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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 in fixed assets and approximately $100M in rental income & $83M of rent expense for the franchise portfolios, $25M for corporate and other locations comprised of approximately 1,250 locations.• 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 company ERP.• 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 to approximately 30% of company EBITDA by overseeing all accounting functions related to company store operations.• 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 all aspects of inventory and daily logging sales into journal ledger from these systems.• 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.• Involved in the preparation for required schedules and documentation involving company’s preparation for reorganization/bankruptcy. Worked directly with accounting consultants, lawyers, and tax consultants upon exit to make appropriate accounting adjustment during fresh start accounting process.• Acquired additional responsibilities as attrition within the workgroup continued.• Administered the company’s credit card program and T&E expense reporting via Concur Solutions.• Led the team responsible for changing the company’s utility consulting and bill payment services.• Oversaw and managed real estate/lease accounting for all 194 operating locations in 23 states, including Rent/CAM payments, CAM reconciliations, straight-line rent, and intangible amortizations.• Managed accounting for fixed assets with a net balance sheet value of $176M, pre-emergence.• Responsible for auditing & reviewing store closing costs and reserve adjustments for all closed locations.• Reviewed corporate and field general and administrative (G&A) annual expense of $30M in addition to overseeing the annual budget and semi-annual forecasting of G&A expenses.

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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, payroll reverse wires for payroll, set up new lockbox for dealer and mass merchant receipts, change the positive pay notification file to an automated process, automated the issuance of ACH and wire transactions, set up customized automatic daily reports for accounting and finance teams.• Reorganized workload and processes for accounts payable by reorganizing the vendor master file; wrote procedures for the department where there were no streamlined manual invoice processes for approvals and vouching, improved check run selection process from a five to six-hour bi-weekly process to a more consistent selection process taking only one hour to complete; and developed process to upload electronic payment information to bank to create efficiency and accuracy in processing electronic payments.• Responsible for managing all payments and documentation of all debt instruments including three revolvers, letters of credit, senior and mezzanine loans.

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