Roger Sooby Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, Us

Reported to the Company's Vice President of Finance.Interfaced directly with department leaders, including heads of finance, HR, payroll, legal and SEC reporting.Record month-end and quarterly journal entries, account reconciliations and analysis for a majority of corporate accounts including: prepaid expenses, fixed assets, investment in subsidiaries, accrued liabilities, interest expense, interest income and other receivables.Performed accounting and create ad hoc reports for various executive deferred compensation programs.Was responsible for accounting and analysis of Company Owned Life Insurance. Assumed ownership of the analysis and calculation of growth/decline in value from prior manager.Analyzed and provide explanations of monthly and quarterly balance sheet and income statement (by cost center) variances and trends. Interface and coordinate various audit schedules related to reviews and audits by external and internal auditors.Established closing procedure checklist for all accounting activities affecting the corporate department which is beneficial to ensure a consistent, accurate and timely close. Assisted with managing the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts. Assisted with accounting for stock-based compensation.Was responsible for SAP general ledger training to new associates.Reviewed and approved general ledger coding for all expenses within the corporate department, except compensation.

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Progressed from Senior Accountant to Manager of Inventory Accounting within 4 years. Was responsible for supervising 6 to 10 staff members, preparation and analysis of inventory valued in excess of $400M, approval of all journal entries. Was part of SAP conversion and Y2K testing team, successfully integrating SAP from a legacy system known as CAMBAR. Also prepared forecast for future staffing levels post-implementation, helped resolve post-implementation "bugs" and assisted in staff training.

Worked in contract financial management as a Staff Accountant for Arthur Andersen as part of the RTC liquidation of failed savings and loans. Included processing the sales of loans and assets, recording monthly remitances on preforming loans, writeoffs for non-performing loans and reconciliation of tax and insurance excrow.