Experience

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  Scholastic library publishing

  Jan 1988 - Jan 2005

  Senior product development specialist

  As Product Development Specialist for online reference products, kept weekly and monthly schedules to post various reference products’ news features to live servers for our customers. Provided engineering and editorial support in testing reference products on all supported browser platforms and operating systems. Completed large Encyclopedia American Studies reference update. Researched and added hundreds of additional Web links. Prior to product development, was Multimedia Specialist on Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia on CD-Rom after moving from Editorial department where I was Production Editor for Encyclopedia Americana print encyclopedia. Show less

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  Lanxess

  Jan 2006 - Nov 2009

  Administrative assistant

  Performed general administrative duties including answering phones, filing, faxing, typing, customer service, data entry, travel arranging and conference planning. Involved in information management on the Internet by managing Urethane’s Infonet site. Assisted Chemtura Web Master in developing and maintaining Urethanes business Web site. Worked as member of Urethanes Knowledge Access team to develop and implement an electronic process to manage and store Chemtura Urethanes technical information. Worked with legal department to track contracts and load them into legal contracts database. Super user on new Price and Margin Management database used to assist sales and product group. Assistant price submitter to sales force. Show less

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  Lanxess

  Sept 2013 - now

  As Global Billing Specialist, I am responsible for processing all billing types including invoices, credits, debits and returns following all billing instructions for all regions. I provide information to customer service and sales departments as requested and I respond to billing questions from local and international customers. I perform daily financial transactions which includes classifying, computing, posting, verifying, and recording accounts receivable data. I make sure all accounts are invoiced and closed for months-end and run reports detailing accounts receivable status. Skills and knowledge include customer service orientation, attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy, use of Excel and SAP, knowledge of VAT Regulations, Sales Taxes and Shipping and Handling fees, and use of customer portals.As Pricing Specialist, maintain customer specific pricing within an external pricing system. In this position I also manage lists, customer specific prices, up charges, and discounts within the order management system. Further responsibilities include required detailed reporting to the Customer Care Managers and Business Managers as requested. Additionally, I perform duties that are compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. Proficient in SAP, Salesforce.com, Vendavo, BW, and Microsoft Excel. Show less As Material Master Data Coordinator, I was responsible for processing the SAP Material Master Creation Requests and monitoring the progress toward the timely completion of the SAP Material Master creation and release. Includes knowledge of SAP ZMXN and LSMW load programs and work in SAP development platform to configure master data elements such as Commodity Codes, Product Hierarchies, and Material Groups. Worked closely with data owners such as MRP, Quality, REACH, RASAP and Accounting to ensure legal and compliance standards are followed before each material is released for commercial sale. Show less

  • Global Billing and Pricing Specialist

    Jul 2017 - now

  • Material Master Data Specialist

    Sept 2013 - Jun 2017