John Hartman Email & Phone Number

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Columbus, Ohio

Responsible for all areas of the Accounting and Treasury function with staff of 14 people.Accounting: Oversee monthly/annual closes for 5 distinct entities: Store Retail Operations (including 3 Subways), Dealer Operations, Logistics, Non-Operating Properties (rentals); and Management company. Ensure timeliness of all tax and regulatory reporting. Prepare monthly reporting to Study Groups. Prepare for annual review audits. Responsible for the annual budget and uploading same into Great Plains for comparison/review. Participated in Payment Card Industry (PCI) reviews.Treasury: Maintain the cashflow of the Company. Maintain bank relationships with 34 banks. Prepared/Review quarterly Loan Compliance filings with primary bank. Ensure daily audit of all store deposits in order to reduce shrink. Ensure daily review of all bank transactions. Daily maintain check and ACH positive pay. Prepare/Review all monthly bank reconciliations.Analysis: Prepare/review reporting for Marketing and Operations Departments with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in order to assist growing sales and increase inside margins (21% to 25%). Work with Logistics to determine base freight rates.Cost Containment: Prepare/review monthly expense analyses, by functional department, in order to contain costs. Assisted Purchasing in saving $100K/year in utility costs. Meet ongoing with Marketing and Purchasing to review results and to help decide on new and renewal supply contracts.Payroll: Managed the timely payment to 650+ employees through ADP. Revamped processes and controls to ensure security of employee personal information. Put policy in place that all employee requests and communications be in writing in order to reduce phone time, document all requests, develop service KPIs, and to protect the Company from unauthorized access.

Columbus, Ohio

Managed a staff of eleven. Responsible for monthly and annual accounting closes and all regulatory filings. Responsible for entire Treasury function. Analyzed all accounting processes in order to automate where reasonable and feasible utilizing existing software tools (examples below). Labor savings and other cost savings from automation re-invested in more extensive managerial reporting for Management, Marketing and Operations. Responsible for all customer support for Dealer Operations.Process Improvements: * Created Access database to import Subway data files in order to: (a) create managerial reports for Operations and Management, (b) to automate and produce monthly journal entries for upload to the General Ledger (saving 20 hours/week in clerical time), and (c) to assist in auditing store results.* Created Access database to import payment card processor data files (First Data, Wright Express, TCH, Fuelman, Fleetcor, EFS, Comdata, and more) in order to speed reconciliations and increase store controls. Database also created journal entries for upload to the General Ledger. (saved 16 hours/week in clerical time). Information gathered further used for negotiating better processing rates and for class action cases against credit card companies.Dealer Ops: Worked with Management and legal counsel to redesign dealer contracts in order to standardize our terms and conditions, strengthen our security position (through restrictive covenants) and to streamline our fulfillment process. Prepare and review all dealer contracts for accuracy and profitability before signature.Treasury: Assisted CFO in obtaining $10 Million loan commitment (Swap) from primary bank.Employee Training: Began teaching employees Excel utilizing Lunch and Learns in order to strengthen the team.

Columbus, Ohio

Responsible for monthly and annual accounting closes. In order to get results in the hands of Management and Ops faster, re-distributed workflow and improved processes to reduce the accounting close schedule from 10 days to 5 days through automation and auto reconciliations.Treasury: Continued to improve treasury procedures to gain more efficiencies. Set up online access for all bank accounts (beyond the primary) in order to review daily bank transactions (verify store results and reduce shrink) and reconcile faster. Established policy that all Dealers must allow ACH drafts to their accounts or provide certified funds in advance (contract requirement). Dealer Ops: Help the Dealer Representative grow the number of contracted locations (from 20 to 60) through instituting 24-hour customer service for our dealers. Operations: Reviewed Franchise Documents with Subway and established accounting system and controls surrounding these stores.

Columbus, Oh

Participate in monthly accounting close. Prepared financial analyses, marketing analyses, and purchasing analyses as requested. Appointed to be in charge of daily cash management (treasury) function. Prepared monthly bank reconciliations, computed, maintained, and collected fuel vendor rebates (receivables). Also responsible for collecting cigarette placement commissions.Accounting: Developed excel spreadsheet to concatenate data and produce journal entries for direct import into Addsouth PAMS General Ledger. Processed saved approximately 20 hours of keypunch/review per month.Treasury: Worked with the CFO to move primary bank relationship in order to save $100K/year in service charges (2004). Introduced company to downloading daily banking transactions into an Access database. Designed and programmed Banking database to: ensure each store deposited store proceeds daily and to verify reported amounts - saving 1 hour per day in clerical time, Further designed banking database to identify and categorically tag every bank transaction to reduce bank reconciliation time from 3 days to 30 minutes.Dealer Operations: Established all accounting processes for newly created Dealer Division (hauling motor fuels to Dealer Operated - Dealer Owned gas stations). Maintained dealer receivables ensuring customers stayed within contract terms. Set up procedure to collect all dealer payments via ACH.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Manufacturer of Lawn and Garden Tools with sales in excess of $110 Million located. Company became the major subsidiary of Acorn Products, Inc., a public company listed on NASDAQ in 1997. Had a staff of two.* Worked with Marketing Department, Sales Managers and outside Sales companies: providing sales information and data, contract review, status of contracts, profitability reviews, * Worked with the Corporate Controller and the Demand Analyst in developing the annual build plan, bills of material, and standard cost of products.* Oversaw the company's budget process. Developed simplified tools, which included multi-year expenditure history, for department heads to complete and approve. * Controlled the company's Cooperative Advertising and Key City Advertising programs with customers ($2 Million). Developed all controls and reporting for same. * Responsible for tax and regulatory filings in 30 states.* Assisted Management in taking the company public in June 1997. Held dual role as Controller of Acorn Products, Inc. in 1998 - 1999. Prepared consolidated financial statements for same.*Participated in quarterly and annual Audits.* Facilitated and contributed to Acorn Products 10K and 10Q filings to the SEC.* Active member of the acquisition and integration team bringing on H.B. Sherman Manufacturing (watering products) and Thompson Manufacturing Company (hose attachments).*Active member of the divestiture teams to sell: VSI Fasteners (packaged fasteners and chain - 1996), McGuire-Nicholas (leather and canvas - 1997).*Awarded the "Extra Mile" Award two consecutive years in a row by the Sales Department for designing, programming and distributing Sales Analysis.

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance And Accounting

Associate'S Degree, Computer Programming