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Accounting and Finance Professional

Location:
New Hampshire
Posted:
April 14, 2014

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DARLA J. AMMIDOWN ***- ***-**** (H) ? ***-

***-**** (C)

** ******* **** ? Merrimack, NH 03054

acdn0y@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Daniel Webster College ? Nashua NH

August 2011 - Present

(For Profit Higher Education Institute- a subsidiary of ITT/ESI)

Director of Financial Operations/College CFO

. Responsible for budgeting and forecasting for resident and online

. Maintain and plan capital expenditure budgets

. Analysis of monthly financials

. Strategic planning

. Manage financial aid office and facilities department of 12

. Responsible for finance policy and procedures

. Vendor relations and negotiating contracts and purchase orders

. Responsible for reporting financial results and projections to Board

of Directors quarterly

. Financial reporting to accrediting bodies

. Responsible for SOX compliance and testing and responsible for

external audits

American Dental Partners, Inc. ? Wakefield MA

August 2008 - May 2011

(Publically traded on NASDAQ $400m provider of business services to multi-

disciplinary dental groups)

Corporate Accounting Manager

. Leadership role in monthly, quarterly and yearly close for three

Corporate entities and Captive insurance company

Reduced Corporate closing cycle from 8 days to 4 days

. Responsible for preparation of financial statements, account

schedules, bank covenant, schedules for Board of Directors and cash

management systems

. Developed Departmental Income Statements

. Responsible for SOX compliance and testing and responsible for

external audits

. Developed 10K and 10Q footnotes

. FAS 123r stock option accounting and Proxy statement

. Debt and Investment accounting

. SOP 98-1for internally developed software modules for dental records

. Assisted in implementing a Purchase Card program

. Intercompany schedules for 27 affiliates, 4 corporate entities and

captive insurance company

. Responsible for fixed asset depreciation schedules and tracking

intangible assets

. Managed the Accounting staff of three, hired and trained them

Bowne MBC - A division of Bowne and Company ? Wilmington MA

June 2001 - July 2008

Formerly Vestcom Massachusetts - A Division of Vestcom International

Facility closed July 2008

(Publically traded $15m provider of business and marketing communications,

e-marketing and retail marketing services)

Controller - promoted to Controller of Wilmington Facility

June 2006 - July 2008

Assistant Controller

. Leadership role in preparing the budget and forecast and variance

analysis

. Assisted in bringing facility to SOX compliance

. Preparation and analysis of financial statements

. Preparation of monthly statements, account schedules, monthly and

yearly forecasts, bank reconciliation, cash management systems and

year end closing

. Prepare monthly sales tax, 10K packages and information for corporate

taxes

. Intercompany schedules and fixed asset depreciation schedules, fixed

asset transfers

. Lead finance person in implementing PeopleSoft in facility

. SOP 98-1 internally developed software for clients used in production

. Commission calculation and research

. Managed the Accounting staff of five which included the functions of

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Payroll and Credit and

Collections.

Diatide - Division of Berlex, Inc. ? Bedford, NH

1999 - 2001

(R&D Stage Diagnostic Imaging Company)

Accounting Manager/Financial Analyst

. Managed the maintenance of General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts

Receivables and Payroll of Division

. Prepared the budget and forecast for division

. Accounting for 401K and Benefits

. Responsible for the collection of $325K in over 120-day debt in 3

weeks

Goodway Graphics of Massachusetts Inc. ? Burlington, MA

1996 - 1999

($10m Digital Printing Company)

Accounting Manager

. Month end closing involvement

. Responsible for revenue reporting and invoicing

. Analyze cost centers for profitability

. Electronic banking via the internet, bank reconciliations

. Credit and Collections

. Calculate and issue outside sales commissions

. Implemented new Logic modules

. Responsible for all training and troubleshooting relating to Logic

System Network

Granada North America ? Burlington, MA 1994 -

1996

($40m Medical Video Technology)

Revenue Accountant

. Month end closing involvement

. Correct and balance month end P&L Audit Report to General Ledger

. Analyze maintenance revenue margin, labor reports, labor/parts report

. Assign revenue and costs to proper accounts and reconciled service

balance sheet accounts

. Process all revenue and billings for Southern and Western Regions

. Calculate and issue sales commission

Senior Tax Accountant Sales and Use

1994 - 1995

. Filed multi-state Sales and Use Tax Returns

. Filed Canadian GST and Provincial tax returns

. Monthly reconciliation of Sales Tax General Ledger Accounts

. Assisted in Sales and Use Tax Audits

Unifirst Corporation ? Wilmington, MA 1990 -

1994

($525m Uniform Rental/Industrial Laundry Corp.)

Tax/Staff Accountant - Sales and Use

. Filed multi-state Sales and Use tax returns including preparation of

monthly worksheets and allocations

. Reconciled General Ledger

. Prepared Monthly Bad Debt

. Processed Sales and Use Tax Applications

. Researched Sales and Use Tax Law

EDUCATION

Daniel Webster College ? Nashua, NH

December 2013

Master of Business Administration

Finance Concentration

Northeastern University ? Boston, MA

Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance Management

April 2011

Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Front Range Community College ? Arvada, CO 1989

Associates in Accounting

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

? Oracle/PeopleSoft ? Microsoft Office and Windows XP

? Solium ? Epicor ? SCAN

? Symphony AS/400 Query ? Printstream ? Lawson

? SAP ? Access ? FAS

? FRX ? MAS 90 ? Logic



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