Jayesh Gohel

Telephone: 510-***-****

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Hands on, hard-working, Controller, with solid accounting and technology

skills, known for out of the box thinking, timeliness, accuracy, and

attention to detail. 20 years progressive accounting experience including

working for Big 4, responsible for revenue from $3M to $ 500M, in both

Private and Public companies, for a wide range of company sizes: from

Startups to Fortune 500.

Expertise in Consolidated Financial Statements, Revenue Recognition, Month

End Close, International Accounting, Cost Accounting, Project Accounting,

Financial Planning, SOX, and Budgeting. Accomplished at business process

improvement, automation, and systems implementation; working with globally

diversified, cross functional groups, for companies in a variety of

industries: enabling them to save time and money. Bachelors in Accounting

with a Masters in Computer Science

KEY PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

George M Martin Company (Manufacturing) Emeryville,

CA (May 2011 to Aug 2013)

Controller

George M Martin Company is one of the few manufacturing concerns, still

manufacturing machinery in Emeryville, USA for the corrugated cardboard box

industry.

. Reporting directly to CEO/President. Produced financial packages for

internal and external reporting.

. Led six person, Finance and HR department, in charge of financial

planning, revenue recognition, costing, preparing financials, board

packages, hiring, payroll, cash flow, medical benefits administration,

general ledger, AP, AR, sales taxes, and liaising with CPA.

. Led the payroll system conversion from in-house to ADP.

. Evaluated various ERP and Accounting packages; selected the best package

at the lowest possible cost, saving the company thousands of dollars.

. Integrated the new Accounting system (QuickBooks Enterprise Edition) with

various pieces of the home grown ERP system, responsible for design,

development, programming, and mentoring junior staff.

. Tasked with working on special projects, in cross functional groups.

Tiburon INC (Software)

Pleasanton, CA (February 2010 to April 2011)

Finance Manager - Revenue & Reporting

Tiburon delivers computer aided dispatch, mobility, records management and

corrections management solutions built to meet the rigorous demands of

state, local and federal law enforcement, fire & rescue and corrections

agencies.

. Led the Month End Close process, performed Revenue Recognition, and

delivered Budgets.

. Consolidated Financials for eight entities in accordance with GAAP, for

domestic and International entities.

. Produced financial packages for internal and external reporting, with

PowerPoint slides for Board Meetings.

. Identified areas for improvement, thru detailed monthly departmental,

budget vs. actual analysis.

. Managed Project Accounting functions, reviewed Bookings, Revenue and

Costs with offsite Project Managers.

. Utilized the Salesforce.com software for pulling reports.

. Prepared, calculated and drafted Sales Commission Contracts.

. Performed Margin analysis and Ad Hoc reports.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT bay

Area, CA (May 2001 to January 2010)

Clients included:

2 CODEXIS (Biotechnology)

Redwood City, CA (September 2008 to May 2009)

3 Business Systems Consultant

As a clean technology company, Codexis develops optimized biocatalysts used

by leading global pharmaceutical companies. Codexis is in development of

advanced biofuels with Shell.

. Created lead sheets for Auditors and assisted with SAB104 Revenue

testing.

. Implemented Fixed Assets and Sales Order Processing modules in Great

Plains 10.0.

. Improved Tenrox reporting system by developing external reports, using

ODBC, SQL and ASP Pages.

. Developed numerous FRx 6.7 Reports for Balance Sheets, Income Statements,

and Budget Analysis.

. Documented workflow and developed forms using Visio 2007and Adobe Pro 9.0

ARCSIGHT (Network Security)

Cupertino, CA (January 2008 to July 2008)

Interim Assistant Controller

Now an HP company ArcSight, is the leading provider of security and

compliance management solutions used by more than 1,500 corporations and

government agencies worldwide to protect their universe from cyber threat

and risk. ArcSights' award-winning enterprise monitoring platform helps

companies comply with regulatory policy, safeguards critical digital assets

and controls risk.

. Consolidated Financials in Softrax, for a globally diversified company,

and resolved issues.

. In charge of the Monthly Close process, Revenue Recognition, Foreign

Entity Consolidations.

. Prepared backup schedules, and reconciliations, for SEC, 10K and 10Q

reporting, and FAS123r analysis.

. Prepared schedules, lead sheets, flux and margin analysis for Audit,

using spreadsheets and pivot table.

STRATALIGHT COMMUNICATIONS (Fiber Optics) Los Gatos,

CA (July 2007 to January 2008)

Interim Assistant Controller

Owned by Opnext, StrataLight Communication is a leader in the design,

development and manufacture of 40 gigabits per second (40G) line-side

optical subsystems and is widely deployed in several of the world's largest

tier-one service provider networks.

. Business process improvement and documentation of new systems and

workflow.

. Implemented Fixed Assets module in Great Plains. Designed and developed

FRX Reports.

. Analyzed data, for SEC, S1 preparation using spreadsheets and pivot

tables.

. Prepared schedules for auditors and carried out account reconciliations

for Month End Close.

Penguin Computers (Manufacturing) San Francisco, CA

(January 2007 to April 2007)

Interim Assistant Controller

As a global leader in high-performance computing (HPC), Penguin Computing

delivers cutting-edge, cost-effective and complete, integrated HPC

solutions, from the workstation to the cloud, meeting the needs of the

world's most demanding HPC users, including Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin,

the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy.

