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Tampa, Florida, Us

• Worked directly for Controller performing any duties required to closed Dec 2021 and each month into 2022. Assignments included detailed cutoff testing at Dec 2021, audit of 2021 acquisition costs, upload fixed asset additions to D365, OFAC search in connection with Ukraine conflict, reconciliation of AR & AP throughout group, resolve clearing accounts, Bad Debt calculation, insurance renewal (financial data), payroll analytical review, bank reconciliation review and overall balance sheet review

Houston, Texas, Us

Compliance auditing at SOx-certified organization. Testing IT controls. Has been awhile since working in a SOx compliance role. Forterra is traded on the NASDAQ. Like most larger, public companies, Forterra has acquired operations over the years. This makes their IT environment more involved, with multiple servers and domains. Very interesting albeit challenging, work.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

This business is a private, closely held meat processing facility. Role is to provide accounting entries for month-end, reconcile accounts and improve reporting of commissions and customer discounts. Position is a temporary spot to backfill key accounting personnel. System is Sage PFW, an old ERP systems by modern standards. It's fun though to stretch the limits of the system's old functionality. It still works! But the company will migrate to a contemporary ERP system in 2021.

Currently serving as interim controller for private company in Garland TX. A family construction business with a successful track record of more than thirty years. An established subcontractor for large construction projects throughout Texas. Most of the construction work is for municipalities. The company has a second product line serving commercial and residential customers. This is a classic job-costing shop. Typical controller work plus the construction Work-in-Progress schedule using % of completion method. Responsible for over and under-billing calculation and its management. Accountable to external auditors and equity stakeholders.

Dallas, Tx, Us

This was a five-month engagement to implement fixed assets in the client's Navision ERP system. Imported nine divisions into Navision which had tracked their assets on spreadsheets. Import properly had no effect on the financial statements. Also capitalized $3M - about 75 assets - which were suspended in the CIP clearing account. Recorded catch-up depreciation from in-service date. The external audit returned no exception in this area, which was a satisfying conclusion to the engagement.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Excel-Based Vendor Chargeback Project – Restate client’s vendor chargeback for allowed discounts. Earned client $450,000 in additional chargebacks in ten-week project. Excel only, ERP data provided by client. Designed automated template, using VBA (ie, Macros) for employees to use to avoid chargeback issues going forward. Employed Boolean logic in design for effectiveness and ease of maintenance post-project. Elevated to project reviewer by client.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Post-acquisition integration of timber company – Client left their JDEdwards system in favor of acquirer’s Microsoft Dynamics ERP. Transition-period project to integrate JDE data onto Dynamics AX. Required processing incoming freight invoices up to point of conversion. Additional project to finalize open purchase orders so migration to new system not required. Client had some seventy-five open purchase orders in accrual totaling $750,000. Every vendor contacted, Obtain invoice and match system purchase order. Finished project with fewer than six vendors totaling $25,000 to migrate to Dynamics AX.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Drug manufacturer and distributor. An FPA engagement that prepared financial statement reports using different scenarios such as by product, geography, division, within Company. Created a roll-forward of the property accounts over several business cycles. Purchase accounting layer included to restate rollfoward to post-acquisition values.

Houston, Texas, Us

Create Bottom-Up Excel Budget Model – Over 60 days, created from scratch model for local pressure pipe company. Entirely in Excel. Model design provided for variable selling price of major products. Automated development of variable production costs. Overhead allowed for fixed or variable reporting. Loaded forecast to Essbase using Hyperion Planning.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Interim Accounting Manager – Private bus company with national operations. Served as interim manager for one close cycle for manager on leave. Closed financials March 2017. Used Lawson GL and WebNow workflow. Also bank reconciliations. Client behind 18 months on payroll reconciliations. Five thousand checks per month. Reconciled each period with no exceptions. Employed novel use of Excel conditional formatting to match check and GL posting amounts.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Interim Controller Oil Field Supply – Seven-month engagement in West Texas. Company was acquired by Ohio industrial conglomerate. Oversaw integration of local ERP (Wolfepak) into SAP. Designed unique Excel application to establish a reliable sub-ledger for purchase accrual.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Cleanup of fuel management database. A large reconciliation effort. Required an exact match between client purchase order and vendor invoice. Match on product type, quantity and price. Once matched the purchase order in the database closed, offsetting the purchase order clearing account on the balance sheet. Intensely detailed work. A successful engagement – no loose ends in the database and fuel purchase accrual on the trial balance all current.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Brief contract with national gasoline distributor. Clean up fuel accounting database. Database was developed in-house. Learned simple query language to extract data to Excel for reconciliation purposes.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Retained as controller of portfolio company. Teakwood a private equity firm. Rebuild company financial records. Streamline month-end process. Report year-end financials to third-party tax department. Prepare tax schedules. Prepare litigation support schedules. Manage the divestiture of portfolio company. Record gain/loss on sale. Prepare seller financial schedules, and crate ad hoc information requested by buyer.

Jönköping, Sweden, Se

Firm specialty is heavy-duty packaging for seaworthy shipping. Reduce closing cycle from ten to three days. Reduce accounting firm tax return fees. Provided client support for all state and federal filings. IRS Audit. Manage nine-month audit resulting in no assessment. Reviewed transfer pricing report and submitted to Service. SSAS Cube. Import actual and forecast data to Cube. Build reports. Teach others to use the Cube.

Hatfield, Pa, Us

In charge of cash forecasting. Includes monitoring cash on daily basis, and maintaining reconciliation between bank and book. Extract from Oracle the records required and import into Excel to create inception to date reports. Modify SQL to import only transactions created for prior day. Cash forecasting used by controller, CFO, and equity partner's senior management team. A critical reporting responsibility during company's transition period.

Irvine, Ca, Us

A short but high priority engagement for the client. Prepare fixed asset records for linking between operational database and the SAP financial database. Process 100,000 records, matching tags from physical inventory against key in fixed asset system. A cleanup project on a grand scale.

* Contract accountant* Client support during independent annual audit* Prepare financial statements, footnotes* Evaluate company internal controls and remediate vulnerabilities* Bank reconciliations, general ledger account analysis* Write accounting policies (Statement of Procedures)

* Convert company existing ERP system to Oracle e-business suite* Co-ordinate conversion of data from old system to Oracle format* Data conversions for:.....Accts payable vendor master file.....Customer master file.....Open A/R invoices conversion file.....Fixed asset master file.....General ledger conversion* Lead roll-out teams at plant locations during conversion weekend* Conduct weekly team meetings of Oracle open issues.....Post-conversion issues with plant personnel.....Production support issues .....On-going training matters

Controller for shared-service center:• Accounts Payable• Purchasing card program• Treasury Dept• Customer invoicing• Fixed Asset accounting• Sales and Use tax compliance• Vehicle fleet administration• Records department• Building administration

Responsible for:--Accounts Payable--Sales and Use Tax--Fixed assets--Fleet Leasing program--Cash and Treasury Services

First position after leaving public accounting. Chief role to assist the Controller in carrying out monthly close and reporting duties. Performed analytical review on significant account fluctuations. Key assignment to prepare the financial consolidation and the cash flow statement. Financial consolidation had four elimination layers for reporting results at several rollup levels. Also maintained the purchase accounting records, posted the monthly amortization and released purchase accounting reserves.

Master'S Degree, Accounting

Bachelor Of Arts, Biology