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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Supervise a team of 18 people, including general accounting, accounts receivables and inventory and cost accountantsPrepare, review and approve month-end close journal entriesImplemented revenue recognition based on accruals and not based on invoicing for two lines of service; recognizing an additional 2mm of revenue monthlyReviewed and approved monthly balance sheet reconciliationsSupport corporate team with month and year end processes and reportingPrepare and analyze month and year to date financial statements and provide variance commentariesExternal Audit Preparation - work closely with external auditors on audit requests and preparation of audited financial statementsERP implementation project – data migration and conversionLean event project to reduce TCCs and DSOs, resulting in a 20 day decrease in DSOs. Steps were set in place to achieve an additional 30 days reduction in TCCs.Worked directly with Operations team to reduce Unbilled AR with one of the biggest customers, resulting in a reduction of AR of $3mmSupervise annual budget an quarterly forecast processPrepare monthly external banking reports for an AR financing transaction

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Provided guidance and support to Latin America and Canada controllersSupervised annual budget an quarterly forecast process for the Latin America and Canada regionSupervised and coordinated the month end close process within the Houston office and the various Latin America and Canada locationsAnalyzed regional monthly and annual financial statements and provided consolidated variance commentariesWorked with internal and external auditors and resolved audit issuesIPO readiness – worked with Corporate Accounting team for data gathering and preparation for SEC Form S1 registration statement and filingWorked with the Internal Audit Department for the SOX rollout and compliance in the Latin America and Canada regionERP Implementation – upgrading local accounting software to Microsoft’s Great Plains in Colombia, Ecuador and PeruSupervised a team of 12 people

As acting controller for the Qatar operations, I was responsible for booking monthly journal entries, recording invoices issued to the customer and posting cash receipts from the customer, ensured that vendor invoices were processed and paid timely, prepared and analyzed monthly operating reports and provided variance commentaries to senior managementSupervised and coordinated the month end close process within the Houston office and the various international locations,; Distributed preliminary and final operating results statements to international locations for preliminary and final variance commentariesAnalyzed month end close financial statements for international locations and provided consolidated variance commentaries for all international locationsEnsured that the international locations and the Houston international office were SOX compliant and resolved any issues from the SOX internal auditsEnsured that all policies and procedures were followed by the international officesAccountable for ensuring the quality and timeliness of all responsibilities within the international accounting department in Houston, including reviewing work and reports on a regular basisActively participated in the implementation of Oracle, which included data validation for the Accounts Receivable and General Ledger data from legacy systems into Oracle. In addition to this, travelled to international locations and trained local personnel in the Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger and reports generation modules of OracleCreated and improved processes in the International Accounts Payable department such as reports to review invoices entered by clerks and reduced the days outstanding from 75 days to 30 daysSupervised a team comprised of one Accountant and two Accounting Clerks

Supervised and coordinated timely filings of monthly and quarterly unaudited financial statements and annual audited financial statements for twenty-three special purpose entities, including balance sheets, statements of operations, statements of cash flows, statements of members' capital and disclosure checklistFacilitated coordination between the various accounting and non-accounting departments required to comply with the different regulatory filingsAccountable for ensuring the quality and timeliness of all responsibilities within the accounting department, including reviewing work and reports on a regular basisSupervised a team comprised of six Accountants

External Reporting and Debt ComplianceWorked as liaison between Accounting Department and Financial Reporting DepartmentSupervised preparation and analyzed quarterly and annual financial statements for twenty-three special purpose entities including balance sheets, statements of operations, statements of cash flows statements of members' capital and disclosure checklistSupervised preparation of financial reporting schedules for Corporate Accounting DepartmentSupervised a team comprised of four Accountants

Prepared and analyzed quarterly and annual financial statements for five special purpose entities, including balance sheets, statements of operations, statements of cash flows statements of members' capital and disclosure checklistConverted FAS 52, foreign currency translation, financial statements to USGAAP including Cumulative Translation Adjustment reconciliationsDirected year-end external audits for five special purpose entitiesPerformed Balance Sheet and Income Statement account analysis and reconciliationWorked in special projects such as relocating Accounting Department from Canada to Houston, special purpose entities' debt issuance analysis and recording, analysis and recognition of step acquisitions of subsidiaries, automated financial statements translation process

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area