensuring accuracy and timely payment to vendors.
  • Maintained detailed records of accounts payable transactions, supporting financial audits and reporting.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to resolve discrepancies and enhance vendor relationships.
  • Reviewed expense reports for compliance with company policies, reducing instances of errors and fraud.
  • Mentored junior staff in accounts payable procedures, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Reviewed vendor invoices for appropriate documentation and validity prior to payment.
  • Prepared vendor invoices and processed incoming payments.
  • Assisted in month-end closing procedures, ensuring all invoices were processed on time to reflect accurate financial statements.
  • Maintained good working relationships with vendors and resolved disputes.
  • Collaborated with other departments to resolve discrepancies in invoices or purchase orders, promoting smooth business operations.
  • Reviewed employee expense reports against company policies, safeguarding corporate funds from misuse.
  • Evaluated financial records to detect errors and discrepancies.
  • Reduced processing errors, implemented double-check system for all outgoing payments.
  • Facilitated smoother end-of-month closings by collaborating with accounting team to reconcile accounts payable ledgers.
  • Reached out to vendors and customers to verify information and follow up on client issues.
  • Supported management by processing invoices and documents with consistent on-time delivery.
  • Reconciled company bank, credit card and line of credit accounts, investigating, and resolving discrepancies to keep accounts audit-ready.
  • Recorded deposits, reconciled monthly bank accounts and tracked expenses.
  • Enhanced efficiency in invoice processing by meticulously reviewing and matching invoices with purchase orders and receipts.

Transportation Supervisor & Accounting

S. Freedman & Sons Inc
09.2015 - 05.2021
  • Oversaw daily transportation operations to ensure timely deliveries and efficient routing.
  • Coordinated schedules and routes for drivers to ensure timely deliveries and customer satisfaction.
  • Ensured proper documentation was completed accurately for all transportation operations, including driver logs, vehicle inspection reports, and accident/incident reports.
  • Managed a team of drivers, providing training, guidance, and performance evaluations to maintain a high level of professionalism.
  • Addressed issues swiftly, resolving conflicts between drivers, customers, or other stakeholders effectively.
  • Improved working conditions for employees and fostered work environment that maximized employee morale and engagement.
  • Maintained and verified time, transportation, financial, inventory and personnel records.
  • Demonstrated tasks to new hires and assigned to experienced workers for further training.
  • Monitored safe operations by conducting field safety audits.
  • Developed and implemented safety protocols to enhance driver compliance and reduce incidents.
  • Trained and mentored staff on best practices in logistics management and customer service.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline communication between departments.
  • Managed routing, driver supervision and DOT compliance.

MV Transportation Dispatcher

WMATA – Contractor
01.2015 - 01.2015
  • Monitors radio, telephones and on-road service for quality.
  • Directs calls and communicates issues with the appropriate driver, supervisor, and/or manager.
  • Positively boosts employee morale and promotes quality customer service.
  • Ensure driver sign-in and sign out daily.
  • Assign trips to drivers using Citrix and Trapeze
  • Assures adequate disbursement of trips between all assigned routes.
  • Maintains efficient and effective system performance using.

Customer Service/Ramp Agent & Supervisor

AirTran Airways
01.2009 - 01.2015
  • Station supervisor responsible for maintaining a cheerful outlook that promotes teamwork within the cooperative and a favorable image of the cooperative.
  • Use cross-functional teams to generate and implement quality improvement ideas.
  • Evaluated team performance through corporate quality control measurements, such as observations, CSI feedback, CSA data and customer complaints and compliments.
  • Certified Instructor and Ground Security Coordinator, Lead Agent responsible for quality control to assure customer satisfaction.
  • Greeted and processed international & domestic passengers at the ticket counter, gate area, boarding flights, baggage service area.
  • Assisted in operational needs, accommodated passengers with disabilities and safely performed ramp service duties to include push back, towing, and repositioning aircraft, loading, transferring of baggage, mail, cargo, and catering.

Guest Services Representative

AEG Management LLC
01.2008 - 01.2009
  • Assisted all customers in ticket verifications and seating arrangements.
  • Usher/Concierge staff and customers during events.
  • Effectively communicated in dealing with employee issues to Director/Manager, Guest Services.
  • Continuously making suggestions to better the Prudential Center Experience, acting as an escalation point to guest issues/concerns.

