Craig S. Email & Phone Number

Lenexa, Ks, Us

United States

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Prepared consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for internal and external use. Worked with the internal audit team to handle the annual external audit. Created the annual budget models, prepared the annual budgets and presented to the Executive Leadership Committee for Board approval. Created bridges (or causes of change) monthly and identified outlying results or inaccuracies and worked with the Operations team to correct or improve individual employee performances, as well as creating documented procedures to maximize efficiencies. Worked on strategic projects to increase revenue across the operating unit.• Increased revenues from $108.8M in 2021 to $155.2M in 2022o Assisted with 2 acquisitions in Nashville, TN and Sparta, NJo Expanded drayage business in Nashville by over 215% in 2022.

Davenport, Iowa

Managed Senior Corporate Accounting staff, including three Finance Managers and one Senior Accountant for a firm that grew in revenues from $1.20 Billion in FY2011 to $2.44 Billion in FY2019. • Assisted with finance due diligence efforts on 15 acquisitions and recorded all business combination entries.• Led finance due diligence efforts on two Canadian acquisitions, creating four locations and seven new business units.• Led the transition of vital financial detail for the new Canadian entities over to the firm's ERP and Practice Management systems and trained the new staff on Finance processes and procedures. • Researched consolidated payables solutions available, did an RFP for multiple banks and moved forward with a robust program (including implementation) that accomplished the following:o Reduced the number of checks processed and the cost to process payables checkso Created credit card spend that will increase corporate card rebates ($400K in year one)o Total five year savings projected at $2.9 Million• Performed variance analysis on outlying results and reported findings and proposed actions to take to Executive Leadership group.

Davenport, Iowa

Managed Corporate Accounting staff, including direct reports. This included the Assets Management, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Indirect Tax and Treasury departments, as well as two general ledger Managers. • Completed monthly, quarterly and annual internal financial statement preparation and corresponding year end ledger close process for 17 business units (nine domestic; eight international).• Developed policies and procedures for expatriate entity accounting in China, Hong Kong, Germany and the UK.• Ensured that timely and accurate data was prepared for foreign tax authorities and independent auditors.• Handled the configuration of our new ERP system (Oracle PeopleSoft Financials) as part of an 18 month project that was completed in five months per Senior Management mandates.• Assisted with quarterly and annual external financial reporting and tax return preparation.• Managed the State and Local Tax audits for 86 locations in the United States, including resolving all proposed liabilities assessed by taxing authorities:o State of Illinois - Reduced liability by 70%, or $140K by researching and applying statutes that supported our case. o State of California - Reduced liability by 80% or $320K by gathering additional supporting hours detail to prove where the benefit of the work was performed.• Led the transition to a cloud-based solution (Coupa) for Procurement and Accounts Payable, including all configuration necessary to create accounting rules and workflow. (This resulted in a 30% reduction in processing costs per invoice and reduction of 2 FTE because of operating efficiencies)

Mission, Kansas

Managed the Accounting department, including three direct reports and nine non-direct reports. • Prepared accurate and timely monthly financial statements. Reduced close process from five days to two days by leveraging ERP capabilities, utilizing workflow in accounts payable and creating custom reports that could be generated from the existing data tables. • Led all aspects of annual risk assessment review and annual financial audit and prepared footnote disclosures in the final audited financial statements.• Prepared management’s assessment of internal financial controls and corrective plan of action for any deficiencies.• Created an interactive budget model that was used by 15 campuses to enter key revenue and expense inputs and develop an income statement that could be modified to achieve desired budgeted EBITDA figures.• Led two software conversion processes and all data integrity checks, as well as all account reconciliations. (ERP-Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains; Practice Management-CampusVue)• Launched a corporate purchasing card program that generated $375,000 in rebate revenue over 24 months.• Trained the newly created position of Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, including accounting software training, database table location, historical data requests and key item indicators for financial analysis.• Led finance due diligence process during the proposed sale of the company by the parent corporation.