Mason Schlinsog Email & Phone Number

St Paul, Mn, Us

- Build and optimize sales pipeline reporting and analytics for leadership from of Microsoft Dynamics and SAP to assist in forecasting and KPIs on growth strategies.- Architected accounts receivable dashboards that connected data from various systems to bring clarity to the quote to cash collection process for accounting, sales, and operations. This has lead to a several million dollar reduction in our overdue AR balance.- Built and maintain a data model that calculates and reports commissions. Liaise with account executives and leadership to resolve exceptions and invoicing issues.

Toronto, On, Ca

- Oversee the calculation, reporting, and invoicing of approximately $800M of monthly transfer pricing between over 150 unique legal entities within Thomson Reuters. Automated those aspects using Alteryx and Microsoft Power BI to both strengthen and streamline the overall transfer pricing process.- Reduced the generation and reconciliation of over 1200 individual legal entity tax reports from 12 hours to 45 minutes using Alteryx and the Windows Command Prompt.- Built a Power BI dashboard that connects calculated transfer pricing fees with the underlying datasets that drive them. This led to a reduction in timing and increased accuracy of new tax relationship setup.- Created automation that would monitor the general ledger and automatically send users an email when operating policies were violated, which included instructions on how to correct the issue.- Worked with a cross-functional team to provide guidance for upgrades to our ERP system to SAP S4 HANA. Acted as a technical subject matter expert to bridge conversations with my leadership and the technical teams for multiple areas of accounting and finance.- Manage the intranet site for the Chief Accounting Office. Championed automation and technical training and development resources for various levels of accounting and finance professionals. Run several internal automation competitions to drive automation adoption.

Toronto, On, Ca

- Oversaw the Projects Master Data Management system that is responsible for allcapitalization compliance and financial time tracking that facilitates nearly a $1 billion ofcapitalization annually. Worked as part of various cross-functional teams to upgrade this system as business requirements changed and evolved.- Supervise two local employees as well as a team of five within our accounting contractingcompany in India. Communicate expectations, deadlines, and interpret customer input forthe deliverables.- Consolidated and processed all of the disposal entries for the $3.55B sale of our IntellectualProperty and Science business unit.

Toronto, On, Ca

- Managed the accounting and processing of unclaimed property and inventory. Streamlined the inventory obsolescence reserve calculation from 16 hours to 4 hours.- Lead the creation of the Eagan Controllership New Hire onboarding program. Created arepository of resources as well as a structured program to streamline a new hire’s systemsaccess and expand their professional network.- Oversaw two direct reports and was accountable for their work and their development.

Toronto, On, Ca

- Assessed and documented various accounting processes to implement and/or recommend improvements to process owners as needed. Partnered with the business operations and technical teams to create the best process solutions for the organization.- Assisted with the creation of a manual journal entry workflow tool integration into SAP. Gathered requirements from various end users in accounting and finance and worked with the technical teams to implement and test the tool. Created documentation and trained end users on how to use the tool.

Toronto, On, Ca

- Managed the royalty, commissions, acquisition, intercompany, and fixed assets accountingprocesses for the Tax and Accounting business unit. Oversaw flux reporting, reconciliation,month end journal entries, and free cash flow impacts for all of these processes and othersas needed.- Managed the data gathering for our PwC yearend and quarterly audits. Work with our team in Eagan to make sure support for entry testing was sufficient and sent to the auditor in a timely fashion.

Toronto, On, Ca

- Overhauled and took ownership of a major corporate accounting policy SOX review. Usedmy analytical skills to consolidated vast amounts of data from multiple sources to provide the most useful information for the review. Managed and coordinated the responses to the review from all of the finance contacts companywide.- Drove reporting efficiencies by using my knowledge of Thomson’s reporting tools, mycomputer programming background, and my unique analytical skills with Microsoft Office.Built a variety of ad-hoc reports to allow finance to get detailed, accurate, real-time resultsto help them make better and faster decisions.

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- Worked with the management of the firm to drive new client opportunities. Led calls andfacilitated communication across regions and lines of service to make sure we wereproposing the most effective services in the most the efficient manner.- Worked with external clients to clarify or request information needed to complete their taxreturns. Led meetings and phone calls to communicate deadlines and priorities forinformation needed as well as when information would be provided to the client.