Overview
Work History
Education
Highlights of Qualifications
Affiliations
Interests
Timeline
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Jamie Bergwall

Airdrie,AB

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Support Operations Lead, Managed Services

Benevity, Inc.
Calgary, Alberta
06.2024 - Current

Leadership and Development: Provided ongoing coaching and mentorship for junior staff members, including comprehensive training for new team hires. Introduced and spearheaded a quality care metric program to elevate performance standards, facilitated ongoing learning sessions to foster continuous skill development, and team excellence.

Project Focused: Developed detailed project plans and schedules based on client requests. Proactively managed resources, identified potential risks, and mitigated strategies, ensuring the successful completion of client campaigns, even under challenging constraints.

RFOB Oriented: Cultivated strong client relationships through proactive communication and consistent, timely responses to inquiries, and by having a tailored approach to each user's and clients' needs. Adept at recognizing and adapting to diverse client personalities to foster stronger relationships and achieve desired outcomes.

Cross-Company Knowledge: Partnered with internal teams to craft innovative client relationship strategies, leveraging past experiences and knowledge transfer to optimize outcomes and foster stronger connections.

Financial Operations Analyst

Benevity, Inc.
Calgary, AB
08.2020 - Current

Project implementation: Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including financial systems, reconciliation, and consultants, to gather requirements, assess business needs, and tailor Oracle Financials modules to meet organizational objectives. Played a key role in driving process improvements and optimizing financial workflows, resulting in increased efficiency and accuracy as Oracle was onboarded.

Process development: Spearheaded the design, implementation, and execution of a streamlined collections workflow to effectively manage outstanding receivables across multiple currencies, overseeing collections on significant monetary volumes. This strategy was tailored to the organization's diverse client base and global footprint, and has since had a legacy effect on delinquent accounts.

Remittance comprehension: Demonstrated expertise in international payments and banking information management, acquired through portal management (Coupa, Ariba, Taulia, Experian, Microsoft), troubleshooting directly with clients, as well as aiding in bank migrations across foundations.

Internal Diplomacy: Championed a culture of collaboration and mutual respect by fostering strong relationships with cross-functional teams(Client technical support, Client success), promoting open communication, and facilitating productive dialogue to achieve shared objectives.

Accounts Receivable Clerk

DataDrill Communications Inc.
Calgary, AB
08.2018 - 03.2020

Monthly Invoicing/Accounts Receivable: Generated and coded monthly invoices for clients in a strict timely manor. Adhered to specific and unique submission processes for each client. Meeting any required deadlines.

Processed payments: Prepared bank deposits, applied electronic fund transfers, and reconciled outstanding customer accounts.

Data reports: Generated monthly outstanding invoice report to review payment history, and ensure accurate follow up to resolve collections. Analyzed inventory reports for precise billing. Initiated and completed inventory reports in order to cross reference possible discrepancies to be efficiently resolved.

Member of Process Committee: Collaborated with other members in creation of clear and concise process documents on behalf of the accounting department. Achieving new hire friendly instructions on crucial responsibilities.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University Of Calgary
Calgary, AB
2018

Highlights of Qualifications

Organizational skills: Streamlined and created processes, while managing priorities to ensure timely task completion. Exceptional time management skills by orchestrating strategies to accommodate changing client volumes, and optimizing workflows to enable individual contributors to meet operational targets.

Strategic judgement: Ability to analyze recurring sequences and patterns to generate resourceful options in problem solving. Expanded through working in financial operations during Oracle implementation, as well as Managed Services when faced with best practise assessment. 

Multiplatform exposure: Experience with accounting program Sage 300, IntAcct, Oracle, and Spark for role specific work. Leveraged different systems and tools such as Asana for client project tracking and collaboration. Harnessed Lucidchart for visual problem-solving and ideation, translating complex data into actionable diagrams
Courteous demeanor: Consistently delivered exceptional service in a client-facing situations, characterized by a courteous and respectful approach that built trust and rapport. Served as the primary escalation point for complex user issues, effectively resolving critical concerns and ensuring timely solutions. Known for jumping into challenges head-first with the team, encouraging cross-team collaboration, always ready to resolve issues with a smile and pump up the positive energy

Affiliations

Volunteer at Airdrie Care Community, Airdrie, Alberta (2023)

LeFunOps Planning Committee, Benevity, Inc (2022)

Member of Oxygen Yoga and Fitness, Airdrie, Alberta (2019)

Member of Society of Undergraduates in Economics (SUE), University of Calgary, Alberta, (2016)

Member of U of C Ski & Board Club, University of Calgary, Alberta, (2013)

Interests

Yoga: Maintain stress levels and mental health, contributes to a balanced lifestyle

Car enthusiast: Special interest in class muscle cars, and historical events in the automotive industry. I have travelled to mustang week in South Carolina with my local car community, and have assisted in my own body work.

Travelling: Visited Canada's East and West coasts, London (UK), Ireland, Hawaii, Cuba, and road trips across the southern states. Aspire to visit Greece and Italy, and continue exposure to different cultures.

Photography: Enhances creativity, attention to detail, and patience. Experience with photoshop.

Timeline

Support Operations Lead, Managed Services

Benevity, Inc.
06.2024 - Current

Financial Operations Analyst

Benevity, Inc.
08.2020 - Current

Accounts Receivable Clerk

DataDrill Communications Inc.
08.2018 - 03.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University Of Calgary
Jamie Bergwall