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Plano, Texas

Supported operational business partners, providing operation financial performance, P&L’s, KPI’s and salesman analytics to drive impactful operational direction and initiatives. • Publishes monthly operational report package to executive leadership • Reports daily revenue to GM’s and broader management for timely business developments • Maintain metrics (center data, tickets, units, salesman data, headcount) for reporting utilization • Builds bonus calculator, calculates accruals, and distributes payout summary to recipients • Develops salesman leaderboard and sales metrics to drive performance • Implemented revisions to financial workbooks to synchronize new accounting database transition • Model and prepare ad-hoc reports to provide financial visibility to VP Operation leadership

Richardson, Tx

Financial representative to operational business partners for freight and distribution teams, providing full-cycle accounting and presenting monthly financial results.• Capital asset reporting:o Monthly review of accounting ledger to determine reclasses and accruals.o Translate accounting data into financial summary and present to leadership.o Follow-up with associates to build forecast and annual plan.• Freight reporting:o Reconcile inbound freight account and access for necessary accruals.o Collaborate with payment processing team to establish coding procedures; efforts resulted in 90% reduction to journal entry reclasses.o Prepare and present month-end financial results with executive leadership.o Maintain relationship with business partners to gain operational insight in order to provide accurate and relevant financials.• Distribution reporting:o Perform full-cycle accounting close duties.o Prepare and present monthly financial performance and annual budget.o Assess current business condition to evaluate and revise forecast.o Calculate and facilitate payment of annual bonus payment.o Develop and present five-year facility space requirements to management.

Prepared and distributed financial results to operations executives. Created financial reports included in the Board of Directors’ board books.• Prepared financial reports for Board of Directors review and references during earnings call.• Produced monthly internal reporting package.• Prepared weekly/weekend sales reports for timely operational management decision making.• Built annual budget for expense, income and overhead (from the bottom up), then summarized for Board of Directors review and approval.• Performed due-diligence on acquired companies financials, and merged financial databases.• Maintained, updated, loaded, and reconciled financial database against accounting ledger.

Performed GAAP Accounting for 50 theaters.• Held accrual and reclass responsibility for recently acquired high cash flow theaters and served as direct liaison to the controller regarding all accounting issues.• Completed bank reconciliations of international, investment, and 75 theatre depository accounts.• Prepared and reviewed balance sheet accounts.• Performed concession and janitorial inventory accrual; reviewed monthly inventory levels, adjusted miscounts as necessary, maintained current inventory costs, addressed issues and communicates to theater management, and analyzed variations in COGS and presented impact to management.• Managed entries and reconciliation to subsidiary company.• Trained and mentored newly hired staff.• Reviewed 10-Q and 10-K for typographical or mathematical errors.• Participated in amending and editing documented internal control procedures.