TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Financial Reporting Software: Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Hyperion Essbase, Comshare, Blackline

General Ledger Systems: Mainframe Systems - Oracle, Lawson, Epicor, Bolo

PC Based Systems: Solomon IV, Great Plains, Real World, Accpac, QuickBooks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Financial Reporting Manager / Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a privately held Oil & Gas company headquartered in Houston, with global revenues over $2.3 billion
• Assist with Financial Reports derived from implementation of Hyperion
• Assist with Hyperion Database Management
• Coordinate, Accumulate & Prepare Internal Financial Statements and workpapers for client companies, including Footnotes
• Oversee Monthly Consolidation
• Create efficiencies in consolidation workpapers
• Create efficiencies in client workpapers
• Review new general ledger account set - up
• Prepare weekly report of cash forecast, as well as analysis of accounts within Management structure
• Maintain accounting records for foreign subsidiary holding company
• Analyze procedures and recommending changes to result in efficiencies of task completion

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Financial Controller - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Financial controller of $100 million Confidential
• Review and oversee day-to-day operations of Financial Reporting and Accounting functions
• Review and assess monthly and quarter close processes & recommend improvements
• Streamline financial accounting and reporting functions to improve and ensure accuracy of financial statements
• Prepare quarterly financial board package (including coordinating and linking the financial reporting package to the board package, which had been an entirely manual process)
• Prepare monthly management financial reporting package and Review, complete and assess monthly and quarter close processes
• Analyze, recommend and implement improvements to improve accuracy and reliability of financial accounting and reporting
• Review and oversee cash management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets and payroll

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Assistant Controller - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Acting assistant controller of $900 million Confidential
• Reviewed and oversaw day-to-day operations of Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting
• Reviewed and assessed monthly and quarter close processes & recommend improvements
• Approved and prepared account reconciliations in Blackline
• Assisted in Oracle implementation
• Assisted in Confidential (formerly Confidential ) implementation for Confidential Reporting

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Confidential Reporting Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accumulated & Prepare Confidential and Internal Financial Statements and workpapers for client companies, including MD&A and Footnotes
• Analyzed processes & created efficiencies and improvements of client company workpapers, systems and duties
• Worked with auditors for the successful completion and filing of client Annual & Quarterly Financial Statements
• Manage Edgar & XBRL processes for accuracy to ensure accurate Confidential Filings
• Create efficiencies in client workpapers
• Prepared detailed support binder for Annual and Quarterly Financial Statements and provide the binder to external auditors & liaised with external auditors regarding Company Financial Statements

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Sr. Financial Reporting Analyst

Responsibilities:

• $300 million Global Software company in Confidential
• Maintained and updated Annual and Quarterly Financial Statement documents for inclusion in Confidential F-1 filing
• Coordinated monthly financial reporting close process and assist in preparation of monthly management reports
• Researched and lead effort for Financial Reporting, upon successful effort to take Company public, for bringing in EDGAR and XBRL filings in-house
• Prepared detailed support binder for Annual and Quarterly Financial Statements and provide the binder to external auditors & liaised with external auditors regarding Company Financial Statements
• Reconciled and maintained equity rollforward and equity and investment account balancing

Confidential, Houston, Texas

International Controller - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• $500 million Global Freight Forwarder
• Oversaw and established Accounting and Finance policies and functions for the Company
• Performed monthly consolidation and prepare consolidated financials for overseas subsidiaries
• Improved financial reporting by adding detail to manual submission of countries monthly financial statements
• Created and maintained various analytical reports for management, including revenues and expenses by country
• Organized financial statement reporting to common chart of accounts and financial statement presentation
• Mentored the Company's overseas controllers and acted a resource for all Company Accounting Personnel

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Financial Reporting Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a Staff and Served as Mentor to 4 Financial Reporting Senior and Staff Accountants
• Analyzed approximately 60 countries (130 reporting units) financial statements for reasonableness and accuracy
• Coordinated preparation of monthly internal IFRS Financial Statements

Confidential

Financial Reporting Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared 10K & 10Q Reports, prepared MD&A narrative, including comparison to prior periods
• Coordinated with members of all levels of Management for their updated input into Confidential documents
• Ensured company compliance with Foreign Currency Translation in accordance with FAS 52
• Analyzed various international countries monthly, quarterly & annual financial statements for reasonableness and accuracy
• Assisted in ensuring compliance of Financial Reporting Department with the company SOX Policies

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Confidential & Financial Reporting Manager - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• $3.9 billion Equipment, Systems & Service provider in Oil & Gas Production
• Prepared Confidential Reporting packages and document workflow of the Confidential Reporting area
• Reviewed and financial statements for reasonableness and accuracy and improved processes of data compilation

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

Senior Accountant, Accounting Officer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the preparation of monthly report to the Board of Directors of a $6.5 billion dollar bank, containing monthly statement of position, income statements, loss reserve analysis, and income & expense analysis
• Reviewed financial statements for reasonableness and accuracy
• Implemented new procedures for board package leading to more efficient use of time in its preparation
• Coordinated compilation & prepared Forms 10K & 10Q, as well as Quarterly Earnings Releases
• Prepared CFO’s quarterly financial presentation to the Board of Directors
• Reviewed and coordinated the work of four degreed staff accountants
• Investigated monthly loan yield variances and prepare explanations as necessary; coordinated reviews and analysis of general ledger activity; established and coordinated month-end cycles
• Investigated & resolved internal control issues brought about by new functions and business transactions
• Integrated all financial information used in both internal & external reporting
• Interacted with both internal and external auditors; reviewed reports sent to Federal regulators via internet