Scope of assignment to perform overall accounting system assessment to ensure new ERP system, Dealer Track, is working properly and that all accounts reconcile and are valid.• Balance books as required by GAAP and third party financial institutions; this resulted in significantly improved banking and financing relationships.• Implement accounting procedures to ensure consistent, reliable and timely financial reporting.• Aggressively communicate with accounting software vendor to make enhancements and improvements to their product to comply with GAAP and streamline processes.• Enable company owner to gain confidence in his monthly financial status and results from operations which enabled him to add two new dealership locations and increase profits by 200% in two years time on sales of $33 million.• Help maintain flooring credit line with major finance company, rarely offered in the used car industry. Must be best in class to qualify.

– Responsible for all general accounting functions of one the nation’s oldest and well known private non-profit business membership clubs.• Stabilize high turnover in the accounting manager role.• Validate all balance sheet accounts and adjust as required.• Implement and drove cost cutting measures during economic recession.• Migrate from Abacus 21 software to web based Northstar ERP environment.• Track and manage multimillion dollar capital improvement projects.• Ensure non-profit status was not jeopardized by unrelated business expenses.• Research and receive thousands of dollars in unclaimed funds held by the State Controller

Assigned to Los Angeles Unified School District- Construction Division. Team member in charge of maintaining all existing buildings and improvement projects. • Designed and created schedules to show work in progress versus budget and provide variance explanations• Strategize and coordinate with field project and finance managers to ensure construction project costs and allotted time were within budget. High profile client.

– In charge of managing Parsons finances for its Global Shared Services (GSS) division. Responsible for budget and control all major indirect costs and non-core businesses. Apply experience and knowledge in property management, real estate investment, government contracts, internal audit and procurement.• Reduce lease and facility costs through lease negotiations, densification and combining offices in similar locations. This involved the coordination of over 100 domestic and foreign offices (4 million sq/ft).• Manage Parsons commercial properties located in Pasadena, Texas and North Carolina.• Perform financial modeling and research for Parsons Development Corporation designed to seek equity or joint venture opportunities in new business areas.• Responsible for the financial management of Parsons parking concessions.• Manage both GSS Finance and Procurement departments consisting of 8 staff.• Financial coordinator for Parsons “Tournament for Life”, an annual non-profit golf tournament whose proceeds benefited the American Cancer Society.

– Assigned to Hoag Hospital as a team member performing Section 404 (of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) assessments of internal control of the institution’s financial reporting.• Assess relevant assertions, evaluate operating effectiveness of controls and identify control weaknesses and deficiencies.• Review compliance by employees and management with applicable policies and procedures.• Recommend improvement of management controls to safeguard organizational resources, promote organizational growth and operational efficiency and ensure compliance with applicable policies and procedures and generally accepted accounting principles.

Perform asset control activities and prepare monthly reports providing key data analysis regarding budget versus actual expenditures in salaries, employee benefits, services, and supplies for the Agency.