Marinel Bageac

Marinel Bageac- - My professional goal is to be an active employee who contributes to the Mission, Vision, and Values of the company, and to interact, on a professional level with other employees. To give excellent performance, and to translate my experience, knowledge, skills and abilities into value for the organisation and to take the best working environment and people respect, as well with developing a healthy learning curve. Areas of expertise: statistics, sociology, order management, suppliers management, Finance (AP, AR, GA), people & project management Assets: flexible, emphatic, proactive, people oriented, focused on finding solutions, rather that issues; Experience AR & Collection Analyst 8x8 Research and Innovations May 2017 – present (6 months) - Cluj County, Romania Collect the past due balance; resolve customer’s billing issues escalate problem accounts provide analysis Balance Sheet Account Reconciliation AP/AR/GA Analyst Recall July 2016 – May 2017 (8 months) - Cluj County, Romania Invoice/documents processing in PeopleSoft; • interaction with Vendors / Clients to facilitate the accounts payable process (including updating database with Vendor data) • aging/balance reports • Cash Collection & Cash Application and Reporting • monthly Cash Flow Forecasts • performing monthly variance analysis (actual vs. targets / latest estimates) and provide analysis on meeting business objectives • analyse and accurately report monthly business receivable information on a timely basis • tracking and management of reporting calendar and deliverables • follow procedures and update in a professional manner, identifying areas of improvement in the process • Intercompany and netting processing & Reconciliation together with the EU business units • cost centre reporting • secure that the data regarding the current businesses is recorded properly and in real time, as well as validity check • payments • identify/ book the monthly accruals and deferrals • compile the ME statistics • payroll estimations • depreciation Run and confirming the depreciation postings • posting of recurring journals • posting of Salary Journals • accrue for missing cost & prepayments (reversing journals) • accruals and prepayments supporting documentation • posting adjustment Journals from the business • monthly recharge invoices • Balance Sheet Account Reconciliation • Inventory and all corresponding processes • determine gaps/errors in the process through analysis • perform ad hoc reporting requirements / analysis when required • communicate with other Finance departments within the organisation Accounts Payable Specialist Emerson Network Power March 2016 – July 2016 (5 months) - Cluj County, Romania • review and verify invoices and check requests • sort, code and match invoices  • set invoices up for payment • enter and upload invoices into system • track expenses and process expense reports • prepare and process electronic transfers and payments • prepare and perform check runs • post transactions to journals, ledgers and other records • reconcile accounts payable transactions • prepare analysis of accounts • monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date • research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues • maintain vendor files • correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries • produce monthly reports • assist with month end closing • provide supporting documentation for audits Senior Billing Specialist Recall November 2014 – March 2016 (1 year 5 months) - Cluj County, Romania • manage the billing of cross-border customers in our Digital business, acting as the first point of contact for all invoice-related queries  • Provide support within the Finance Dep in SE • Issuing correct the invoices to the customer • Calibration with the customer in case of service adjustments (change requests, adding new projects, other services) • Defining and implementing new recurrent control procedures for the invoices  • Creation and maintenance of the SOP’s • Tackle and correct any errors in the billing process, and issuing of the CN • External billing - Collecting and consolidating data from across the business in order to support the following processes: o Working with all the countries to support and harmonise the billing process, ensuring that invoices align with customer expectations/volumes o Ensuring new assignments are correctly established within the system o Collecting and verifying data from other hubs o Setting up and issuing invoices to the cross-border customers, ensuring compliance with their SLAs o Analysing billing and credit note processes and implementing improvements o Supporting the reduction of DSO levels o Ensuring efficient use of the invoicing/accounting systems and web applications o Delivering process improvements through the establishment of KPIs and monthly tracking o Internal billing - with the scan site to support the following process: o validate the proforma invoices against the agreed charges o Approve the cross-charges and send the confirmation to P&L responsible (SE Operations Manager) o Reconciling with the global hubs the billing gaps IC Specialist (Information Centre) Recall February 2014 – November 2014 (10 months) - Cluj County, Romania • Documents flow management • Performing of the standard checks on the digitalized documents • Checking the supplier data and details in eFlow and matching them against the VMD provided • Working with the EFlow (OCR) • Improvement feedback provided to the developers Project manager Phantom Shopping November 2012 – January 2014 (1 year 3 months) • Initiate, plan, execute, monitor and manage mistery shopping projects taking place at a national level.  • Recruitment of the team of mystery clients (evaluators), coordination and motivation, planning and supervision during the implementation of the mystery shopping project. • Managing and updating the evaluator data base. • Periodic activity reports • Monthly payrolls for evaluators Teaching Assistant Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca March 2013 – July 2013 (5 months) • Taught seminars (in Romanian and English) on Descriptive statistics and Introduction to SPSS. • Conducted sociological research. Sales Assistant Odeon Cinemas March 2012 – November 2012 (9 months) - Cluj County, Romania • Selling tickets, call centre operations, managing payments, offering relevant information regarding movies (audience rating, description, release date), checking tickets before printing Independent Coursework • Intensive German language course • Online Marketing Academy by Google Romania Languages: • German: elementary proficiency • English: professional proficiency Projects: • Research team coordinator, Order of Architects Cluj-Napoca and The Faculty of Sociology, Babes-Bolyai University, October 2010 – July 2012: Programming interviews and focus groups, keeping in touch with interviewers, transcribing and coding interviews Volunteer Experience: Field Interviewer: TNS CSOP (Market Study Centre); November 2010 – July 2012 (1 year 9 months), Social Services "The creation and development of social economy instruments for including at risk groups in the workforce”, a project co-financed by the European Social Fund, as part of POSDRU 2007 – 2013 Interviewing people in order to fill out marketing and social research questionnaire Telephone Interviewer: Metro Media Transilvania; January 2009, Politics Interviewing people in order to fill out marketing and social research questionnaire Education Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca: Master’s Degree, Advanced Sociological Research (focus on quantitative research); 2010 – 2012 ▪ Quantitative research methods ▪ Research methodology ▪ Social Theories ▪ Political sociology ▪ Sociology of Religion Technische Universität Wien: International Conference DemoCHANGE Cities, Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Architecture, Sociology; 2011 – 2011 Activities and Societies: The Erasmus Intensive Programmes concerns the topic “demographic change” in cities. It promotes a multi-disciplinary educational approach aiming at investigating issues of ageing and migration and their effects on urban change in European cities. The Programme directly targets undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in urban planning, architecture and sociology. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca: Bachelor’s Degree, Sociology; 2007 – 2010 General Sociology ▪ Quantitative and Qualitative research methods ▪ Social Theories ▪ Demography ▪ Social Marketing ▪ Urban Sociology Certifications: Google AdWords Fundamentals, Google, Social Marketing Tools, July 2013 – July 2015 Honours & Awards Recall Europe Employee of the month; November 2015, Presidents Choice as Employee of the month within Recall Europe Nominated by Recall Romania GM & Awarded by Recall Europe President • bring the overdue for an important account from >1MM to the current open AR; • reconcile entire account open items, summarizing basically 20 different customers; • improve significantly the E2E process design, thus decreasing the credit notes from the customer; • increase customer’s satisfaction due to the creation and implementation of a flawless billing process. Interests: Reading on politics, religion, economy and online marketing;