Accounting Project
Resume:
Richard Treat
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QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY:
Expertise and experience includes: Financial Analysis; Management
Accounting; Cost Accounting; Project Accounting; General Ledger Accounting;
Problem Solving & Decision Support. Financial statement presentation and
preparation; Budgeting, forecasting & variance analysis; SOX 404
compliance; US GAAP; International, publicly-traded, and private equity
experience; Multi-site consolidations; Intercompany accounting; Account
reconciliation; GL month-end close; AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Payroll; Staff
management and development; Internal auditing; Manage external audits;
Liaison with Tax Departments to ensure proper tax reporting; Accounting
Policies & Procedures; Effectively works well with all Departments; Strong
Systems skills & systems implementations experience. Insurance matters.
Foreign currency experience.
SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE:
Strong in SAP, Oracle, Synergy, Hyperion Enterprise, AS 400, SAGE MAS500,
ASK ManMan, & Intuitive ERP. Advanced Excel skills. Advanced computer
skills with experience in system implementations, conversions, and
upgrades.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
SENIOR FINANCIAL & COST ANALYST May 2011 - present
Contract consulting position through Robert Half Management Resources
Consulting with a late-stage start-up manufacturing company. I am
developing and managing a process to get the company through a backlog of
product warranty issues. I am coordinating & and directing activities
among all areas of the company including Customer Service, Accounts
Receivable, R&D, Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, and Warehousing.
My work is being used to analyze the product quality issues; quantify the
proper warranty reserve on the Balance Sheet; settle the backlog of
invoices related to warranty repair; and to develop the proper accounting
transactions within the ERP system for the Warranty Return process going
forward.
I have also taken on the role of Inventory Financial Analyst with
responsibility for supporting manufacturing operations, and COGS analysis.
PROJECT FINANCIAL ANALYST November 2010 - May 2011
Contract consulting position
Project Financial Analyst with international publicly-traded Professional
Engineering firm that specializes in energy management & consulting.
Clients include Governments, Utilities, Institutions, and large commercial
entities.
Provided project accounting & financial analysis for all active projects in
Business Unit. Responsible for administration of project accounting
software system, including training new users as needed. Prepared Budgets
& monthly rolling forecast. Prepared client Billings. A/R & A/P. I
developed new forecasting tool to incorporate new business lines as well as
streamline and simplify the overall monthly month-end close process.
Obtain insurance coverage per contract / Project specifications. Handled
all Davis-Bacon Act & ARRA-funded projects documentation requirements. SOX
compliance.
I coordinated prompt resolution of issues with Clients, Vendors, Project
Managers, and the Corporate Finance & Legal departments on matters related
to the Projects.
Controller Feb 2009 - September 2010
SolutionSet - Mill Valley, CA (a multi-channel marketing agency held by a
private equity group.)
Major accomplishment: Successfully converted three subsidiary companies
from QuickBooks to SAGE Software.
Main responsibilities: Actively implemented process improvements;
preparation of annual Budgets and all interim forecasting, and perform
analytical review; prepare and review all bank compliance reporting, and
monitor ratios to ensure compliance with financing agreements; ensure
internal and external reporting deadlines are met; review required
supporting documentation and financial statements to ensure compliance with
GAAP; I managed the accounting staff for four operating companies; hands-on
preparation of the monthly consolidated financial reports; manage all
Project accounting and Inter-company accounting; provide financial support
to other departments. Wire transfers & ACH transfers. Liaison for all
external audits and tax preparation.
Administrative Business Manager 2007 - 2009
HARSCO/PATENT CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS, SAN LEANDRO, CA
Member of the US Subsidaries Oracle 11i Implementation team. I also
successfully passed HARSCO's courses and exams on Insurance and Contracts
and became authorized to negotiate and sign contracts and authorize
insurance coverage for construction projects. Clients included
Governments, Institutions, water companies, and large commercial
developments.
