LIBERTY BUCCELLO

Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328 · liberty.buccello@gmail.com
Summary of Qualifications:

• Detail-oriented, efficient, and organized professional with extensive experience in accounting systems providing thorough and skillful administrative support to senior executives.

• Highly trustworthy, discreet, and ethical.

• Dedicated, focused and resourceful; able to prioritize, multi-task and follow through to achieve project goals.


EXPERIENCE

Tax Sale Associate

Pike County Tax Claim Bureau

• Process credit card payments into GSS program and print patient invoices. • Update assessment record changes. • Look up deeds and assessments. Review Death notices in Newspapers and see if they owe delinquent taxes. Contact Executors and Attorneys and provide them with statement of delinquent taxes. • Mail patient invoices, investigate and locate homeowners who are delinquent in taxes. • Assist sheriffs Dept with Sheriff Sales and work with Attorneys, Abstract Title Companies. • Answer questions about Sales, property, and school taxes, calculate month end interest. • Assist in Repository Sales, Judicial Sales and Upset Sales. Calculate interest and ensure that figures are accurate for Circulation. Attend Annual Upset Sales and record all Sales numbers and keep track of payments received. Gather all documents for all Sales and ensure that it is scanned and filed for future inquiries.

Personal Assistant

Quality Sheds, Black Bear Wine & Spirits, Randy Zuck Rentals & Personal

• Process shed invoices into Quick Books, record deposits, write checks for vendors for 4 businesses. Run end of month General Ledger reports, prepare packages for accountant. • Process weekly payroll for 4 employees and run time report for Owner. • Coordinate shed deliveries to our customers and answer their questions, recommend contractors for preparing their site preparation. Communicate with our shed builder and prepare for shed delivery. • Update rate sheets, run errands, research, and coordinate, process profit analysis sheet after every delivery, record all check payments, ensure all bills get paid before the due dates.

Office Manager

Chiropractic Health Center, Warwick, NY

• Meet and greet patients and run insurance reports to verify copays to be collected, process credit card payments and run end of day settlement report. • Run Aging reports, check claim statuses with insurance carriers, apply patient copays once payment is received. Enter Worker’s comp and personal liability payments. • Pay Quarterly sales tax, order supplies, code daily encounters and generate all office visits to be sent to clearinghouse, check rejected claims, and correct them. • Verify insurance eligibility, including copays, deductible and out of pocket expenses.

Front Desk Receptionist

NY Eye Institute, Middletown, NY

• Meet and greet patients and verify demographics, run insurance eligibility, scan cards, process copayment. • Verify insurance eligibility for upcoming appointments, answer phones, run reports. • Get hospital and insurance authorizations and pre-certify all upcoming surgeries. • Process and enter all insurance payments, make adjustments, print customer statements, and answer all billing questions for patients. • Follow up with pending surgery authorizations, send clinicals if required and enter all authorizations on AdvancedMD software.

Patient Service Specialist

Ezras Choilim Health Center, Monroe, NY

• Meet and greet patients presenting at medical center. Update patient demographics Including address, insurance, scanning insurance card, collecting copayments. • Verify insurance coverage and verify eligibility • Process prior authorizations for medications denied by insurance companies and Submit out of county forms to Medicaid for outside referrals to specialists. • Get authorizations for podiatry office visits, by submitting ICD-10 codes. • Assist in Contact Lens Fitting exams by teaching insertion and removing lenses, proper care instructions. • Print and fax Optometry prescriptions for glasses and lenses to patients and Optical Stores. • Ensure all HIPAA and Registration forms are current. • Process all Medical Records requests for Optometry Department. • Confirm next day appointments, make appointments, place on wait list, answer all Telephone calls and transfer calls to proper departments.

Patient Registration Clerk

St. Anthony’s Community Hospital, Warwick, NY

• Register patients presenting at the hospital for inpatient and outpatient services. • Conducts patient guarantor interviews, explains hospital policies, patient financial responsibilities and patient's bill of rights. • Facilitates the patient admission flow, including activities such as: patient identification, verification of accurate demographic and insurance information, and collection of required signatures and documents. • Responsible for the verification and authorization of insurance benefits on all inpatient and outpatient accounts through electronic verification system in order to obtain accurate and prompt reimbursement. • Collects co-payments, and other patient liabilities. Enters the financial and admissions data into the hospital information computer systems.

Income Tax Specialist Preparer

H & R Block, Warwick and Monroe, NY

• Responsible for preparing income tax returns for self-employed businesses and individuals. • Answer client queries regarding tax codes and appropriate deductions. • Advice clients about investment strategies to minimize their taxes as per tax laws. • Perform e-filing tasks as per schedule. • Addressed complex tax issues and tax deduction problems of clients. • Assist clients about legal issues, tax amendments and payment plans.

Administrative Assistant to Director of Camps/Registrar/Bookkeeper

Union for Reform Judaism, Warwick, NY

• Coordinated and set-up high-level conference calls, board and management meetings, special events and travel arrangements. • Processed expense reports reflecting supporting documents and budget code indexes. • Upload all travel applications from our administrative website and import to our internal database by ensuring accuracy. • Generate reports for Director, Program Coordinator, Congregations and Camps on a daily basis with total number of registrations broken down by Camp, Region, State, and type of travel program. • Daily communication with applicant’s parents, Rabbi’s, and staff in our Israel and NYC office. • Enter cash receipts for all payments received and credit individual accounts. Process credit card payments via our website. • Process payments for our vendors and answer all phone, email correspondence pertaining to A/R, A/P, and travel programs.

Executive Assistant to President and CFO/Accounting Manager

Courtenay Communications & Government Security News, New York, NY (Rehired)

• Created highly effective organizational and filing systems, including quick and thorough indexing, filing and offsite storage, resulting in easy access to critical information and streamlined office functioning. • Updated and maintained President’s and CFO’s calendar, completely re-organized the Executive library, and assisted managers with special projects as needed, including building renovations and office move. • Acted as liaison and maintained open lines of communication among senior executives, board members, shareholders, middle management and administrative staff. • Proofed and edited press releases and other documents to ensure accuracy and consistency. Coordinated preparation and timely dissemination of company reports and slide presentations for board meetings. • Manage the Accounting Department for two companies which include A/ P, and A/R. Generate management reports for President and CFO which include weekly sales Revenue, monthly advertising billing sales, newsletter positioning, and commissions for all Sales staff. • Set up all Publications, issue codes, rate cards and contracts. Process all credit card payments. Process all short-rates and rebates. • Assist in the month end close by ensuring all billings, cash receipts and credit cards have been processed and posted. Reconcile monthly billings to General Ledger and resolve any variances.


Education

New York Institute of Technology-NY Campus

Bachelor in Accounting
Accounting

Skills

COMPUTER SKILLS

GSS, Silkone, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, AdvancedMD, AthenaNet, Allscripts PM, Clinical Module, Medflow, Affinity, Revenue360, Order Facilitator, Bridge Medication, Person on Call, Yost, TPS financial software, EZ Camp, SB Client, Real World, Great Plains, Donovan Data System, Heavyweight, Peachtree.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in Greek, Intermediate in Spanish, Read and write Spanish, IRS Licensed Income Tax Specialist, NYS Licensed Real Estate Salesperson.