Kiel Mcauley Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Joined the opening Management Team for the newest location in the group. Assisted in the hiring of all front of the house staff, and in the training and scheduling of my own department. Helped get the restaurant off to a great start, having a profitable first quarter and trending to $8 million in annualized revenue within the first 5 months. • Trained the Front of the House to ensure that they understood the company culture and met the high service standards set by the owners. • Worked with the Culinary Director to ensure that the Front of the House staff had full menu knowledge by providing presentations and food tastings. • Assisted the General Manager with budgeting and other sales reports. • Worked with the other Managers to ensure the smooth daily operation of the restaurant including overseeing close to 200 employees and ensuring that the restaurant became the highest grossing in the group.• Worked on schedules for multiple departments.

Delray Beach, Florida

Managed all accounting and finance activities for a small multi-national group of companies, including ensuring the formation, regularization and continued operation of several local and off shore companies within the group. Produced monthly financial statements for main operating companies, and quarterly consolidated financial statements for the group. Reported the financial performance of the companies to the Board of Directors at quarterly meetings and to the Shareholders at annual meetings.Oversaw activities related to payroll, tax, AP/AR and customer billing. Negotiate favorable contract terms and credit terms to facilitate rapid growth. Ensure that expenses are kept within budget. Managed two other accounting staff and worked cross functionally with other department heads to produce reliable monthly production and demand forecasts, and cash flow models

Delray Beach, Florida

Responsible for maintaining general ledger, preparing monthly journal entries, account reconciliations, and accounting for all production activity including properly accounting for raw material usage and abnormal losses. Supervised and assisted two other accounting staff members who were responsible for A/R, A/P, treasury, fixed asset tracking and general bookkeeping. Assisted CFO with compiling information and preparing reports that were a key part of a brand divestment undertaken by the company.

United States

Responsible preparing monthly statements of management accounts to ensure the company’s financial targets are met, and providing support to the Finance Manager to ensure financial transactions are recorded accurately. • ReportingPreparation of Management Reports, for USA and Canada, on a monthly basis which requires the following:Reconciling Gross Profit by department and make accounting adjustments as necessary to ensure gross profit is fairly stated.Review expenses, other income and recharges. Ensure they are fairly stated and provide commentary for major variations.Carry out variance analysis and prepare email commentary on gross profit and expenses for major variations.Carry out budget variance analysis and prepare email commentary on gross profit and expenses for major variations.Ensure accurate ledger maintenance for trade debtors and creditors and carry out monthly foreign currency revaluations.Maintain the Balance sheet including fixed assets, accruals and deferral accounts.Issue monthly Gross profit reports to Brokers.• BudgetsWork with departmental managers on preparing annual budgets for review of the Accounts Manager.• Audit File Preparation of the annual audit file.Assist auditors as required to ensure the audit progresses smoothly to required timescales and the auditors are furnished with all necessary documentation and explanations• Payroll Alternate for payroll administrator.Calculating and entering monthly sales commission.Ensuring that payroll deductions are entered and recordedEnter payroll Journals into accounting systems for both Countries.• TaxesFile and pay semi-monthly Federal Excise Tax (FET) for US entity.File and pay monthly GST/HST for Canadian entity.Reconcile and file Quarterly FET reports.Solve any discrepancies that IRS or CRA may report.• Accounts Payable and Treasury ManagementUndertake all Accounts payable functions as per previous position as Accounts Assistant.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Provide support to the VP of Finance in keeping the accounts, recording financial transactions, and preparing regular statements of management and audit accounts to ensure the company’s financial targets are met.• Accounts Payable Ensure all purchase invoices are properly authorized and entered in accounting system.Ensure unauthorized invoices are investigated and cleared.Post all authorized expenses and ensure they are compliant with the expense policy.Prepare weekly and Ad-hoc payment runs and ensure invoices are paid when due.Produce Creditors report as required by management accountant.Responsible for the creation, distribution and posting of credit card reports. This also includes querying/clarifying dubious expenses.• Accounts Receivable Generate and post sales invoices. Send invoices to clients and produce statements of accounts for clients as needed.Process client payments.Contact clients whose invoices are past payment terms.• Treasury ManagementCheck the banking system daily for incoming wire transfer and ACH payments, recurring monthly payments being debited from accounts.Post all payments that are received from customers.Bank Reconciliations.Liaising with head office to securing short term financing for cash flow shortfalls. • Reports & ReconciliationsWeekly Cash flow reporting.Create monthly job profit reports to compare departmental figures with accounting figures to ensure that numbers are in agreement.Inter-company reconciliationsCreate ad-hoc reports as required by President and/or management accountant.Make journal entries to correct errors preparation for monthly management accounts reports processing.• TaxesFile and pay semi-monthly Federal Excise Tax (FET).Reconcile and file Quarterly FET reports.Solve any discrepancies that IRS may report.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

- Responsible for accounts payable functions and employee payroll. - Communicate with vendors to solve payment of invoices.- Maintain daily administrative duties concerning bookkeeping and data entry.- Prepare end-of-year tax spreadsheets.- Responsible for filing and paying state sales tax.- Work directly with business owners on decision-making and business projects.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Accounting

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Rugby Team, Caribbean Students Association Areas of Study included:Investment Management, Financial Risk.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Finance & Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Rugby Team, Caribbean Students Association Captain of Rugby team for 3 years. Historian for Caribbean Students.