LARISSA LESSING
Nipawin
Summary
Finance professional equipped to deliver accurate financial records and support business operations. Known for collaborating effectively with teams and consistently meeting deadlines. Adept at utilizing accounting software and Excel, with keen eye for detail and commitment to accuracy.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Accounting Clerk
North Fringe Industrial Technologies Inc.
03.2023 - 03.2025
- Maintained organized filing systems for accounting records, ensuring easy access to crucial financial information when needed.
- Maintained accounting records utilizing in-house and client systems.
- Input high volume of monthly invoices with consistent accuracy.
- Facilitated timely month-end closing activities by completing accurate journal entries and account adjustments.
Hardware Clerk
10.2020 - 05.2023
- Assist guests on the sales floor with product selection in the hardware and sporting goods sections
- Order, receive and stock merchandise as assigned
- Follow all procedures with relation to sales of firearms and complete all documentation with precision
- Knowledgeable working understanding of the POS system
- Engage and interact with guests to create a positive shopping experience -Perform other duties as assigned.
Sporting Goods Specialist
Lake Country Co-operative Association Limited
05.2022 - 03.2023
- Building and maintaining our new sporting goods website
- Process all online orders
- Assist with customers in store, over the phone and online
- Order and receive product.
Project Control Specialist
Quantum Murray Environmental
11.2016 - 08.2020
- Project Management Responsibilities Set-Up, Monitoring and Support: - Assisting project managers with job set up, tracking, analysis, reporting and closing requirements -Managing multiple projects, priorities and financial obligations -Understand client billing requirements -Assisting with monthly accruals / forecasting and profit analysis -Managing project hold-backs as per client contract, if required -Assisting with the development of operating procedures, forms and systems -Implementation of policies and procedures
- Accounting Related Responsibilities: -Issuing purchase orders for assigned jobs -Coordinating resolution of three-way match discrepancies (vendor invoice – receipts – purchase order) for assigned jobs -Confirming all job costs are accounted for by reviewing reports, and backup -Providing analysis and back-up for job costs and revenues -Processing, posting and delivering accounts receivable invoices -Assisting with collections of Accounts Receivable
Interior Design Consultant
Icon Flooring
06.2016 - 08.2016
- Meet with clients for flooring, cabinet, paint and countertop selections
- Determine scope of project and client’s vison
- Presented clients with product knowledge and provide samples of specific product -Presented clients with different plans and designs
- Coordinate with sales people
- Maintained a solid relationship with clients through duration of the project
- Met with clients at their residence for consultations and site measures
- Estimate jobs based on blueprints/scaled drawings
- Performed quantity take-offs and assisted on estimates for large projects ranging up to $100k -Close liaison between home builder and their clients
- Provide new products and samples to home builder’s interior designers and design centers.
Design Consultant/Project Estimator
AB Tile & Stone
09.2012 - 05.2016
- Key holder
- Established new contractor and customer base business by contacting and meeting with referrals, develop new business and maintained current relationships
- Consult with customers and contractors regarding their needs, budgets and allowances
- Presented ideas for paint selection, flooring selection and designed layout for custom tile installation
- Performed in home measure for tile and hardwood for bid and exact quantity product ordering
- Bid job from floor plan take off and in home measurements
- Met with customers and contractors to review costs and final decision on flooring bid
- Sign store contract, collected payments and scheduled installation
- Ordered all materials for installations from appropriate vendors and suppliers
- Verified all materials upon arrival to store
- Made any and all adjustments so that materials were ready for installers
- Coordinated installation crew for selected jobs, preformed on-site job inspections
- Contact and updated customers with progress of job
- Invoiced customer/contractor when job is complete and completed all pay invoices for installation crew
- Met with vendors and suppliers regarding new products and installation procedures
- Involvement in working with product suppliers such as Ames Tile & Stone, C&S Ceramics, Dal-Tile, Julian Tile, Tierra Sol Ceramic Tile, etc
- Main focus on custom single family homes in Edmonton and surrounding areas
- Small commercial project experience
- Mainly design and supply material only.
Insurance Broker
Galon Insurance & Mortgage Brokers
03.2009 - 09.2010
- Processing revisions and endorsements for Saskatchewan Government Insurance -Fast paced customer service in person, over the phone, and using email -Issuing drivers licenses and vehicle registrations for commercial and private assets -Billing and invoicing customer accounts -Filing and T-filing customer’s policy documentation and company invoices -Imaging customer’s policy documentation -Opening and closing duties for two different facilities -Receiving incoming mail, sorting, and distributing accordingly - Balancing daily report, including handling cash, cheque, credit/debit receipts - Solving any discrepancies on a daily basis - Performing the daily bank drop - Training new hired employees
Education
Bachelor's - Interior Design
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Burnaby, BC06.2012
Skills
- Proficient of Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with SAGE Simply Accounting Software
- Ability to work with several operating systems, including Windows & Mac OSX
- Construction industry exposure/experience
- Excellent analytical abilities
- Familiarity with a variety of field concepts, practices and procedures
- Excellent time management skill
- Ability to manage deadlines
- Strive for efficiency without sacrificing quality
- Effective interpersonal relations
- Self-starter and self-motivated
- Independent and a team player
Certification
Diploma in Interior Design Technology
British Columbia Institute of Technology | 2012
Timeline
Accounting Clerk
North Fringe Industrial Technologies Inc.
03.2023 - 03.2025
Sporting Goods Specialist
Lake Country Co-operative Association Limited
05.2022 - 03.2023
Hardware Clerk
10.2020 - 05.2023
Project Control Specialist
Quantum Murray Environmental
11.2016 - 08.2020
Interior Design Consultant
Icon Flooring
06.2016 - 08.2016
Design Consultant/Project Estimator
AB Tile & Stone
09.2012 - 05.2016
Insurance Broker
Galon Insurance & Mortgage Brokers
03.2009 - 09.2010
Bachelor's - Interior Design
British Columbia Institute of Technology
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