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

• 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