Michael Everest Email & Phone Number

Milliken, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

Supervise and manage district Grant Accountant and Accounts Payable Specialists.Provide grant guidance on policies and procedures to district and school staff.Assists CFO with compilation of Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).Develops annual grant budgets and Assists CFO with development of annual district budget.District lead for Single Audit for federal grants and all other district grants including preparing and reconciling reports to auditors, reviewing auditor work for accuracy, providing auditor sample backup documentation, and providing explanations for year over year variances with grants.Prepared Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEFA) for district.Create and present training to district school secretaries.Primary point of contact between CDE and district on financial matters including grants.Oversees district purchasing card (p-card) reconciliation and accounting.Resolution of Data Pipeline errors and warnings for district, including grants.

Greater Denver Area

Prepare monthly and quarterly reports for Board of Education.Lead business implementation of Tyler Technology Infinite Visions software transition.Review general ledger accounts including reconciling balance sheet accounts.Book and reconcile property and specific ownership tax receipts from Adams County.Set up and administered district’s State Interest-Free Loan Program.Reconciled district bank statements.

Greater Denver Area

Review general ledger accounts including reconciling balance sheet accounts.Book and reconcile property and specific ownership tax receipts from Adams County.Set up and administered district’s State Interest-Free Loan Program.Reconciled district bank statements.

Greater Denver Area

Maintained and established all federal, state, and local grants for the district.Establish grant budgets with and provide periodic financial grant reports to grant stakeholders including Directors, Grant Coordinators, and School Principals.File reimbursement requests and any required reporting with funding agencies for reimbursable grants.Monitor grant expenditures to budget and conduct periodic financial review meetings with grant stakeholders to monitor expenditures and ensure budget alignment.Calculate grant and categorical funding splits between district and contract on-line school.Calculate and book allowable indirect costs for district grants.Ordering for all district grants.

Supervised web sites of the Finance Applications Management Group including eliminating outdated content, restructuring web sites, creating new web sites, and publishing new content. Collaborated with Finance managers and upper management to institutionalize new process and procedures for department’s web sites.-- Consolidated department's web sites to central, Sun-standard content management system. Improvements included unified look-and-feel for department web pages and standard location for users to find content.-- Developed Finance application support portal that facilitated quick access to current support information.-- Led effort to consolidate department's web collaboration sites into a unified and organized structure, allowing department staff and other Finance users to locate common documents.-- Continued to consult with my prior group to assist with System 9.3.1 issues, resulting in problem resolution.

Led technical efforts in Sun Finance’s Essbase and Business Intelligence Software installation including researching, prototyping, installing, troubleshooting and supporting the system. Appointed web master for the group.-- Researched and built prototype server for System 9.0.1 Upgrade Project.-- Conducted user acceptance testing with new StarOffice Essbase Add-in to maintain compatibility with Systems 9.0.1 and 9.3.1.-- Partnered with external vendor support to quickly resolve unforeseen problems that occurred after the upgrade so end-users could utilize the system.-- Designed, implemented, and maintained system security for Systems 9.0.1 and 9.3.1. Set up users, researched issues, and reported out security information to critical business groups.-- Performed on-going system support including problem research and resolution, software upgrades, and end-user support to ensure system stability and end-user satisfaction.-- Created and updated a comprehensive Perl backup script for Essbase that completely archived each Essbase application and database with a zero-level extract and allowed for specific databases to be skipped during the backup. -- Coded many ad-hoc scripts utilizing MaxL to aid in user administration and reporting. Simplified and streamlined various administrative processes.-- Designed and built web-based applications for department and Corporate Finance. Included a helpdesk ticketing system and an approval flow system for the Strategic Investment Education Program.

Collaborated with management and cross-functional teams to create and revise Sun Service Division-wide processes.-- Co-developed a process where all Service Division investments (e.g. Services, Programs, and Tools) would be screened and approved in a consistent manner.-- Led team to map new product life cycle processes onto existing processes.

Worked closely with manager and team members to create processes and web tools that assisted development and implementation of new service programs and products.-- Designed and created Business Management Web Tool. Program Managers and project team were able to post information, update status, and raise issues.-- Co-developed a revised process for new service product strategy, development, and deployment. Implemented new process for the department.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance & Accounting

Ba, Political Science

Graduated Summa Cum Laude Minored in Legal Studies

Certificate, Advanced Web Development