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Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States

Tewksbury

• Supervise the cash management, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and other general accounting activities.
• Responsible for planning and scheduling of staff’s work to meet specified objectives for internal, group, and corporate deadlines.
• Supervise the maintenance of the companies general ledgers. Responsible for complete, accurate, and efficient transaction processing.
• Responsible for month end closing processes including approval of journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting account analysis.
• Produce timely and accurate financial statements, compliant with generally accepted accounting principles, meeting corporate reporting requirements.
• Participate in or direct the development of accounting policy and administers approved internal controls, accounting procedures, and workflows.

• Oversee month end financial close with specific attention to project accounting, revenue recognition, proper costing, and variance analysis.
• Review, approve and amend all journal entries, account reconciliation, and financial results to ensure compliance with GAAP and Sarbanes Oxley.
• Manage financial staff of 7 to 10 which includes; determining staffing levels, setting individual goals, hiring, issuing quarterly reviews, providing guidance, and correcting performance issues.
• Review contracts to determine proper revenue recognition and any other financial contingencies.
• Oracle Accounting Super-User responsible for preliminary response to accounting help desk tickets and approval of accounting system patches
• Develop test scripts and verified results for Oracle system upgrades. Major upgrade from v11 to v12 was completed on schedule.

• Supervised accounting department (staff of four)
• Oversaw month end financial close with specific attention to unbilled receivables and percentage of completion revenue recognition.
• Responsible for all accounting functions of a ERP system implementation including company set up, transactional account mapping with overhead burdening, accounting functional design, staff training, and issue resolution.
• Developed, documented, and authored narratives for accounting procedures and workflows related to Sarbanes Oxley compliance and ERP system implementation.
• Completed monthly corporate reporting requirements including actual results, forecasts and variance analysis.
• Provided parent organization with the appropriate information for the completion of SEC (10K) and tax information package filings.

• Supervised finance department (staff of two)
• Oversaw preparation and distribution of monthly global financial reporting package to management and corporate staff by the tenth business day of each month
• Managed the annual plan process, including working with business leaders, creating the plan model, and inclusion of plan into the monthly financial reporting package.
• Prepared monthly analysis of business results, highlighting key areas for development and opportunities for improvement
• Reconciled & resolved all financial & reporting issues with parent organization
• Prepared commentary on monthly and quarterly results in comparison with plan and forecast