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Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Responsible for annual budget, quarterly forecasts, monthly financial reporting and analysis, and weekly cash – A/P reporting approvals.• Developed efficient and effective tools for forecasting manufacturing, clinical trials, quality control, R&D and overhead departments.• Established budgeting and forecasting process, tools and schedule.• Partner closely with executive team and department heads, providing key metrics, financials and current forecasts that add insight into the business segments.• Automated travel and purchase order request system using MS power automate• Produce weekly cash requirement reporting – review A/P and update forecasted spend

Austin Texas Area

Providing accounting and finance support for startups and established business including Ztric and Eye Elegance.• Built 10 year pro forma financial statements, providing analysis for use in investor presentation for capital funding.• Developed debt schedules using Excel for various types of investor funding, providing timelines for repayment.• Designed and developed payroll processing procedures and policies.• Moved 2 years of accounting data to QuickBooks online, converting the data from legacy system.• Trained the business owner on usage of QuickBooks, providing easy to follow documentation and guidance on proper usage on accounting system.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Assists the Director of Budget and analysis with managing a 4-person team and department activities for the Austin Travis County Mental Health authority(not-for-profiit).• Reconfigured budgeting process, automating the process and shortening the preparation time by 6 weeks.• Developed process for accounting for cash payments.• Develop budgets for various governmental and private grants.• Provide analysis and reporting for Executive team and board members.• Participate in cross-functional teams, providing financial data and analytics for program managers.

Austin, Texas

Led a team of 4 analysts that generated monthly financial reporting and analysis including key metrics used by the executive team, division leaders, board of directors and other stakeholders. This reporting and analysis was for 160 stores, ecommerce, catalog, merchandising and corporate overhead divisions in both the US and Canada.• Spearheaded an efficient, effective and comprehensive process for developing $900M annual budget and forecasts, both short and long term, that enhanced the executive team and board of directors’ ability to lead the company.• Managed $40M annual Capital Expenditure budget.• Partnered closely with executive team, merchandising and cost center owners, providing key metric and value that added insight into the business.• Developed analytics for evaluating marketing/advertising spend.• Prepared analysis, commentary and presentation materials for the board of directors’ monthly and quarterly financial reviews, as well as for investors.• Created and maintained 5 year strategic plan model that incorporated the financial impacts of the company’s strategic initiatives. It was used to evaluate initiatives, provide directional views to the board of directors and for audit analysis. • Participated in cross-functional teams, providing financial data and analytics, leading to the company’s acquisition.• Devised processes and models for integration of financial information and annual budget, just 3 weeks post acquisition. This allowed for all financial reporting and budgeting processes to continue on pre-merger schedule.• Developed and streamlined detail models for cash forecasting, capital expenditure reporting and forecasting and new initiatives to ensure that utilization of funds was maximized.• Managed banking and credit facility ($155M) relationships, ensuring all compliances and covenants were met.

Responsibilities included accounting for vendor cooperative funding, project lead for Oracle conversion of all finance and related departments and overseeing payroll, A/R and Treasury department.• Provided monthly and quarterly reporting and analysis to Board of Directors and Bankers, including all credit facility covenant reporting.• Redesigned financial statements that allowed management and Board of Directors to easily analyze and compare business segments.• Created and automated monthly reforecast model, greatly reducing the amount of time spent by executives on the reforecast.• Streamlined payroll processes reducing the amount of work by 20 hrs per week and saved $30k per year.• Built automated spreadsheets that created monthly closing journal entries reducing GL team’s workload.• Acted as finance liaison with Oracle implementation team, provided information needed for setup, testing, and post implementation follow-up.

Assigned to a variety of contract assignments ranging in length from 3 to 9 months. Contracts ranged from, FPA Director for a publicly traded retail company, an assistant controller for profit hospital, and as a controller for an elementary & secondary school. FP&A Director for Retail trade• Lead on budget process- Researched accounting processes, gathered and processed data to produce the annual budget.• Developed spreadsheets to facilitate the budgeting process and analysis of financial data.• Re-engineered SGA basic Excel file to an automated spreadsheet that processed and analyzed the data with the click of a button.• Built a turn-key five year strategic Excel model that was leveraged by executives to evaluate long term plans.• Developed ROI analysis for various marketing promotions; determined which marketing promotions drove the most business and provided the best margin, looking at store traffic counts, promotion and email codes. This created a new type of analysis for the company and required methodology approval from executive team.• Restated the division Profit & Loss statements from the shipped perspective to a demand perspective. This change gave credit to the division that initiated the sale, and gave better visibility into which divisions were driving the sales and the gross profit associated with the sales. Assistant Controller for hospital• Reviewed monthly reconciliations, and monthly closing journal entries.• Assisted with internal and external audits.• Performed quarterly Medicare audit. Controller for elementary and secondary school• Performed system conversion for broken in-house A/R system that lacked reporting functionality. Collected over $100k the first month.• Stepped in as interim controller 2 weeks before the start of the school year to oversee all accounting and HR operations. Formulated and executed a plan that resolved all last minute employee and student issues before school started.

As the corporate controller for 2 parent companies and 11 subsidiaries I oversaw all accounting, payroll, HR and technology operations. • Produced financial statements and analysis for 11 subsidiaries and 2 parent companies and 2 affiliates for use by stakeholders. • Provided financial information to business partners including government entities. • Reviewed and analyze all financial documentation for current and prospective business. • Developed automated spreadsheets for use in financial analysis of prospective investments - including property acquisitions and sales. • Supervised accounting, human resources and technology departments. • Partnered with senior management to create custom financial reports that allowed them to manage their departments more effectively and efficiently. • Coordinated sales of final assets and closed out 6 RTC Trusts (S and N series). • Coordinated the update of both the accounting procedural manual and the HR handbook. Took the initiative to do this because wanted to mitigate learning curve in the event of turnover and to cover for vacation, which was particularly relevant when managing a team of individual specialists. Saw potential deficiency in the process.• Oversaw mortgage and debt collection company operations, including maintaining investor relations.

Austin, Texas Area

Installed computer network to link branches and corporate headquarters. Responsible for preparing excel spreadsheets used in budgeting process and was a member of the budgeting process. Researched and purchased hardware. Selected software used in accounting and payroll.

Bba, Accounting

Finance