MACNY appoints finance & contracts administration specialist

DeWITT — MACNY, the Manufacturers Association recently added Crystal Ward as its finance and contracts administration specialist. In this role, she will support the nonprofit association’s finance department with various administrative and clerical tasks, such financial record-keeping, data entry, and invoice processing. Ward will also be responsible for establishing data-reporting priorities, ensuring compliance with data-reporting requirements established by MACNY’s state and federal-grant initiatives, maintaining relationships with statewide alliance partners, and managing the upkeep and filing of Registered Apprenticeship Program information. Before joining MACNY, Ward worked as an account-payable specialist at Wells College, the association said in a release. She completed her liberal-arts degree from Eastern Florida State College (formerly known as Brevard County Community College). MACNY represents more than 300 companies in a 26-county region in Central and Upstate New York. The 111-year-old organization provides human-resource services, training, workforce development, purchasing solutions, networking opportunities, and advocacy support for its members.