Generated annual budget and monthly EBITDA and capital forecast for $100,000,000 division. Redesigned, generated, and provided all analysis on all departmental outputs, including monthly reporting packages, investment ROI reviews, and sales pipelines. Built strong team, eliminating turnover after succeeding four predecessors in ten-month period.• Served as SME on all company products and pricing, and participated in all major customer negotiation discussions.• Utilized accounting expertise to identify $6,000,000 in annual EBITDA savings.

Managed billing, accounts receivable, purchasing, and financial information systems teams with 17 direct reports. Retained key personnel and supervised two major enterprise resource planning implementations. Served as primary SME on revenue, financial systems, and data analysis for organization.• Improved lead time on custom invoice preparation by five days/month.• Reduced customer bad-debt cancellations by 50% while reducing DSO and aged accounts.

Redesigned and automated monthly close packages, reducing lead time and increasing accuracy and readability. Served as primary revenue analyst for revenues of $100,000,000 annually. Acted as finance contact for product development, IT, service, sales, and operations departments.• Designed, built and implemented Product Profit & Loss statements, yielding in some cases a tripling of product line gross margin• Automated Monthly Reporting Package to provide push-buttom monthly statements to Senior Management

• Analyzed and mapped current business processes and proposed new and alternative solutions to maximize efficiency and organizational value.• Presented business cases for proposed solutions to management.• Built databases and spreadsheet macros for various members of Petco’s accounting department to solve simpler, ad hoc business problems.• Left to accept permanent position at Audatex

Served in dual role as senior financial analyst for construction and real estate department as well as a senior accountant for fixed assets. Computed and analyzed capital expenditure forecasts and budgets for all of company’s capital projects. Prepared extensive analytical tools for company’s vice president of construction to promote effective decision making and project management. Reported company’s entire capital expenditure forecast monthly to executive committee. Budgeted and analyzed fixed asset-related expense of roughly $13,000,000 per month. Learned Sarbanes-Oxley reporting and documentation requirements for publicly-traded companies. Prepared numerous journal entries, account reconciliations, variance reports, and schedules.• Leveraged computer systems knowledge and experience as department’s primary liaison to PeopleSoft development team and played lead role in solving all department-related systems issues.• Served as accounting-wide subject matter expert on Microsoft Access and Excel.• Earned accounting department’s ‘employee of the month’: September 2007 and September 2008.• Chosen to serve on company’s ‘wind-down’ team, responsible for accounting of liquidation of corporate assets and closure of business.