Christopher Lesch Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia

• Managed department responsible for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis. • Developed ways to continuously improve processes ensuring timely and accurate analysis and financial review for management team• Bottoms up budgeting for over $1.3B in annual revenue, +80 revenue locations, and +30 cost centers• In-depth quarterly reforecasts of current year merging actuals and updated expectations of the remaining year from key departments to ensure goals are being meet and minimize risk• Extensive reporting and analysis on a weekly as well as monthly basis to evaluate trends and variances among a large, diverse retail chain• Long term planning using input from cost centers owners and well as executives to ensure the company is on plan to achieve stated goals• Organize efforts with other departments to drive analysis of key expenses to aid with management• Managed process around Real Estate Proformas ensuring new store modeling ran smoothly

• Monitored fast passed closing processing ensuring that timelines were meet and issues were mitigated • Assisted in optimizing efficiency and performance of the accounting department• Supervised accounting activities and prepared financial status reports• Developed systems for internal controls and policies and ensured accounting process were functioning• Supported in the development of financial models and monthly reconciling of balance sheet• Assisted controller in the preparation of internal budget, filing tax, and audits

• Managed audit plan by coordinating with Loss Prevention and Operations departments• Ensured that audit plan covered key risk areas and SOPs compliance• Created detailed reporting to monitor trends• Created remedial audit plan for poor performers that included retraining\mitigation while lowering the number of audits for locations that had consistently high scores

Hollywood, California

Los Angeles, California