Accounting - Overseeing the accounting, payroll, accounts payable, and accounts receivable departments.Financial Reporting - Preparing financial reports, such as balance sheets and invoices, and implementing policies and procedures for financial reporting.Budgeting - Managing budgets, including annual budgets and forecasts, and reporting significant budget differences to management.Financial Analysis - Analyzing financial statements, capital investments, pricing decisions, and contract negotiations.Compliance - Ensuring compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), international financial reporting standards, and tax planning and compliance.Strategic Guidance - Helping guide and navigate the company's strategic financial decisions.

- Maximizes return on financial assets by establishing financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems.- Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures.- Protects assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls.- Monitors and confirms financial condition by conducting audits and providing information to external auditors.- Maximizes return and limits risk on cash by minimizing bank balances and making investments.- Prepares budgets by establishing schedules; collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial data; recommending plans.- Achieves budget objectives by scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.- Provides status of financial condition by collecting, interpreting, and reporting financial data.- Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.- Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, anticipating future legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, filing financial reports, and advising management on needed actions.- Ensures operation of equipment by establishing preventive maintenance requirements and service contracts, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques.- Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.- Maintains financial staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.- Maintains financial staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.- Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.

Responsible for directing all the organization's accounting functions. These functions included establishing and maintaining the organization's accounting principles, practices, procedures, and initiatives. Oversaw the completion of ledger accounts and financial statements. Evaluated and made appropriate improvements to internal accounting processes ensuring that practices are inline with the overall goals of the organization. Prepared all financial reports and presented findings and recommendations to the President/CEO.Performed a variety of other tasks, including the oversight of the IT and HR Departments. Implemented and maintained policies and goals that supported the organization's IT needs. Ensured all computer hardware, and software were properly functioning and/or updated to meet organizational needs. - Successfully migrated company to QuickBooks Enterprise 2015 Accounting System; this was done with a payback/ROI of less than one (1) year. - Implemented process improvements and corrected accounting errors resulting in over $150,000 savings annually. - Coached and directed the work of both internal personnel and external contractors/vendors. - Oversaw the HR and IT needs of the company.

Accountable for the accounting operations of two company sites, to include the production of periodic financial reports, maintenance of accounting records, and a comprehensive set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of the company's reported financial results, and ensure that reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).- Responsible for all A/P, A/R, Payroll, Fixed Asset recordkeeping, and all financial reporting.- Monitor debt levels and analyze monthly operating results against budget. - Prepare financial statements for Board of Directors including borrowing base reports.- Saved company over $50,000 by implementing process improvement strategies and correcting accounting errors.

Provided the coordination of financial planning, debt financing, and budget management functions for a mid-sized woodworking manufacturing company, along with several subsidiary companies. Provided HR support and functions. Ensured accounting procedures conformed to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). - Directed and coordinated company financial planning and budget management functions. Recommended benchmarks for measuring the financial and operating performance of divisions and departments. - Responsible for all A/P, A/R, Payroll, Fixed Asset recordkeeping, and all financial reporting. - Responsible to make sure cash flow and cost accounting needs were met for all departments. Also responsible for inventory cost analysis, new product costing, budgeting costs, and supporting financial models. - Monitored and analyzed monthly operating results against budget. Directed and coordinated debt financing and debt service. Worked with department managers to develop five year and ten year business plans for the company. - Oversaw daily operations of the Finance Department. Prepared financial analysis for contract negotiations and product investment decisions. Established and implemented short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures. - Ensured compliance with local, state, and federal budgetary reporting requirements. Directed financial audits and provide recommendations for procedural improvements. - Interim HR Manager: Responsible for the company's Human Resources needs, including compliance issues, recruitment coordination, and employee support and benefits.

Oversaw all financial needs for eleven (11) charter schools, their respective Board of Director Groups and the NHA corporate offices. Financial responsibility estimated to be in excess of $30 million. - Reconciled vendor invoices and check disbursements weekly, along with both daily and period-end journal and General Ledger entries. Also responsible for completing month-end reports, such travel and expense reports, and reconciled various accounts. - Provided Vendor Management for both vendor selection as well as contractual issues. - Additional support person for other duties within Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable areas. - Allocated school expenses while monitoring their respective grant money availability.

Responsible for processing weekly invoices, and assisted with period-end journal and General Ledger entries. Also responsible for completing month-end reports, such as sales tax, travel and expense reports, and reconciled various accounts: - Worked closely with the Controller in reconciliation of Accounts Payable (A/P) and Accounts Receivable (A/R) accounts as well as the monthly Bank Statements. - Worked on daily debits and credits for both L&L/Jiroch and J.F. Walker divisions, making sure entries were applied to the appropriate accounts. - Worked on various internal and external reports: Employee Travel and Expenses; Customer Rebates, and Government-regulated sales tax documents. - Additional support person for other duties within Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable areas. - Processed monthly Tobacco and Cigarette Tax Reports for MI, OH, and IN. Never was assessed any penalties/fines for inaccuracies and/or tardiness by respective state governments.

Responsible for the financial management of all customer accounts, before and after the sale by the internal Sales Personnel. - Proofread all contracts to verify that Sales Personnel provided all pertinent financial data required to meet the both the company’s and the client’s needs. Provided good open-communications between Production, Customer Service, and Accounting to oversee that all contract items were being fulfilled. - Monthly account reconciliation of all contracts. Entered customer data, deposits, invoices and customer data into the Platinum accounting system. Reconciled and prepared customer invoices monthly also utilizing the account management computer package, Platinum. - Responsible for the bookkeeping of multiple publishing affiliates. Responsible for the affiliate brokering. Brokering involved establishing what needed to be paid and received by the respective affiliates, and reconciled the distribution of funds among them. Managed monthly spreadsheets and notified the Accounts Payable Supervisor what needed to be paid.