TONYA ANDREA PATTERSON

• Responsible for evaluating and planning cultural programs and events for the county to meet community needs.
• Incumbents work with a high degree of independence to plan and organize programs and events, develop funding sources.
• Improved program efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing time-saving solutions.
• Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budgets.
• Enhanced project visibility with regular status updates, leading to increased stakeholder engagement.
• Developed strategic plans, setting clear objectives and achievable milestones for the team.
• Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring support for program initiatives.
• Mentored team members for professional development, resulting in increased productivity and job satisfaction.
• Implemented best practices in project management to optimize workflow efficiencies across the organization.
• Designed customized training programs to enhance staff knowledge and skills in key areas of responsibility
• Coordinate program workshop efforts to secure resources necessary for program sustainability and success.
• Assist Deputy Director resolve organization production, and budgeting issues impacting employee performance.
• Advanced community outreach efforts by forging strong relationships with local partners.
• Coordinated budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation to facilitate smooth flow of operations.

• Performed as project consultant to assist Chief Development Officer in areas of marketing, logistics, and administrative initiatives to shape the marketing & development strategies to work collaboratively as a team for higher social engagement & efficiency.
• Communicated with leadership teams by spearheading regular meetings to discuss objectives.
• Planned and executed fundraising events and marketing programs to increase qualified leads.
• Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
• Generated reports to support development and implementation of marketing plans.
• Developed technical and non-technical marketing presentations, public relations campaigns, articles, and newsletters.
• Identified appropriate marketing channels and target customers for campaigns.
• Consulted with events management consultants on established best practices and process improvements.
• Secured long-term accounts by recommending strategies to promote brand effectiveness and highlight product benefits.
• Created and managed social media campaigns to increase brand engagement.
• Managed budget allocation and resource utilization to maximize marketing ROI.
• Launched successful digital marketing campaigns that achieved goals for increased website traffic.
• Coordinated with design and media teams to develop high-quality creative assets.
• Assisted Marketing Director to execute comprehensive social media campaign plans that consistently achieved targets for increased revenue.

• Provided important coordination with the annual fund, recurring gift, and online donation, and managed special gift campaigns active support for our ongoing and expanding donor stewardship and community engagement efforts.
• Developed and implemented institution-wide protocols to improve existing stewardship efforts, including managing data to set strategic priorities
• Assisted the Director of Development to support, build and maintain a stewardship module within The Raiser’s Edge
• Built and tested donor database metrics around baseline standards
• Educated colleagues about best practices in fundraising financial reporting
• Develop memos, reports, materials, and presentations
• Worked with designers and other vendors to support the creation of high-level tools and materials, including data and social platforms
• Created and maintained performance dashboards
• Maintained analytics data from Salesforce and OneCause
• Served as a point person for CRM and data systems
• Collaborated with Marketing team to prepare marketing materials for potential partnerships, including associations, collaboratives, and networks

• Handled month-end and year-end-end finances by managing and reporting fixed assets and other data.
• Partnered with auditors on annual audits and realized compliance with gaming revenue tax guidelines.
• Reviewed budgets, capital appropriations and operating budgets, and communicated findings to senior management.
• Executed financial reporting, managing prepaid accounts, schedules, reconciliations, event settlements, and month-end accruals.
• Reconciled chips and money revenue transactions.
• Kept track of game outcomes and reported to supervisor for accurate record keeping.

• Reviewed documents and accounts for discrepancies and resolved variances.
• Updated general ledger with latest entries.
• Reviewed budgets and communicated discrepancies to senior management.
• Reconciled balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.
• Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
• Reconciled accounts and created documents for monthly closure procedures.
• Maintained accurate depreciation schedules for fixed assets, coordinating with asset managers for timely recording of acquisitions or disposals.
• Strengthened internal controls by reviewing processes, identifying gaps, and proposing improvements in program cash flow projections and budget management to safeguard against fraud or mismanagement of funds.

• Managed day-to-day celebrity business managerial and marketing responsibilities for their business entities, which includes.
• Provided feedback on the effectiveness of reporting strategies, and client brand development initiatives and identified areas requiring improvement.
• Assisted client executive business management team to manage sponsors and vendors during event planning and logistics.
• Corresponded with clients and their executive managers to answer questions and resolve issues.
• Served accounting administrative logistics of events planning, event booking, and event promotions.
• Monitored project timelines budget management for month end budget-to-actual analysis.
• Worked with Director of Digital Marketing and website design team to add onto the client portal horizontal and vertical financial reporting and ratio analysis for their business entities. to effectively improvement client alignment with the firm.

• Full charge corporate senior bookkeeper and accounting administrator for NRSI subsidiary company, MIDWEST SRO
• SRO the Illinois-based Dotty’s Casino slots gaming stores.
• Prepared quarterly and annual financial statement analysis to report complying with the financial accounting standard and the Illinois Gaming Board regulations and financial reporting procedure.
• Overseen accountant with training, assigning and supervising tasks, and assisting with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting.
• Prepared and filed tax forms to meet needs of customers.
• Gathered financial information, prepared documents, and closed books.
• Leveraged finance knowledge to strengthen controls and improve transparency.

• Supervised the shared services Treasury team of 7 accountants (4 accountants/3 clerks)
• Reviewed daily inflow and outflow wire, ACH, and inter-company cash transfers for manager review
• Disciplined and motivated accounting team to maximize performance.
• Established and checked coding procedures, monitored reports and updated internal files.
• Maintained cash flow by monitoring bank balances and cash requirements.
• Served as a department representative with the Diversity and Inclusion employee committee to coordinate valued inclusive projects for the general finance department. Led my team to win 1st place in corporate Christmas door decoration contact. Led MGM Corporate team in Las Vegas Pride parade in honor of my brother who passed away from the AIDS virus.

• Assisted team members in transitioning to new system through extensive training and one-on-one support.
• Analyzed financial data to assist in budget creation and forecasting.
• Posted daily receipts and payments in accordance with corporate protocols.
• Completed year-end closing processes with controllers and external auditors.
• Completed payroll for employees and maintained detailed records of procedures.
• Set up and improved accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and maximize operational success.
• Completed tax forms in compliance with legal regulations.
• Maintained and processed invoices, deposits, and money logs.
• Identified accounting errors when cross-referencing documents and database information.
• Established QuickBooks accounting system to reflect accurate financial records.

Individual accolade: Employee Service
Recognition Award (Accounting) (2nd quarter 2010)
Team accolade: Awarded six (6)
Certificates of Achievement for
Excellence in Annual Reporting (Audit periods FY2009-2014) by the
Government Finance Officers.

• Prepared and processed journal entries to record in general ledger and maintain consistent documentation.
• Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.
• Achieved compliance with audit standards and objectives by monitoring and upgrading accounting practices.
• Reconciled account information and reported figures in general ledger by comparing to bank account statement each month.
• Trained and supervised Junior Accountant with Accounts Payables weekly check run and reconciliation.
• Assisted comptroller with year-end financial audits.