1689 East 21st Street, Apt. #3C, Brooklyn, New York 11210 Cell: (347) 324-1597 / Email: kerenoknin17@gmail.com Objective: Office professional seeks position which draws upon my organizational, communication and analytical skills. Employment History: Private Child Care, Brooklyn, New York 1/2010 – present Provided care to children age Newborn to 4 years old, managed mealtimes and assisted toddlers with self-feeding; prepared bottles for infants, sterilizing all equipment as needed and maintain safe food temperatures Interacted with children in verbal and non-verbal activities to improve expression, vocabulary; read stories, facilitated arts and crafts projects, etc. Read to children, chaperoned on outdoor activities, provided for ADL’s and supervised play Josh and Co., Brooklyn, New York 3/2011-1/2012 Office Manager/Bookkeeper Accounts Payable/Receivables – created invoices, receipts for services; facilitated vendor meetings, processed payments against invoices; interacted with accountant and any other persons as needed by owner Managed and responded to all telephone and written correspondence for this event and retail florist Attended client meetings and reviewed contract and payment requirements/schedule for all special events Redefined staff roles, oversaw employee benefit negotiations, administered health insurance benefits; worker’s compensation insurance; maintained commercial liability insurance Handled bank reconciliations; processed payroll; instituted collections on overdue/delinquent accounts Hollywood Car Wash, Brooklyn, New York 8 – 12/2009 Bookkeeper Received cash, checks and completed credit-card transactions from customers and employees Balanced accounts, compiled collection, disbursement and bank-reconciliation reports. Processed employee payroll, posted wages; reconciled errors to maintain payroll records Answered telephones, handled all incoming payments as a cashier; audited and closed out registers, recorded sales Bezeq, Tel-Aviv, Israel 10/2001- 5/2008 Collections Agent Prepared documents to substantiate findings and recommended rejection or approval of applications Assigned responsibility for investigation of fraud cases and possible legal action; followed through on collections for delinquent accounts Reviewed collection reports to monitor status and to evaluate the effectiveness of current collection policies Ensured maximum efforts had been taken before assigning bad-debt status to account; documented all efforts Education: University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel December 2001 Bachelor of Arts – History Ra’Amal Vocational High School -Secretarial School 1996 Military Service: Israel Defense Forces – Intelligence- Encryption Unit 1996-1997 -Decoded internal highly sensitive transmissions from battlefield commanders/units for superiors -Resolved garbled and indecipherable messages, using cryptographic procedures and equipment, requesting retransmission of message, operated teletype and teleprinter equipment to transmit messages Computer Skills: MS Word, Excel; QuickBooks/ Languages: Hebrew
