Mike Westendorf, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Franklin Park, Il, Us

• Maximize daily activity of Accounting Team, consisting of 2 Accounts Receivable members and 2 Accounts Payable members.• Organize and select $39 million in annual payments of inventory and expense vendors.• Reconcile $125,000 in daily collection of Aging Receivables.• Calculate monthly borrowing base certificate on $3.5 million revolving line of credit.• Work with Accounting team daily to improve borrowing availability based on line of credit requirements related to Accounts Receivable Aging Balances, Aged Inventory and Accounts Payable balances. • Analyze monthly income statement for accurate margins across varying segments of the business, as well as any unusual cost activity within the sales, operational and administrative expenses.• Published quarterly compliance ratio calculation for bank. • Create projections for future periods to help leadership improve margins and identify areas of expenses that require cost improvement.• Utilized new ERP platform tools to improve margin and rebate accuracy by presenting the net margin of invoices processed in the previous day. • Created and managed a new IT resources coordinator position to focus on increased use and efficiency under the new ERP platform. • Promoted to management of IT department based on accomplishments in ERP implementation to improve the loading and maintaining of pricing, customer, vendor and inventory records. • Work with all areas of business to improve processes through event based activity management tools and exception based criteria built into new ERP platform.

Franklin Park, Il, Us

• Created and implement unified Accounting processes through new ERP system. • Developed profitability analysis tool to influence decisions for accepting contract projects and to measure profitability along the way at various stages of completion. • Redefined new General Ledger numbering with over 200 accounts to bring financials statements together from 2 sets of legacy system account numberings. • Completed monthly filing of sales tax returns for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, including City of Chicago bottled water tax, soda tax, and bag tax. • Prepared documentation for year-end review conducted by outside CPA. • Successfully lead company through $1.25 million ERP implementation to bring the company to one platform from two legacy platforms. • Lead team of 12 champion users to implement new ERP system processes into current activities.• Coordinated training of 12 champion users and 65 end users on new ERP platform.• Key decision maker on additional programs through cost benefit evaluation. • Coordinated Go Live process for all employees and a third part group of consultants to bring our project live in two parts at different dates.

Rolling Meadows, Illinois, Us

• Collected and prepared monthly financial information for project teams, to be presented to company executives on the financial standing of the project teams’ job sites.• Organized and presented informational and instructional tutorials to project managers that allowed for increased awareness and knowledge on the project team level of the importance of proactive project organization, as well as the analytical effect that their project could have. • Created multiple reports and analysis to monitor activity for project team activities at both the customer level and site level. • Analyzed customer performance to ensure profitability. • Enabled the teams to cut costs and increase margins through cost analysis evaluations. • Monitored the monthly margins to ensure all costs were incurred in the corresponding period of sales and were accrued correctly where necessary. • Functioned as a key liaison to production through the program management group, analyzing and managing profit margins and gross margin goals set by the company.• Reviewed the aging of inventory, as well as finding reasons for unfavorable variances from estimated costs to actual costs on products used by program teams.• Tracked and monitored weekly billing targets set by the company based on projections and forecasting.• Increased efficiency of monthly reporting for multiple internal functions, making information more accessible for our IMS service company.• Prepared monthly analysis of the efficiency of our service division, both for our technicians as well as the efficiency of using internal vs external labor. • Assisted in the monthly maintaining of financial statements, including all consolidated financial statements.• Successfully facilitated and executed physical inventory counts at the ICON manufacturing plants, for both rolling counts and year end counts. • Generated the valuation of the company inventory for year-end audit evaluation and testing for the ICON companies.

Naperville, Il, Us

• Coordinated the creation and production of waste service quotes and Broker status updates involving internal communication of billing and service changes. • Communicated with internal and external customers and maintained documentation to support adherence to internal procedures.• Collected and prepared bid pricing, and acted as a liaison with Market Area personnel and Broker Representatives in such areas as service setup and cancellation. • Maintained customer database and generated internal database information, such as contract expiration dates and customer lists.• Compiled and produced contract, customer status, broker portfolio and win/loss reporting.

Naperville, Il, Us

• Evaluated and assigned revenues from third party haulers.• Updated and maintained all revenues from construction accounts. • Performed monthly checks of specific mall property revenues.• Assisted in evaluating revenue assignment of all Waste Management accounts. • Acquired pricing for bid for new Waste Management national account. • Coded and keyed third party invoice batches

Zurich, -, Ch

• Performed job costing evaluation. • Completed sales and use tax returns monthly.• Prepared files and data for SAP conversion. • Assisted in Accounts Receivable Aging maintenance and updating. • Aided in month end and quarter end activities.• Reconciled monthly General Ledger accounts.• Edited Accounts Payable batches.

Master In Professional Accountancy, Accounting

Bachelor Of Arts, Accounting

Attended, Business