Karl Bechtel Email & Phone Number

I help businesses in the Restaurant, Food & Beverage (CPG) and Hospitality industries scale their accounting and finance functions by:• Solidifying core competencies, including the close process, chart of accounts, transactional processing, and internal controls• Implementing or upgrading ERP, Payroll, A/P, and other systems and tools• Developing reporting packages and metrics, such as standard financials, budgets and forecast, variance analysis, etc.What I bring to the table:CREATING AND IMPLEMENTING CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONSAlongside my penchant for making everything tick and tie with the financials, I love resolving the bigger pain points with customized financial tools. I look for technology that makes the team’s jobs easier and gives leadership better visibility into what is happening in the company. It also makes it easier to set up and manage consistent processes and internal controls.DECISION-MAKING INSIGHTSAside from driving process for consistent and timely financial reporting, I have extensive experience with budgeting and forecasting. However, it is the most fun to pull together one-off analysis or to set up tracking of specific trends, such as projecting all-in labor costs on a monthly P&L from bi-weekly payroll data. My goal is to create understandable and impactful data that is easy to generate and timely.COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIPWith a focus on outcomes, I strive to listen to all ideas, promote buy-in, acknowledge a job well done and recognize that there can be multiple paths to the same goal. Additionally, I believe that I am a natural teacher and am always willing to explain the “why” behind a standard or process, in plain language, to everyone, whether an executive or line employee.COMPLIANCE FOCUSHaving a foundation of compliance is essential to an organization and I have a track record of assessing appropriate insurance coverage, managing bank covenants, and being pro-active and responsive in working on tax returns or audit engagements. Would you like me to review that contract? Of course I will, with comments and concerns. Once it is signed, I’ll set up the procedures for executing the contract, such as with a landlord, vendor, union, or brand partner.

Listed skills include Financial Reporting, General Ledger, Internal Controls, Financial Analysis, and 25 others.