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Englewood, Colorado, Us

• Interface with a strategic equity partner to ensure transparency while managing a high-performing team of 5 to 8 based on volume and collaborating with third parties to file sales tax returns.• Manage the month-end process, forecast activity and estimate revenues, and provide valuable insight into trends affecting profit and loss (P&L) through variance analysis.• Oversee the cash balances of the organization, reporting on those to the equity partner.Notable achievements while in the position have included:- Streamlined transaction process between internal CRM and ERP system.- Launched and manage the online budgeting system vs using Excel.- Improve the accuracy of outgoing checks by merging data from the ERP and Tableau reporting.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

• Interfaced with the executive leadership team and board of directors to develop and analyze monthly and yearly forecasts.• Presented findings and made recommendations on financial reports to the executive leadership team for variances. • Collaborated with the CEO and executive leadership team to prepare annual top-down budgets and provide monthly feedback on budget to actual results. • Worked with the executive leadership team to review state licenses and provide IRR and NPV analysis to ensure positive purchase prices.• Supervised and mentored junior accounting staff to ensure the quality input of accounting transactions.• Coordinated and led annual audits with an external financial auditing firm and developed and presented reports to highlight changes in bank transactions and track bank fees.• Created GAAP financial income statement reports to provide insight into trends affecting the business and developed and managed reports to determine potential client billable items not stated in service contracts.• Updated and managed the monthly financial dashboard for the executive leadership team based on accounting system data in MS Excel.• Built and data mined business model MS Excel spreadsheets to predict ongoing trends and anomalies in revenue and expense transactions, reporting larger discrepancies to the executive leadership team for action.• Administered bi-weekly payroll/incentives for 100+ people, as well as ad-hoc payrolls using a third-party provider.Notable achievements while in the position included:- Played a key role in the process of reducing bank fees by 91% from $22,000 to $2,000 through statement consolidation and research.- Modified the existing revenue report and worked with team members to streamline the month-end close by 54% from 22 to 10 days.- Established a checks and balances system for processing and submitting payroll to eliminate duplication and errors.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Developed and managed new comparisons to determine missing currency translation adjustments on both income statements and balance sheets.• Advised the management team on variances in intercompany foreign exchange reconciliations and ways to reduce open items.

Bologna, It

• Organized annual collaborative budgets with the Italian and U.S. business units and presented the consolidated budget to the executive management team over multiple days in Bologna, Italy.• Worked with the executive leadership team to project revenue in 3 divisions with a total of $50M in annual revenue.• Trained and mentored junior staff to reduce transactional error rates and instill general accounting knowledge and best practices and trained and managed an intern for the Planning and Business Controls group.• Prepared profit and loss reports with full variance commentary, charts, and four-way comparative information for 4 individual U.S. business units and provided a consolidated version for the U.S. operations CEO and President.• Developed and delivered a monthly top-revenue customer report and analyzed trends across multiple business units.• Performed in-depth revenue-based sensitivity analysis on proprietary bank software implementation schedules over multiple years.• Created and managed price, production, and profitability models for various market sizes encompassing 2 different divisions ranging from $1M to $8M in annual revenue.• Leveraged detailed knowledge of software revenue recognition rules, including VSOE as it relates to U.S. GAAP, to deliver positive outcomes. • Responsible for all accounting activity and reporting for a partly owned subsidiary, comprising accounts payable, accounts receivable, journal entries, and reconciliations.• Produced monthly financial statements, including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow for a joint venture, distributing reports to the executive leadership team and business partner with evaluation on significant events.• Engineered monthly SAP reports to track revenue and expenses and used MS Excel for analysis, distributing the reports to multiple levels of management via the MS SharePoint site.• Interfaced with global accounting partners to convert 4 purchased businesses transitioning into SAP.