Ms.

MERILEE S. GEIS

**** ***** ****

Toledo, OH *****

CAREER SUMMARY

Utilizing my business experience and financial skills collectively to their utmost potential. Working in an environment conducive to teamwork is a key factor for growth.

CAREER HISTORY

HICKORY FARMS, Maumee, OH 2006-2008

Specialty food retailer and distributor, marketing products through catalogs, grocery stores, mass merchants, mall kiosks and on the web.

Senior Tax Coordinator

Responsible for overseeing Vertex/Quantum Sales & Use Tax system, returns and filings. Indirectly supervised Tax Coordinator and reviews returns. Assisted Assistant Controller with various tax compliance issues and financial accounting duties. Reconciled assigned accounts and made journal entries, as needed.

• Prepared accurate and timely sales and use tax returns for multiple states and local tax jurisdictions.

• Prepared all necessary annual corporate reports and government filings, maintaining a schedule to ensure timeliness.

• Assisted in researching tax laws to ensure compliance, responded to inquiries made by jurisdictions or management

• Prepared check requests or tax payments, ensured account distribution.

• Maintained and controled the tax calendar, tax forms file and department files

• Performed special projects or ad-hoc requests as assigned.

GLOW INDUSTRIES, Maumee, OH 2005-2006

Wholesale distributor of novelty items.

Accounts Payable

• Processed and coded all incoming invoices for payment.

• Generated payments to be sent to suppliers.

• Maintained Accounts Payable files.

• Responsible for OH sales tax reporting.

• Coordinated payables records for 2 external audits and 1 internal audit, subsequent findings of internal audit uncovered fraud within the sister company.

• Performed monthly reconciliations of checks and bank statements.

• Answered multi-line phone overflow as needed.

• Ad-hoc projects as assigned.

POMEROY IT SOLUTIONS, Sylvania, OH 2004-2005

Technology Consultants & Business Solutions

Branch Administrator

• Primary service representative for Dana Corporation.

• Researched, quoted, sourced and aided in fulfillment of I.T. purchase requisitions; covering twenty locations and six divisions of the Dana Corporation using Dana's proprietary software program.

• Prepared weekly progress sales reports for management.

• Supported Enterprise and SMB sales team.

GLASSTECH, INCORPORATED, Perrysburg, OH 2003-2004

Leading manufacturer of glass tempering technology.

Receptionist

• PBX Switchboard operator

• Ad-hoc projects

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

El Captain High School, Lakeside, CA

Davis College, Toledo, OH

Currently attending with a major in Business Management

Seminar:

How To Deliver Excellent Customer Service by Dale Carnegie, Toledo, OH 1999

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software

Vertex L-Series Tax Management, Vertex RateLocator

MAS 200, MAS 90 (windows & AS400 based)

Solomon IV

Great Plains Dynamics

MS Excel, Word, MS Outlook

Windows Vista, XP, 2000

Novell GroupWise

Goldmine 4.0

Hardware

PC proficiency, MAC basics

Use of Laser, ink jet & dot matrix printers

Facsimile

Multi-line telephone, analog, PBX, digital, VoiP

10 key by touch

Type 45 wpm

References available upon request

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