Finance Director, Controller, Accoutnign Manger Resume

Desired Industry: Accounting/Bookkeeping	SpiderID: 14857
Desired Job Location: Las Vegas, NV, Nevada	Date Posted: 8/20/2007
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: 09-15-07
Desired Wage: 90000
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25%
Highest Degree Attained: MBA	Willing to Relocate: No

Objective:
Highly skilled professional seeking employment with a stable company that will offer opportunity to learn and grow. Professional with extensive experience in General Accounting, Cost accounting, Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis of Manufacturing, Specialty small retail environment and Big Box specialty retail. Organized, loyal, trustworthy, hard working, dedicated team player with ability to meet deadlines. Manager of associates, with high level of individual contribution. Received BBA and MBA degrees.

Experience:
Mars Retail Group (Ethel M Chocolates, Inc) in Henderson, Nevada

Director of Finance Sept 2006 to Present

Responsible for Financial Planning and reporting of big box specialty retail location in multiple states and Direct to Consumer channels with over $70M in sales. Top down and bottom up planning and forecasting of all Sales, Cost of goods sold, Logistics and Warehousing, Operational expenses, Promotional and Marketing, as well as General and Administrative. Responsible for overseeing Licensing and Royalty contract. Also responsible for multiple Brand reporting and consolidation into overall company financials, reporting and analysis as well as corporate reporting on daily, weekly, period, quarterly and annual basis. Forecast and analysis of major Financial Statements including P&L, Balance sheet, Cash flow statement (Source and Use). Lead Forecasting and Planning cycles, providing tools to individual budget holders, work with them to help them understand expenses and build realistic budgets within company targets. Oversee Sales Audit and Accounts Receivable functions. Work with various accounting, POS front and back end systems, General Ledger, Reporting and Planning systems and tools. Managed and developed two associates.

General Accounting Manager Dec 2005 to Sept 2006

Responsible for overseeing General accounting department with the following functions Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Sales Audit, Capital Projects Analysis and Approval, and Asset management, General Ledger, Banking and Treasury, inventory control. Consolidation, reconciliation and posting off all transactions to General Ledger system through automated and manual interfaces, closing of accounting periods (13 annually), reporting and analysis of the financial results. Year end and interim external audits, various annual state and federal reporting, census reporting, monthly and quarterly sales tax collection and reporting in multiple states. Managing and developing associates 11 in general accounting department. Promoted to Finance Director.

Cost Accounting Manager July 2004 to Dec 2005

Responsible for budgeting, reporting and analysis of manufacturing facility that produced Gourmet Chocolates. Oversee planning by areas of factory operations, by manufacturing lines, maintenance and reliability, overhead, building and grounds, etc. Oversee raw and packaging inventory, usage of materials including analysis of waste, Purchase Price Variance, cycle counts, physical inventories. Creation, maintenance and costing of bill of materials for semi-finished and finished goods, labor study and analysis, as well as analysis of fixed vs. variable cost, item costing. Factory Capital projects review, approval, capitalization and asset write off. Managed and developed 2 associates. Promoted to General Accounting Manager.

General Ledger Senior Accountant Oct 2001 to July 2004

Responsible for General Ledger close and maintenance, banking and treasury. Lead 2 day period close, insure all manual and automatic interfaces ran successfully, resolve issues with uploads. Reconciliation of all Balance sheet accounts, bank accounts, P&L accounts, post period close reporting, preparation of financial statements, analysis of variances. Preparation and filling of monthly sales tax returns, Personal property taxes, both in multiple states. Preparation and filing of various annual census reports assist with preparation of federal and state corporate income tax returns, 1099s. Assist with interim and annual external audits. Promoted to Cost Accounting Manager.

Cost Accountant Oct 2000 to Oct 2001

Responsible for item prime costing, labor costing, and analysis of item profitability. Assist with Gourmet Chocolate factory budgeting and reporting. Participate in month end close, record factory costs, inventory movement and usage, produce month end cost repots by production line and other areas of manufacturing, analysis of waste and Purchase price variance, inventory control. Member of product development team responsible for preliminary and final item costing. Assist with analysis of factory costs by line, area, and item. Promoted to General Ledger Senior Accountant.
Payroll Coordinator March 2000 to Oct 2000

Responsible for processing and overseeing weekly payroll for over 400 associates from office, manufacturing and retail environment. Manually process and enter paper time card punches into payroll system, submit for processing. Downloading and analysis of labor reports, posting of tax and benefits accruals. Distribution of pay vouchers, maintenance of vacation and personal days balances. Promoted to Cost Accountant.

Retail Sales Associate Aug 1996 to March 2000

Assist customers with purchases in retail Chocolate store environment, customer service and product knowledge. Management of inventory levels to prevent out of stock while dealing with low shelf life product. Processing of sales, returns and exchanges, stat of day and end of ay process on Point of Sales system. Worked part time while attending Graduate school.

Graduate Assistant Jan 1997 to Dec 1999

Graduate assistant to the Chair of Marketing Department with College of Business. Prepare, administer and grade tests for undergraduate courses. Tutor undergraduate students. Perform administrative task for Marketing Department.

Education:
Master of Business Administration - University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada
August 1996 to December 1999

Bachelor of Business Administration - Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas
January 1994 to May 1996

Skills:
Accounting Manager, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, General Ledger, Moth End Close, Preparation and Analysis of Financial statements, Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis of Manufacturing, Specialty small retail environment and Big Box specialty retail. Organized, loyal, trustworthy, hard working, dedicated team player with ability to meet deadlines. Manager of associates, with high level of individual contribution. Received BBA and MBA degrees.

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