Main responsibilities: Process improvement; SOX 404 compliance; Budgets;
month-end close; variance analysis; hands-on preparation of schedules for
all internal and external audits; Project accounting, including setting up
Project revenue and cost budgets into Oracle system; intercompany
accounting; assure the regions compliance with company's Accounting &
Reporting Policies; manage regions GL, HR, AP, AR, Credit & Collections,
and administration functions; staff management; review and approve weekly
union payrolls; prepared and sign 'Certified Payrolls'; contract
negotiations and approval.
Harsco was severely affected by the extreme downturn in the construction
industry and the economy in general in the Fall of 2008 and closed
down/consolidated a number of sites.
Accounting Manager
2005 - 2007
RAININ INSTRUMENT, LLC, OAKLAND, CA (a division of Mettler-Toledo).
I hired and trained the West Coast accounting team. Streamlined the month-
end Inventory analysis and calculation of inventory reserve for Obsolete
and slow moving inventory.
Main responsibilities: Cost Accounting on Oracle 11i; Manufacturing
variance analysis; Inventory Turn-Over calculation; Budgeting, general
ledger accounting and month-end close; variance analysis; SOX 404
compliance. Hands-on responsibility for all international banking
transfers & intercompany accounting. Liaison for all external audits.
Senior Cost Accountant
2002 - 2005
HITACHI AMERICA, LTD. BRISBANE, CA.
Major accomplishment was, using SAP, built the company's first
comprehensive database showing the status, location, and 'responsible
salesman' for $1M of 'demo' Inventory of plasma and LCD televisions.
Main responsibilities: Cost accounting, inventory, and gross margin
analysis and preparation of monthly financial reports for all product
lines within the Computer Division of Hitachi America, Ltd; used SAP to
perform monthly analysis of product lines, detailing their COGS, and
identifying trends that enhanced or detracted from their margins; performed
monthly inventory analysis and calculated & applied pricing adjustments as
needed; calculated excess inventory levels; prepared Federal Quarterly
Ozone Depleting Chemicals tax returns.
Plant Controller
1999 - 2002
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS, Sunnyvale, CA
(concurrent with position at Hoefer)
Plant Controller
1995 - 2002
HOEFER SCIENTIFIC, San Francisco, CA.,
Both companies were Divisions of Amersham Biosciences (UK), which was
acquired by GE General Electric.
Proud accomplishment was graduating from Amersham's (UK) MBA Program.
Key accomplishments include developing the Activity Based Cost accounting
program at Hoefer Scientific Instruments which was instrumental in keeping
our overall manufacturing variances at 1.64% and 1.68% for the most recent
two years while our manufacturing output grew by 31%. I also was on
Pharmacia Biotech's global Hyperion Enterprise installation team which
utilized Hyperion Enterprise as our global reporting and consolidation
tool.
Main responsibilities: Cost Accounting; Inventory analysis and valuation;
general ledger accounting; process improvement; project accounting for R&D
projects, and preparation of all project-level analysis, providing
financial and accounting support for each scientific development project
team; preparation of Budgets, 18-month rolling forecasts, and variance
analysis; assure the compliance with company's Accounting, Reporting, &
Transfer pricing Policies; intercompany accounting; month-end General
Ledger close and account reconciliation; prepare month-end financial
statements and month-end reports; preparation of budgets, 18-month rolling
forecasts, and variance analysis; manage the GL, AP, Payroll, Cost
Accounting, and Fixed Asset functions; hands-on preparation of schedules
for all internal and external audits; preparation of state sales tax
returns; provide financial support to other departments; Supervise the
accounting staff; prepared U.S. Census Bureau's Surveys of Plant Capacity
Utilization. Banking. Liaison for all external audits.
EDUCATION:
B.S.B.A. - Accounting Major. Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, MO
Amersham Business Skills Program (UK) (Amersham's in-house MBA Program).
CPE Courses in IFRS
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