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Denver, Colorado, Us

• Pivotal in the creation of the Environmental Social Governance (ESG) department. Collaborated in the recruitment process for the VP of Sustainability, while also spearheading the identification of the initial corporate-wide initiatives and implementing budgeting, capital allocation, and operational processes to establish and launch the ESG department. • Collaborated with resort staff and external experts to develop the first comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Inventory for all 14 mountains and the heli-skiing operation, aligning with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions guidelines. • Developed an enterprise-wide emissions reduction plan and conducted cost projections to achieve 2030 sustainability goals, considering factors such as grid developments, electrification of vehicles and equipment fleet, facility enhancements based on ASHRAE audit recommendations, and potential on-site and off-site renewable energy options. • Provided project management support to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team assisting with capital funding requests and ensuring sound financial stewardship.

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Streamlined Alterra's self-insurance accounting policies to align with third-party IBNR (Incurred But Not Reported) analysis, enhancing management guidance and ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of information for internal audit purposes.• Successfully recruited and efficiently trained both a General Ledger Accountant and Cash Accountant, ensuring seamless monthly close processes and year-end accounting tasks for all Corporate US and CAD companies.• Developed and delivered comprehensive training to a team of over twenty accountants, enabling them to effectively navigate Alterra's intercompany process, handle cross-border transactions, and proficiently manage accounting for foreign currency risk.• Played a key role in managing and updating Alterra's Corporate Sponsorship policy and revenue recognition practices across all owned and managed resorts, ensuring compliance with new GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) guidance. Effectively communicated the updated guidance to resort management and staff, promoting standardized processes company-wide.

Aurora, Colorado, Us

• Built financial presentations detailing startup costs, internal cost transfers, equity, and ramp up revenue for internal review and external shared ownership of a new retail location.• Helped navigate the financial burden of COVID-19 related hardships of restricted Colorado sales and moratorium of Massachusetts adult use sales through financial modeling and cash stewardship.• Restructured consolidated financials for seven companies across Colorado, Massachusetts, and Nevada for monthly presentations to management detailing KPIs and other revenue driving ratios. • Constructed a detailed reconciliation of inter-company, related-party, and third-party loans updated monthly to ensure proper balances and repayment.

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Built strong relationships with resort partners to improve communications, meet deadlines for General Ledger reconciliations and understand how to best serve and assist in the accounting process from a shared service environment.• Quickly learned and facilitated multi-currency intercompany reconciliations and settlements during peak season reaching out to various resorts and researching outstanding issues.• Enabled the smooth acquisition of our largest resorts by EBITDA Mammoth Mountain through transitioning processes, journal entries, and account reconciliations into our shared services team and helped migrate financials from their legacy accounting systems to Microsoft Dynamics 365.• Built and taught processes to new hires pertinent to our corporate accounting including cross-borderinter-company reconciliations, shared services cost allocations, pension liability true-ups, and self-insurance liability accounting.

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Created and implemented new billing workflow processes for Integer’s five agencies through enhanced use of the Onbase tool to reduce the monthly billing cycle providing more time for analysis and improved cash flow. • Streamlined accounting processes across all agencies to create synergies by assisting in migration to a uniform accounting software, universal chart of accounts, and incorporating banking for all agencies to shared services. •Created and updated working capital and sub ledger reconciliation reports for all companies to help meet the dynamic needs of Omnicom’s financial reporting. • Helped to reduce the accounting department’s carbon footprint by eliminating paper from the billing cycle through use of Onbase’s workflow and converting 90% of vendors to ACH payments.• Responsible for managing direct reports in the shared service’s AP, cash and AR functions.

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Took over creation of monthly financial statements and all necessary accruals and deferrals allowing the Manager of Finance to focus on forecasting.• Championed the paperless initiative using Meta Viewer’s image capturing to electronically receive invoices and converted almost all vendors to electronic payments. • Assisted opening offices in Verbier, Switzerland and Shanghai, China by setting up bank accounts, accounting procedures, financial reporting, creating hedges and processing payments.• Resolved accounts payable issues with the Metaviewer database system, Strata and Workamajig by learning to troubleshoot the accounting information systems protocols for the programs.

Broomfield, Co, Us

• Quickly learned and mastered several different accounting systems including AS550, Visual One, Peoplesoft, SMS, Treev, and Tour Partner to research and reconcile key accounts.• Worked with travel agents to resolve a backlog of payment inquiries and troubleshoot systems as required. • Reduced a rolling account balance by half for travel agent commissions by working with other departments and resolving several ongoing system issues.

Broomfield, Co, Us

• Audit points of sale for Vail Resorts to ensure accuracy of revenue reporting and SOX compliance.• Trained seasonal interns and managed workload to help bring past due point of sale audit locations up to date. • Communicated accounting rules and regulations to non-accounting professionals to ensure compliance with SOX by providing in person training and creating sharable excel documents to communicate with POS locations audit points of concern and other issues.

• Created Crystal Reports that queried Peoplesoft databases to provide department heads with quick access to up to date reports on allocations and spending of funds and grants.• Prepared Financial Status Reports in excel to adhere with government standards of reporting grant expenditures. • Researched and constructed budgets with department heads to apply for new state and federal grants.

Winter Park, Co, Us

• Attained highest rating on end of season reviews.• Received employee award for exceptional customer service. • Opened and closed ski lift by performing machinery safety checks and lift area maintenance.• Helped provide a fun and safe environment through guest interaction.

Shawnee Mission, Ks, Us

• Conducted research and performed data analysis while helping to create spreadsheets in Excel for easy access to results of data analysis on 401k and mutual fund options of clients. • Gained exposure to mutual fund markets through use of Morningstar software. • Helped model a professional website. http://www.waddell.com/jsp/index.jsp?wdrid=gorsuch • Assisted in the management of information to client and prospective client pools exporting data from Microsoft Access to Excel databases.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Sustainable Business Practices

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance

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