Manage high-volume accounts payable at a shared services environment for 6000+ sites and 25,000 invoices in workflow at any one time. Staff, recruit, train, and coach 23 member team on roles, responsibilities, and expectations. Analyze root cause analysis, implement process improvements, and identify opportunities for increased use of automation. • Implement Optical Scanning and Automated Workflow Process of invoices.• Merge operations with sites acquired through acquisitions.• Lead Training of off-shore staff with India business partners.• Manage subsidiary systems for Employee Reimbursements, Utilities, Repair & Maint, and Legal.

Deliver financial services to clients with emphasis on tax preparation to individual, partnership, corporate, multi-state, and self-employed clients. Mine data. Provide representation with IRS and State of Arizona audits. Advise and represent clients on sales tax audits and debate findings with State and inquiries from IRS. • Assist with annual tax preparations, advising clients on tax planning strategies and electronically filing with taxing authorities. • Worked with Openworks in 2017 to update financial reporting models through Adaptive Insights for budget and rolling forecasts, revise company commission program, and lead Concur implementation. The results were a boosting of efficiencies with forecasting, on-time commission payout, and tighter controls on expense items.

Accounting Manager - GL Sales Reporting 2012 – 2016Accounts Payable Manager 2000-2012General Ledger Sr Accountant 1995-2000Led multiple teams, including AP, sales reporting, and general ledger. Hired, trained, and coached to meet department needs. Centralized accounts payable function to shared-services model for 2300 stores. Developed, documented, and improved processes, including SOX controls.• Reported daily same-store sales for 2.3K stores by section and day, creating and distributing executive summary reports for upper management.• Led team through conversion of 1.1K Albertsons stores to Safeway’s Point of Sale (POS) and data warehouse systems, integrating sales data and providing POS training to convert store bookkeepers. • Guided accounting team through merchandise donation project, capturing real-time donations from handheld device to scan out merchandise when donating to local charities, enabling itemized tax reporting, centralized control over store beneficiaries, and overall improved audit trail.• Updated POS system, allowing charitable-giving promotions data to flow smoothly from customer pinpad to organization and tracking amounts raised by store, by promotion.• Generated substantial manhour savings, more accurate posting of expenses to GL, and clearer electronic audit trail by reengineering process for store directors to use cash for from paper-intensive procedure to electronic.