Lead and empower an accounting team of 5. Manage monthly close, financial reporting packages and divisional budget & budget to actual.• Developed first-use divisional zero-based budgeting with varied incremental/activity-based budgeting in future years.• Lead monthly budget to actual analysis, break-even analysis, various financial analyses and utilize models to assist C-suite in strategic decision making.• Lead discussion to Ops Managers & C-Suite on Financial presentation as well as Managerial accounting issues with production as it relates to financial presentation.• Skilled in managing & coaching team in full cycle accounting processes (AR/AP/TB/JE/GL Posting/Financial Statements)• Supervised and mentored a team of 5, ensuring goals and objectives are completed timely and accurately.• Monthly review and approval of Divisional Financial Statements ensuring timeliness, completeness, and accuracy. • Admin of Divisional Accounting ERP system and Responsible for implementation of controls, permissions and processes.• Review and post all system generated GL batches as well as manual journal entries proposed by Accounting Team.• Coordinate with Executives and Ops to ensure Divisional, Corporate and Exec goals & status are known anytime.• Responsible for Divisional Accounting staffing levels through Interviewing, hiring, and terminating staff. • Facilitating role expectations and duties to team members and ensuring deadlines are met and/or reallocating duties.• Facilitate external audit process with timely responses and support other divisions as necessary.

Supervising accounting staff (2-4 accountants).Responsible for interviewing, hiring & training replacement staff for my division.Reviewing and approving balance sheet reconciliations done by accounting team.Preparation of financial statements (Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Direct Cash Flow statement).Post all system generated GL batches in ERP system.Review and post all manual journal entries proposed by the accounting team.Review and approve fixed asset journal entries and adjustments.Assist in the design, preparation and variance analysis of budgets for review by management.Review and approve payables payment requests and bi-weekly payables runs.Communicate role expectations and duties to accounting staff and ensure deadlines are met.Review and approve month-end related party/intercompany transactions.Analyze complex financial and operational information for management and executives as required.Actively participate and report monthly financial and operational information for C-Suite.Work on a variety of key accounting projects both as a lead and as a team member.Facilitate the external audit process, ensuring timely responses to auditors.Other responsibilities as directed by senior management

Prepares monthly binder & all balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with GAAP.Prepare financial statements & revenue, COGS and payroll reconciliations.Builds and maintain various monthly reports per directors and senior finance team.Analyze & research variances related to reconciliations, invoices, WIP, COGS & Revenue.Review AR invoices generated by billing team.Review/Post batches generated by other departments such as AP, AR and Purchasing.Support consolidation manager through reporting, documentation and analysis.Dual administrator role HBSC bank for end users access control, authorization limits, setup, etc.Team ERP conversion & implementation administrators.ERP Power user Component Control & MS Dynamics Administrator.Other responsibilities as directed by senior management.

Perform detailed review of projects, Work in process reports ensuring that all relevant costs have been treated appropriately.Aid in the financial reporting process by performing period close activities as well as reconciliations, cost analysis, invoice approvals, provision of consolidations reports, etc.Review invoices in accordance with sales agreements, contracts, etc that billing department has created and post into accounting software.Participating in the collections process to ensure provision of statement of accounts, proper follow-up inquiries and referral of accounts to collection agencies.Meets accounts receivable operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing productivity, quality and customer-service standards.Maintains financial security by adhering to internal accounting controls.Provides Operations and Finance teams with timely revenue, billing and accounts receivable analysis and reporting.Provide support for external and internal auditors during the monthly, quarterly and annual audits of revenue data and controls.Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks.Other Adhoc as required: Backup to Senior Treasury Analyst; Current cash, future forecasted cash flow, funding divisional accounts, forecast updating based on Executive decisions, etc and reporting directly to President and VP Finance.

Investigate inactive pension plan membersAudit non-current pension plan contributorsDetermine if a benefit was payableAnalyze and organize cases upon various scenariosInteract with peers in a networked environment