Osseo, Minnesota, United States
• Managed 17M in payroll hours and $2B in sales annually for 133 Canada Stores. Created weekly payroll and productivity plan to align with Corporate Productivity goal; while balancing financial goals, store workload, and team member well-being. • Analyzed and delivered Canada stores financial performance for field leaders, which enabled leader to prioritize opportunities to improve hourly payroll expenses in stores. • Developed and communicated 9 new store pre-opening budgets, staffing, payroll plans, and payroll performance reporting, resulting in 95% of stores staying under pre-opening payroll budget. • Reduced processing time by 50% by creating a new streamlined wage rate actual / forecast model.
Prepared and reviewed financial reconciliations for department balance sheet accounts and ensured compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. • Reduced the process time by 4 days per month by eliminating the manual work on the monthly Construction in Progress Transfer. • Performed monthly Construction in Progress analysis and completed journal entries to book additions of asset to appropriate Fixed Asset Accounts. • Identified process and system opportunities and made recommendations for process improvement.
Prepared financial reconciliations for department balance sheet accounts. Processed the general ledger and ensured accounts payable was accurately recorded in a timely manner. • Two different roles: promoted to Sr. Accounting Associate in 2009 and took on additional responsibilities. • Processed monthly accounting transactions and corrections. • Processed over 1,000+ invoices per month with less than 3% errors.