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Tampa, FL, US

Riverview, FL, US

Tampa, Florida, US

• Responsibilities included:
• Month end close - preparing all standard journal entries across 4 company ledgers and coordinating cut off timing for banking, inventory and AP transactions.
• Account reconciliations - updating and researching anomalies for 91 balance sheet accounts.
• Accounts payable – handling approval and input of all multi-currency invoices, vetting new vendors, batching bi-weekly payment approvals and processing the payments via wires, ACH’s and checks.
• Tax reporting – creating and submitting quarterly Canadian HST refund report.
• Banking – inputting daily transactions in 7 accounts and working with bank representatives to resolve issues.

• Responsible for company’s balance sheet account reconciliations focusing on the receivables, group health insurance, cash and property taxes, and producing monthly Borrowing Base report to substantiate Asset Based.
• Implementing a monthly review process including outside departments to clear up posting errors, missed loan deductions, and termed driver collections, recouping several million dollars in AR balances aged over a year.
• As team member with most seniority, facilitating with new employee training, planned team events, offering assistance to other accounting teams, and helping to create an atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration

Stamford, CT, US

Managed a specialty product region of 73 US and Canadian branch locations to increasingly profitable growth with relevant reporting, training, budgeting, and mentoring of branch managers in all aspects of the P&L including fleet management, rates management, sale margins and cost management. Assisted in two small company acquisitions.

Stamford, CT, US

• Responsible for company’s balance sheet account reconciliations with a main focus on the fixed asset, inventory and payables related accounts. Created ABL reporting for outside banking use, analyzed standards based.
• Created databases to facilitate a major company acquisition’s asset integration into our system, accepting their systems download of data, manipulating it to agree with our parameters and creating a usable upload.
• Created databases to manipulate massive amounts of monthly data from system downloads into usable recurring reconciliations saving days of time per month.
• Held in-house and web-ex training workshops for branch managers, other accountants and AP analysts covering a variety of topics including Access database training, P&L training for non-accountants, and research tips.

US

• Responsible for creating distributing and analyzing cost standards for 250 port service combinations worldwide for all costs related to port activity and cargo handling. Created budget standards based on historical.
• Created and maintained departmental policies and procedures to comply with Sarbanes Oxley.
• Managed a staff of two including interviewing and hiring, training, and reviews.

US

• Responsible for budgeting, reporting, consolidation and explaining significant variances for global overhead related costs totaling $41.5M annually. Coordinated month end overhead close schedule, consolidating global.
• Was a key player in SAP software implementation.

• Managed costing of transactions for $19M inventory using standard cost. Analyzed monthly material, labor and overhead standard variances, assigned standards to new products as needed including outside processing, and.
• Core team member of Oracle software implementation.
• Manage a staff of two, including interviewing and hiring, training and reviews.

Maumee, Ohio, US

• Monitored inventory by reconciling perpetual to book inventory monthly, calculated yearly standards update, attended regular BOM audits, and coordinated regular physical inventories. Monitored capital equipment by.
• Participated on IMPACT (Improve Manufacturing And Create Teamwork) teams by leading a 4 hour introduction class that taught teamwork skills and Kaizen concepts.

• Created monthly consolidated financial statements and supporting budget reports including analysis, for $45M company. Coordinated yearly departmental budgets and developed yearly business plan. Coordinated yearly.
• Supervised payroll, accounts payable and cost accounting staff.

• Created departmental budgets totaling $11M and researched monthly variances. Produced 180 person weekely payroll through ADP. Created monthly financial statements.
• Supervised one Accounts Payable staff.