Tim Benjamin Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh PA

• Term Contract Position
• assisted planning and executing strategy to close home office: translating, reporting and liquidating legacy general ledger accounts; cover for lost staffing; redirecting business relationships, record and data.

• Responsible for retail merchandise accounting for 200 retail stores including monthly cost of sales calculations and general ledger posting;
• oversight for fuel accounting and related credit card accounts receivable (3 subordinates)
• oversight for inventory audit, variance analyses, shrink control programs (1 subordinate)
• maintain overall accuracy and integrity of financial information through design and maintenance of store and host accounting systems, created general ledger transactional database and balancing process, maintained.
• assist in monthly close and financial statement preparation, assist in outside audit work paper preparation and review;
• prepare assigned reconciliations and review subordinate account analyses;

Williamsville NY

• Lead project manager for design and execution of strategy to migrate 209 Wilson Farms stores to stand-alone systems for subsequent sale of division;
• Selection and configuration of enterprise software, store management and office support training, dedicated office staffing, decoupling from and financial consolidation back to legacy accounting systems.
• Upon successful project completion promoted to head of Wilson Farms accounting with 35 total subordinates organized under three direct reports.
• Assumed most responsibilities detailed in above Accounting/Systems Manager position

Carlisle, PA

• Assigned to multi-company team tasked by Dutch parent Royal Ahold, N.V. with consolidating the financial accounting systems of seven major supermarket operating companies to a single accounting platform located at.
• general ledger mapping, financial data translation, financial report creation and validation, data-base management, and user acceptance by operating companies.

Williamsville, NY

• Design and manage proforma return on investment analyses for potential new store and remodel investments; submission to corporate officers and parent company (Royal Ahold, NV.) for capital expenditure approval;
• performed ad-hoc ROI for staffing, equipment, software and other capital expenditure requests;
• develop and report post-mortem results against proforma and return on asset analyses,
• compile resources and documents in support of parent company reporting;
• create and consolidate fiscal budgets and monthly variance analysis.

Master'S Degree, Public Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General