Bilingual Sales Pro. (media, print, advertising, account exec.)
Posted on Oodle - 3 weeks ago
- Location:
- Edmonton, AB
Features & Description
SHERLEY J.CAREER OBJECTIVE
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I am an organized and detail-focused bilingual professional with a talent in sales and accurately handle financial or sales reporting in a deadline-oriented and fast-paced environment. I contain over 4 years of sales and service experience including 4 years of administrative skills. I am seeking a Sales / Account Executive position based on my knowledge and skills with a prominent or growing organization.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Client Relations / Account Payable & Receivable – St. Catharines, Ontario 2006 – 2007
CREDITORS INTERCHANGE RECEIVABLE MANAGEMENT
• Research, resolve and reconciled billing and collection accounts in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled in all aspects of recording transactions, posting debits and credits, reconciling accounts, and ensuring accuracy and completeness of data.
• Expertise in developing reports to senior executives, management or clients.
• Supported a significant increase in productivity levels by streamlining accounting processes.
• Prepared and delivered to management, under extremely quick turnaround timelines, accurate weekly and monthly financial statements.
• Formulating lasting relationships with our clients by applying appropriate guidance and counseling.
• Established and setup of a Canadian subsidiary location for the company also created training manuals and trained future support staff.
• Continually taking on levels of responsibility in different departments.
• Strong interpersonal, customer relation skills when dealing with walk in clients, executives and CEO in many forms of communications (able to adapt verbally or written).
• Self starter and able to work independently. With minimal supervision Persistent and able to multi-task.
Key Contributions:
• Contributed substantially to reducing outstanding accounts receivables through improved collections processes and retained million dollar accounts.
• Improved processes for creating customer invoices, which reduced overall timeframe for receiving payments business to clientele.
• Demonstrated talent for quickly learning new tasks and completing assignments ahead of schedule while maintaining a high degree of accuracy.
Inside Sales Representative – St. Catharines, Ontario 2005 – 2006
NIAGARA THIS WEEK
•• Build strong relationships with new and existing clients by ensuring that their advertising needs are met for a local Niagara Region newspaper.
• Actively prospecting new business by telephone, experienced with cold calling.
• Developed brand positioning for key company product or service lines.
• Goal-oriented and meeting regular weekly budgets and special section targets within a deadline focused environment.
• Assisted my clients based on their needs to conceive, write, correct and improve advertisements.
• Maintained extensive, nationwide network of business contacts.
Communication Director & Media Relations / Event Coordinator – Toronto, Ontario 2002 – 2005
METROACTIVE LIFESTYLE NETWORK
• Promoted, sold and hosted a weekly Holistic Spa evening event to local holistic practitioners to provide current and outside of the box advertising opportunities.
• Sold display booth to practitioners for Toronto based Health and Wellness Trade shows at affordable cost.
• Ensure our 400 on-site practitioners information files are maintained and offered complete referrals to the public most importantly to over 6000 MetroActive members.
• Delegate responsibilities to volunteers when running a business to professionals networking, venture capital and health and wellness events. Prepared venues and ensure all arrangements are finalized.
• Promote MetroActive events online, newsprint or outside advertising and help gain more exposure, awareness and new memberships.
Bilingual Loss Prevention Officer – Toronto, Ontario 1997 – 2000
CIBC VISA
• Investigated unfamiliar credit card behaviours and implement course of action.
• Authorized POS consumer transactions.
• Liaised with merchants on charged accounts.
• Assisted floor managers to handled escalated calls and diffuse difficult situations.
• Peer training new bilingual reps on a one on one basis.
• Completed two customer care courses A.E.C.R (Achieving Extraordinary Costumers Relations).
SKILLS
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Office Productivity Software - Experience Level
Microsoft Access - Intermediate
Microsoft Excel - Intermediate
Microsoft Word - Advanced
Microsoft PowerPoint - Intermediate
Microsoft Publisher - Novice
Software
AS400 - Intermediate
Cubs / Asset - Expert
Internet (research & marketing) - Expert
Language (written & spoken)
English - Expert / Intermediate
French - Expert / Intermediate
EDUCATION & TRAINING
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Call Center Certification, 1998
CIBC VISA – Toronto, Ontario
Radio Broadcasting, 1997
HUMBER COLLEGE – Toronto, Ontario
Voice over / Radio & TV Broadcasting, 1995
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BRADCASTING – Toronto, Ontario
REFERENCES
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Available after an interview opportunity
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