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Elk Grove Village, Il

Hand-on manager leading support staff responsible for all accounting (financial reporting, construction job costing, AP, AR/collections, payroll, inventory, vehicle and equipment tracking, tax planning/reporting and audits), finance (budgeting, cashflow planning, banking, business insurance, bonding), HR (hiring, performance reviewing, terminations/layoffs and union reporting), IT and other general administrative functions of office.• Manage and coordinate with 3rd-party service provider IT system requirements, including software, equipment, back-up/recovery and database/server maintenance.• Coordinated and implemented successful software conversions resulting in more efficient processing and reporting, allowing company to reduce office staff.• Developed, implemented and documented training programs, standard operating accounting and finance processes and procedures, including desktop procedures, flowcharts, and checklists. • Hire, train, manage, and review seven accounting, office, and facility staff. • Administer and evaluate employee benefit plans (health, life and disability insurance & 401k).• Revised employee performance and compensation review processes to better align employee and company goals. • Coordinated financial, bank and insurance audits, as well as tax, union, and payroll audits.• Evaluated and adjusted business insurance coverage to cover proper risk exposure, and reduced overall costs by negotiating early renewals.

Responsible for managing and maintaining accounting reporting functions, including maintenance of accounting systems (financial reporting, GL, billing/collections, AP, payroll, inventory and fixed assets), budgeting/variance analysis, and cash flow planning/management.• Coordinated successful upgrade to eCMS Construction Management System from CMS green-screen environment. • Developed, implemented and documented standard operating accounting and finance processes and procedures, including desktop procedures, flowcharts, and checklists. • Hired, trained, managed, and reviewed eleven accounting staff.• Coordinated annual financial and insurance audits, as well as various tax, union, payroll, DBE and EEO audits.• Coordinated team effort to update, standardize and formalize objective 360 review processes for approximately 100 accounting, administrative and project management employees.

Responsible for managing and maintaining all financial and accounting reporting functions, including maintenance of accounting systems (financial reporting, GL, billing/collections, AP, payroll, job costing, inventory and fixed assets), budgeting/variance analysis, and cash flow planning/management (banking, leasing and financing) , as well as all HR, IT and Business /Office Management functions.• Analyzed, selected, and successfully implemented Intuit’s Master Builder construction accounting system from DOS-based ACCPAC modules, resulting in significant reporting & labor efficiencies.• Developed, implemented and documented standard accounting and administrative processes and procedures. • Managed, evaluated and reviewed administrative and accounting staff, as well as assist owner in managing and evaluating estimating/project management team. Manage all HR administration. Administer and evaluate employee benefit plans. Created, monitored and managed employee incentive/bonus plans. • Evaluated and adjusted Safety Program and business insurance coverage to cover proper risk exposure, while reducing overall costs by 25%. • Developed, implemented and maintained standard processes for estimating and managing jobs (check-off lists, job start-up procedures, file maintenance, labor production monitoring, job costing review, job close-out procedures).• Developed electronic, standardized estimation templates for use by estimators to more efficiently and accurately bid jobs. Researched, identified and purchased cad-based estimation/take-off/project management software for use in efficiently estimating, project managing and selling of company services. Successful implementation resulted in a 20% increase in jobs awarded.

Chicago, Il

Mba, Finance

B.S., Accounting

Education record