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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Support Revenue accounting team, prepare account reconciliations, contract analysis, billing, reporting and revenue recognition

Carrollton, Texas, Us

Oversaw month-end closing duties, such as reviewing cost center coding, deferred billing, and liquidated damages. Prepared journal entries for re-class of coding errors and deferred billing to revenue, bad debt, bank wires, and reconciliation re-classes. Administered reconciliation for clearing accounts, accounts-receivable aging, bad debt, deferred billing, and accrued liabilities. Provided AR billing team with franchise opening fees, transfers, and general manager training fees. Reviewed trial balances for specific revenue accounts. Built management schedules of new franchise signings, openings, and all fees and terms of agreements. Prepared schedule for general accounting needed for FAS 606. Provided list of terminated and transferred franchise locations to AR billing team. Collaborated with renovation team to recognize renovations completed. Provided AR billing team incentive credits issued to franchisee. Created schedule to franchise administration team for all incentives paid by year and month. Partnered with financial planning team on building and overseeing budgets for incentives.• Saved company $450,000 by determining duplicated credit memos issued to franchisees.• Prepared reporting as special projects for upper management to identify trends and understanding revenue expectancy. • Created franchise opening fee schedules in Excel to recognize revenue, per GAAP timetable.

Houston, Texas, Us

HALLIBURTON (Energy Service Company), Carrollton, Texas 2014 to 2015Led and maintained $120,000,000 budget for two product service lines. Performed extensive analysis on technology R&D spending and conducted monthly financial reviews. Prepared monthly commentary explaining major variances (i.e., actual versus forecast, current quarter versus next quarter). Worked closely with management to secure monthly forecast updates and updated appropriately in Hyperion. • Spearheaded annual planning process with two divisions and ensured Hyperion updated appropriately with correct values. • Ensured assets were capitalized in a timely manner according to the GAAP regulations.• Performed month-end closing duties, such as reviewing cost-center spending and project spending, recorded accruals, and made re-class entries.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Prepared monthly entries, month end closing entries, and various account reconciliations for various Business Units. • Reconciled payroll reconciliations from October to December for year-end close.• Researched un-reconciled items for year-end close.

Lewisville, Tx, Us

Prepared monthly closing entries and various account reconciliations for Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine and Baltimore Sun. Managed Trade Accounting/Barter Accounting for 14 Business Units.• Prepared six months of bank statements for 4 different bank accounts in 4 months.• Streamlined trade accounting process for 14 Business Units.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Maintained corporate U.S. general ledger, internal and external financial reporting, inter-company accounting, managed royalties, and remotely managed outsourced relationships. Implemented, reviewed, and presented monthly balance-sheet review for all holding companies to executive leadership team. Oversaw royalties for 49 foreign customers in 30 different currencies for $50,000,000 in royalties. Collected contract and forecast information for monthly accruals. Worked closely with inter-company affiliates on resolving royalty differences and set up processes, resulting in collection of royalty payments from 120 to 30 days.• Oversaw outsourced team in India and trained remotely, and wrote SOP for job descriptions, development plans, and coaching, resulting in improvement of effectiveness by 75%.• Collected $3,000,000 of past-due receivables from Mexico affiliate past due for two years in six months and reduced collectables to 45 days.• Reconciled three plan years two weeks ahead of schedule for employee payroll deductions for employee stock options from multiple payroll systems against plan administer, saving company $150,000.

Plano, Tx, Us

Maintained general ledger for both beverage and confection companies, and prepared and analyzed account reconciliations. Performed monthly activities, including, but not limited to, recurring entries, month-end entries, and Hyperion reporting. Served as key resource in transition to shared business services and retained as on-site expert. Trained outsourced team in India on U.S. Finance tasks, including monthly process and royalties. Improved effectiveness of daily business. Partnered with manager to create Excel templates to efficiently track monthly royalty accrual, quarterly royalty true-ups, and quarterly cash royalty payments for each affiliate. ROYAL CROWN COLA, White Plains, New York, Accounting Manager, 1997-2004. Maintained general ledger for Royal Crown Cola, audited field accounting office, and prepared quarterly and year-end SEC reports and internal financial reports. Oversaw transition for business from Florida to New York, resulting in integrating Royal Crown into Snapple accounting system. Implemented review for monthly information from two field offices, resulting in 50% improvement in effectiveness.

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Consolidated ten Manhattan projects with monthly reporting to Japanese home office.