PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Financial Management Professional with 10+ years of experience developing and implementing complex projects to enhance internal business financial systems and troubleshoot existing processes.
• Accomplished leader with an exemplary career history migrating data between accounting software tools while performing consolidations, reconciliations, analyses, and month end closings.
• Financial Management Professional adept at creating effective work routines, reporting packages, training cross - functional teams, and ensuring compliance with GAAP.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Management
• Financial Statements
• Troubleshooting
• Period Closings
• Problem Solving
• GAAP & IFRS
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Systems Migration & Implementation
• Profitability Analysis
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Spread Sheet Modeling
• Managent Accountanting
• Sales Tax & VAT

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Dynamics GP & FRx (Expert)
• Oracle
• Dynamics SL
• Microsoft Office Suite
• SAP
• Freedom
• Dynamics AX
• Excel (Expert with v look ups & Pivots)
• Access
• Hyperion/Essbase
• Word
• Outlook
• WordPerfect
• Lotus Notes
• ADP, including ReportSmith software

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Utilized benefit accounting experience to provide a seamless transition along with the following duties: eliminations analysis, forecasting, and complex account analysis.
• Assumed a leadership role, mentoring a team of six accountants, ensuring the optimal completion of benefit accounting tasks within post-employment, insurance, and retirement programs.
• Developed and implemented Hyperion Essbase loading and trust reporting Gantt charts while re-engineering processes, improving efficiency by making processes verifiable, accurate, and easy to troubleshoot.
• Re-engineered all desk processes, enhancing efficiency by 60% while simultaneously i Confidential easing accuracy.
• Charged with performing month-end closing activities, including Essbase loading and executive deferred compensation derivative accounting.
• Created benefit transactional databases coveted by our actuaries, the board of directors, and senior management using a BNY trust database and Excel pivot.
• Designed and integrated a shared document reconciliation tool, eliminating out of scope intercompany differences.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Accounting Manager

• Restructured ineffective accounting processes via Dynamics Great Plains (GP) within a four-month period, affecting accounts receivable (AR), accounts payable (AP), general ledger (GL), period reporting, and year-end close. Successfully brought the organization to current period closings for 2012 and 2013.
• Implemented automated GP AP module and check printing process using Dynamics GP.
• Collected $140K in overdue receivables from as many as 50 accounts by strategically distributing reminder and demand letters, following up with phone calls, and leveraging negotiation abilities.
• Singlehandedly developed a timely period reporting package encompassing P&L, P&L by customer, balance sheet, and statement of changes via Dynamics GP, Excel, and ADP.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Accounting Consultant

• Procured various accounting management consulting engagements for manufacturing, distribution, telecom, professional services, leasing, and nonprofit organizations.
• Quickly re-engineered and restarted the AP process, including vouchering and check cutting.
• Identified areas for better controls and improved department performance with Dynamics GP.
• Reconciled glass pallet inventory to automated inventory management system and identified scrap pallets for engineering and plant management using SAP and Excel.
• Executed the migration and reconciliation of data from QuickBooks to Dynamics GP software.
• Reconciled complex fixed assets, including internal, GAAP, tax, and 7 state books using SAP software.
• Managed international intercompany accounting, consolidation, associated transfer pricing, foreign exchange (FX) currency adjustment, value-added tax (VAT), period closings, GL, audit work papers, heavy account reconciliation and general accounting for nine foreign entities using Dynamics GP and Excel.
• Deployed WASP mobile assets for a graduate school, including an automated upload to Dynamics GP.
• Re-engineered accounting processes, included closing procedures, expense accruals, FRx to Dynamics GP, GL synchronization, and fixed assets to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Guided the Telecom accounting team through a successful sale of their business.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Accounting Manager

• Hired, managed, and promoted a team consisting of one senior accountant and two staff accountants.
• Reduced processing time by half while simultaneously improving accuracy through effectively revising accounting processes concerning pre-paid expenses, fixed assets, commissions, and accrued revenue.
• Selected to develop and prepare automated statement of changes, cash flow, and working capital from the trial balance without instruction or supervision for a company generating $100M in annual revenue.
• Minimized close by three business days by identifying incongruent, unbalanced invoicing batches.
• Completed and cleared three year-end closes for a new parent company, allocating analysis schedules and data to validate previous financial statements.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Accountant

• Managed GL, fixed assets, capital leases, pre-paid expenses, bank and account reconciliations, and deferred revenue for a large professional services firm producing $200M in annual revenue using Oracle Financials.
• Managed intercompany eliminations and revenue accruals and deferrals using Oracle Financials, Essbase, D Base, and Excel.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Accountant

• Played an instrumental role in reducing the company’s $700K line of credit, developing a monthly reporting package that included a P&L balance sheet and bank reconciliations using Dynamics AX and Excel.
• Brought the company to current period closings despite the absence of accounting for six months.