Sandra Watts Email & Phone Number

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

I am currently seeking a position as a Manager or Controller of Accounting. To better leverage my experience, I'm targeting a mid to smaller company on the move that needs strategic discipline and support brought to its accounting functionality to reach the next level of compliance, profitability, and quality. Please contact me at wattssandra.2020@gmail.com.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Accountable for month-end closes, accruals, general ledger reconciliations, cash flow activities, debt and interest analysis, and banking issues involving over 80 accounts. Assisted in preparing financials, budgeting and forecasting, A/P and A/R issues, and the processing of 400 – 500 daily invoices. Spearheaded the reconciliation of data using multiple methodologies. Determined required entries and guaranteed data integrity through quality validations. Ensured timely, accurate reporting, conducted variance analysis. Managed staff of 14.• Improved the Accounts Payable daily end-of-day queue from 200 to 45 invoices. • Streamlined the monthly close timeline by 50%.• Successfully relocated finance activities from California to Texas. Identified areas of improvement within accounting modules. Improved the daily cash reports and the timeliness of bank reconciliations. Also eliminated the potential for duplicate payments in A/P.• Identified processing improvements to decrease over time, which caused team member stress, leading to errors, a lack of engagement and low morale. Identified the redundancy and weaknesses in the processing of invoices. Improved morale, decreased mistakes, eliminated overtime and cut one salary for monthly savings of over $8,000.

Grapevine, Texas, United States

Championed the delivery of expert accounting support by preparing month-end closing, financial forecasts, and consolidations. Provided advice to the management team through the study of financial data; met reporting requirements; managed, trained and evaluated 8 – 12 accounting professionals. Ensured accuracy of inventory by controlling the flow of materials and assets. Directed accounts receivable management, year-end inventory reporting, reconciliations, and cost-benefit analysis.Established, supported and maintained annual and monthly budgeting and forecasting requirements. Provided data and trends to the executive team and identified potential opportunities and challenges. Streamlined capital asset management processes and developed internal controls. Responsible for developing and implementing GAAP processes. Interfaced with banks, governmental bodies, and donors. • Collaborated with audit firms to produce timely audited financial statements. Identified weaknesses of monthly and annual closes that prevented timely completion of each audit. Finalized seven audits to file accurate, required governmental filings and covenant requirements in 4 ½ months.• Built a team to review, analyze and roll out the use of the Foreign Currency modules in Microsoft Dynamics. This streamlined these Foreign Currency postings and standardized the currency rate for all modules and each international office.• Identified areas wherein the cost of liability insurance could be decreased. Reviewed and analyzed each line item and identified coverage for two international offices that were included on the US policy. Removing them from domestic coverage saved 26%.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Directed budget and budgetary control functions. Supervised staff of 10 and oversaw variance analysis, month-end closing, and fixed-asset accounting following GAAP standards. Developed and managed external relationships and constantly looked to strengthen overall financial performance. Oversaw data entry and general ledger accounting as well as cash management, external reporting, bank reconciliations, and all journal entries. Authored comprehensive financial reports. Completed Kronos, Sage and PeopleSoft implementations.• Decreased audit times by nearly 80% and the close period by 75%.