Christian Stephen Email & Phone Number

Olympia, Wa, Us

Aberdeen, Washington, United States

• Oversee and manage all accounting operations including billing, job cost accounting, cash flow management, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll.• Manage and produce timely and accurate preparations of monthly financial statements and reporting.• Communicate financial metrics to senior management on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.• Review financial results and provide key metrics to improve profitability and explain variances and opportunities.• Manage the work-in-progress financial reporting.• Lead the compilation of the annual operating budgets and manage the ongoing forecasts.• Ensure accuracy of accounting reporting, maintain proper internal controls and adhere with GAAP as well as company policies.• Maintain a documented system for accounting policies and procedures; drive process improvement and modernization.• Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings.• Manage and maintain state registrations, business and tax licenses, etc.• Maintain relationships with key external partners.• Provide and manage project analysis with field personnel.• Develop and execute processes in support of the company's strategic plan.• Liaise with outside CPA's on all audit and federal/state tax matters.

Lacey, Wa

• Managed full cycle commodity process including allocation, distribution, and physical inventory.• Developed and maintained Microix Purchase Order system, creating workflows, managing permissions, and approvals.• Created custom reports senior management utilized in tracking contract spend with available grant funding.• Analyzed and reported monthly contract spend for housing department.• Processed various A/P invoices, contract related and general.• Managed 1099 reporting process.• Managed and filed yearly escheatment to State of Washington.• Completed various ad-hoc requests for Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.• Created and maintained audit quality reconciliations.

Concord, Ca

• Managed three direct reports and responsible for entire accounts payable and cash reporting functions. Supported Controller with full corporate accounting month-end GL & year-end audit. • Designed and implemented balance sheet account reconciliations, lead sheets and GL account analytics to enhance a control environment containing multiple data systems and manual processes. • Identified certain control deficiencies with vendor master profiles and invoice processing and provided recommendations for control enhancements to the VP of Finance and Controller. • Managed commission process ensuring timely and accurate completion to meet stringent reporting deadlines during month-end close.• Prepared audit-quality work papers resulting in increased data integrity and tighter internal controls around financial reporting. • Prepared management reporting monthly, including Cash Flow, A/R and branch performance statements.

Pleasanton, Ca

• Managed two direct reports and responsible for the entire accounts payable, 1099, and expense reporting functions. • Developed and maintained short and long term cash forecasts and delivered weekly KPI reports to the CFO and Controller.• Managed core Treasury functions including domestic and foreign cash management, domestic and international wires and related bank counterparty communications, revolver draws and repayments, and debt P&I payments. • Managed domestic and international payrolls in six foreign countries for all entities.• Analyzed pre-close, monthly accounting data and performed trend analysis. Surfaced issues to the Controller and implemented solutions prior to month-end close.• Designed, implemented and maintained all balance sheet account reconciliations and lead sheets. These were used to validate GL activity and balances and to support financial statement audits. • Analyzed month-end f/x accounting related to GBP, HKD, JPY and EUR conversions and responsible for f/x revaluation recording FX gains/losses against unrealized gain/loss account.• Served as integral resource and partner to Controller creating a new chart of accounts and entity structure during our Intacct/Concur to Oracle Fusion ERP migration.• Uncovered over $1.2M in uncollected A/R, $300K in un-applied cash, and $240K in customer refunds.• Delivered high-quality, tightly controlled work papers leveraging tables, pivot tables, relational data formulas (e.g. VLookup, SumIf, Concatenate and Index) and other Excel data management functions.

Pleasanton, Ca

• Conducted month-end close for VP of Finance and Accounting - preparing GL entries, supporting rollforwards and stand-alone, audit-quality work papers, reconciliations (fixed assets, prepaids, goodwill, deferred debt/rent, ARO, intercompany), and ensuring compliance with corporate accounting reporting deadlines. • Executed proper and complete GL management – Chart of Account structure and maintenance; Sub-ledger (Fixed Assets, A/R, A/P, and Inventory) management and maintenance.• Leveraged my data management skills to fulfill variance, analytic, and ad hoc requests for Director of FP&A. • Uncovered over $1M in Balance Sheet errors, and discovered control overrides in intercompany accounting. • Independently managed the external auditor “PBC” requests and managed the audit process. • Instrumental to successful integration of the general ledger and accounting functions of Pacific Convenience and Fuels (over $1B annual revenues) which was acquired by Fortress/Getty-owned United Pacific in 2015. Integration project work included partnering with acquirer consultant, Trefethen Advisors, redefining and aligning chart of accounts, account transaction/content analysis and reconciliation, and financial statement preparation and reconfiguration to acquisition entity specifications. • Partnered with IT Department to extract and translate source data. Managed and related this data for multiple companies to identify and manage exceptions, and proposed ERP system adjustments.

San Francisco, Ca

• Managed fixed asset accounting (SAGE software): recorded, depreciated, transferred, and disposed of company fixed assets. • Contributed to compilation of core financial statements and footnotes including fixed assets, liquidity disclosures (notes payable/LOC), lease (capital and operating), and deferred rent. • Managed both legal entity and bank audit processes: Reviewed PBC list, prepared/provided supporting documentation and analytics, and managed and resolved auditor questions. • Assisted in annual budgeting of Corporate, Finance, and Facilities departments with Controller and Director of Finance.• Crafted well thought-out, audit quality work papers and templates.

Tampa, Fl

• Implemented consistent revenue recognition practices across assigned Outback Steakhouse restaurants.• Prepared and recorded monthly accruals in accordance with US GAAP. • Consistently demonstrated my ability to clearly communicate with managing partners of individual Outback Steakhouse restaurants. Reviewed total controllable income and other financial analytics with managing partners monthly. • Detected two separate instances of malfeasance related to stolen imprest checks during my analytical reviews. • Communicated effectively with external auditors and provided them with information and analysis during their audit work of the going-private buyout of the SEC registered OSI Restaurant Partners Inc.• Audited petty cash and inventory reports applying professional skepticism, investigating unusual balances, and elevating issues to my team leader.