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Kimberly is smart, organised, and detail-oriented. She has over 2 years of pre-professional work experience, mainly in clerical and administrative work, then over a year in the accounting and finance industry. She has a good command of the English language, in both written and spoken forms, and has basic knowledge of accounting software such as Quickbooks.

Back in uni, she was a working student or working scholar assigned to the school president’s office. Here, she sorted, filed, photocopied, faxed, encoded, and bound files and documents, answered phone calls and accommodated visitors, guests, staff, and students, maintained office supply inventories, prepared meetings, appointments, and special events for the president and his executive assistant, and performed other functions assigned by the immediate head.

She also interned at an accounting firm where she organised and filed financial statements, audit work papers, and supplementary documentation, placed and organised files in appropriate locations, recomputed and encoded cash, and charge sales invoices, made cash disbursement journals with trial balance, and encashed checks in the bank.

Her first formal work experience was as an accounting associate. She provided assistance in the preparation of financial statements, encoded cash and check vouchers for bookkeeping of accounts, computed and filed tax returns, prepared general information sheets for SEC compliance, conducted business process reviews, and made recommendations for business improvement.

Her experiences definitely honed her document-handling, multitasking, and organisational skills. Aside from advancing her clerical and analytical abilities, she also learned the importance of confidentiality and accountability at one’s work. She learned and became deadline and detail-oriented. She adapts well and learns fast, even under pressure. With her skill set and right mindset, she’d make an excellent administrative assistant.