Jayesh Gohel
Telephone: 510-***-****
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EMAIL: ***********@*****.***
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