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Buffalo Grove, Il, Us

Leading the way on making process improvements.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Most recent assignment was to a manufacturer of Toner Cartridges. Prior engagements include a Not For Profit helping with Ad Hoc Projects, an electrical contractor, assisting them in bringing current their Accounting records. A company that makes and installs Skylights and Canopies bringing current Quickbooks. A producer of Commercial Credit Information helping in the integration of Avalara with NetSuite. A division of a global manufacturing company performing day to day accounting.NMost

Ameda is a manufacturer of breastfeeding pumps and supplies performing General Accounting Duties including Inventory Reconciliation, Sales and Use Tax compliance, Bank Rec, Journal Entries, Month End Close, and Special Projects.• Saved the company $30,000 in assessments during a Sales and Use Tax Audit from the State of California

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for all phases of Accounting for 5 manufacturing firms in the Greater Chicago Area. Duties include assisting in the cleanup of the Balance Sheet and Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable, including Bank Recs, Account Recs, Credit and Collections, Weekly, Bi-weekly, and Semi-monthly payroll processing using ADP Work Force Now and Enterprise eTime. Journal Entries. Banking relationships, Intercompany Accounting. Monthly and Year End closes. * Maintained and Upgraded the ADP GL interface so as to record payroll expense quicker. * Assisted the Midwest Pod controller with a state of Illinois sales tax audit.* Assisted HR with implementation of the Enterprise eTime electronic time clock project.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Assignments included a manufacturer of cordless and pneumatic power tools manufacturer performing day to day accounting, a collection agency preparing year end Accounting duties and tax returns including 25 states income tax returns with apportionment factors, a manufacturer of wall coverings assisting them in year end audit and tax issues utilizing MAS200, and working with a construction company bringing current MAS90.• On one assignment found that plant accounting personnel were double recording inventory items through MAS90 and corrected the error plus created procedures so that the error would not occur again. This saved the company from having to record shrink of $400,000.• On a long term temp project, created a new Financial Statement Package that management adopted.

Hickory, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for all Phases of Accounting including Bank Recons, Accounts Payable, Journal Entries, Cash Receipts, Cash Disbursements, Cost of Goods Sold Calculations using Standard Fully absorbed Costing, Month End Closings, Financial Statements, Fixed Asset accounting and General Ledger Analysis. Other responsibilities include Budgeting and Budget Planning, Vendor Relationships, Administration of the Employee Benefits programs and data input for Hyperion Enterprise and Retrieve. • Created Credit and Collection procedures which reduced past due receivables by 42% in three months. • Discovered $85,000 in accounting errors made by the previous Accounting Manager adding to company profitability. • Created procedures for taking and costing of Cycle Counts and Physical Inventories reducing Shrink by 75%• Reviewed costing procedures and discovered an error where freight was being booked twice increasing Gross Profit by 14%

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Worked on several consulting assignments performing many different accounting duties including the Chicago area office of a light Industrial Staffing temp agency for an extended period managing the Accounting Department. A provider of Auto Maintenance Insurance products performing regular accounting duties, a provider of manufacturing equipment assisting in year end audit duties, and a provider of computer and internet security products performing many duties dealing mostly with the purchase of a new product line and creating inventory control of that new product line. • Reconciled the Terminated Dealer File to the General Ledger and then Converted the Excel Spreadsheet to Access. In the previous 18 months the Terminated Dealer file did not reconcile to the General Ledger.• Reduced over 90 Day Canadian Receivables by 45% and developed the standard company procedure for analyzing customer accounts• Wrote a series of procedures for new hire training and system operations.• Created the current Bank Recon Process. • Automated and created several Excel Spreadsheets saving time during the close process

Chicago, Illinois, Us

The company was a former subsidiary of a Fortune 500 Company which was sold in 2005 to an equity investment firm. Duties included processing monthly/quarterly/annual Sales and Use Tax and Franchise Tax Returns, as well as working with the outsourced tax firm on Property Taxes. Additional duties also included Accounts Payable set up, Bank and other Account Reconciliations..Saved the company $150,000 in Sales and Use Taxes in 18 months.

Worked on a variety of contract consulting assignments performing a wide rage of duties. Spent 14 months at Danaher Controls, assisting the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis in establishing day to day activities using Hyperion Enterprise (V5.1). At Acco Brands assisted General Accounting in bringing current certain account reconciliations in preparation for Year End.

Performed general Accounting duties including Invoicing customers, processing Accounts Payable, Maintaining Vendor relationships, Credit and Collections, and Cost Containment as well as Bank and General Ledger Analysis. Also responsible for Human Resource functions such as administration of the medical insurance and keeping control of the employment records. • Discovered the company had $60,000 more in Fixed Assets then their General Ledger actually showed.• Increased collections by 38% and reduced over 60 day Receivables from 48% of total Accounts Receivable to 21% of Accounts Receivable. • Collected a 120 day receivable of more than $20,000 that was deemed uncollectible.

Responsible for day to day accounting duties on a partial manual set of books which included Sales Posting, Sales Tax Returns for 2 states, Sales Commissions and payment of those commissions. Responsible for general office duties such as Bank Recons, Daily, weekly, and monthly Cash Flow Reports, and Financial Data Reporting. Other duties include, being backup resource person on the Novell Network.

Responsible for all Phases of Accounting including Bank Recs, A/P, Journal Entries, Cash Receipts, Cash Disb, Cost of Goods Sold Calculations, Month and Year End Closings, Financial Statements, and General Ledger Analysis. Other Responsibilities include Cash Management, Banking & Vendor Relationships, Administration of the Employee Benefits programs. Extensive knowledge of Windows , Microsoft Excel and Word, and Angoss Smartware. Working Knowledge of Novell Netware (V4.01).•Established Cash Management Procedures that were responsible for reducing Accounts Payable $400,000 and debt by $250,000 in the first 18 months with the company.•Saved $30,000 in Payroll Tax Penalties using ADP's Payroll Tax service instead of doing Payroll Taxes in house.•Established the Employee Benefits Programs, Including Dental, Medical, 401K and Long and Short Term Disability.•Instrumental in creating a Purchase Order System for Raw Materials and Outside Processing improving cash flow.

Responsible for Computer Operation and all phases of Accounting for 13 of the 22 Stores that Wanger Owned. Computer Operation duties included System Maintenance and Backup, and Software Development and Maintenance. Accounting Duties included Bank Recons, Journal Entries, Inventory Reconciliation, Month and Year-End Closings, Accounts Payable, Payroll. Responsible for maintenance of the Merchandise Ledger including Markdown/Markup Recording and Inter-Store Transfers.• Saved the company $30,000 by reprogramming a Retail Accounts Receivable System In house instead of using an outside consultant.• Saved $750 per month by changing the method by which Accts Receivable Statements were sent to the stores for mailing to the customers. • Designed several Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets simplifying the costing of Inter-Store Merchandise transfers decreasing shrink.

Bba, Accountancy

High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program