Benjamin Ruesch Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

South Jordan, Utah

Responsibilities:• Reconcile cash and balance sheet accounts. • Track prepaid accounts and amortize them monthly in Excel• Created and implemented multiple process to streamline prepaids and health care expense processes.• Approve and review reconciliations. • Extensive experience with variance analysis of Balance Sheet and P&L • Minor experience with Forecasting of Expense, Cashflows and Audit Disclosures.Achievements:• Helped to move accounting operations from San Diego, California and Eagan, Minnesota to Utah and trained 6 people to handle these processes. • Implemented Microsoft AX from Oracle and GP platform.• Created new payroll templates to properly account for payroll for 16 companies saving approximately 80 hours during close.• Developed prepaid template for prepaid invoices needing to be amortized that is being used by 16 companies to amortize and track approximately $30 million of prepaid invoices.

Lehi, Utah

Responsibilities:• Reconcile International Balance Sheets and Income Statements to Corporate books (QuickBooks & J.D. Edwards) Use of exchange rate daily. • Reconciliation of daily bank statements • Make month end entries and reconcile all cash accounts each month end. (Approx. 30 accounts)• Enter monthly transactions• Calculate Accounts Payable Accruals• Matching large volume of sales to Account Receivable Reconciliation Achievements:• Revised the method of daily transactions entry to make better and more accurate information for executive meetings and tax filling and saving 1 hour each day on this process.• Developed system for intercompany transactions for international branches. • Launched QuickBooks Online in foreign markets to have easier access to foreign transactions reducing need for questions about transactions. (Reduced foreign daily transactions entry time by 1 hour a day)

Responsibilities:• Manage fixed assets and the purchasing of fixed for Savage. • Record Capital expenditures and their controls to make sure they are followed.• Preformed internal control audits for branches of the business.• Preform Reconciliation on accounts related to fixed assetsAchievements:• Developed Capital Expenditures system to have a better control on money being spent on fixed assets so we would stay in budget and depreciate correctly. (capital expenditures budget approximately $300 million a year this reduced over expenditure by 20 million)

Master'S Degree, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Associate'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General