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St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Minnesota, United States

Blaine, Mn

--Work with CEO to manage supply chain, IT, and HR resources in order to facilitate and maintain high revenue growth and profit margins. --Responsible for building the accounting team and achieving full sales tax compliance in over 30 states and manage reporting needs for international expansion. ---Fully manage banking relationships to support very high growth at the same time as building a new facility. --Develop reporting requirements and implement full benefits program to support the high employee growth rate.

White Bear Lake, Mn

--Provide controller responsibilities for our Australia/New Zealand/Singapore operations during a controller change. Including travel, reporting, and audit inquiries.--Managed the accounting of multiple private equity purchase and sales of the corporate entity, including swap accounting, purchase accounting, and multilevel goodwill amortizations.--Manage multi-line business and multi-currency consolidations / eliminations and General Ledger (G/L) Balance Sheets and Income Statements. --Team with upper management to facilitate corporate acquisitions and sales accounting.--Assist all aspects of accounting, including audits, month-end close, and asset management. --Manage the implementation of new accounting requirements resulting from ongoing sales and engineering achievements.--Direct ongoing implementation phases of ERP system; report development and modifications of new ERP system information --Provide training and support on ERP system and manage relationship with support vendor.--Contributed to implementation of payroll system upgrade.--Lead financial analysis team of three that handles all statistical reporting; hire, fire, and conduct performance reviews.--Perform due diligence analysis on companies for potential acquisition; avoided significant expenses on $5M acquisition and accurately forecasted $47K loss on joint venture.--Utilize Excel modeling to evaluate capital spending and assist with field information reporting.--Researched business intelligence software purchase and oversaw successful installation.--Drive overall financial planning process; consistently meets deadlines for plan review.--Secured $10M / year contract and saved $300K over five years by leveraging Excel EVA model analysis in conjunction with training of sales personnel.

White Bear Lake, Mn

--Achieved successful on-time, within budget implementation of Microsoft Dynamics NAV product; subsequently trained key personnel and end-users.--Managed consultant selection team and assisted with selection of MS Dynamics NAV and contract negotiation; reduced ongoing consulting costs by 10% ($105K) saving and saved $100K+ in licensing fees.--Analyzed 200 products and collaborated with Selection Consultant to identify business solution. --Directed software selection team through selection process and led implementation team; chaired meetings to define and modify business processes, and conducted software modification needs analysis and approval.

White Bear Lake, Mn

--Analyzed project expenditure requests, with focus on Economic Value Added (EVA) analysis.--Developed and improved internal financial / capital reporting processes (e.g.: management reports).--Prepared detailed forecast and planning documents for financial and capital spending requirements.--Improved profitability of one line of business from $3M to $5M over seven years, facilitated price increases and new contracts.Decreased forecast time requirements by 50% and improved time reporting.

--Conducted detailed economic analysis on $25M in capital expenditure requests / year, including projects? marketing and cost impact.--Performed product-cost variance analysis on fuel, raw materials, and processes, including forecasts and fixed-price bids. --Efficiently handled all month-end close functions (e.g., account reconciliations, internal reporting, and variance analysis) on area generating over $370M in revenues / year.--Facilitated SOX adherence by writing processes / procedures and analyzing corporate compliance.--Prepared forecasts and budgets; provided reporting and commentary to Company leadership.

Mba, Leadership & Manufacturing Dual Focus

MBA with a dual focus in Manufacturing and Leadership while working full time.

Accounting, Accounting W/Emphasis In Is

BS in Accounting with an emphasis in Information Systems