David Colburn Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Greater Seattle Area

+ Given another unofficial title, too colorful for the internet, for my role in goal setting and tracking.+ Reluctant Trello, Slack, and Doodle admin.+ Most distinctive and illegible penmanship of all members.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Oversaw and acted as project owner of migration from Netsuite to Sage Intacct.• Implemented and configured Concur Travel & Expense, Avalara (sales tax), Bill.com, and Salesforce CRM Connector.• Implemented Intacct SIG VAT for UK entity.• Implemented Kronos (now UKG) timekeeping system.• Initiated and completed majority of implementation for Kimble PSA (now Kantana) before it was put on hold by executive cost-cutting measures.

Greater Seattle Area

• Worked with Operations and Sales to streamline quote-to-cash process across several international entities.• Oversaw month-end and year-end accounting close processes.• Managed and grew global finance team from five to sixteen people, adding team managers to foster team development and efficiency.

Greater Seattle Area

• Key accounting & logical inventory contact for research, selection, and implementation of new eCommerce, inventory, order management, and accounting systems.• Managed WA State Excise tax audit and most of company’s first external GAAP review audit.• Coach, cross train, and motivate team members.• Ensure internal controls are executed and current.• Manage costing, set up, and distribution of inventory items in accounting software system.• Work with department heads to create comprehensive annual budgets.• Achieve budget objectives by strategically scheduling expenditures.• Participate in the timely, accurate preparation and review of financial statements

Greater Seattle Area

• Streamlined billing, revenue recognition, and COGS process for incremental revenue and pass-through items.• Facilitated creation of new internal reports to help salespeople and account managers track and manage client SaaS revenue activity and COGS to maintain favorable margins.• Prepared weekly and period reporting for bookings and sales quotas, communicating across the business organization to approve final closed deals.• Managed revenue and contracts database and reconciles it to GL.• Prepared schedules and supporting documents for quarterly and annual audits in advance of public filings.

Greater Seattle Area

• Prepares and analyzes financial statements in accordance with GAAP. Prepares monthly balance sheet reconciliations, monthly journal entries, and analyzes profit and loss accounts for variances to budget.• Maintains General Ledger and subsidiary systems.• Provides reporting and analysis to senior management and investors for recapitalization and merger & acquisition activities.• Manages the company budgeting and forecasting processes including budget versus actual in cooperation with senior management.• Provides tax reporting and analysis to assure compliance with federal, state, and local tax requirements. • Develops and manages revenue recognition processes to ensure capture of essential data from other business areas and accurate accounting of customer contracts and transactions.• Planned and managed upgrade of hosted financial system (Dynamics Great Plains) to a cloud solution to reduce costs. Recreated financial statements in the new reporting system.

Greater Seattle Area

• Performed month end close processes, including preparation of journal entries, account analysis and General Ledger account reconciliations related to commissions and partner revenue share.• Coordinated accounting GL restructure to report commission expense & liability in multiple sets of books.• Managed accounting aspect of streamlining the Salesforce workflow process.• Created reporting for foreign currency gain/loss analysis, monthly expense allocation by department, product, and business group, and supplemental management reporting by geographic region.• Responsible for deferred cost entries related to commissions. Worked with Revenue Accounting team to improve reporting of these deferred costs and improve backup documentation.• Proactively identified resale billing and reporting issues and work with appropriate business partners to resolve them.• Assisted with the review of contracts and related documents to identify appropriate revenue recognition issues.• Supported compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls requirements.• Provided support for the quarterly business reviews and quarterly/annual audits performed by the independent auditors.• Provided support to sales, business development and legal teams regarding commissions, partner fees and related financial information.• Validated and documented policies and procedures related to commissions.

• Managed fixed asset creation, depreciation, and IT inventory reconciliation.• Assisted Controller with monthly close by reconciling GL accounts and performing variance analysis.• Responsible for invoice creation, revenue assurance, cash receipts, and A/R aging analysis.• Managed cash and reconciled bank accounts.• Reconciled subsidiary expense and inter-company transfer accounts. Helped with consolidation of subsidiary the following year.• Created custom reports in MS Dynamics-Great Plains (enterprise software)• Assisted with annual audits by verifying internal control processes and furnishing test documents. • Responsible for all aspects of accounts payable: invoice entry, expense allocation, cash disbursements, and subledger reconciliation.• Filed B&O, excise, city, and unemployment taxes for multiple states.• Processed bi-weekly payroll in multiple states and reconciled payroll accounts.• Migrated subsidiary into parent’s payroll system.• Reconciled accrued vacation amounts.• Created and maintained labor reports for cost management.• Created customized HR database in MS Access for use across HR & finance.• Managed compensation analysis and incentive payout.

Contract Position.Supported practice units by assisting account management on large consulting engagements from project initiation to closeout. • Entered opportunity information into the system of record, including projected financial data, opportunity qualification data, pursuit team members, etc.• Supported Practice Controller with subcontractor procurement process.• Facilitated client purchase order process.• Generated project codes, entered into the system of record, and distributed to the engagement team members and Practice Controller. • Created invoices and statements for project-related fees and expenses• Updated training manual for Opportunity to Realization process for distribution to all vertical practices.

Paris Area, France

Performed daily office operations such as filing, writing & sending mail/e-mail correspondence and phone calls in English and French. Also assisted with student lodging, registration with French universities, assembling orientation packets, organizing cultural activities, and student introduction to the city and its daily life. Led groups of 30-40 students on excursions in and around Paris.

French Language And Literature

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting

French Language & Literature