Sarah Burt Email & Phone Number

Bellingham, Washington, United States

• Managed the finance team of 6 through two acquisitions, a recapitalization and one sale. Oversee the day-to-day processes and procedures along with creating the financial statements and other required reporting to.
• Managed a team of 6 team through a software change from QuickBooks to NetSuite.
• Created processes for reconciling millions in deferred revenue.
• Key team member in creating reports and statistics for recapitalizing the business.
• Perform month-end accruals, account reconciliations and analyses

Bellingham, WA

• Managed the accounts payable team of 5 through three acquisitions and two sales for a manufacturing business. Oversee the full cycle accounts payable process and provide amazing customer service to vendors and employees.
• Established procedures for creating and managing all vendor accounts
• Facilitated yearly 1099-Misc reporting and submission
• Developed processes/systems to measure, evaluate and improve departmental and individual productivity
• Planned, organized, manage and evaluate the work of all personnel
• Perform month-end accruals, account reconciliations and analyses

Bellingham, WA

• Prepared, examined, and analyzed financial, regulatory, managerial, and budgetary reports and financial statements that comply to accounting principles and regulatory requirements.
• Prepared account reconciliations and analysis for upper management
• Created documentation of work processes and procedures
• Performed month-end closing
• Fixed asset depreciation and amortization
• Completed monthly bank reconciliations

Seattle, WA

• Managed a department of 6 people inputting hundreds of vendor invoices on a weekly basis. Responsible for creating weekly payment batches and all domestic expense reports.
• Prepared monthly and yearly accruals
• Registered and reconciled fixed assets for all locations worldwide.
• Business owner and subject matter expert for creating and implementing a new ERP System.
• Key member of the Procure to Pay MRO and Acquire to Retire teams working with the design team to create requirements for new finance systems.

Seattle WA

• Customized and Implemented new requisition system internationally to document approvals according to company purchasing policies.
• Set up and implemented new requisition system for the company worldwide
• Conducted training at 4 US locations for all 400 users
• Implemented a new Travel and Entertainment card and Purchasing card programs for all the US offices