Experienced and Talented Accounting & Financial Leader resume

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Experienced and Talented Accounting & Financial Leader

Posted by:	Name is not set.
Posted date:	11/5/2009
Contact Info:	*****@.* *--*** Show Contact Info
Salary:	90000
Country:	United States
State:	Georgia
City:	Marietta
ZIP:	30062

Resume Text:

Elise Vetula
4585 Blue Spruce Lane
Marietta, Georgia 30062
678-580-1014
404-384-9092(cell)
evetula@live.com

Executive Summary:

Talented senior-level finance professional with 12-year history reorganizing, streamlining, and strengthening financial operations to maximize performance and profitability. In-depth experience across all core business functions and operations. Responsible leader with extensive experience in financial strategic planning, P&L accountability, and financial reporting. Extensive qualifications in leadership and staff development, and corporate accounting structures. Articulate communicator who relates well at all levels of an organization. Respond proactively to operational and financial challenges with confidence, determination, and focus through key strengths of:

• Financial reporting and analysis as well as budgeting, forecasting and cash management.

• Heavy consolidations experience, including international, multi-entity, multi-location and foreign currency translation.

• Working knowledge and management of accounts payable, billing, collections, month end close, reconciliations, job costing, and cross-functional analysis and reporting.

• Extensive process improvement and redesign experience, along with systems conversion and implementation primarily with Great Plains.

• Solid management and mentoring skills.

• Effective “Hands-on” working Controller while managing a large staff or as stand alone role.

• Multi-tasking individual who performs extremely well under pressure.

• Experience with SEC Reporting and Sarbanes Oxley (including initial implementation)

• Strong operational improvement experience

• Human Resource and IT systems management experience

I have solid systems experience and am extremely strong in Excel, Great Plains and FRX Reporting. Some key features of my experience with Great Plains are:

• Implementation experience, including company setup, module setup (Purchasing, Receivables, Financials), user access rights, Chart of Accounts structure and modification, and creation of additional company databases. Creation of customized reports in FRX.

• Extensive use of “smart lists” to extract data to be used in analysis of Payables, GL Accounts, User activity. “Smart lists also used to export to Excel for use in pivot tables, vlookups, etc.

• Efficient in troubleshooting/researching Great Plains transactional issues, identifying root causes and resolving within my access rights. When server issues or third party software functions were determined to be cause, I worked closely with IT to resolve the issues.

• Experience importing transactional entries and budget data into Great Plains as well as exporting such information out.

• Very well versed in documenting new policies, procedures and workflow to achieve the most accurate and efficient way of capturing data, then training end users on such.

Work Experience

Consultant-Accounting/Great Plains/FRX Reporting
July 2009 - Present
Consult with client companies to determine Great Plains module set up to suit their business practices. Assist in migration of data from other software into Great Plains. Design custom FRX reports based on management’s needs. Insure all modules are linked correctly and posting set up is in order with client’s business practice. Set up Bank Reconciliation for initial use by bringing in beginning outstanding items. Creation of smart lists based on needs of client. Training of staff and management in real time on each module and how it works based on set up. Perform general accounting functions as needed, including reconciliations, balancing, financial reporting, month end close, accruals, etc.

Assistant Controller
September 2008 – July 2009 DirecPath, LLC, Atlanta, GA – (laid off due to reduction in force)
Manage accounting department including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Billing and Cash applications. Responsible for month end close process. Prepare monthly and quarterly Consolidated Financial reports for four companies which recently merged into one. Led software implementation and conversion of the separate companies onto a single platform in Great Plains. Designed standard monthly reports in FRX for distribution to internal as well as external parties. Also write custom designed reports as needed. Point person for external audit.
 Reduced month end close from thirty days to seven days by improving efficiencies in workflow and accuracy of data accumulation.
 Designed custom reports in FRX for month end reporting package that increased efficiency in financial review and reduced preparation time involved. Also created and implemented processes that would allow the creation of a Gross Profit by Project report to provide visibility into actual performance of individual projects for the first time in company history.
 Delivered “clean” Audited Financial Statements two months earlier than any year in the company’s history.

Controller- Interim
February 2008 – July 2008 HSW International, Inc. – (Hired to bridge gap until CFO was hired-complete)
Newly Publicly traded International Web Publishing Company. Responsible for managing all daily accounting functions. Prepared monthly and quarterly consolidating financial reports for multiple International entities, including currency translation. Assisted in preparation of Company’s first 10K and 10Q filings. Set up Great Plains and FRX to incorporate foreign entity reporting as was previously performed in Excel.

Corporate Accounting Manager
July 2007 – February 2008 Merge Technologies, Alpharetta, GA – (massive reduction in force-local office closed)
Publicly traded, International Software Development Company specializing in Healthcare Technology with Revenue of $80 M. Responsible for centralizing and managing shared accounting services among all international entities to include Accounts Payable, Payroll, Billing and Collections. Prepare monthly and quarterly Consolidated Financial reports for 10Q and 10K filings including Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Shareholder's Equity, along with footnote disclosures and internal memos. Point person for external audit and SOX compliance.
 Implemented companywide automated Travel and Expense processing through Concur which reduced time spent by accounting personnel on existing manual processing and increased reporting capabilities.
 Analyzed all entities COAs to create a standard Chart of Accounts to be used for accounting system implementation and eliminate redundant accounts. The final output will reduce preparation time for consolidated reports by 30%.

Controller
April 2005 – July 2007 Global Link Logistics, Inc., Tucker, GA
International freight forwarding Company ranked in the top 30 fastest growing privately held Companies in Atlanta for each of the past four years with most recent annual revenue of approx $200M. Responsible for all Payroll, Accounts Payable, Billings, General Ledger Accounting and Financial management along with ensuring efficient and accurate communication with Operations and other functions. Managed a direct staff of eleven, as well as all financial activities of subsidiary Brokerage Company. Handled all monthly close activities, including general ledger account reconciliation of payroll, accruals, prepaid and deferred accounts, as well as monitoring cash applications for accuracy; consolidation of Companies results; and auditing accuracy of revenue recognition. Prepare financial reporting variance analysis for review by executive management, and Board of Directors. Point person for external audit. Reported to CFO.
 Work closely with IT to develop strategic reporting mechanisms to provide more meaningful data used in determining best concentration efforts for Operations and Finance.
 Created and implemented streamlined processing procedures to provide more accurate and timely financial information as well as more efficient workflow between and among departments.
 Key person on Project team to design, develop and implement International ERP solutions for the addition of overseas offices to effectively consolidate information into our current Operational systems as well as Great Plains accounting.
 Improved quality control by creating a process to provide more efficient documentation which lead to better workflow monitoring, tracking and control; timeliness of processing; and productivity.

Director of Accounting
July 2002 – November 2004 American InterContinental University, Atlanta, GA (position eliminated due to corporate restructure)
Branch of Career Education Corporation which was producing over $1.5 billion in annual revenue. Oversaw Facilities and Distribution Services, Cash management, Accounts payable, Payroll and Purchasing. Managed a direct staff of five. Performed all general ledger account reconciliations for payroll, accruals, cash and prepaid accounts. Compiled and analyzed monthly financial information to provide accurate and timely financial statements. Performed expense trend analysis to create annual budgets and monthly forecasts.
 Created a purchase order process to better track expenses and make more accurate accruals at month end.
 Implemented a process to require vendor negotiations and a bidding procedure to ensure better cost controls that resulted in annualized savings of over $30,000 for printing and office supplies alone.
 Key point person in Sarbanes Oxley implementation

Controller/Operations Director
October 2000 – March 2002 Char Baxter Communications, Atlanta, GA (company downsized to owner only operation)
Local Integrated Marketing and Creative Services Agency specializing in high tech industry. Controlled agency information and workflow. Major responsibilities include four areas: Finance & Accounting (Payroll, A/P, Billing, A/R, Budgets, Forecasts, Projections, Property and Income tax reporting); Human Resources; Office Management; and Production. Performed all general ledger account reconciliations. Provided recommendations and guidance to CEO regarding financial planning and decision making. Managed agency staff of eighteen.

Controller
April 1999 – October 2000 Heritage Financial Corporation, Atlanta, GA (company ceased plans for expansion-position underutilized)
Local Estate and Financial Planning Firm with annual premium placement of $50M. Responsible for all office management functions to include recruiting, hiring, and staff supervision. Handled all financial reporting (profit and loss, budgets, forecasts, financial modeling) to President and external tax accountants. Reported to state and federal agencies for business licenses, property tax filings, 1099's and quarterly/annual tax payments and filings. Provided projections and trending analysis as well as variance reports on a monthly basis. Analyzed profitability of seminar and workshop locations for use in marketing efforts. Controlled commission reporting and licensing procedures. Managed Human Resources, including compensation structures, benefits, and payroll policies and procedures. Performed all general ledger account reconciliations. Reported to CEO.
 Project management included analysis, design of customization requirements, and implementation of new software, and installation and data conversion of accounting system.
 Series 7 license

Controller/Executive Director of Finance & Administration
January 1997 – April 1999 Spa Sydell, Atlanta, GA
Local Multi-Location Retail chain of Day Spas providing Services and Products with annual revenue of $12M, in five retail branches, a corporate office, warehouse and Call center with over 350 employees. Responsible for all Financial matters for the organization to include Payroll, A/P, Cash receipts and application, General Ledger reconciliation, Financial reporting and analysis, as well as Human Resources, IT, and Administration. Reported directly to the CEO. Managed up to fifteen direct reports.
 Designed custom reports for analysis of utilization of individual spa capacity to aid Directors of spa locations to staff more efficiently which in turn raised revenue and moralSolomone of personnel.
 Designed and developed unique centralized operations database system which enabled consolidation and multi-level views improving spa capacity utilization, inventory management and customer service.
 Established new Warehouse and Call Center operations which included: Systems analysis, hardware, operational procedures, and personnel.
 Key person responsible for expansion financial review and analysis, cash flow management, installation procedures, staffing and implementation of policies and procedures for the addition of two more spa locations.

Education
University of Georgia, Athens, GA Bachelor's Degree in Finance-BBA

Software
Great Plains Dynamics, PeopleSoft, MAS 90, Peachtree, QuickBooks, Solomon, Epicor, Microsoft Excel, FRX Reporting

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