Christopher D. Wiksten Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

Apply knowledge of business and technology to allow for the development of integrated solutions to resolve technical and business issues. Serve as a liaison between internal customers and functional IT departments during the initial phases of development efforts for various business initiatives. Apply structured methodology in the creation of requirements.

Greater Denver Area

- Focus on security, usability and collaboration, Active Disclosure provides greater efficiency in finance, legal, and investor relations; as well as a better path to create and manage their financial disclosure reports.- Consult and manage clients through a cloud-based solution that streamlines content creation, review, and distribution processes, while.

Greater Denver Area

- Performed final XBRL reviews to ensure SEC compliance.- Manage client’s XBRL SEC filings quarterly.- Work with clients to define and implement XBRL mapping and tagging of meta data according to US-GAAP taxonomy and SEC XBRL mandate for public companies.- Develop project plans to identify milestones for clients to follow for a successful SEC filing.- Work.

- XBRL SEC Financial Reporting- Managed a team of Senior XBRL Reporting Analysts- Selected by executive management to oversee strategic partner relationships.- Project managed the deployment of a new software product to over 1500 direct and indirect customers.- Authored and integrated client service delivery process.- Recruited, trained and managed a Team.

- Developed and documented standard processes for normalizing financial statement data for use in a computer system I assisted in developing that presents standard Financial KPI's (dashboards) for customers primarily in the private and venture capital markets. Managed a team of 4 analysts responsible for data normalization, system testing, use cases and.

• Analyzed and documented business process utilizing Visio and use cases related to current and future systems.
• Defined, documented, implemented, and maintained all logistics processes for Global Field Services.
• Led JAD sessions with DBA’s, Architects, Project Engineers, Project Managers, and Business Users.
• Recommended business process improvements and system and hardware changes for the SDLC.
• Served as liaison between Business Units and IT.
• Created Training Documentation for new processes.

• Managed the Colorado Centralized Accounting Department and nine employees.
• Provided financial statement support and analysis for all Profit Center Managers.
• Assisted the Colorado State Manager, SVP and EVP of the Northwest Region with special projects.
• Generated journal entries each month for accruals, allocations, and re-classifications of expenses.
• Executed analytical analysis of allocations methodology.
• Ensured all Profit Center Managers and their operations were in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.

• Oversaw GFS logistics, from new installations to return material authorizations (RMA).
• Responsible for a global network with over 1.5 billion dollars in deployed equipment and 600 million in stock and spare inventory.
• Functioned as Clarify System Administrator for all Clear Logistics system configurations as it relates to GFS.
• Defined, developed, documented, implemented, and maintained all processes related to logistics for GFS.
• Project Manager for the Asset Management Program company initiative, implementing blind/cycle counts, serialization, and location reconciliation.
• Documented scope of work for IT to translate to systems requirements, user acceptance testing, systems documentation and process flows / M&P’s for Level 3 systems.

• Managed Accounting Department and six employees.
• Member of the executive management team for TSI.
• Prepared Monthly Financial Statements for eight branch offices.
• Responsible for Beta Testing New Financial and Escrow Software.
• Defined and documented all day to day processes.
• Oversaw revenue recognition and general ledger analysis for nine branch offices.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting And Business/Management

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi Fraternity Beta Alpha Psi Accounting Fraternity Internal Fraternal Committee

High School Diploma, High School

Activities and Societies: 1990 High School Tennis State Champion