James Thompson, Cpa Email & Phone Number

• Researches and analyzes highly complex accounting rules and regulations and determines the applicability to the District including Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) statements and pronouncements• Maintains large scale Enterprise Resource Planning system (SAP) master data for financial systems including, but not limited to financial statement structure, intercompany eliminations, cost centers, profit centers, activity types, internal orders• Responsible for the creation of quarterly report and quarterly commission presentation and major portions of the Management Discussion and Analysis for the annual report• Calculates provisions for doubtful accounts and worker's compensation expense analyzing complex sets of financial and non-financial data• Analyzes and evaluates power purchases and sales, and statistical reporting• Reviews and/or prepares moderately to highly complex detailed schedules, work papers, journal entries, and reconciliations of general ledger accounts and subledgers • Analyzes and interprets new and existing tax law to determine the impact on District operations and completes all required tax filings

Bellevue, Wa

• Managed and evaluated performance of staff accountant and accounts payable clerk with a focus on professional growth and satisfaction• Managed multiple competing priorities through strategically planned staff assignment• Analyzed, evaluated, and interpreted complex financial statement information for multiple retail locations, a distribution center, a seafood processing facility, and administrative offices• Prepared budgets for payroll taxes, utility expense, marketing expense and repair and maintenance expenses• Brought utility expense forecast to within 4% of actuals in the last eight quarters an average variance of 12% in the preceding four quarters• Developed Excel based budgeting tool for Marketing utilizing Visual Basic for Applications and Microsoft Access which was instrumental in transforming a 24% overspend in the first two quarters of fiscal 2014 to within 3% of forecast in all quarters of 2015

Austin, Texas Area

• Consolidated account reconciliation processes from twelve regional offices to the global office identifying best practices and gaining consensus from all stakeholders• Performed complex accounting tasks including calculation of straight-line rent, capital lease accounting and reserves for closed locations• Forecasted straight-line rent, maintenance fees paid to landlords and real estate tax expense for hundreds of locations• Developed and documented new accounting procedures and provided training for staff

Portland, Oregon Area

Accounts Payable, Cash Office and Receiving at multiple locations • Participated in the opening of a new location as the store accounts payable team member• Assisted newly hired purchasing team members in understanding of margins and inventory