SUMMARY:

Finance professional for fifteen fiscal years with leadership experience. Proficient in GAAP standards, general ledger, inventory, billings, WIP, and payroll. My leadership style is to provide a productive, motivating and fun environment.

SKILLS AND SYSTEMS:

ERPs: Lawson MS Dynamics AXR2 PMAS Deltek BST QuickBooks

Excel experience: power user (advance formulas/Macros&VBA/VLOOKUP/pivot tables) Power Pivot * ODBC * charts & graphs

Software experience: form builders * database queries * relational database * Visio * business intelligence * project management * management reporter * CRMs * repositories * HRIS * payroll & expense systems * Job cost accounting * Lease ASU * Revenue recognition ASU 605/606 * Royalty income/expense

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Corporate Controller

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Accomplished no annual review overruns. 1 st time for the company by systematically configuring ERP modules and refining each accountants workpapers. As well, created proper internal controls and addressed a difficult cost segregation study of $18M+ in fixed assets (BNA).
• Redesigned the accounting department; 4 Staff Acct to 2 Senior Accts.
• Processed an acquisition start to finish including Due Diligence, Acquisition accounting (leveraging shell companies and loans), Purchase accounting integration, and managed UK to US GAAP rollup of the subsidiary. The acquisition increased employees by 200% & $20M in revenues.
• Reduced month end close process from 15 to 5 days by automating and consolidating key tasks while creating a work environment promoting employee development, commitment and a high - level functioning team.
• Mapped out lowest level of inventory to dynamically accommodate ecommerce transaction cycles, cost accounting and newly implemented JIT inventory structure by un/bundling of products strategically leveraging the ERP’s financial dimensions (WBS) and attributes across all platforms synced to the company’s website.
• Developed cash management infrastructure to provide daily cash balances to the executives which supported the Acquisition negotiations and due diligence.
• Managed all accounting and finance reporting deadlines including department level KPI's and forecasts by creating a resource planning model and robust budgeting infrastructure to address large gap to actuals (BvA)
• Enhanced big data workflows to newly provide budget reporting designed to mitigate risk, enhanced visibility for decision’s regarding freight, sales, tangible and intangible inventory, licenses, web services, account agent personnel and subscription revenue recognition.
• Refined off-system consolidated finance package to come directly from the ERP including to produce separate multi-currency company financials.
• Managed accuracy of Equity statement; Shareholder and ESOP activity, dividends declared, and OCI.
• Automated generation of Cash Flow & Equity statement from three days quarterly basis to 30min monthly basis.
• Drafted Business Case and ROI reports for accounting initiatives in line with the company’s Governance structure using the decision-making model-DACI and supported management with their initiatives.
• Managed timing and accuracy of all audits, reviews, Board packages, Audit Committee packages and Annual report, including footnotes, disclosure checklist and annual stock valuation.
• Monthly review of 100+ journal entries against the subledger modules to ensure accuracy including credit card transactions (PayPal).

Controller/Business Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed all operations and costs for Finance, Accounting and Administration professionals.
• Facilitated and managed contracts for office relocations and subletting.
• Created a BvA P&L imbedding a recovery plan for losses and prior year comparison to monitor growth.
• Completed acquisition integration and accommodation of the ISO 9001 required standards.
• Moved accounting and finance department from Bakersfield to San Jose, California.
• Created regional roles and function-based leadership groups such as Controllers, Business Managers, Marketing, Managing Principles, Leads and Office Managers.
• Spearheaded GoGreen Documentation initiative with an annual savings of $100k in storage costs.
• Centralized data workflows to enhance reporting visibility leveraging repository software’s indexing functions.
• Member of Principal Leadership team integrating SWOT analysis and Companywide recovery initiatives.
• Configured ERP to produce various reporting levels such as office, subsidiary, custom corporate consolidated financials following GAAP and IFRS standards.
• Underwent a selection process researching numerous ERPs to implement companywide.
• Rolled out CRM to qualify leads & generation, track pursuit costs, provide competitive advantage and backlog projection protentional.
• Implemented and validated new budget (PlanGuru) and business intelligence software.
• Accounting and Finance; manage annual budget process, reforecasts, ME close, finance package, and CPA, banking and all vendor relationships.

Project Accounting Supervisor/Assistant CFO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed job cost accounting producing $20M in revenues for an AEC firm.
• Published operating procedures and trained accounting professionals.
• Opened and Closed billing cycles and unearned revenues.
• Processed and managed monthly revenue GAAP adjustments and reserves.
• Developed excel AR aging (DSO) metrics to support prioritizing five Project Accountants.
• Developed excel dashboard for CFO to review individual professional’s performance weekly.
• Assessed and remedied liabilities of $1M over 90 days.
• Implemented new payroll system and processed payroll for 100+/- employees.
• Facilitated custom AMEX application for AP process which reduced time from 1 week to a day (30+ credit cards).
• Provided cost benefit analysis to un-bundle PEO provider to go inhouse.
• Newly developed accountings annual One Page Business Plan.
• Developed ERP training program for new hires, accounting, and Project Managers.
• Created archive infrastructure hard and soft copy on and off-site locations.
• Developed and managed drafting contracts workflow and negotiated contract terms with clients and vendors.
• Renewed all insurance policies
• Prepared resource planning for contracted and pipeline sales.
• Prepared and developed cash management metrics to strategize tight cash position.
• Developed revenue, billings, and document tracking dashboard to support team efforts and meet deadlines.
• Trained and supported three CFO’s on role functions and resources.
• Managed staff meetings and employee reviews.
• Processed billings for the company’s largest most difficult client and all client we were an expert witness.
• Draft corporate resolutions and maintain corporate seal.
• Maintained CEO’s multimillion real estate portfolio to ensure company’s collateral to the line of credit.

Accountant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Processed project set up, billings, and marketing opportunities and analyzed job cost accounting reporting.
• Analyzed cost and budget at the phase and task level for projects ranging from $10K-$4M.
• Updated projects resource planning in a WIP revenue generation environment.
• Supplied gross margin, billing rate analysis, NEM and suggestions to management team.
• Supported integration of new bonus structure.
• Set up contract tracking system and legal review procedures to maintain insurability and mitigate liability.
• Processed potential claims, claims and OCIP projects.