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Farmington Hills, Michigan

• Manage all period, quarter, and fiscal year-end financial close activities for a strategic business unit for publicly traded international trading company.
• Manage general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable and inventory reconciliation. Develop young team through mentoring and implementation of processes and procedures.
• Led implementation of reporting software for division. Developed training tools, wrote reports, trained personnel.
• Work with supply chain and sales teams to support standardization of processes and procedures, train on use of software, provide understanding of how transactions are captured and relate to financial statements.
• Lead physical inventory count and reconciliation for twenty-one warehouses. Supported the transition of the of opening two company owned warehouses from several third-party owned warehouses as part of cost saving.
• Chosen to lead robotic process automation implementation for the division.

Bloomfield Hills, MI

Bloomfield Hills, MI

• Managed financial analysis and lease administration services including accounts receivable, contracting, reporting of tenant sales, occupancy reporting, contract compliance, and expense participation cost recovery..
• Led department implementation of a fully integrated enterprise information technology system through collaboration with business users, IT professionals and third-party consultants to identify processes, design screens.
• Improved the sales overage rent procedure by designing a more robust and automated billing process resulting in a decrease of manual calculations by 40%, streamlining fact finding reports from 10 to 1, and applying.
• Contributed to due diligence for property acquisition project by identifying revenue potential and contractual risk to possible redevelopment of the project. Developed model to project future rent streams. The company.
• Represented the company as a credit and financial expert in depositions and bankruptcy trials contributing to favorable settlements and avoidance of unsuitable operators. The mitigated risk to the company in one case.
• Ensured department compliance with company risk management (SOX compliance) and document retention policies.

Troy, MI

• Managed all period, quarter, and fiscal year-end financial close activities for international manufacturer including coordination and elimination of inter-company transactions, analysis of foreign subsidiary financial.
• Managed Corporate General Ledger and Accounts Payable departments. Worked with regional plant controllers to identify issues and make process and reporting improvements. Evaluated and improved process of capturing both.
• Contributed to ad hoc and special projects, sent to plants to train personnel on software use, more efficient accounting practices, assist in the implementation of a cost information system, and assist Cost Accounting.
• Organized workflow, reviewed reconciliations of general ledger accounts, and audited accounts payable transactions. Provided professional development of staff. Supervised and coordinated payroll tax filing requirements.

Troy, MI

• Designed new methods of capturing work-in-process, quote estimation and budgeting for job shop. Performed full service accounting for plant. Prepared financial reports and charts for plant manager and supervisors..
• Managed Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll, and General Ledger.
• Consolidated financial statements and reconciled accounts.
• Managed cash flow.
• Responsible for property tax and governmental reporting compliance.

Master Of Science In Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Accounting

High School