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Greater Salt Lake City Area

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Directed GAAP and SOX compliance for 11 markets for one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country. Acted as advisor and subject matter expert for business managers in 11.
• Managed $250 million budget for 11 markets in Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah and Texas.
• Reduced audit exceptions 60% in 2 years by leading initiatives to implement and enforce procedures and processes leading to greater accuracy.
• Managed 22 direct reports in 5 states, building culture of accuracy and compliance; instituted monthly business managers’ conference call to collectively resolve issues and share best practices.
• Oversaw payroll and commission reporting and conducted quarterly commissions process audits to eliminate deviations from business plan.
• Fortified training for new employees and improved ongoing mentoring to business managers.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Managed accounting operations and analyzed financial operations for multiple business units with annual revenues of over $30M for Fortune 500 publicly held global business process solutions company with more than 50K.
• Enabled company to grow revenue and bring on new clients during period of major industry flux by providing financial modeling and business operations analysis of potential new contracts.
• Reduced projection-to-actual variances by working closely with business managers to refine financial planning and analysis and tighten projections.
• Acted as financial adviser to business unit Vice President.
• Identified erroneous accounting practices and misstatements on A/P; presented correcting entry to balances to restore correct reporting.

• Directed accounting functions for not-for-profit organization, including monthly financial reporting to Executive Board, audit management, financial statement preparation, and GL maintenance.
• Cut $5K in annual labor costs by sourcing and implementing more efficient payroll processing solution.
• Prepared annual budget in cooperation with Chief Scout Executive. Responsible for all accounting functions with a hands on approach including:Monthly financial reporting to the council Executive BoardAnnual budget.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Managed all accounting functions and accounting personnel and for 3 insurance agencies.
• Prepared and presented financial summary reports to Board of Directors.
• Performed due diligence to support acquisition that increased revenue and scope. Managed the accounting department personnel and all accounting functions for three insurance agencies including: Preparation of quarterly.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting