Sondra Roberts

Experience

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  MedStar Washington Hospital Center

  Sept 1979 - Jun 2000

  VARIOUS POSITIONS

  Administering annual employee performance evaluations.Implementing policies and procedures relative to the administrative and billing functions.Maintaining and processing all Human Resource and payroll data.Registering, processing, and maintaining files for tuition reimbursement and seminar attendance.Approving leave request.Assessing staff training needs and submitting request.Keeping staff abreast of company policies and procedures.Organizing staff activities.Serving as a departmental liaison with external vendors and internal department contacts.Supervising Administrative and temporary staff.Performing and assisting with activities and mailings that are of a sensitive and confidential nature discreetly ensuring that information was properly safeguarded.Approving, verifying and overseeing departmental income and expenditures including payment vouchers, petty cash receipts, purchase orders, payroll, salary and other financial forms as needed. Show less

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  Hamilton, Altman, Canale & Dillon

  Aug 2000 - Jan 2007

  Legal Secretary

  Preparing legal pleadings and court filings and assisted with in-house filings.Managing time commitments for a 3 attorney team, to include 2 shareholders.Preparing memorandums, letters of response, filed case documents.Ensuring the timely distribution and receipt of court documents and phone messages.Providing information to callers via telephone, e-mail, or fax as it pertained to legal pleading, court filings and case documents.Arranging travel, lodging scheduling to include the record keeping of travel expenses.Professionally screened, analyzed, and distributed mail.Performing and assisting with activities and mailings that are of a sensitive and confidential nature discreetly ensuring that information was properly safeguarded. Show less

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  GSA

  Oct 2000 - Feb 2005

  PROGRAM ANALYST

  Performing routine and recurring budget administration duties.Cross-checking the accuracy of data submitted for obligations and paymentsReviewing, analyzing and summarizing various budgetary and fiscal data.Reviewing Daily Accounting History to verify accuracy coding as a result of contract awards.Reviewing, researching and responding to all overdue receiving reports request from GSA Finance.Performing management and/or program support work, such as planning, research analysis, correspondence control and communication.Tracking the monthly service, reoccurring, one time obligations and expenses Querying and retrieving data from financial informational systems to ensure accuracy in the organizations official financial record.Monitoring program funds to ensure obligations and expenditures are within available appropriations and occur in a timely manner.Gathering and analyzing financial data from current and previous fiscal years to compare the actual usage of resources against requested and approved budget allocations.Researching and reconciling conflicting or inconsistent financial data.Serving as a finance liaison between contract and budget staff as it relates to problems, changes, or further actions needed on financial matters.Compiling information for completion of forms, documents, and routine reports.Performing administrative work in the budgeting, procurement, and supply ordering areas Maintaining working relationships with vendors and government customers so that they have reliable information sources so that they feel free to ask for advice and assistance.Comparing figures in current estimates of funding needs by line item or object class with prior year expenditures and bring variations to the attention of the supervisor.Reviewing, identifying and resolving budgetary discrepancies. Entering budgetary data into a variety of forms, schedules, and reports for monthly reporting to various management officials. Show less

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  National Institutes of Health

  Feb 2007 - Feb 2013

  PROGRAM SUPPORT ASSISTANT

  Ensuring that staff personnel actions and packages folders are prepared, coordinated processed, and maintained in a timely manner according to established guidelines. Contacting potential candidates and obtaining needed information Monitoring and tracking staff renewal and anniversary dates to ensure the timely processing of personnel or award actions.Entering and tracking data in the Fellowship Payment and Capital HR systems.Monitoring and tracking renewal dates of awards and stipend increases. The timely processing of personnel actions.Maintaining familiarity of regulations involving policy and procedural guidelines are implemented, noting effect on program areas, reviews, assisting other administrative support, scientific and clinical staff with questions regarding various agency specific policy and/or procedures.Maintaining and ensuring conflict-free time commitments for the chief of the Frank laboratory.Preparing Peer Review folders. Ensuring that newly hired staff are scheduled for new employee physicals and agency orientation. Show less

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  The Federal Maritime Commission

  Feb 2013 - now

  FINANCIAL SPECIALIST

  Providing general accounting and financial support to manage funding levels of purchase orders, contracts, travel authorizations, travel vouchers, and other source documents while ensuring their obligation against appropriated fund documents.Providing a detailed analysis and accounting of purchase requests and receipts.Assisting with the coordination of agency’s budget formulation, presentation and execution documents.Conducting research using a wide variety of sources to locate information, facts and figures to be used by staff in the development of presentations and budget impact statements.Conducting a wide variety of statistical surveys and documents for use in other analytical formats. Preparing documentation in support of the annual budget report submissions.Providing supporting documentation of budget requests.Monitoring expenses and advising appropriate staff when adjustments are needed in a timely manner. Show less