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Nashville, Tennessee, US

Hillside, New Jersey, US

Franklin, Tennessee, US

• Leads a team of three Managers/direct reports and four indirect reports in Fixed Assets, Lease Accounting, and Lease Administration. Manages Fixed Assets and Lease Accounting teams responsible for approximately $570M.
• Served as Co-Leader in implementing the Lucernex real estate solution software which included transitioning the company from ASC840 to ASC842 lease accounting guidance and building all systems integrations to the.
• Successfully transitioned off-shored Fixed Asset, Lease Accounting, and Lease Administration teams back to corporate offices in Franklin, TN.
• First recipient of the Bright Star award, awarded by CFO.

Franklin, Tennessee, US

• Led a team of three domestic and four outsourced international direct reports. Responsible for accounting for company-owned domestic operations recording approximately $300M in sales and related expenses; contributing.
• Successfully transitioned all Brand Accounting functions from Anaheim, CA to Nashville, TN in four-month period during the relocation of the support center location, without any retained employees.
• Served as Project Leader on cross-functional team implementing a new Point of Sale (POS) and Back of House retail system that transitioned the company from a customized legacy system. Responsibilities included testing.
• Served as lead on project team to integrate four food delivery vendors and led the accounting team to develop sales reconciliation practices and development of reconciliation tool.
• Led periodic review and analysis of trending costs, actual-to-actual and actual-to-forecast analysis.
• Managed quarterly and annual reporting schedule review and analysis.

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Led a team of five direct reports that supported the corporate accounting, tax, accounts payable, and restaurant accounting functions of the accounting team recording approximately $280M in sales and related expenses. Retained all Corporate Accounting Manager roles and responsibilities with this new role.

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• Managed a staff of three direct reports which included continual development initiatives, annual performance evaluations, coaching, and managing increased workload with fewer resources
• Managed month-end close process for accounting department involving five different workgroups.
• Oversaw monthly review of financial statement reporting for accuracy and compliance.
• Oversaw preparation of monthly financial reporting including profit & loss and balance sheet reports.
• Reviewed balance sheet reconciliations and provided necessary feedback to appropriate stakeholders.
• Responsible for top-side entries into ERP upon consolidated review to finalize monthly reporting.

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• Managed a staff of four to review and audit all sales and expense transactions for 230 stores.
• Team reviewed and audited $612M in sales & $590M in expenses.
• Streamlined processes to reduce staff from five FTE’s to four within two months of taking assignment.
• Audited weekly consolidated operating financial reports.
• Prepared weekly cash flow forecast reporting.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Responsible for overseeing the operations of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll departments for North America.
• Managed accounts payable department comprised of two coordinators with annual volume of 35,000 payments totaling $238M with multi-currency transactions making up 15 percent of the volume.
• Managed accounts receivable department that cleared 14,000 deductions from customers totaling $22M and posted $160M in cash receipts.
• Prepared a business proposal to reduce credit card processing fees by $100K for card-not-present receivable transactions and integral team member implementing the transition.
• Changed the process of accounting for all mass merchant accounts receivable deductions to streamline the procedure and create efficiencies and provide consistency in accounting procedures.
• Served as an integral team member in transitioning all banking operations to Bank of America, including overseeing the transition of all banking processes: setting up new standing wire orders for consolidation of cash.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Analyzed and reviewed bank reconciliation and accounts receivable deductions processes to streamline and create efficiencies.
• Quickly promoted to Accounting Operations Manager.

Msmis | Master Of Science – Management Information Systems

Bs | Bachelor Of Science - Accounting