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Romeoville, Il, Us

Manage Corporate wide accounting activities including financial statement preparation, operational reporting, board reporting, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis. Implemented CPM platforms for financial consolidation (Fluence) and reporting (Adaptive Planning/Workday).

Management of global consolidated financial reporting, with global operations in North America, Europe and Asia. Other responsibilities included management of global cost accounting, global audit, global credit/collections function, monthly board reporting, monthly internal management financial/operational reporting and preparation of price realization analysis. Provided oversight for division ERP conversion from Deacom to Macola. Finally, proposed and led the implementation of One Stream CPM platform as a solution to replace Excel global consolidated financial reporting.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Management of global consolidated financial reporting, global cost accounting, global audit coordination, planning (budgeting/forecasting), quarterly board reporting, bank covenant reporting, financial analysis and acquisition integration. Also, led the conversion to Prophix CPM to replace Excel-based financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and board reporting.

Management of the corporate financial reporting, inventory control, costing and cash flow planning processes. Provide monthly analysis to senior management and other business stakeholders. Partner with information systems on upgrade/implementation of Microsoft Dynamics/Great Plains ERP system. Led implementation of Prophix system for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting and BI/analytics. Assist CFO/COO with analysis of new acquisition opportunities. Integration of new acquisitions into existing financial reporting and operational framework. Coordination of the annual audit.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Client: Energizer Holdings, St. Louis, MOShort-Term Contract Position. Partnering with management on the Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and Hyperion Planning implementations. Also, assisting External Reporting group with year-end and quarter close responsibilities.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Direct Corporate-wide Hyperion, JDE Financials and PeopleSoft budget system applications as part of the Corporate Finance group. Hyperion applications implemented include DRM, FDM, HFM and Essbase. Key Hyperion responsibilities include directing corporate governance and control by defining, monitoring and enforcing policies and standards around Hyperion applications, establishing credibility throughout the organization and with financial/operational leadership by providing financial performance analytic information and data, designing/implementing data validation/ verification processes and procedures while coordinating system wide data definition standardization, and translating strategic designs into actionable development plans and achievable/sustainable information deliverables for finance Hyperion and other related applications.Manage a team of Performance Analytic professionals with diverse skill sets and roles responsible for operational aspects of data integration, retrieval, processing, and validation including but not limited to: reporting, calculations, business rules, security, master data management, interfaces, scripting and input forms.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managed Corporate-wide budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning and analysis activities as part of the Corporate Accounting group. Also, managed JDE financial systems administration, PeopleSoft budget systems administration, HR benefit/payroll accounting (including stock-based compensation accounting) and captive insurance accounting. Key responsibilties included Board of Director reporting, capital budget tracking and reporting, project management for implementation of three (3) separate budget-related PeopleSoft custom modules and management of benefit accounting including benefit analysis/true-up process, bonus accruals, moving expense gross-up, balance sheet liability analysis, payroll tax withholding analysis, deferred compensation accounting, stock compensation accounting, cash-based incentive accounting and other varied payroll/benefit-related reconciliations. Member of the Hyperion Essbase project team that successfully completed implemented a new forecast process, new board reporting and new metrics.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Management of financial functions including cash flow, AR management, financial statement preparation (including foreign currency translation) and audit coordination. Management of operational functions such as production scheduling & purchasing for Mexico and China plants as well as customer/vendor forecasting. Supervision of 7 direct reports.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Performed end-to-end project management for systems integration of PeopleSoft (ERP) financials into existing AS-400 based financial system. Responsibilities included interfacing with operational & financial executive management for systems implementations. Accomplishments included management of successful completion of PeopleSoft implementations of A/R and billing systems for leasing division and segment of rental division; enhancement implementations and management of successful upgrade to PeopleSoft financials version 8.4.

Zebulon, Nc, Us

Responsibilties included management of the financial, information systems and quality functions. Member of executive management group. Gained experience with standard costing, budget preparation and forecasting. Accomplishments included negotiating below market building lease, enhancing standard costing system, initiating monthly financial analysis, standardizing operating procedures, improving billing accuracy, implementing integrated (bottom-up) budget and creating an internal information systems department.

Mentor, Ohio, Us

Management of division/plant accounting functions including financial acounting, payroll, billing, tax, cost accounting (standard & job costing), inventory accounting, budgeting, cash flow management, system implementation and business process automation. Member of the management team. Supervision of a staff of 3-4 accountants.Accomplishments included reduction of monthly financial statements preparation from 15 to 5 days, implementation of standard costing system, improved inventory control, automation of various business processes, initiated financial analysis for plant operations, and management of financial module implementation for small company ERP package.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Responsibilities included budgeting/forecasting, financial analysis for senior management, programming for financial statements/analysis in Excel and LOTUS macros. Accomplishments included enhancements to macro-based financial statement package, presentation financial results to plant management, and preparation of operational analysis to reduce costs.

Perfomed financial statement audit and tax preparation work. In charge auditor on various engagements. Prepared C Corporation, S Corporation, partnership and individual tax returns for small/medium-sized businesses. Some tax planning experience.

New York, Ny, Us

Performed financial statement audits for clients in many industries including retail, banking, manufacturing, construction, health care and government.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting/Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance/Information Systems