Micheal Wright Email & Phone Number

United States

Chicago, Il, Us

As the Accounting Supervisor I am responsible for to lead and oversee the monthly accounting tasks to ensure accuracy and integrity in the financial reporting. I supervise and mentor accounting staff providing guidance and support of their professional development. Through collaboration with several cross-functional teams I provide financial insight and analysis of current financial performance. I review and document processes to ensure proper internal controls are functional properly.

La Vergne, Tn, Us

As Senior Accountant III I am responsible for the timely and accurate reconciliation and reporting of a multitude of GL accounts. I also am tasked with identifying and correcting past errors and preventing possible future issues within the financial reporting. Reconciling a variety of accounts from sales tax, property tax, cash, and many others encompassing both liabilities and assets. I have become proficient in the various ERP systems (IBM AS400, Sage Fixed Asset Reporting as well as others) through a process of exploration and operational use. I continuously analyze and improve efficiency by either redesigning and restructuring the reconciliations or through collaboration with the controller and others to improve reporting procedures and processes.

La Vergne, Tn, Us

As the contract Senior Accountant, I was responsible to bring all U.S. accounts current by analyzing and completing all GL account reconciliations making improvements and corrections as needed. I also needed to self-learn the IBM AS400 system in order to extract and analyze the account information. During my tenure I created procedures and processes to increase accuracy of reporting and improved the timeliness.

Collaborate with internal and external Schedulers and Traders to ensure Ethanol inventory is properly reported, including all gain / loss and mis-reported items. Reconcile inventory in Right angle system for EthanolAccount for discrepancies in Natural gas purchases and sales by working with internal and external customers to reconcile invoicing to the Allegro system.Perform bank reconciliations in Oracle to ensure cash accounts remain in balance to aid in improved close process.Deliver multiple reports for ethanol for general reporting and month end reporting purposes.Generate multitude of journal entries for income statement and balance sheet accounts.Implement updates and improvements to processes and procedures to improve productivity

Brentwood, Tennessee, Us

Working as the Accounting Manager I am responsible for 4 team members to ensure that biodiesel and ethanol inventory is tracked and reported correctly and efficiently. I review and validate the general ledger balances of my department for all balance sheet and income statement accounts. I review intercompany transactions and perform reconciliations on general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy and correct improper entries.

Findlay, Ohio, Us

As the new Inventory/Accounting Supervisor, I oversaw all of the department’s finished product inventory movements and transaction issues, while also leading a team of up to 12 inventory accountants in proper accounting of finished product transactions and exchange, pipeline, and terminal inventories every month. I also generated necessary reports for our management/government agencies and, within limited timeframes, identified and resolved various issues/discrepancies by collaborating with my supervisor and other personnel. In addition, I cultivated mutually beneficial relationships with both our management and external customers. My team members, which I hired and scheduled, also received regular evaluations, consistent feedback from me, and ample training opportunities (work/safety procedures, company policies) to improve their skills and productivity. I continuously sought out ways to improve upon processes and procedures to enhance the quality control and operating efficiency that we provided and to cut various costs, such as time and labor. I also verified team members’ work accuracy/completeness and conducted regular internal and external audits. ► I cut the month-end close days from 6 to 4 and made the closing process much smoother and more efficient by providing additional cross-training to my team of accountants and employing an issues spreadsheet for tracking all reconciliation problems and their resolution progress. - This allowed them to assist one another and address problems prior to closing.► By producing new spreadsheets for tracking Ethanol and Biodiesel product purchases for the entire company, I boosted accuracy in Inventory/COGS departments’ related information and reduced the time required to reconcile these purchases by 50%.

Findlay, Ohio, Us

When our company was known as Western Refining L.P., I was hired as a Financial Analyst in the Inventory department, where I collaborated with A/P to ensure timely invoice payment and proper coding, necessary accrual entries, and accurate values/volumes posting. In addition, I recorded exchange transactions in the system, calculating regrade differentials with posted prices, reconciling with 3rd-party terminal statements, paying exchange statements to comply with contracts, and working with A/R to clear any related balances. Earned 2 promotions within 3 years for proactively assuming responsibilities and demonstrating exceptional skill.► I received a promotion to Inventory (later retitled Accounting) Supervisor in 2015 by assuming the majority of the supervisory work on the floor, which allowed my former Inventory Supervisor to focus on new-system integration.► Within my first year (2012), I earned a promotion to Financial Analyst Lead, a position created specifically for me, by: - Rapidly mastering all tasks, as well as the 4 other team members’ tasks. - Assisting the supervisor in her duties. - Becoming an integral part of the other accountants’ training in new ERP systems as they were implemented (i.e., transitioning to Openlink Rightangle in 2014 and SAP in 2018).

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

► I accelerated the expense-reporting (to participating cities) process by 2 – 3 days, enabling faster income generation, by overhauling our existing manual expense-tracking system that made issue identification difficult. - Designed/implemented an income-/expense-tracking spreadsheet broken down by job, thus making it easier to identify profitable/non-profitable repairs and providing a single source of reconciliation/backup to submit to cities for reimbursement to the organization.

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Technical Management / Accounting