Controller
Houston, Texas Area
• Interfaced with management, financial institution, and contractors during new brewery construction to ensure completion, payment, and reconciliation of agreed contracts. • Completed time-sensitive transactions, records, and projects, working in collaboration with accounting staff and leadership team to ensure accuracy.• Maintained and improved internal control to reduce risk and waste, partnered with external business partners for audits and tax filings, monitored cash flow, fixed assets, capital projects and inventory control. Managed filing of monthly federal and state reports of operations and tax filings.• Served as a liaison between sales and production teams to successfully create efficient process improvement and management reporting for multiple business segments. • Improved payroll entry and reporting tool to accommodate accurate entries for manufacturing absorption and other business segments. Created payroll worksheets tools and refined webpage functions to improve accounting efficiencies.• Administered treasury functions, including account maintenance, transfers, and credit cards.• Collaborated with management team to select general business insurance policies and health benefit renewals. Prepared internal documents to support requirements for insurance quotes and invited insurance companies to offer proposals followed by evaluating policies and benefits best suited for the company.• Managed company-related rentals and offsite warehouses, working to solve routine maintenance with tenants. Created and managed tenant lease agreements and monthly rent from them.• Participated in the Brewing Industry Accounting Group.