Customer Service Specialist (CAT Dispatch Lead)

MDU Communications
01.2006 - 01.2007
  • Coordinated all customer appointments in distribution points.
  • Ensured accuracy of all schedules; proactively determining problems with each day's schedule and work to overcome obstacles.
  • Informed customer service and marketing personnel of capacity constraints/changes/issues daily.
  • Collaborated with customer service to ensure accurate information flow between the field offices and the call center.
  • Followed appointment completion checklist for all completion calls to ensure accuracy of information.
  • Reviewed guidelines for scheduling with customer service staff to ensure accuracy and adherence.
  • Reported daily appointment activity in all distribution points.
  • Logged onto the CATT queue to maintain high I/B call availability.

Front-End Supervisor

Costco Wholesale
01.2002 - 01.2006
  • Assisted in an array of member complaints and concerns skillfully resolving the concerns with professionalism and diplomacy.
  • Conducted departmental products and cooking demonstrations.
  • Departmental support provided to ensure Food and Safety guidelines followed mandatory regulations.
  • Welcome screening and greetings from all Costco members.
  • Provided storewide internal inventory audit support. Aided in the opening and closing of the store.
  • Functioned as a liaison between members and senior management team members.
  • Effectively communicated with diverse company employees and alliances to increase the optimum level of service to members

Shift Supervisor

Building Security Services
01.2001 - 01.2003
  • Aided in preparation and timely distribution of departmental reports and internal publications including shift and hourly tour logs.
  • Assisted support staff in the execution of daily office operations.
  • Maintained highly effective organizational and filing systems, resulting in easy access to critical information and streamlined office functioning.
  • Provided vital support to management, including correspondence preparation, building and inner company security, inspection of all packages and deliveries, events/coordination communications and company safety policy compliance.
  • Developed and complied with knowledge of all emergency procedures including bomb threats, elevator entrapments and fire evacuations.
  • Collaborated with management teams to analyze current and future building security policy and procedures and assisted in maintaining open and effective communications between security guards and management to help ensure a positive and safe working environment.

Education

No Degree - Business Management

Strayer University
Takoma Park, MD

Accounting & Bookkeeping -

Alison Empower
Washington DC
08-2023

Cosmetology I

Mercer County Vocational Technical School
Trenton, NJ

High School Diploma -

American History High School (Montgomery Street HS
Newark, NJ
06-2000

Skills

  • Multichannel Presentations, Multimedia Communications
  • Customer Service, Conflict Resolution, Needs Assessments
  • Scheduling & Time Management, Meeting Planning & Leadership
  • Typing 60 WPM
  • Valid driver’s license with a careful driving record
  • Proficient with Epicor -Prophet21, Rossum AI, Vormittag Associates Inc S2K
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office System (Including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Outlook)
  • Data entry
  • Accounts payable
  • Invoice processing
  • Vendor invoice processing
  • Bill payment
  • Statement review
  • Accounts payable software
  • Bank statement reconciliation
  • Handling confidential materials
  • Purchase orders
  • Expense reports
  • Word processing
  • Accounts receivable
  • Customer relations
  • Bill payment and recordkeeping
  • Microsoft office
  • Payment processing
  • Expense tracking
  • New hire training
  • Confidentiality handling
  • Bank reconciliation
  • General accounting
  • Professionalism and ethics

Timeline

Accounts Payable Clerk

Imperial Dade DBA. S. Freedman & Sons, Inc.
09.2015 - Current

Transportation Supervisor & Accounting

S. Freedman & Sons Inc
09.2015 - 05.2021

MV Transportation Dispatcher

WMATA – Contractor
01.2015 - 01.2015

Customer Service/Ramp Agent & Supervisor

AirTran Airways
01.2009 - 01.2015

Guest Services Representative

AEG Management LLC
01.2008 - 01.2009

Customer Service Specialist (CAT Dispatch Lead)

MDU Communications
01.2006 - 01.2007

Front-End Supervisor

Costco Wholesale
01.2002 - 01.2006

Shift Supervisor

Building Security Services
01.2001 - 01.2003

No Degree - Business Management

Strayer University

Accounting & Bookkeeping -

Alison Empower

Cosmetology I

Mercer County Vocational Technical School

High School Diploma -

American History High School (Montgomery Street HS

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