Manager Accounting

Michael J. Cooper

**** ********* **.

Toledo, Ohio

43613

Home: 419-***-****

Cell: 419-***-****

ab9obk@r.postjobfree.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

Northwestern Ohio Administrators. Fund Accountant. Non-Profit, third party

administrator of pension plans, annuity plans, savings plans, and health

insurance plans for unions and contractors in the Northwest Ohio area.

Toledo, OH: October 22, 2008 to March 1, 2012. Fund Accountant. Responsible

for all accounting for 12+ plans, and the parent company. Answer directly

to the Executive Vice-President of the company.

Clarke Power Products, Assistant Controller.Wholesale distributor of power

tools worldwide, Perrysburg, OH: January 25, 2006 to October 8, 2008.

Senior Accountant. Oversee A/P, A/R, Payroll and Cash positioning. Prepare

financial statements. Answer directly to the controller and owner of the

company.

The Stansley Group; Sylvester Material Company, Assistant Controller. Redi-

Mix cement and block manufacturing company with trucking and mining

operations, Sylvania, OH: January 31, 2005 to December 30, 2005. Assistant

Controller. - Oversee accounting department for a six-company organization.

Prepared financial statements, cost and sales analysis reports, assisted

outside auditors. Answered directly to the controller and owners of the

company.

Hughes Lumber & Building Supply Company; Hughes Rental Center, Controller.

Retail lumber and hardware sales, and equipment and party rentals,

Charleston, SC: September 6, 1997 to December 7, 2004. Accounting Manager &

Controller. - Responsible for all accounting of the company's 4 locations,

and computer conversion for the rental center. Prepare financial

statements, operating reports, for all locations. Supervise accounting

staff of four, in payroll, a/p, a/r, and credit. Oversee total financial

operations of both companies. Answer directly to the owner of the company.

Carolina Eastern, Inc., 2/91 to 9/97. Controller. Holding Company for Multi-

company Manufacturing, Wholesale and Retail Agricultural / Fertilizer

Locations, Charleston, SC Controller / Data Processing Manager. -

Responsible for all accounting and data processing for the corporation and

its 30 locations in the East and Northeast, using AS 400. Prepared

financial statements, operating reports, and budgets for all locations.

Supervised accounting department of six, in payroll, credit, a/p, and a/r.

Answered directly to the owner of the company.

MBT Distributors, d/b/a Musicorp, 2/90 to 2/91. Controller. International

Musical Wholesale Distributor, Charleston, SC: Controller. - Responsible

for all accounting for the company. Prepared financial statements,

operating reports, and budget analysis. Supervised accounting department of

five, in payroll, credit, a/p, a/r, and collections. Answered directly to

the owner of the company.

Pritchard & Company, 1/85 to 2/90. Accountant/Bookkeeper. Investment /

Holding Company, Charleston, SC: General Accounting Manager. - Responsible

for all accounting for the company and 25 different subsidiaries. Prepared

general ledgers, financial statements, operating reports, budget analysis,

and subsidiary schedules. Other responsibilities included company payroll,

and all accounting for two radio stations. Also was property manager for

commercial property and rental condominiums owned by the company.

Kiawah Island Company, 1/84 to 12/84. Resort Island, Charleston, SC: Senior

Utility Accountant, Kiawah Island Utility Company. - Responsible for all

accounting for the Utility Company; including all financial statements,

operating reports, budget analysis, and subsidiary schedules. Other

responsibilities included: Billing all customers, residential and

commercial, all accounts receivable, collections and correspondence with

customers. Consolidated Commission reports, property taxes, and federal

income tax reports.

Reconciliation's Accountant. - Audited and reconciled accounts of different

departments to consolidated general ledger, and financial statements of

parent company. Invested money with bank, and worked in conjunction with

the a/r and a/p departments.

U.S. Navy 6/75 to 6/79

Quartermaster / Navigator. Piloted / Navigated ship and trained personnel.

Achieved rank of Quartermaster 2nd Class, non-commissioned officer, E-5.

Honorably discharged.

Saginaw Valley Downs 1980-1981

Horse race track, in Saginaw Michigan. Mutual Clerk, selling and paying of

tickets through computer terminal. Responsible for large amounts of cash.

Also reconciled nightly handle at end of day.

EDUCATION

B.S. in Business Administration, College of Charleston (SC). 1983

Concentration in Accounting and Finance

Graduate classes in MBA program, The Citadel, Charleston, SC.

Managerial Accounting, Banking and Finance

H&R Block Tax School 2005

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