SUMMARY:

A highly accomplished, results driven accounting and finance professional with 20 years of progressive accounting, finance and management experience in the industries of oil field services, downstream and upstream energy, medical, technology and distribution ranging from the startup stage to mature stage, both domestically and internationally. A proven leader with extensive hands - on experience working with executive and senior management, and Board of Directors of private, public and private equity backed companies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• SEC Compliance
• SoX Compliance/Internal Audit
• Investor Relations
• Taxation
• Technical Accounting Research
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Treasury/Cash Management
• Mergers/Divestitures/Acquisitions
• Start Up/Turnaround/Restructuring
• Confidential
• Corporate Governance
• Process Improvement
• GAAP/IFRS
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Strategic Planning

SKILLS:

Proficient in SAP, Hyperion Enterprise & Essbase, SQL, Epicor, Oracle, Great Plains, Merrill Lynch’s AwardChoice & AwardChoice Financial Reporting, Transcentive’s Express Options, Microsoft Dynamic AX, Atlas, Workiva, AS400, NS Enterprise, Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston TX

Controller

Responsibilities:

• Restructured the finance and accounting departments resulting in a cost savings of $300 thousand annually.
• Prepare and monitor cash flow analysis to ensure two operating companies maintained adequate cash.
• Installed internal controls, financial and operational, to ensure the accuracy of data.
• Initiated cost reduction measures saving the company $1.2 million annually in operating expenses.
• Worked with bond holders regarding bond covenants and funding matters.
• Review and approve the quarterly and annual bond holders report.
• Installed policies and procedures to streamline the accounting and procurement process.
• Reinitiated an AFE (authorization for expenditure) process to accurately monitor capital spending.
• Reinitiated a business unit budget process in order to more accurately monitor business unit spending.
• Reinitiated an internal monthly reporting package and made financial presentations (IFRS) to the President and Chief Financial Officer of the parent company.
• Assist the Chief Financial Officer and various legal counsels regarding ongoing litigation requests.
• Worked with vendors to recover approximately $600 thousands in over payments.
• Worked with vendors regarding payment terms, increasing payment terms from 15 days to 30 days, and discounts to provide additional with cashflow.
• Prepare the annual asset impairment and provision calculations (revenue, accounts receivable, litigation and arbitration claims).
• Review and approved the US income tax and Texas Margin Tax for the US entities.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SOX Auditor - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Contracted through Confidential Solutions.
• Assisted in year end SoX testing to ensure compliance.
• Provided assistance with remediation testing for prior failed controls.
• Provided guidance to senior level Directors regrading control failures noted during the year end testing phase.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the interim General Manager for a period of six months.
• Manage six direct reports.
• Set up the Company’s tax and legal structures.
• Established US accounting and human resources policies and procedure.
• Liaison between the Company and its operating partners and customers.
• Worked with outside banks to arrange $30 million in financing.
• Reconfigured the Confidential to be in line with the accounting and reporting needs of the corporate office.
• Improved operating cash flow by identifying and correcting invoicing issue resulting in a decrease in DSO from 81 days to 35 days.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Controller to identify and implement procedures to shorten the close process by two days.
• Implemented monthly financial reporting structure to provide insight into financial result at an earlier stage.
• Assisting in the implementation of their new Confidential system.
• Assisted with monthly and quarterly financial reporting requirements.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared two years of complete Financial Statements and Notes to the Financial Statements for audit by external auditors.
• Translated general ledger from cash basis to accrual basis.

Confidential, Houston TX

Manager of Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of one direct report.
• Created and published policies and procedures for the financial reporting department.
• Reviewed and oversaw the quarterly reporting process, including the preparation of the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
• Prepared technical accounting memos regarding internal use software, capitalized interest, debt amendments and purchase price adjustments.
• Initiated and prepared internal reporting package for senior management and board of directors.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Assistant Controller/Director of Financial Reporting

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of two direct reports.
• Oversaw the quarterly and monthly close process, including review, approval and posting of journal entries.
• Prepared and reviewed the quarterly external financial statements, internal financial statement package and variance analysis reports.
• Prepared and reviewed annual audit reports for three foreign entities under Internal Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Coordinated with audit team in Luxemburg to ensure timely completion of the audit of three foreign entities.
• Reviewed and oversaw the quarterly reporting process, including the filing of the quarterly report and earnings release on Form 6-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Updated internal accounting policies as needed.
• Prepared technical accounting memos regarding debt modifications, IFRS treatment of equity method accounting and dividend protection related to share based compensation.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Internal Auditor

Responsibilities:

• Designing audit strategy, planning and execution of audit; planning time & cost budget.
• Lead team of two consultants that performed a four-year contract audit to review billing accuracy and compliance with the terms of the national agreement and subsequent amendments.
• Identified weaknesses in internal processes and proposed action plans for resolution.
• Prepared presentations for the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Staff regarding audit findings, process improvements and budget time line.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Manager of Financial Reporting and Corporate Compliance

Responsibilities:

• Planned, prepared and lead presentations to the Audit Committee, Nominating and Governance Committee and Board of Directors.
• Responsible for coordinating, preparing, reviewing and filing of secondary stock offering.
• Prepared, review, and file all Securities and Exchange Commission documents, including Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, Annual Report on Form 10-K, Current Report on Form 8-K, Form 3’s, Form 4’s, Form S-8’s and Schedule 14A proxy statements.
• Responsible for the detailed Extensible Business Reporting Language ( Confidential ) tagging of Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
• Prepared correspondence to the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to comment letters regarding public filings.
• Prepare yearly budget for the financial reporting and compliance department.
• Draft and review quarterly and annual press release materials, Chief Financial Officer’s quarterly earnings call script, road show slide presentations, investor conference slide presentations and other financial publications/releases.
• Evaluate new accounting literature (proposed and final) to determine the impact, if any, to the Company and manage implementation of new pronouncements.
• Lead member of IFRS/convergence project team, assessing impact, preparing implementation plan, and analyzing/interpreting IFRS pronouncements for the Company.
• Assisted in the implemented of finance and information technology SOX controls corporate wide.
• Participate in state, local and foreign tax planning and compliance, preparing estimated quarterly tax payment calculation, quarterly tax rate calculation and entries, deferred tax asset roll forward, annual tax rate reconciliation, and FIN 48 analysis.
• Established treasury management program, including corporate investment policy and monitoring of investments.
• Worked with the Controller and Assistant Controller to decrease the quarterly close process by five days.
• Researched and implemented third party system that improved the accuracy and timeliness of reporting the Accounting Standard Codification 718 expense, diluted earnings per a share calculation, deferred tax calculation.
• Automated monthly internal financial statement package, decreasing the time needed to publish by two days.
• Create, prepare and issue monthly board package presenting key performance indicators.
• Key role in the selection, planning and implementation of the Dynamics AX ( Confidential ) and Atlas (financial reporting tool).
• Lead role in the implementation of Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Key role in the assessment of potential Mergers and Acquisition targets.