Nathan Monroe Email & Phone Number

Lake Elmo, MN, US

St Paul, Minnesota, US

• Reported directly to the CEO and responsible for creating monthly financial statements.
• Served as HR representative and processed biweekly payroll for 30 employees.
• Member of the management team.
• Led the search for a new ERP system, reviewed over 20 options, and conducted full demos of 5 serious candidates. Selected Global Shop Solutions and currently in the implementation phase.
• Upgraded several of the previous VP of Finance's spreadsheets.
• Enhanced financial statement reporting and analytics process for the CEO.

Vadnais Heights, Minnesota, US

• Performed corporate HR and payroll duties for 25-30 employees annually (using Paylocity as a third-party payroll provider).
• Worked as company representative with SevenHills Cleveland for employee health and retirement benefits renewal and open enrollment.
• Prepared monthly financial reports for executive management team to review at both corporate level (over $10 million in annual revenue) and regional level (11 state territory).
• Managed construction accountant and managed accounts receivable, accounts payable, and use tax reporting in each nexus state.
• Met regularly with CPA firm to prepare quarterly estimated tax payments for owners and provide information for year-end financial review and tax filing.
• Established chart of accounts and job costing structure for organization in Jonas Premier (converted from QuickBooks).

• Supervised two other accountants responsible for day-to-day data entry, while performing analysis for senior leadership.
• Participated in company-wide implementation of property management software (Yardi).
• Served on the construction leadership team and responsible for reviewing weekly key financial performance indicators.
• Performed research and implementation of new construction accounting software (Jonas Premier).
• Worked with SR Development team to standardize the monthly financial report review once financial data was converted from Quickbooks to Yardi.
• Enhanced month-end close process through Excel templates and simple procedural changes, which resulted in decreasing the lag time of the financial review by two weeks.

• Reported directly to CFO, primarily responsible for preparation of monthly financial reports for entire organization.
• Monitored company bank accounts and notified company leaders of changes in cash flow trends.
• Main accounts payable contact, and responsible for ensuring team was not delinquent in submitting payments.
• Performed monthly analysis of long-term debt projects, generating a report of projected payoff dates and making recommendations to CFO based on results.
• Served as liaison between construction operations and accounting/finance department.
• Developed interactive forecast reporting capabilities for CEO, CFO, and board of directors to analyze revenue and sales projections across five active divisions.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Responsible for monthly financial reporting for two operating groups with a total of over $250 million in annual sales.
• Monitored over $150 million in revenue and $7 million margin between four Canadian entities, ensuring accurate reporting for corporate financial statements.
• Performed monthly currency conversion of all transactions and transfers of funds between US and Canadian entities.
• Lead monthly meetings with construction executives to review financial projections for individual projects.
• Trained associate project accountants in new project setup, subcontract/owner account relations, and cost issue management.
• Developed an Excel VBA timecard tool used companywide for weekly craft labor payroll uploads, which eliminated need for manual entry into ERP system and increased accuracy.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Analyzed monthly revenue/cost/margin reports and reviewed labor productivity reports, assisting group accounting manager with operating group financial projections.
• Maintained subcontractor account status on over 50 active subcontractor accounts ranging up to $17 million.
• Responsible for more than 30 monthly project financial projections, which accounted for 50 percent of open projects in the operating group.
• Revised companywide project setup and budget allocation workbook, decreasing project setup time by 33 percent.
• Oversaw all new project setup and budgeting within operating group.
• Performed weekly payroll functions for up to 300 hourly team members.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Performed routine accounts payable entry and review on over 200 invoices a day.
• Provided monthly analysis on cell phone and company vehicle expenses by assisting equipment facility manager with equipment inventory logs and cost reports.
• Worked with equipment facility team to record over 100 monthly equipment transfers between projects and main equipment yard.
• Reviewed monthly transactions for over 500 truck leases, service records, and fuel usage, increasing accuracy in posting all associated costs to the correct accounts.
• Developed an Excel VBA equipment rental tracking workbook, identified and corrected invalid invoices, totally over $500,000 in duplicate payment refunds.

• Assisted in recording and maintaining customer and vendor accounts.
• Converted paper general ledger records to electronic records, resulting in a 50 percent reduction in processing time for monthly reporting, customer billings, and vendor payments.
• Participated in blueprint and bid proposal review meetings.

• Worked alongside two master plumbers during summer months on over 25 new and remodel construction projects.
• Installed underground water supply, waste lines and storm drainage on 50,000-75,000 square feet industrial buildings.
• Installed plumbing fixtures such as hot water tanks, drinking fountains, toilets, sinks and emergency eye-wash stations.