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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.• Ensure sales tax compliance and preparation of periodic sales and income tax information packages as required. • Maintain financial modules of ERP and third party systems. Troubleshooting system issues and engage support providers for corrective actions.• Provide leadership on aspects of improvement in automated system functionality on system implementation and upgrades. • Manage operational data and ensure data integrity/accuracy, developing proper documentation, internal controls, and troubleshooting procedures.• Provide technical accounting support to company owned locations.

•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. •Completed thirty one consecutive financial audit engagements with no material accounting adjustments or financial restatements required.•Established procedures for reconciling project variances and validating proper overhead absorption.•Represented the finance department on the development team for a new product role out.•Implemented process improvements that shortened the close cycle by 5 days.•Enhanced collections process netting a 10 day reduction in DSO.•Enforce company travel policy.

•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.• Supported European Controller with compliance, reporting, and accounting issues.

•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•Acted as the administrator of the Hyperion Enterprise reporting system which included, but was not limited to, account set up, entity set up, data loads & extracts, formula & report writing.•Acted as a business partner with marketing managers and production managers to highlight key financial issues•Assisted with the rollup of the monthly flash, including researching variances from normal margin rates and understanding manufacturing variance estimates•Supported European Controllers with reporting issues•Supported development of Global Datamart and rebuild of Hyperion reporting system•Rewrote and validated reports for the global financial reporting package