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Greater Seattle Area

• Division Controller for a $3 billion privately owned international marketing and distributing company of agricultural products, animal feed and specialty chemicals and ingredients. Responsibilities are broad based.
• Part of the division management team providing financial advice and guidance in developing tactical and strategic business plans.
• Lead a group of 15 accountants and staff to ensure a timely and accurate monthly and annual financial close.
• Responsible for the division’s internal controls and compliance with GAAP and, where applicable IFRS.
• Coordinates external audit activities with the external public auditors and various governmental agencies.
• Responsible for multi-currency hedging activities and cash management of foreign bank accounts.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Senior manager in the finance and controlling department of a large multi-national manufacturing company with responsibility for the establishment of policies, processes and procedures to ensure the accurate and timely.
• Research accounting issues, propose and document appropriate accounting treatments to ensure that all accounting processes adhere to GAAP, IFRS and the Daimler Accounting guidelines.
• Lead the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance effort for accounting resulting in no material deficiencies.
• Led the conversion from GAAP based accounting to IAS IFRS based accounting.
• Led a comprehensive close documentation process to create process improvements, identify potential internal control weaknesses and develop departmental efficiencies.
• Plays a significant role in the continuing development and implementation of a worldwide finance and controlling (F&C) SAP based template to standardize Daimler F&C functions.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Business unit controller of a major subsidiary of a large multi-national manufacturing company comprised of a corporate parent and 25 wholly owned and partnered subsidiaries, with responsibility for the establishment.
• Responsible for ensuring all month-end and year-end close activities are correct and communicated on a timely basis.
• Monitor and report actual to budget variances.
• Represent the business unit in the monthly close meetings to review financial results.
• Manage the financial and operational management reporting of all business unit activities coordinating with various internal departments (Accounting, Planning, Reporting, Tax, Legal and others).
• Manage the annual planning for corporate business unit function and the wholly-owned subsidiary operations; in conjunction with the business unit management team.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Senior manager in the general accounting department of a large multi-national manufacturing company with responsibility for managing the general accounting functions for four decentralized business units.
• Corporate responsibility of the maintenance of balance sheet and income statement accounts, the accounting close process, variance analysis, labor reporting and internal controls related to the corporate accounting.
• Responsible for the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of financial records.
• Partner with the business unit controllers to optimize financial business processes and assist in identifying and managing business risks.
• Identify and analyze requirements for accruals and reserves in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
• Departmental responsibility for the Sarbanes Oxley compliance effort including the development and maintenance of accounting systems, processes, policies and internal control structure.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Managerial and supervisory responsibility for the planning and execution of all financial and franchise compliance audits for the corporate headquarters and its wholly owned and partnered subordinate entities in.
• Responsible for the development of a risk based annual audit plan.
• Responsible for ensuring auditee is in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and company policies and procedures.
• Ensure that formal audit results are effectively prepared and communicated, both orally and in writing, in a timely manner to management.
• Directly supervised four supervisors and staff auditors and overall responsible for a group of seven.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Financial manager with overall responsibility for the financial and accounting functions of a multi-location, corporately owned, high volume used truck retailer.
• Responsible for all aspects of the accounting function including accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, inventory management, warranty operations, cash management, local and state tax reporting and all aspects.
• Responsible for financial analysis and reporting.
• Responsible for the development of the annual budget and the forward monitoring of actual and budget variances.
• Completed a system conversion to a new general ledger accounting software.
• Assist the sales staff in the development of cost analysis.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for performing a wide variety of operational, financial and information systems audits of corporate and subsidiary manufacturing and administrative operations. Developed and performed risk based internal audits to assess the effectiveness of controls, accuracy of financial records, and efficiency of operations.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for performing a wide variety of operational, financial and information systems audits of corporate and subsidiary manufacturing and administrative operations. Developed and performed risk based internal audits to assess the effectiveness of controls, accuracy of financial records, and efficiency of operations.

Various

United States Army officer providing leadership and motivation to a variety of staff and military units ranging in size from 6 to 250+ personnel in a variety of worldwide assignments.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business/Managerial Economics

Post Baccalaureate Accounting Degree, Accounting

Master Of Arts - Ma, Business Administration And Management, General