Mark Jacobs Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo

Promoted to prepare budgets and perform financial account support for assigned Marketing departments.Develop, prepare, enter and monitor annual operating budgets totaling $40 million for Geographic Marketing function at eight region offices and Merchandising department at headquarters.Prepare regular monthly variance and ad-hoc reports from P&L’s, working closely with region Administrative personnel and Geographic Marketing Directors to provide explanations for presentation to management.Serve as the subject matter expert for budgeting and accounting support for region office and field personnel.Review detail journals utilizing SAP to ensure proper expense classification and investigate questionable expenses.Participate in monthly team P&L presentation to Sales Dept. financial leaders to explain variances and projections.

Saint Louis, Mo

Promoted to perform financial analysis, budgeting and accounting activities for Contemporary Event Marketing department.Corroborated with department management to develop and monitor a $45 million annual budget, investigate and resolve issues, research monthly variances and develop year-end projections.Directly supervised one accountant that performed journal entries, generated reports and assisted as needed.Interacted with third party vendors to ensure accuracy, check validity and process complex invoices.Trained ~50 new employees annually on proper expense reporting and overall finance and accounting policies.

Saint Louis, Mo

Recruited to perform financial, operational, compliance and information systems audits from world headquarters.Conducted audits of several company subsidiaries, including compliance testing for Sarbanes-Oxley Act, at various locations including corporate offices, breweries, theme parks, grain elevators and London sales office.Minimized exposure to financial risk through audit work, utilizing excellent planning and analysis skills.Presented audit findings to management and established action plan to rectify outstanding items.

Mba, Business

Completed degree while working full-time.

Ba, Biology

Activities and Societies: ROTC - Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the US Army Reserve.