Jared Molis, Mba Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Overseeing client accounting functions and processes• Preparing and issuing timely and complete financial reporting packages• Developing and reporting key operating metrics• Establishing and optimizing business processes and internal controls• Developing and maintaining operating plans, budgets, and forecasts• Preparing ad-hoc analyses and providing value-added insights in support of strategic initiatives and business decision-making• Managing periodic budget versus actual reporting and providing insightful variance analysis • Evaluating existing forecasting tools and processes, recommending, and delivering improvements

Portland

Providing consultant expertise in Accounting close cycle management, process improvement, ERP implementation, FP&A, financial analysis and business analytics.Industries Include: Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail-Grocery, Software, Healthcare and ServicesServices Provided:• Budget/Forecast ownership and improvements • Weekly Margin Analysis/Forecasting for CFOs• Training of financial and management skills for staff• Process improvement and desktop procedure work instructions• Chart of Accounts maintenance and clean-up (customers, vendors, GL accounts)• Creation of robust consolidating Financial Statements• Enhanced Balance sheet reconciliations, AP&AR Aging analysis and Bank Rec cleansing• Development of intercompany balancing matrix tools• General Ledger detail drill-down Flux Analysis worksheets for Management personnel

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for enterprise finance program design, build and delivery focused on implementing best practices through process standardization throughout our global Finance Shared Service Centers, including 65+ legal operating companies within the 4 major geographical regions of the globe.Key Accomplishments• Designed and implemented global reconciliation strategy of shipment WIP revenue & cost matching resulting in a reduction of unmatched transactions from 500,000 to less than 20,000 within 8 months. • Developed hundreds of custom Cognos GL Detail & TB Detail reports to establish sustainable SOX compliant FLUX analysis reporting for Net Revenue, OPEX, Interco balancing, coding validation and other balance sheet recons.• Created and implemented weekly manual intercompany payable upload template which resulted in improved coding accuracy from less than 50% to 98%.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for accurate full-cycle financial close in compliance with GAAP for 14 independent operating companies, including 7 international companies in North, Central & South America. Led a department of 30 accountants including 4 accounting managers & 4 senior accountants. Performed monthly Net Revenue variance analysis for in-country business partners and corporate finance. Coordinated quarterly and annual on-site financial and compliance audit reviews. Key Accomplishments• Transformed inherited staff of 9 employees, into highly efficient staff of 30, while faced with extremely challenging implementation growth phase environment as our companies grew from 4 to 14 entities in first 8 months.• Reduced month-end close process from 12 days to 5 days for all 14 entities within first 12 months by relentlessly challenging and improving processes and procedures.• Volunteered to take management responsibility of local intercompany team. Built and transformed team into the top performing group amongst the global Finance Shared Service Centers.• Successfully stabilized the General Ledger team with historically high turnover and grew into one of the strongest assets of the global finance organization.

Portland, Oregon Area

Led Oracle R12 Financials Implementation team for Americas Region. Developed processes and work instructions for transition of GL, AP, AR and Interco accounting activities, including roll-out and training across global Shared Service Centers. Liaison between local finance and SSCs to ensure compliance fulfillment of country specific statutory requirements.Key Accomplishments• Successfully implemented 10 independent companies within 18 months, including UTi’s largest entity• Designed global intercompany processes, including the creation, testing and training of 10+ macro templates, resulting in a monthly reduction of 80+ manual processing hours• Took ownership of 200+ Intercompany and Agent vendor/customer Master Data records and performed deep cleansing to ensure accurate & consistent global intercompany accounting

Hillsboro, Or

Responsible for all aspects of operational accounting including AP, AR, payroll, revenue, equity, FA and cash management. Managed and developed a staff of 3 professionals. Oracle R12 Financials Super user; responsible for monthly closure of all modules. Reported weekly financial metrics and monthly P&L and Balance sheet trend analyses to CFO & CEO.Key Accomplishments• Reduced month-end close from 15 days to 5 days within 4 months through process improvements.• Through improved process controls, discovered and capitalized $4Million of CIP assets in service.• Created and established monthly balance sheet reconciliations for 80+ accounts.• Created and maintained YTD & MTD equity roll-forwards and share reconciliations.• Lead role in company-wide Oracle R12 Projects Module implementation.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for GL, AP, AR, FA, payroll, equity and cash management functions. Assist with revenue recognition analysis and reporting tools. Performed monthly income statement and balance sheet trend analysis reviews for Director of Finance and CFO. Key Accomplishments• Developed & implemented month-end close processes to reduce close cycle from 20 days to 3 days.• Successfully transformed massively unorganized accounting records and established processes & procedures that resulted in valuable business information to company’s executive team.• Improved annual budget process and worked with CFO to cut $4M of expense for BOD requirements.• Successfully led the accounting software implementation from QuickBooks Pro to Softrax.

Responsible for managing staff of 2, coordinating budget preparation, P&L trend analysis, Oracle 11i COA maintenance, document preparation for audits, balance sheet recons, journal preparation and ad-hoc analysis for finance executive team.Key Accomplishments• Coordinated and prepared the Corporate G&A Budget ($27MM, 8 departments) • Played lead role in completing SOX testing one year prior to SEC required adoption. • Discovered Oracle AP report that were used as invoice review, resulting in 75% reduction of monthly journals.• Played key role helping accounting team reduce month-end close from 10 days to 5 days.

Greater Boston Area

Assisted in the monthly close process which included reconciling general ledger accounts, preparing and posting journal entries and working on specific ad-hoc projects as needed.

Masters Of Business Administration; Mba, Executive Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Finance, Economics And Operations Management