Project Manager Sales

Corrine E Gawryl

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Las Vegas, NV 89179 *******@*****.*** C: 702-***-****

ACCOUNTING DIRECTOR AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMS

Finance Director with 24+ years of finance, accounting and information

systems experience. Proven talent for designing and implementing financial

systems. Controllership responsibility for domestic and international

companies with gross revenues from $50M - $6.7B.

Controllership . Information Systems Management . Strategic Planning .

Project Management

. Process Improvement . Management Reporting . Business Process Outsourcing

System Program Management . Financial System Configuration . Budgeting .

SOX . GAAP . IFRS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

US Foods, N. Las Vegas, NV 2011-

Present

Food Distributer; 25,000 employees. $20.0B in sales.

FINANCE MANAGER, LAS VEGAS DIVISION

Manage General Accounting, Inventory Control, Information Technology,

Payroll and Contract Coordinator (Pricing) Teams. Responsible for annual

budget, weekly flash reporting, forecast, flux analysis and quarterly

reporting. Responsible for division SOX controls and oversight over

division Process owners.

. Redeveloping bid and pricing process utilizing lean sigma principles.

. Kronos Implementation and restructured payroll processing.

. Develop and implementing Inventory Control automation for product

spoilage, obsolete and suspense.

. Participate and monitor centralization and standardization

initiatives.

MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas, NV 2010-

2011

Global Hospitality Company; 60,000 employees. $6.0B in sales.

DIRECTOR, CLIENT SERVICES, FINANCE SHARED SERVICES CENTER (FSSC)

Bellagio

Responsible for trending, analyzing and reviewing accounting and

statistical data for the following divisions: Gaming, Hotel, Food and

Beverage, Retail, Entertainment and Property Operating departments.

Accountable for producing monthly financial statements, quarterly and

annual financial reporting packages and statutory gaming and tax filings.

. Developed Lean Sigma training program for FSSC.

. Developed and implemented financial planning strategy for daily

operating report (DOR).

. Lead and develop consistency initiatives for close the books process

for Las Vegas strip properties.

. Design, develop and implement Blackline Task Management module to

standardize and track Las Vegas strip properties accounting workload.

avery dennison, Las Vegas, NV 2006-

2010

Global Manufacturing Company; 35,000 employees. $6.7B in sales.

REGIONAL MANAGER, NORTH AMERICAN SHARED SERVICES CENTER

Accounting Manager and Process owner of PeopleSoft and Oracle Financial

Systems

Responsible for general accounting and fixed asset teams in Las Vegas and

Mumbai, India. Maintained service level agreements for 35 business units

with 147 entities. Manage finance systems and all internal and third party

interfaces, US equity structure, inter-company accounting, and financial

reporting for US and Canadian manufacturing and marketing organizations.

Accountability for monthly, quarterly and annual accounting and finance

system close. Managed domestic and international projects of full project

life cycle; scope, budget, resources, status reporting and plan management.

General Accounting, Fixed Asset Processes, Finance Systems and Projects

. Managed general accounting and fixed asset teams for North America

region.

. Led Business Process Outsourcing project for General Accounting

Department to 3rd party Partner in India. Annual cost reduction of

$2.0MM.

. Project lead and consultant for multiple Centralization projects.

. SOX Process owner for North America finance systems hub structure.

. Project Manager of Finance system restructuring and Business Process

Improvements.

. Supported North America User base. Managed System Issue Tracking

Database to ensure all problems were resolved timely. Managed security

audits and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Developed user training.

. Created, tested and approved deployment of custom programs and/or

changes to existing programs.

. Monitored and troubleshot 56 interfaces for; inventory, billing,

purchase orders and receipts into PeopleSoft. Managed translate tables

between Source Systems and PeopleSoft. Approved design/build of

interfaces for; p-card, indirect procurement, T&E, communications and

3rd party payroll vendors.

. Developed structure to manage users, improve processes and ensure SOX

compliance for Oracle 11i environment.

. Project manager for Retail Information Services Division legal entity

restructuring project. Project included financial system

implementation, financial reporting hierarchy change, trade compliance,

source system interface build, payroll tax, sales/use tax and treasury.

. Finance project manager for plant amalgamations and liquidations due to

large acquisitions. Projects included but not limited to: Finance and

supply chain system deactivation and reorganization of assets.

. Core team member for North America region of two major Stock Purchase

Acquisitions. Projects included; Financial Restatement, World Wide

Financial System Assessment, Legal Entity Mergers, Entity Restructuring

between ERP systems and Fixed Asset Sub-ledger Setup.

Sunterra Resorts, Las Vegas, NV 2004-2005

Time Share / 97 Resorts World-Wide. 27,000 employees. $4.7B in sales.

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

Accountant and process owner for the sales and marketing accounting

functions for the Florida and California regions. Primary function was to

ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, produce financials for 6 sales centers, 2

phone rooms and 2-shared services centers. Led multiple process

improvement initiatives.

. Project team member for system automation projects for tracking; time

share sales and sales force commissions.

. Managed and audited time share gifting for multiple sales centers.

Created efficient tracking processes to reduce theft.

KJC Operating Company, Boron, CA 1997-2004

5 Solar Energy Power Plants. 130 employees. $80M in sales.

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

Responsible for end-to-end accounting and financial reporting. Scope

included payroll, benefits, cash, inventory, general ledger, financial

statements, misc. tax form preparation and annual audit. Two direct

reports. Responsible for ensuring that all systems ran efficiently and

were utilized to their fullest capacity.

. Led core team member of two finance system implementations; planning,

configuration and historical data transfer.

. Eliminated 8 hours from month-end close process and delivered accurate

monthly reports 100% on-time.

STAFF ACCOUNTANT, Seven Star Construction (1995-1997)

ACCOUNTING MANAGER, Unique Development (1994-1995)

ACCOUNTANT, Accounting Agencies (1991-1994)

JR ACCOUNTANT, Cooper Tax and Accounting (1987-1991)

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

BS, Accounting, DeVry University, OakBrook Terrace, IL

MBA, Accounting & Information Systems, New York Institute of Technology,

Westbury, NY

Trained in Enterprise Lean Six Sigma and Project Management

Information Technology: Proficient in a variety of financial

applications, including but not limited to: Hyperion Financial Reporting,

Hyperion Essbase, PeopleSoft, Oracle 11i, Infinium, Cognos, Blackline,

Showcase, Merlin, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio and Microsoft Project.

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