. Within an SAP environment, completed journal entries, reconciliations,

and financial statements in accordance with GAAP, for financial and bank

audit.

Kaiser Permanente (Healthcare) Oakland, CA

(November 2005 to December 2006)

Business Systems Consultant

As one of the nation's largest not-for-profit health plans, Kaiser

Permanente ($40 billion in revenue) serves 8.7 million members, has 35

hospitals, 454 medical offices, 15K physicians, and 164K employees.

. Reconciled accounts, posted journal entries, performed Month End and Year

End close activities.

. Working in the Controllers Group analyzed Financial Statements and

resolved discrepancies.

. Assisted with SOX compliance through testing and documentation.

. Developed Access database application, for monthly reconciliation of

millions of dollars of bankcard transactions. Reducing the time taken to

do the reconciliation from 8 to 2 days. Trained end users.

. Performed Extensive Financial Modeling and Analysis, creating meaningful

reports, extracted from large volumes of data; using SQL, Databases,

Advanced Excel; VLookups, Marcos, and Pivot Tables.

APPSTREAM (Internet Software)

Palo Alto, CA (November 2004 to June 2005)

Interim Controller

Bought out by Symantec, AppStream provides an application streaming

solution that enables on-demand application provisioning, offline cache,

license recovery and instant application upgrades.

. Reporting to CFO. Compiled Management reports, for Board Meetings.

. Audit, Revenue Recognition, foreign entity consolidations, and financial

statements.

. Led the accounting system conversion from Great Plains to IntAcct. .

. Supervised and trained accounting staff in all accounting functions.

Liaised with external Auditors.

Huson European MEDIA (Media Representatives) Campbell,

CA (April 2002 to July 2006)

Controller

Huson represents more than 500 leading magazines and newspapers around the

world in diverse sectors including technology, business, industrial,

financial, in-flight and consumer interests; such as travel, fashion, and

women's magazines. Familiar brands include Reader's Digest, Lufthansa

Magazine, GEO, Information Week, CRN, and Network Computing.

. Managed all general accounting functions including, Financial Statements,

foreign currency transactions, cash flow. Developed Internal Controls,

Policies and Procedures. Liaised with CPA for Year End taxes.

Citadon Inc (Software for Construction) San

Francisco, CA (May 2001 to September 2001)

Controller

BuildOnline merged with Citadon to form CTSpace which provides document

management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction

industry offering both online software as a service (SaaS) and on premises

enterprise solutions, the combined solutions provide an integrated, best

practices environment that supports a project's entire lifecycle.

. Supervised accounting staff of five, handled all aspects of accounting.

. Directed Monthly Close, Revenue Recognition, AR, AP, HR, payroll,

collections, contracts and cash flow.

. Spearheaded the merger of two separate accounting systems into the Great

Plains ERP package.

. Prepared 3 years of financials for audit of two merged companies. Liaised

with auditors.

. Designed and implemented Internal Controls, Policies, and Procedures.

Bizfinity Inc

Cupertino, CA (October 2000 to March 2001)

Senior API Developer

. Integrated web based accounting information into Oracle Database.

. Developed Java Servlets for XML document communication using XSL and

XSLT.

Compaq Computers (formerly Tandem Inc.) Cupertino, CA

(August 1998 to October 2000)

Senior Web Applications Developer

. Full Lifecycle development of complex content management application,

enabling dynamic display of multimedia content for web enabled Automated

Teller Machines (ATMs) using NON Stop SQL (Database) and ATP pages.

. Gathered requirements and developed use cases. Designed and developed

prototypes and final product.

. Planned, managed, delegated, and tracked project issues and tasks.

Including Content tracking, management, and storage.

Sykes Enterprises InC

St. Louis, MO (August 1997 to July 1998)

Business Systems Analyst

. Supported end users of an insurance company on their existing financial

record keeping system. Designed and developed a new web enabled

application, tracking over $3.0 billion in assets, with Visual Basic, MS

SQL Server, and MS Access.

Patty Long Catering (Caterers/Restaurant) St. Louis,

MO (January 1995 to July 1997)

Accountant/Office Manager

. Designed and implemented a computerized catering contracts system using

MS Access.

. In charge of all accounting functions including, AP, AR, HR, invoices,

collections, and payroll.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT toronto, Canada

(November 1989 to December 1994)

Computer Consultant/Accountant

Clients included: Fidelity Investments, Selection Group, and TNT Air

Express

. Reconciled large dollar trade volume, investigated differences, and

resolved errors.

. Designed an advanced incentive system for timely revenue collection,

resulting in reducing accounts receivables by 60%.

PriceWaterhouse (Auditors) Kitwe,

Zambia (January 1989 to November 1989)

Auditor

. Prepared management reports, and performed interim and year-end audits

for agriculture, educational, and retail clients.

EDUATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Masters in Computer Science, Webster University- St Louis, MO

Graduated with

honors - GPA 3.97, 1997

CMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, London, England

Bachelors in Accounting, 1989

COMPUTER SKILLS

?QuickBooks Pro/Enterprise ?Great Plains ?SAP ?IntAcct ?Oracle11i ?EPIC

?Lawson ? MS Access

?Salesforce ? Crystal Reports ?FRx ? Visio ?Hyperion ? Essbase ? Advanced

Excel - Macros, Pivots, Charts, Graphs and VBA ? SmartLists ?Databases ?SQL

? Web Programming. - JavaScript, ASP, Html, ColdFusion

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