Finance Manager Resume

SUMMARY:

Extensive experience in both Corporate Accounting and Financial Planning & Analysis with a Fortune 100 retailer. Experience also includes serving as the principal financial officer at a startup retail entity.

SKILL:

Advanced to expert level with MS Excel and MS Access.
Very experienced in working with and manipulating large volumes of data to produce summary models and big picture answers.
Proficient with SAP G/L, BPC, SQL, Oracle Discoverer and Business Objects.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

Business partner with the retail segment. Collaborate with store operations, merchandising, real estate and store planning to roll up monthly/qtrly/annual operating plans, closing and variance analysis, capital planning. Economic modeling on all new stores, expansions and lease renewals.

Confidential

Project Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

Assigned to large software implementation project related to commercial lending software.
Track and report project related costs, analysis of costs and variances to plan.

Confidential

Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis

Responsibilities:

Responsible for reporting and analysis in the areas of global COGS, US Distribution Operations and total corporate savings tracking. Providing primary support for VP of Ops Finance and VP of US Distribution.
Develop and maintain a concise monthly global reporting package for COGS, distribution and inventory.
Streamline reporting templates and processes, improve clarity of reports and reduce production time.
Serve in a controller capacity for U.S. Region Distribution & Transportation $25M annual spending .

Confidential

Director of Real Estate Accounting and Financial Analysis

Responsibilities:

Manage and participate in all aspects of corporate accounting and reporting with a special focus on capital assets, real estate accounting and special projects. Provide financial analysis and support for a 7,000 unit retail chain in the areas of Rent, Lease Administration, Facilities Maintenance and Energy Management.
Evaluation of the FASB/IFRS proposal to revamp lease accounting requirements, and the resultant changes to processes and reporting for a company with 6,000+ leases.
Enhancement of Oracle financial accounting modules and Accruent real estate accounting system.
Development and maintenance of improved budgeting process for store expenses related to Real
Estate, Capex and long term cash planning.

Confidential

Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Responsibilities:

Oversee and implement 5 - year model to forecast total co. revenue, income, cash flow needs, etc. Also responsible for supervision of the detailed budgeting process for a 700 unit retail operation as well as forecasting total corporate sales and income on a monthly basis. Served as the principal liaison between Finance and the Executive Merchandising Staff. Supervision of a staff of 9 professional analysts.
Developed/enhanced detailed Long Range Planning model to assess future funding requirements.
Analyzed and selected new software package for store budgeting process.
Led the introduction to users of new reporting/query tool, MicroStrategy DSS Agent.

Confidential

Director of Corporate Accounting

Responsibilities:

Manage compilation of financial statements for internal (monthly) and public release (10Q/10K/MD&A/variance analysis) along with monthly production and distribution of detailed revenue and expense booklet for internal release. Perform various quarterly analyses of total company expenses to accompany quarterly financial statements for public release. Supervision of 30 people.
Reduced the monthly/quarterly closeout time from 17 days down to 10 days.
Analyzed and selected new General Ledger software package (Peoplesoft).