Summary
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Education
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Work History
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Kirstie O'Hara

Kirstie O'Hara

Middle River,Maryland

Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. I just need the chance to prove myself to you.

Certification

  • IBCLC
  • Basic Life Support, expiration 2024

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Education

Master of Arts - Human Lactation

UNION INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY
12.2021

Bachelor of Science - Economics

TOWSON UNIVERSITY
12.2013

Skills

  • Ability to observe and use knowledge, and skills to assess mothers and children and help develop individualized breastfeeding management strategies
  • Pregnancy and lactation nutrition
  • Excellent oral and written communication skill
  • Learner, always looking to take more classes and earn more certifications

Work History

Financial Specialist

MBO PARTNERS
04.2021 - Current
  • Prepare detailed account aging reports to inform stakeholders of status of outstanding A/R
  • Manage discrepancy resolution with Operations and Account Management
  • Perform analysis of the Accounts Receivable Aging to identify trends
  • Proactively address account issues with a sense of urgency
  • Collaborate with internal and external business partners to ensure timely resolution of account issues
  • Train new staff on processes and procedures, and act as a back-up for team members while managing workload
  • Furnished requested financial data and reports to auditors, regulators and investors and prepared analysis to support risk management.

Lactation Consultant Intern

Life With Baby
Tallahassee, FL
08.2020 - 04.2022
  • Developed and implemented individual breastfeeding plans.
  • Demonstrated how to express milk and store it in bottles for later feeds.
  • Created collection of breastfeeding educational resources for patients and community.
  • Assessed needs of new mothers and advised mothers about child care topics.
  • Prepared presentations on health and safety concerns for public.
  • Continually improved knowledge, skills and performance based on feedback and self-identified professional developmental needs.
  • Developed programs for teaching new parents and family members.

Accounts Receivable Coordinator

ALL RISKS LTD
05.2018 - 03.2021
  • Manage the aged receivable report daily to identify past due balances that require resolution for the southeast region, roughly $40 Million debits billed at a time in the region
  • Decreased aged receivables from 1.10% of total AR billed in southeast region to 0.19% within one year
  • Proactively researched and reconciled Agent payment and account discrepancies
  • Requested policy cancellations and reinstatements when necessary
  • Responsible for weekly resolution of un-reconciled payments received from Agents
  • Coordinated with underwriters and District Managers to resolve billing and policy premium issues
  • Worked with my team to ensure deadlines and goals are met on a weekly/quarterly basis
  • Served as an escalation point for team members for difficult situations that may arise.

Accounting Coordinator

FIDELITY ENGINEERING
02.2015 - 05.2018
  • Managed the aged receivable report daily for all items over 30 days
  • Roughly 150-200 clients on the aged AR report at one time
  • Assisted with processing incoming checks and submitted daily deposits via bank deposit platform
  • Worked closely with Project Managers to understand customer agreements and billing requirements, and billable terms per specific contracts
  • Provided quality customer services to internal and external customers via phone calls, faxes and emails
  • Opened and assigned new vendors and customer accounts.

Allocation Manager

JOS. A. BANKS
02.2014 - 02.2015
  • Created store models for store rankings based on sell through rate
  • Determined store rankings per each class of shirt based on sales for each season
  • Created need specific store groups for PO distribution
  • Ran weekly downloads to establish which of our high demand shirts needed more allocations
  • Maintained weekly company files, to keep all employees informed of sales and inventory levels

Assistant Department Manager

SAFEWAY
10.2011 - 02.2014
  • Conducted inventory, monthly & bi-yearly
  • Placed product orders 4-5 times per week
  • Provided superior customer service
  • Managed 3+ employees

Affiliations

  • Maryland Breastfeeding Coalition


Timeline

Financial Specialist

MBO PARTNERS
04.2021 - Current

Lactation Consultant Intern

Life With Baby
08.2020 - 04.2022

Accounts Receivable Coordinator

ALL RISKS LTD
05.2018 - 03.2021

Accounting Coordinator

FIDELITY ENGINEERING
02.2015 - 05.2018

Allocation Manager

JOS. A. BANKS
02.2014 - 02.2015

Assistant Department Manager

SAFEWAY
10.2011 - 02.2014

Master of Arts - Human Lactation

UNION INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science - Economics

TOWSON UNIVERSITY

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