Sherwood, Oregon, United States
I am an experienced accounting and finance professional with over 20 years of experience in varying industries. I have worked as an internal auditor in a corporate environment, a senior level accountant, a business systems analyst, an accounting consultant and a divisional Controller. I have worked with companies undergoing accounting and planning system changes, mergers and upgrades as well as business project start ups. I have evaluated numerous financial/accounting systems, provided applications analyses, improved processes and controls, as well as coordinated effort in conversion projects such as system enhancement, new application development and implementation. I am specialized in developing management reporting systems, financial and cost analyses, budgeting models, expenditure and revenue forecasts, cost management, cost allocation, and project accounting. My extensive experience in accounting along with systems has proven to be very valuable to corporate clients. I have been a lead in month-end closing, year-end closing, reconciliation, financial reviews and reporting when needed, as well as developing better and more efficient ways of getting data to properly analyze and report financial data. SYSTEM SOFTWARE: Cognos Enterprise Planning, Cognos Finance and Report Net, SAP Financials, Business Objects, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Excel and all Office applications including Word and Powerpoint, IFS, Sage FAS, Oracle BI, Host Analytics. INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: Manufacturing, Transportation, Telecommunications, Clothing.
• Established and documented accounting policies along with establishing procedures throughout the organization to improve inventory control/management along with receivable management reducing past due debt from 71% to 15% and over 90 from 38% to less than 2%. • Reduced the monthly close process from a 15 day soft close to a 3 day soft close with a 5 day hard close. • Manage bi-weekly payroll, Insurance, 401K, Flexible spending accounts, along with other roles around the financial management of HR.
• Manage and mentor an accounting team of 11 ensuring accurate GAAP compliant books, providing the first ever consolidated financials to the CFO and management while helping the company grow by more than 150%. • Converted the existing accounting processes to conform to GAAP and meet the various bank covenants. • Implemented a new ERP system and facilitated a merger of two existing companies into a single company.
Providing Financial Analyst expertise on a contract basis, working with various levels of management on projects including develop of a management ledger, close tracking dashboards and analysis, SEC Reporting, and other miscellaneous projects.
• Started as a Senior Financial Analyst/Cost Accountant and was promoted to Controller within first 3 months. • Streamlined processes within the accounting group to allow for a 3 day soft close compared to the 10 day, or more, close when I started. • Played an integral role in the continuous improvement strategy team and the associated sub teams helping to develop programs to improve efficiencies and increase sales company wide. • Helped develop a customer profitability model that identified how profitable every customer is and applied the logic to all products.