David Pearce Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

A Professional Employers Organization specialising in providing clients with payroll, HR and tax support, thus removing that burden from them and allowing them to concentrate on promoting and growing their own businesses. Employer Flexible supports over 5,500 Work Site Employees. Key Achievements: • Prepared timely monthly and annual financial accounts for five separate business entities under Employer Flexible Management banner;• Implemented and prepared monthly presentation of financial results at board and department level. This was something that had never been done before prior to my arrival; • Introduced and maintained an ever-growing reconciliation process of all client health benefits programs, reconciling employee payroll deductions to premiums paid to health provider premium invoices; • Reconciled tax collections (local, tax and federal) to payments made to those taxing institutions; • Control Account reconciliations (all liability and asset accounts) for all five-business entities;• Fixed Asset analysis and capital expenditure requests; • Responsibility for several members of accounts department staff; • Prime point of contact for annual company audits. Prior to my arrival Employer Flexible (due to its size at the time) had never been audited, so starting this annual audit process was extremely challenging but ultimately successful; • Annual budgets and monthly forecasting; • Variance analysis of monthly financial results to budgets and forecasts; • Monthly and timely bank reporting to satisfy bank loan requirements; • Received multiple awards for Employee of the Year and E-Code (internal code of corporate ethics and standards)I relocated to Italy but continue to work for Employer Flexible remotely tasked with “Revenue Optimisation”, with emphasis on client administration fees, audit of health benefits plans and audit of taxes and workers compensation revenue and GM streams.

Houston, Texas Area

A globally trusted on-line research tool and library of over 83,000 thousand educational texts for use in schools and individual further education pursuits.Key Achievements• Preparation of timely monthly and annual financial accounts;• Cash Flow forecasting;• Annual budgets and monthly forecasting;• Coordination of quarterly and annual payments to publishers for royalty rights to the educational texts we held on our servers, including many European publishers;• Monthly presentation of financial results at board and department level;• Analysis of subscription trends to maintain optimum services to our subscribers;• Investigation and resolution of failed credit card subscription payments, reconciling to individual subscribers and collecting or removing service;• Implemented and maintained a brand new reporting system to monitor on-line sales and tax usage to EU subscribers, reporting quarterly returns to the EU and making timely payments oftax collections;• Created financial reporting tools for new services we offered such as Life Time Individual Membership subscriptions and On Line Lesson Plans sold to school districts for use in the class in conjunction with the published materials we held;• Control Account reconciliations (All liability and asset accounts);• Fixed Asset analysis and capital expenditure requests;• Responsibility for several members of accounts department staff;• Prime point of contact for annual company audits;• Annual budgets and monthly forecasting;• Variance analysis of monthly financial results to budgets and forecasts;

Bridlington, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Manufacturer and Supplier of Labelling and Printing machinery, supplying clients all the world, including Australia, U,S,, China, India and most of Europe. One of our first ever and longest serving clients was Franchini and C. S.r.l in Milan.Key Achievements• Job Costing, analyzing labor and materials usage on each manufactured unit and type for margin comparisons, production costs and budget and forecast modeling;• Detailed preparation and submission of all aspects of monthly and financial year end accounts;• Monthly presentation of financial results at board level;• Reduced monthly accounts reporting time by two weeks;• Implementation of LEAN manufacturing program. In first year realized savings of the sterling equivalent of at least115,000 Euro’s ;• Control Account reconciliations (all liability and asset accounts);• Fixed Asset analysis and capital expenditure requests;• Prime point of contact for annual company audits. Six successful audits were completed;• Annual budgets and quarterly forecasts & Variance analysis;• Preparation and submission of personal tax, social security, pension and sales tax reporting;• Exhibition accounting including grant claims, tax reclamation and expenditure analysis;• Production of financial data and business plans for Investments Grants and annual business awards.• Weekly wages preparation for 60 employees;• Leading team of three accounts personnel.

Driffield, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Value Added Food Processor supplying all major market chains within the UK. Key Achievements • Accruals and Prepayments; • Inter Company reconciliations; • Control Account reconciliations (Purchases, Sales, Wages, Bank, Petty Cash); • Annual Pensions reporting; • Productions of P11D’s (Annual calculation of benefits in kind taxable on employee’s) • Tax and National Insurance Year End reporting; • Weekly Management and Monthly Financial accounts preparation; • Involvement in annual company audits.

Wakefield/Hull And Alfreton, United Kingdom

Milk Processing plants providing all aspects of dairy production from milk haulage from farms, processing into final bottled product to distribution to general public. Key Achievements • Daily reconciliations of production and sales to end of day stock take; • Accruals and prepayments for large regional accounting structure; • Variance analysis; • Sales and Purchase Ledger reconciliations; • Production of weekly management accounts; • Inter Company Account reconciliations; • Budget processing; • Creation of accounting functionality and reporting for milk distribution depots; • Production of monthly financial accounts; • Recruitment, training and overseeing of distribution depot staff; • Calculation of distribution costings.