• Participate in the preparation of the monthly deliverables to corporate, including Actual to Plan and Forecast Reports as well as preparing and reconciling the Financial Metrics Reports.• Coordinate and Consolidate all Regional Capital Expenditure Budgets into one file and upload into Oracle/BPC. Maintain & update the Monthly CapEx Spreadsheet for NAM and explain variances.• Prepare monthly DMA (Demographic Market Analysis) Reports and analyze & investigate variances for Vice President of Planning for reporting to Corporate. Coordinate getting explanation from BU leaders when needed.• Prepare Flash Reports twice a week and explain variances to the SVP of Finance - NAM.• Prepare Food & Beverage reports twice a week for the President and SVP of Onsite Products. Reports include weekly operations trackers, product trackers and future ticket sales reports.

• Maintain the production accounting system for all completed productions and productions in process for both in-house productions as well as all licensed films. Assign project numbers for all payments related to licensed films and review contracts to ensure all payments are made as set forth in the contracts. • Responsible for month-end amortization of programming costs and reconciliation of Production Accounting sub-ledger to the General Ledger. • Responsible for the preparation of the monthly Programming Cash Flow Report and the Actual vs. Plan Entertainment Programming division variance analysis. Investigate and explain variances for management reporting.• Review & reconcile related production accounting balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis. Analyze any changes and prepare appropriate entries. Prepare month end accrual of production costs for completed projects to estimated final costs.

• Consulted for a wide variety of companies including both publicly traded and privately owned companies across a variety of industries including but not limited to: Entertainment, Banking, Mortgage Lending, Consumer Products and Property Management. Significant assignments included:• Six months as Interim Controller at Anonymous Content, a production company and talent management agency.• Six months as Interim Controller at Image Comics, where I worked from 1993-1994. The new publisher asked me to return to help them out and transition them for their relocation to Northern California.• Six months as Accounting Manager of clothing manufacturer. • Three months as Assistant Controller at a manufacturer of tanning equipment and lotions, helping the Controller reconcile the Balance Sheets accounts which had not been done in over 5 years.• At many companies my responsibilities included preparing the month-end close financial statements and supporting schedules, preparing annual budgets, subsequent forecasts and related monthly variance analysis reporting to management, and prepared & analyzed weekly cash flow reports.• Review policies and procedures to and made recommendations to management for streamlining processes. Wrote procedure manuals for staff to follow.

• Managed and motivated a total staff of 12 as the company experienced tremendous growth, including 3 Senior Financial Analysts, 1 Financial Analyst, 3 Senior Accountants, 4 Accounts Receivable staff and 1 Accounts Payable staff, and developed the skills of the staff, significantly improving the accuracy and efficiency of all the accounting processes.• Reviewed quarterly payments to licensors for all licensed products, making sure that all payments were in accordance of all terms set forth in the licensing contracts.• Implemented and trained staff on new ERP accounting software system, Syspro’s Impact Encore.• Responsible for all areas of SEC financial reporting, including drafting of financial statements and footnotes for the 10K and the 10Q’s for this multi-brand toy company that was one of FORTUNE's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in America at the time.• Performed research on SEC reporting issues for the Chief Financial Officer and prepared due diligence for acquisitions and then integrated the acquired entities into the company’s financial and operational processes.• Prepared quarterly consolidated financial statements for two domestic and four international subsidiaries. This included foreign currency translation, international accounting and coordinating with subsidiary accounting managers.• Streamlined the quarterly consolidation and reporting processes for all entities including the wholly owned Hong Kong subsidiaries. Implemented new reporting policies and procedures to improve internal controls.• Prepared the weekly Cash Flow report and the weekly Flash Report based on domestic and international operations for the President & COO and the CFO.• Managed and prepared special projects for the President & COO and the CFO, including detailed overhead account analyses and projections.

• Developed & implemented a multitude of time saving procedural changes enabling the accounting team to surpass its goal of closing the books in 5 days every month.• Reported all sales transactions and inventory balances by product for monthly financial reporting. • Consolidated the inventory schedules of numerous subsidiaries for the monthly financial package.• Prepared monthly financial statements package for the Service Department Vice President. • Special assignments included preparing a detailed monthly account analysis by operating expense category and cost center for the Controller and the CFO, making the month-end financial package book available to the Executive Staff electronically as well as automating other procedures, such as month-end consolidated inventory schedules.

• Established and developed all accounting policies and procedures for the third largest comic book publisher with $36 million in sales their first year in business. • Supervised two assistants who aided in managing accounts receivable and accounts payable. • Prepared the annual forecasts, monthly financial statements and bank reconciliations. • Maintained account collections and was responsible for the calculation of all partner distributions and artists royalty payments.