Christopher Bowles Email & Phone Number

Bolingbrook, Il, Us

Geneva, Illinois, United States

• Prepare and Analyze 44 Monthly Committee Reports for General and Special Revenue Funds• Create and Design Committee reports with greater detail using BA Analytics• Create New Processes for Monthly Committee Reports to improve efficiencies • Prepare, Reconcile, and Analyze monthly tax revenue reports for Chief Financial Officer• Prepare and Redesign Financial Tables for Yearly Budget Book

Lemont, Illinois, United States

• Prepare and Analyze Division Overhead Report Monthly and Present to Division Management• Prepare Quarterly Division Cost Center Report in Access and Present to Division Management• Analyze and Prepare Monthly Overrun report for 175 Project Cost Center Accounts• Review and Approve Expense Requests for up to 80k• Prepare Grant Proposal Budgets in Workday Adaptive• Review and Approve Grant Funding Proposals for Accuracy in Pearl• Request to Open, Close, or Modify Project Cost Center Accounts in Vector• Prepare Monthly Financial Presentation Power Point slides for Extended Leadership Meetings • Assist Stakeholder with Project Cost Center Inquiries in Workday• Review, Adjust, Approve Employee Timekeeping for Payroll• Prepare, Analyze, and Present ad-hoc reports upon request• Assist up to 20 Nuclear Scientist with Ad-hoc requests

Wheaton, Illinois

• Prepare Division of Transportation revenue $60 million budget, including project reimbursement• Prepare account receivables monthly reports for management• Investigate and contact past due customers for account collections and payment disputes • Prepare, process, deposit, and archive customer and project invoice payments from electronic, checks, and cash• Maintain 23 Excel general ledgers and historical trend charts for Motor Fuel Tax, Local Gas Tax, Bonds, Impact Fees, Pre-Paid, and Electronic payment accounts per GAAP, Federal, and State Guidelines• Reconcile general ledger accounts monthly with ERP Lawson and bank statements• Prepare, submit, and verify journal entries for general ledger• Extract, prepare, and analyze ERP Lawson data for month end township executive dashboard reports• Assist Traffic Engineers with reconciling capital projects, invoicing, and obligating project funding • Assist Accounts Payable and team members with work overflow • Prepare year end close to assist finance with annual internal and external County audits• Manage State of Illinois Motor Fuel Tax obligated funds for periodic state audits• Prepare, analyze, and present ad-hoc reports upon request – Covid Revenue Impact Analysis Dashboard

Bolingbrook, Il

Rewards Financial Analyst• Collaborated with CRM/Loyalty to design, test, and implement a Top 10 Retail Loyalty Rewards Program• Extract and prepare Excel based weekly Executive Dashboard reports for upper management• Communicate with multiple departments for promotional offer preparation • Extract, prepare, and analyze data from promotional events via CRM tools • Extract application inventory level from SAP• Forecast and maintain quarterly application inventory in Excel • Prepare and Present Power Point presentations from compiled analytical data for upper management• Correspond with Communications Department to distribute promotional event information to the proper retail stores• Examine and document current Loyalty platform processes in Visio and Excel • Coordinate with multiple departments for Loyalty program market changes• Forecast $30 million Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Miscellaneous Cost of Goods sold liability in ExcelProject Leader for Loyalty Platform Solutions (LPS)• Project leader for IT Architecture, Quality Assurance, BW/BI, Finance, and Accounting project managers• Assist department teams to define the scope and requirements for LPS• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for creating existing and new platform process flows in Visio to identify gaps and solutions to them• Wrote training manuals for new platform processes and trained store managers on the new program• Worked with BW/BI, Finance, and Accounting to define the scope and requirements for new financial reports• Created, executed, and documented test scenarios for LPS and financial reports• Assist IT Architecture and Quality Assurance teams using SQL to identify and fix LPS bugs

Warrenville, Il

• Extracted monthly, quarterly, and yearly actual from SAP• Populated analyst actual and forecast templates for submission to upper management• Prepared, submitted, and verified journal entries for projects• Investigated outstanding invoices using Ketera, SAP, and vendor contacts• Prepared, submitted, and verified monthly, quarterly, and yearly accruals• Compiled a monthly accrual aging log for variance meetings• Reconcile general ledger accounts monthly• Extracted monthly actual data from FIMS system to verify correct data mapping between cost and profit centers

Warrenville, Il

• Assist Project Managers with divestment property issues• Process and pay invoices from projects• Coordinate with accounting regarding invoice issues, divestment reconciliations, project expenses and annual divestment proceeds • Coordinate property and leasing contract procedures, settlement statements at closings, and divestment timelines with Real Estate Attorneys• Close divested properties on a daily basis within SAP• Prepare divestment schedules for distribution to various business units• Pulled asset ledgers for U.S. Fuel’s Business Unit properties by using SAP

Aurora, Illinois

• Assist Accounting team with manufacturing time study• Interview manufacturing floor management and employees for job functions• Review end to end process for manufacturing nutrition bars• Review end to end process for manufacturing nutritional powders• Prepare statistic and written reports for completed time study

Arlington Heights, Il

• Prepared Small Business Group for paperless transition• Supported a General Engineering study• Prepared Trend analysis for efficient Small Business Group monitoring of contractors• Participated in pre-award survey with a Contractor Administrator

Aurora, Il And Downers Grove, Il

• Followed established schedules and procedures for installing or troubleshooting stereos, amplifiers, speakers and security systems into cars, truck, and boats • Assisted and maintained the mobile installation center operations by maximizing the productivity of assigned employees• Provided technical advice and assistance to customers

Greater Chicago Area

• Supervised up to 8 employees to provide quality food, fast service, and cleanliness• Controlled food costs, waste, and implemented company procedures to budget employee’s time• Identified, addressed, and resolved problems immediately with employees and customers • Used written and oral communications skills to evaluate the performance of employees

Bachelor Of Science In Finance, Accounting And Finance, Cumulative G.P.A. 3.70 / 4.00

Computer Science, 4.0

- Cisco CCENT Certified - Python Programming