Raymond Brickey Email & Phone Number

Waco, Texas Area

Managed accounts receivables for three ($250M) divisions reporting to Monsanto Company. Reconciled and analyzed monthly open accounts receivable market funding accruals and variances. Supervised one accountant and informally coached customer service representatives. -Established best practices company-wide for cash application and customer program adjustment improving timeliness of actual dollars spent and customer accuracy. -Updated proprietary database to reflect financial controls improving end-of-year projections while reducing estimating errors. -Created monthly reconciliation, market funding accruals and variance analysis reports allowing for consistency in reporting and ease of analysis for executive leadership team. -Consolidated three divisional processes into one scheduled plan for cash and market funding applications which improved consistency and accuracy of reporting for 5000 customers. -Teamed with Marketing and IT maintaining pricing and market fund compliance for multiple brands.

Managed monthly financial reporting and annual internal / external audits. Prepared in depth financial and performance analysis for company and 75 profit centers. Supported sales and marketing by establishing sales programs, prices, shipping costs, and inventory control. Forecasted estimated funding programs monthly for one division reporting to corporate office. Analyzed and projected annual market funding costs and sales projections. -Streamlined monthly closing procedures from 15 to 5 days by updating IT systems with a focus on analysis. -Established methodology for calculating and reporting sophisticated sales bonus payments and estimates which ensured accuracy and consistency for individual recipient calculations.

Accountable for monthly financial reporting, analysis, and other projects for parent company. Created and maintained reporting systems for proprietary contact management database. Supervised and trained five accounting and customer service employees. -Evaluated and updated new contact management database tracking customer contact and activities while improving time management and efficiency of data retrieval. -Teamed with 10 key marketing clients developing specific controls that blended into company's contact management database. -Introduced and initiated a new abatement process saving the company $50K.

Led financial reporting, banking relations, credit and collections, employee benefits, tax and estate planning, and annual audits. Supervised 5 clerical office staff and directed daily inventory control, accounts payable and receivable and payroll for 60 employees. Initiated estate planning strategies for family businesses by teaming with Board of Directors to transfer wealth effectively between family members.-Teamed with legal council and established unrelated businesses for transfer of wealth between family. These strategies created tax savings of $250K for business owners.-Directed quarterly physical inventory, established costs and reconciled LIFO reserve resulting in accurate and timely financial reporting.

Bs, Business / Accounting

As, Accounting