Guy Faust Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Bad Zurzach, CH

Manage the day-to-day operations of accounting, AP, AR and IT for a global women’s lingerie firm for the U.S. and CanadaSpecific Responsibilities: Financial Statement prep and variance analysis, budgets, forecasts and cash managementWork collaboratively with Swiss team to rebuild operations from Canada to USPartner with Demand Planning to determine optimum.

St Gallen, SG, CH

• Managed accounting, payroll, human resources and operations function of mid-sized women’s couture house.. Specific Responsibilities: Financial statement prep, budgets, variance analysis, process payroll, address human.
• Collaborated with Swiss parent in the creation of a travel and entertainment policy which set well defined parameters and general guidelines for sales personnel travel
• Partnered with CEO and other department heads in the creation of user-friendly budget template, allowing for less intimidating accountability of spend by budget holders
• Developed policies and procedures to facilitate customer payments/chargeback resolution
• Support and empower boutique managers in dealing with employee issues, third party service providers and act as a liaison between wholesale/retail divisions

• Managed the accounting function for this women’s couture house with annual sales of $10 million. Specific Responsibilities: Financial statement prep, budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and cash flow projections..
• Enhancement of the cash flow model, allowing for greater accuracy in projection for short and long-term cash needs.
• Development of an Excel database for sample inventory that allowed for better tracking of samples, as well as leveraging this database to move from a manual sample sale invoice to electronic.
• Implemented several reporting models, which streamlined month/year-end reporting, resulting in a 33% reduction of audit fees.

• Controller (Jan 1999 – Jul 2002)$50 million wholesale distributor of exclusive timepieces and fine fragrances based in NYC. Specific Responsibilities: Financial statement consolidations, budgets, forecasts, variance.
• Investigated inventory discrepancies which led to revamping the shipping cut-off procedures
• Evaluated indirect selling costs resulting in trimming of unnecessary spend.
• Reduced reporting time line through efficiencies of scale—from 2 weeks to 1.5
• Managed and motivated the transition team facilitating the absorption into the acquiring company’s systems. Assistant Controller (Jan 1997 – Jan 1999)Accomplishments include:
• Reorganized the accounts payable function to ensure the proper classification of expenses.

Mba, Business Mgmt

Bs, Accounting