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Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Oversee and lead annual budgeting and planning process.
• Managed organizational cash flow and forecasting.
• Implemented a robust contracts management and financial management/ reporting system
• Communicated and presented the critical financial matters to the board of directors.
• Monitored progress and kept senior leadership team abreast of the organization’s financial status.
• Analyzed and presented financial reports in an accurate and timely manner

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Update and implement all necessary business policies and accounting practices;
• Improve the finance department’s overall policy and procedure manual. Reconcile Bank Accounts.
• Corporate departments’ overhead expenses and variance explanation on a monthly basis. Actual vs budgeted.
• Focused on increasing the internal operational efficiency through bank reconciliations
• Processed rebills for all properties to simplify their internal processing
• Helped on writing desktop procedures for junior staff onboarding / training.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Reconciled all Managed and Partnership hotels Intercompany accounts in portfolio.
• Spearheaded an effort to over haul managed properties AR processes resulted in sizeable corporate collection
• Proposed streamlining processes of credit account resulted in increased efficiency
• Completed the cash pull worksheet for the managed hotels payroll and collaborated with Treasury Department
• Created financial package for subsidiaries for management review.
• Directly closed out balances from various internal departments

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Prepared monthly financial statements for seven entities ensuring internal and external compliance
• Reflected changes in financial statements to senior level management
• Coordinated monthly payroll functions for 100+ employees
• Incorporated liquidity measurement ratios to determine company’s cash balance and turnover capability
• Used the fixed asset turnover ratio to reflect the company’s influx of new property and it’s effect on profitability
• Worked Global accounting teams across the United States to incorporate a global perspective