Mark Gartner Email & Phone Number

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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