Finance Management Resume

Desired Industry: Accounting/Bookkeeping	SpiderID: 3848
Desired Job Location: Atlanta, Georgia	Date Posted: 10/11/2005
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: 11/01/05
Desired Wage: 125000.00
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel: Yes, More Than 75%
Highest Degree Attained: Masters	Willing to Relocate: Undecided

Objective:
Finance Management position

Experience:
MCI, Alpharetta, Georgia. September 2004 - Present
Director, Revenue and Accounts Receivables. Manage customer billing and accounts receivables platforms of the monthly, quarterly and annual closing process. Lead a team sixty financial professionals dedicated to revenue and A/R accounting tasks. Research, interpreting, documenting and implementing accounting policy. Institute and maintaining controls providing assurance that potential revenue recognition issues are addressed from a technical accounting perspective in accordance with GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley and regulatory compliance requirements and MCI accounting policies.

Responsibilities
• Direct the day-to-day activities of the billing platforms’ management and staff.
• Identify and communicate potential accounting issues.
• Implement FASB, EITF and SEC pronouncements regarding revenue recognition accounting and reporting issues.
• Serve as the point of contact for external auditors.
• Standardize processes across platforms and maintain accounting policies & procedures.

HealthSouth/Callaway Partners, Birmingham, Alabama January 2004 – September 2004
Forensic Auditor and Consultant. Manage customer billing and accounts receivables platforms of the monthly, quarterly and annual closing process. Lead a team sixty financial professionals dedicated to revenue and A/R accounting tasks. Research, interpreting, documenting and implementing accounting policy. Institute and maintaining controls providing assurance that potential revenue recognition issues are addressed from a technical accounting perspective in accordance with GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley and regulatory compliance requirements and MCI accounting policies.

Responsibilities
• Direct the day-to-day activities of the billing platforms’ management and staff.
• Identify and communicate potential accounting issues.
• Implement FASB, EITF and SEC pronouncements regarding revenue recognition accounting and reporting issues.
• Serve as the point of contact for external auditors.
• Standardize processes across platforms and maintain accounting policies & procedures.

Nortel Networks 1980-2003
Director, Business Services/Project Operations and Planning, Wireless Networks (2001-August 2003) Alpharetta, GA & Richardson, TX.
Manage and direct operations, planning, scheduling, forecasting and related support activities.
• Administered contracts with revenue of $150M and pre-tax profits of $25M, performed customer order and product margin analysis.
• Interface between customer and network design staff, developed annual operating plan of $50M, customer forecasts for unbudgeted $15M in revenues and $5M in profits.
• Provide support for preparation of facility, state and corporate tax filings including income and property taxes.

Nortel Networks (Continued)
Sr. Manager, Business Operations Center, Global Customer Services – Access Products (1999-2001) Research Triangle Park, NC and Alpharetta, GA.
Responsible for business planning including budget of $130M and capital of $15M,
• Coordinated activities between network design and commissioning engineers to attain service deliverables, deliver $20M in cost reduction and profits of $5M to P&L.
• Coordinated line functions to secure recognition of revenue of $50M, capital of $25M, asset utilization @ 85%, program reserves @ 100% and special projects.

Manager, Program Management Office, Advanced Cost Management Systems (1997-1999) Research Triangle Park, NC.
Responsible for global forum and annual cost revision. Authored global inventory and inventory reserve procedures and policies.
• Directed Global Cost Committee’s cost revision processes, manufacturing impacts and cost reduction to ensure global consistency and deliver cost reduction of $450M in 1998.
• Provided operations due diligence in the Bay Networks $12B acquisition by Nortel in 1999.

Finance Operations Controller, Wireless Networks (1995-1997) Research Triangle Park, NC.
Manage staff of 25 to for Wireless Networks Operations s$75M expenses and 450 staff.
• Coordinated financial processes and reporting for customer revenues of $300M, cost of sales, and profits of $30M to deliver results between facilities in Richardson, Texas, Calgary, Canada, Paris and Chateaudun, France.
• Reconciled customer service operation activity between Wireless - France and North America.

Manager, Public Carrier Networks Product Cost (1994-1995) Research Triangle Park, NC.
Direct all costing activities for the Public Carrier Networks Operations.
• Developed global model database as forecasting tool. Calculated cost reduction and margin improvement for global markets to ensure performance consistent with management expectation and delivered $200M in cost reduction.
• Finance prime for the Global Packing, Shipping and Marshalling program to reduce costs and improve performance and deliver $100M in cost reduction to P&L.

Manager, Order Management and Distribution Services (1992-1994) Monkstown, Northern Ireland, UK (Expat Assignment)
Consolidate European Transmission distribution in the Monkstown plant as single point of delivery to maximize resources.
• Implemented Activity Based Costing (ABC) for product flows, capacity planning and forecasting.
• Implemented Customer Order Entry and Management systems in the Monkstown plant to improve performances.

Other Experience Summary Prior to 1992
• Developed and tracked annual operating plan performance.
• Constructed and implemented corporate models for planning, forecasting, staffing and cost improvement.
• Directed all reporting of Operations inventory for $1.5B, inventory reserves of $300M and product costing policies and procedures for Nortel, corporate-wide.
• Authored procedures for financial activities supporting order entry, fulfillment and delivery.
• Created operations metrics and performance indicators for forecasting and reporting.
• Public auditing experience with Arthur Andersen – 1976 – 1978
• U S Army, Finance, Vietnam and Ft. Bragg, NC. GAO auditor at 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg.

Education:
Education, Certifications & Proficiencies
• MBA, Finance, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC
• BA, Accounting, Fort Lauderdale University, FL
• British Production & Inventory Control Society (BPICS - United Kingdom)
• Microsoft Office XP with proficiency in Access, Excel, Word, macro construction, data compilation, databases)
• Extensive experience in Legacy, Oracle, SAP and People-Soft accounting packages.
• Project Management Professional (PMP)

Affiliations:
• British Production & Inventory Control Society (BPICS - United Kingdom)
• Microsoft Office XP with proficiency in Access, Excel, Word, macro construction, data compilation, databases)
• Extensive experience in Legacy, Oracle, SAP and People-Soft accounting packages.
• Project Management Professional (PMP)

Skills:
Finance and Accounting Expertise • Results Oriented & Pro-active Process Management • Project Management Expertise • Decisiveness • Initiative • Judgment • Leadership

Extensive accounting experiences with customers, products and processes with management experience in various disciplines and functions. Recruit, hire and manage “virtual teams and staffs” in multiple international locations. Analytical and organizational skills enable quick assessment and implementation of required changes to ensure success. Results and goal focused combined with the ability to quickly address key issues in a flexible environment.

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Gary Hunt
Street:	Phone: 404-358-3643
City: Cumming	Fax: 770-844-1861
State: Georgia
Zip: 30040
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