EXPERTISE AREA:

• Controller
• Financial Reporting
• Budget Preparation
• QuickBooks
• Excel
• Cash Management
• System/Process Implementation
• Adaptability to software
• Month - end Close
• System conversions
• Diverse Industry experience
• Ability to Multitask

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Set up QuickBooks, Chart of Accounts, Vendors, performed bank & credit card recons, download from Repair Center (vehicle estimating software), various ad-hoc reporting

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Set up QuickBooks, Online feed from bank, advisory discussions on break even, and profitability analysis on customer revenue streams

Portfolio Companies Controller

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Performed Controller functions for a portfolio of companies (software company, hydroponic farm, auto body repair facility, brewery)
• Compiled support documentation and analysis for business transaction work
• Extensive work with QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online Accounting software
• Conversions, QB to QB Online, ICM to Repair Center (Body Shop software), QB Online to Xero
• Provided financial reporting to ownership on all operating entities, cash management, and budget preparation

Dallas Regional Controller

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided General Manager with Analysis on business activity and potential opportunities in an ever-changing business environment
• Was responsible for business information and controls as it pertains to the Confidential
• Trained & assisted members of Dallas staff in meeting objectives and responsibilities
• Monthly close, Journal entries, Recons, and Analysis for Dallas / Fort Worth operations
• Conversion from QuickBooks to MAS 500 a Sage accounting software
• Used TOPS towing, dispatch, and lien process software
• Calculated and maintained commission records for salespeople

Controller

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Helped transition ownership to Confidential in September of 2008
• Set up a centralized Administrative office for three towing companies
• Controller for Signature Towing, Walnut Hill Wrecker, & Cornish Wrecker Service
• Used TOPS towing, dispatch, and lien process software
• Used QuickBooks Accounting software, and set up a QuickBooks network at the Admin office
• Monthly close, Journal entries, Recons, and Analysis for Confidential Towing operations

Auditor

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Served as an Auditor of Property contracts for Confidential
• Was designated as a four-month contract
• In October 2007, the VP of Audit at Tenet was replaced, the consequence was that Contract Auditors were let go. Thus, ending my assignment

Senior Accountant

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and distributed quarterly financial statements
• Assisted in establishing and maintaining townhome budgets and costing in Timberline, a Sage accounting software
• Established better utilization of Accounting software and business activity
• Compared actual costs to budgets, and analyzed variances
• Monthly close and Analysis for several partnership/projects

Assistant Controller

Confidential, Temple, TX

Responsibilities:

• Performed bank/GL reconciliations for 63 store locations throughout Central Texas
• Provided weekly cash projections in order to utilize Money Market interest
• Trained staff on more efficient reconciliation processes, reduced accounting close by two days
• Maintained fixed assets, records and depreciation
• Worked with Marketing to determine rebates and rebate reimbursements from vendors

Senior Accountant

Confidential, Temple, TX

Responsibilities:

• Reported daily sales/order activity to officers and financing institutions
• Utilized Fourth Shift Accounting Software and Abra Payroll Software
• Improved process for capturing monthly costing information for monthly entries
• Provided Collateral report to lender for Accounts Receivable & Inventory loan
• Selected by Accounting/Sales Departments as representative on ESOP committee

Senior Cost Accountant

Confidential, Temple, TX

Responsibilities:

• Assisted staff accountants with journal entries and data manipulation in MS Excel
• Developed method of allocating Indirect costs to taxable/nontaxable activity for unrelated business income, establishing policy for determining taxable liability
• Filed federal tax returns using Taascforce Tax software (990T)
• Filed Quarterly and Annual returns for S&W Group Hospital using ASAP reporting software
• Used PeopleSoft accounting software

Cost Accountant

Confidential, Garland, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for booking sales, cost of sales and price protection
• Coordinated with other departments to solve margin variances
• Developed monthly regional performance variance reports in MS Excel
• Reestablished commission policies and procedures, worked with sales personnel on their needs and Accounting needs

Accounts Receivable Clerk/Accountant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collections cash application from Airline customers
• Submitted Airport fees and sales taxes to Tax Department for payment
• Billed customers and maintained records in a Paradox based Accounts Receivable software
• Started as an AR clerk, but was promoted to Accounts Receivable Accountant during my tenure
• Currency conversions for invoicing our activities in Canada
• Communicated with field personnel to ensure billing agreed with contract terms