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Milan, Italy, It

Milan, Italy, It

Provide P&L and Balance Sheet oversight for Oakley Corporate and North American Wholesale entities. Project leader on multiple ERP general ledger migrations and team process assimilations. Manage monthly intercompany reconciliation, in order to properly consolidate North American entities’ financial statements into the global entity. Oversee Luxottica North America Holdings’ and Oakley’s equity (retained earnings, stock, investments, etc.). Reconcile various cash accounts (including processing of payments, currency exchanges and intercompany cash transfers).

Milan, Italy, It

Manage the Sponsored Athlete Royalty accounting process. Involves paying, reporting, and communicating royalty fees in an accurate and timely manner to the multitude of licensors. Led Oakley’s response to independent audit for Shaun White Enterprises, Oakley Inc.’s largest licensor, across the contractually obligated years of 2008 through 2017. Oversee the Royalty P&L account, which is heavily scrutinized on a monthly basis to ensure low product margins. Dissect contractual agreements for inventory SKU sales breaches.

Milan, Italy, It

Manage all intercompany transactions and reconciliations for Luxottica North America's relationships with the following: Luxottica Group, S.P.A. (Milan, Italy), Luxottica S.R.L (Milan, Italy), Sunglass Direct Italy S.R.L., Oakley, Oliver Peoples, and Optical Prescription Spectacle Makers (Australia).Cooperate with the intercompany counterpart of the other entity in order to diminish the potential for intercompany receivable/payable mismatching between entities.Maintain the monthly amortization schedule of IT Related prepaid items, from which the monthly entry is calculated. Involves coordination with the Senior Manager of IT Accounting to ensure that all invoices are properly coded and amortized across the correct periods.Oversee the Sunglass Hut relationship with joint venture partner, Corliss Stone-Littles, who manages Luxottica's airport terminal Sunglass Hut stores.Manage the semiannual Remakes Reserve entry which accounts for the revenue of lenses and frames, sold in the current period, which may necessitate remanufacturing within 90 days.Manage the annual State and City Apportionments, which allocate a percentage of total revenues, expenses, inventory, and capital to their appropriate state and city for tax purposes

Milan, Italy, It

Managed Luxottica’s host relationships with Target, Sears, Macy’s, Yoox.com, Amazon.com, Disney, and various hotels. This required constant communication with host partners to ensure timely and appropriate payment of settlements.Oversaw the preparation and booking of the Lab Clear Out entry, which manually moved manufacturing costs and revenues from Luxottica North America Distribution to the appropriate Luxottica entity (Luxottica Retail North America, Glasses.com), who used the manufacturing services.Prepared the weekly miscellaneous cash entry, miscellaneous wires entry, and the subsequent bank reconciliations.Oversaw the SAB 101 Undisbursed Orders Revenue Reserve for Target, Sears, and Pearle on a quarterly basis. This involved the evaluation of data for reasonableness from quarterly store surveys, from which the average percentage of undisbursed orders was determined.

Oversaw the daily sales transaction postings to the general ledger for all Cincinnati Bell Wireless (CBW) stores. This required extreme proficiency in Microsoft Excel macro creation and maintenance.Reconciled the daily cash deliveries from each of the CBW stores. This involved the maintenance of a monthly cash reconciliation file in Excel, which settled multiple cash accounts from various banks. Frequently communicated with the store managers and bank representatives to track down missing deposits.Reconciled the fixed assets for Cincinnati Bell Any Distance by managing a detailed sub ledger in Sage software. This further required the preparation and booking of entries associated with capital additions and depreciation expense.Acted as the point of contact for the accounts payable department of Cincinnati Bell Inc., outsourced to a company in India.Maintained the uncollected refund check sub ledger for CBW, which was annually released to the various state governments in which the customer resided.Investigated all monthly chargebacks for CBW internet transactions in order to identify fraudulent data usage. Frequently worked with the Director of Fraud to research any fraudulent internet purchases and deactivate false accounts.Created a monthly customer data usage analysis for the CBW Finance team, aiding in periodic data forecasting.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Rotated through three separate accounting functions at W&SFG during my 11 month internship.IFS Financial Services: Prepared journal entries, check requests, expense reports, and cash receipts; coordinated quarter-long project by collecting and organizing data for the IFS financial analyst.Controller Group: Arranged the Quarterly Business Review for the executive board of National Integrity; reconciled accounts for the five insurance companies of W&SFG; aided in reconstruction of the chart of accounts for the Accounting Standardization Initiative.Internal Audit: Assisted Ernst & Young on the annual external audit of W&SFG; utilized interpersonal communication skills while interviewing certain employees of W&SFG for audits

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor'S Of Science, Accounting