Wichita, Kansas, United States
Experienced Controller with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Strong accounting professional skilled in Financial Accounting, Microsoft Excel, Cognos, Business Process Improvement, and Auditing.
• On the Ulti Pro process improvements committee. Identifying opportunities through discussions with key payroll and benefit processing team members. Managing those recommendations with IT for implementation. Examples include bundling of validation reports for payroll processing and exception based reports for garnishments and benefits. • Reduced garnishment department FTE’s by implementing the scanning of all documents and attaching to employee record; remove manual processes by creating a termination form letter ran across all clients and attorney response form letter. • Transitioned large casual dining concept and publicly traded high end steakhouse. Managed / trained a staff of 18 (mostly new employees). Each client is SSAE16 compliant. • With the sale of the casual dining concept to a publicly traded company, restated 3 years of financial statements on a quarterly basis. Managed the review engagement with PwC.
• Real estate controller – Monthly cash basis statement prep for 25 properties, CAM reconciliations, coordinated with legal on tenant issues, recorded like-kind exchange transactions, and consolidated the accounting team to the Wichita office. • Prepared real estate valuation analysis for partnership dissolution and assisted in the transactional tax planning review.