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Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

• Prepared, analyzed and reported monthly financial statements and improved upon reporting deadlines.• Hired and supervised a staff of up to six employees.• Assisted with onboarding, training, and systems integration for three acquisitions; heavily involved with one inventory module enhancement and overall G/L system implementation for one acquisition.• Member of the Business Improvement team – discussed systems / process improvements to be made. • Performed daily review and booking of cash entries; book sales invoices into MS NAV; assist A/P staff with vendor invoice approvals in COR360 and interface with MS NAV. • Point person for any accounting related questions for all company locations; COR360 backup point person. • Coordinate and provide information/documentation needed for financial audit.

• Prepared, analyzed and reported monthly financial statements and improved upon reporting deadlines.• Collaborated regularly with Sales and Implementation teams to facilitate customer management and any analysis needed.• Provided annual Budget and Reforecast financial statements for U.S. business to U.K. parent company.• Initially set up and ongoing maintenance of deferred revenue for project based SaaS and License revenues.• Installed the interface between CRM and G/L system to allow invoices to be raised automatically once a contract had been signed.• Trained Sales team and created Standard Operating Procedures and User Guide for Salesforce.• Coordinate and provide information/documentation needed for financial audits and tax preparation.• Revised opening balance sheet to properly account for acquisition by Fourth Ltd. including cash, debt and equity transactions.• Reviewed monthly transactions and initially set up fixed assets, prepaids and accruals as the Company previously operated on a cash basis of accounting.

Wilton, Ct

Responsible for meeting monthly, quarterly, and annual closing deadlines for the Corporate, Grains, Coffee, and Sugar entities.Supervise a staff of up to eleven including junior and senior accountants, accounts payable and accounts receivable. Special projects including nine months as the North American functional lead for a system implementation (Microsoft AX replacing SAP) in 2011.Member of the process optimization team tasked with identifying and improving inefficient processes.Manage annual budget and reforecast process for the Wilton entities.Assist with semi-annual financial audits and preparation of financial statements.Oversee intercompany activity and coordinate reconciliations with other entities.Review all general ledger account reconciliations and analyze non-commercial P&L activity.

Reported directly to CFO as sole accounting manager responsible for consolidated general ledger.Supervised a staff of four including hiring and performance reviews. Managed two other accounting managers at international subsidiary entities.Prepared monthly financial statements, elimination entries and international consolidation.Reviewed/prepared general ledger account reconciliations and analyzed financial activity.Performed cash management, cash flow statements and cash forecasting.Computed and prepared monthly intercompany transfer pricing invoices to our subsidiaries.Coordinated all financial, banking and IRS audits as well as due diligence responses. Acted as primary point of contact for all such correspondence and preparation.Assisted with annual budget preparations and maintenance.Oversaw two bank implementations.

Norwalk, Ct

Accounting Manager at Beck's until we merged with Labatt to create InBev USA in late 2004Finance point of contact for multiple sales divisions.Responsible for monthly tracking and analysis of divisional results.Key driving force of cost reduction system implementation (Zero Based Budgeting).Present finance topics at Company meetings.Coordinated projects with sales and marketing departments regularly.Trained sales divisions in new online T&E system.Worked to uncover large budget savings throughout the year ($1.8mil in overheads/field marketing in 2005).Coordinated transfer of financials at merger of Becks NA and InBev. Served as integration point of contact between accounting and finance during and after merger.Many “one off” projects/tasks.

Stamford, Ct

Prepared monthly financial statements and transmitted to Parent.Maintained general ledger and booked all journal entries.Reconciled all balance sheet accounts, including intercompany and fixed assets.Cash management & forecasting.Prepared tax package, audit package, and annual pension filings.Support all sales divisions on budget and spending matters.Backup for accounts payable, IT, and payroll.

General audit group specializing in audit of non-public companiesSupervised and reviewed team members' workResolved on-site problems and reported to Manager or PartnerDirectly communicated with top client managementPerformed testing on balance sheetAnalyzed income and cash flow statements

Purchase, Ny

Provided support for domestic tax compliance group, reported directly to manager Prepared depreciation schedules for 30 subsidiaries Prepared federal tax workpapers for smaller subsidiaries Assisted on special projects