Customer Service Accounting

Simon Brewer, CPA, CGMA

SUMMARY

• Highly competent, insightful, results-driven, business executive with technical accounting and finance

expertise, management experience and expertise, and consummate entrepreneurial aptitudes.

• Well-versed at guiding and assisting executive teams in data driven decisions to build positive results.

• Interacts using an engaging demeanor that establishes and maintains productive business relationships with

stakeholders and vendors, outside auditors, regulators, and with professional trade groups.

• Experienced in start-up, rapidly changing environments and in very large, complex environments.

• Focused and driven to improve companies financially and operationally, while stemming bureaucracy.

Experience

Corporate Controller, Backcountry.com; Park City, ut 2009-Present

• Direct Accounting, Customer Service/Fraud Review and International departments, including financial

reporting and internal controls, during large revenue and employee growth and complexity.

• Provide guidance to assist executive team in operational and directional decision making including

financial statement analysis, discounted cash flows, ROI analysis, and budget to actual analysis.

• Oversee development, preparation, and presentation of all periodic financial statements and reports.

• Responsible for communication of financial results to Board of Directors and Parent Company monthly.

• Reorganized Company into divisions and departments for stronger reporting and added accountability.

• Provide guidance in building budgets and forecasts, establishing budgets for Company and by division.

• Coordinate all external audits; perform all auditor requests for proposal, evaluation and selection.

• Direct, schedule, and coordinate multiple functions to ensure quality and integrity of data. The 2010 and

2011 audits had no audit differences and no management recommendations from KPMG LLP.

• Developed system for international subsidiaries to convert local GAAP to US GAAP for consolidation.

• Coordinate all international subsidiaries’ accounting and reporting to ensure accuracy and auditability.

• Wrote internal controls and SOX documentation from scratch noted “Best in Practice” by Ernst & Young.

• Develop and document enterprise wide policies in legal, executive decision-making, HR, travel, etc.

• Manage teams that include over 40 people in accounting, finance, treasury, international, and CS/fraud.

• Provide leadership to department personnel through effective goal setting, delegation, and open

communication; conducting regular meetings and training for new accounting standards and objectives.

• Conduct all hiring, performance and merit appraisals, disciplinary actions, and reductions in force.

• Performed due diligence, purchase accounting and company, systems and accounting integration of

multimillion acquisition when Backcountry.com, Inc. purchased 100% of CompetitiveCyclist.com.

• Maintain several banking relationships and coordinated multiple financings including negotiation, due

diligence and closing; to maximize cash flow while saving millions of dollars in interest and fees.

• Supervise the development and implementation of the GP Dynamics 10 financial and control system,

including new general ledger, budgeting, cost accounting, fixed asset, paperless, and other subsystems.

• Developed and instruct 8-week finance and accounting curriculum for non-finance managers and staff to

further understanding of financial metrics to aid in decision making, increasing financial literacy.

Adjunct faculty, part-time, university of utah; salt lake city, ut 2010-Present

• Instructor for Financial and Managerial Accounting, required for all business students; feedback from

students regularly exceeds university averages and business school averages.

Partner, Part-time, Night of the Running Dead; salt lake city, ut 2010-Present

• Responsible for operations of 5K race that raised over $17,000 for cancer research from 2010 to 2012.

Supervising Senior associate, KPMG LLP; Salt Lake Cy, ut 2005 - 2009

• Clients included: Flying J Incorporated, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, Sportsman’s

Warehouse, Mrs. Fields Famous Brands, Wyoming Machinery Company, Select Portfolio Servicing,

CHG Healthcare, American Skiing Company, JD Clark, Altiris, Linux Networx and the United Way.

• Planned, supervised and performed audits that include planning and coordinating with team members,

including internal and external experts. Reviewed audit procedures performed by junior team members

and ensured that related documentation met firm and professional standards.

• Executed full-scope and limited scope audit engagements for various clients utilizing Generally Accepted

Accounting Standards (GAAP), Government Auditing Standards (The Yellow Book) (GAGAS),

Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) and other approved auditing and accounting standards.

• Participated in designing audits and procedures to ensure that financial statements and internal controls

are accurately tested and comply with policies, laws and regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley Act 404.

Documented processes and assisted management in identifying internal control over financial reporting.

• Responsible for documenting and testing the operating effectiveness of internal controls. Performed

walkthroughs and procedures over all of the client’s key processes and worked closely with the IT

personnel to understand and assess the effectiveness of system controls over financial reporting.

• Participated in the review of various regulatory filings including SEC filings (forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K,

and S-1). Prepared & reviewed financial statements, footnote disclosures, audit opinions and

consolidations.

• Identified & resolved technical accounting issues using internal and external resources, and utilized

technical research tools such as Assurance Source, AICPA, FASB and SEC databases.

• Analyzed and prepared audit plans, budgets and supervised team members. Communicated with clients

on an ongoing basis to ensure that engagement deadlines are met within planned budgets.

• Assisted manager/partner in providing specialized advice in the audit of stock-based compensation,

initial public offerings, derivatives, business combinations, intangible assets and the design of internal

controls that makes use of such transactions.

• Performed audit work on various clients utilizing Control Based Tool Sets, Integrated Internal Control

Frameworks, Risk Assessment tools and Auditing Sampling and Disclosure tools.

• Developed and applied detailed audit programs to address critical audit areas based on in-depth research

and recognition of the client’s business and industry, key performance indicators, business trends, and

emerging technical and industry developments.

• Supervised teams during the planning and execution of audits and preparations of initial public offerings

(IPOs), carve-out periods for large and complex business transactions, and comfort letters.

Operations manager, full-time, prospect planet.com; Salt lake city, ut 2000-2005

• Managed the accounting function, coordinating payables, receivables, treasury and weekly reporting.

• Managed and directed bi-weekly payroll and monthly benefits, coordinating all benefits and travel.

• Managed and directed 3 employees in the production and shipping facilities for our physical products.

• Managed the help desk and 2 employees, performing tech support for Windows and Mac OS systems.

• Performed daily database routines, edited graphics, and developed HTML for customer’s web pages.

• Performed system and network design, hardware and system construction, repair, and administration.

Certifications

Certified Public Accountant (Active licenses in Utah, Oregon, Nevada, and the District of Columbia)

Chartered Global Management Accountant

Education

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT MASTER OF ACCOUNTING, 2005

Overall GPA: 3.75/4.00; Beta Alpha Psi, Epsilon Psi Chapter, Member, Superior Status.

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT BACHELOR OF ARTS, CUM LAUDE, 2004

Major in Accounting; Minor in Russian Language; Overall GPA: 3.82/4.00;

University of Utah Dean’s List, eight semesters; Business Departmental Scholarship, (2003-04);

Member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, and Golden Key Honor Societies;

Consistently employed 40 – 50 hours per week while pursuing Bachelor’s Degree, maintaining a high GPA.

Memberships

Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants (UACPA)

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

OTHER Skills

Conversational in Russian, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), International Financial

Reporting Standards (IFRS); Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance; Internal Controls and COSO; Taxation; Microsoft

GP Dynamics; FRx Reporting; Oracle; JD Edwards; RUMBA; QuickBooks Pro; SQL; Linux; and HTML.

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