WILLIAM METZ
Savannah, GA *1405
Email: ******@*****.*** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-
metz/26/4b8/566
OBJECTIVE
To contribute acquired financial organizational skills to a firm offering
challenging opportunities.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
. Over twenty five years of financial management, working in all levels
of accounting and analysis.
. Adept at reconciliation, organization and presentation of a firm's
financial data.
. Self-motivated; able to set effective priorities to achieve both
immediate and long-term goals and to meet operational deadlines.
. Adapt easily to new concepts and management styles and experienced at
staff management.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 2010 - December 2010 Moran Environmental Recovery - Orange Beach, AL
Field Finance Manager
I was sent on special assign during BP Oil Gulf Spill to setup local
Alabama office. I trained local staff in all corporate process with
regards to finance and office management. This included billing, accounts
payable, new vendor relations, office administration, payroll and month-end
reporting. I established new local relationships with vendors and
contractors. My duties included working closely with both Moran HQ and BP
to produce customized billing and reports with Excel. I reported directly
to CFO and Gulf Spill Project Manager.
October 2007 - June 2010 Moran Environmental Recovery - Jacksonville, FL
Assistant Treasurer
My responsibilities were focused an all corporate treasury functions; cash
receipts, cash disbursement, bank/general ledger reconciliation, credit
card controller and accounts payable management for entire company
consisting of nine resource centers. I managed A/P and payroll staff. I
was lead at developing and documenting new processes to include; document
scanning to our accounting software, positive pay setup with bank and
credit card management. I was instrumental in promoting ACH payments
direct from customers to improve cashflow and lower A/R days out. I
reported directly to the CFO.
October 2006 - October 2007 Moran Environmental Recovery - Savannah, GA
Finance/Office Manager
I was responsible for billing, payroll and office management for division
resource center in Savannah. I reported monthly status of work in
progress directly to CFO. Supervised administrative assistant.
February 2004 - October 2006 Statewide Healthcare, Inc. - Savannah, GA
Controller
My duties were focused firm's general accounts and financial management.
I monitored and reported financial status to CEO and Board of Directors.
Profit and loss analysis of financials monthly and yearly, as well as by
program cost centers. Prepare financials for presentation to CPA and
financial lending institutions. I supervised payroll manager and billing
manager.
March 2003 - February 2004 The Eichholz Law Office - Savannah, GA Business
Manager
Responsible for firm's general accounts and management of client trust
accounts. Processed final out of court settlements with client to include
explanation of settlement monies, distribution to client, law firm and
providers. Responsible for payroll and payroll taxes filing. Managed
owners personal checking and collection of mortgages and rents.
February 1998 - December 2002 IBM (Kaiser Y2K Remediation, HIPPA, Web
Capabilities & KP-CIS Projects), Walnut Creek & Oakland, Calif.
Financial/Business Analyst
Responsible for monitoring and reporting on project gross profit on these
multi million dollar projects. Job responsibilities also include monthly
IBM and Kaiser reporting, invoicing and reconciliation for project's
financials. Developed an Access Database, which produces all required
reports and monitor GP% based on the variety of cost and bill rates for the
over 70 team members. Project executive and manager relied on this data
to make their decisions. This job requires a lot of "on the fly analysis"
for both IBM and the client, so consent monitoring and understanding of
project numbers and position is required.
July 1997 - February 1998 IBM (Pacific Bell Projects), San Ramon, Calif.
Financial/Business Analyst
Building on previous tracking and reconciling process from the The Gap
project, created workbooks to handle more team members and more complex
calculation. Responsibilities grew to include consulting the project
managers, executives and principals on their project's financial status.
July 1996 - July 1997 IBM (The Gap Project), San Bruno, Calif.
Financial/Business Analyst
Responsible for tracking and reconciling project financials including
monthly invoicing and job costing of developer's time. Created a
financial model, which simplified the roll-up of labor hours and expenses
into a consolidated project revenue and profit report, which fed invoicing
system. The report included actual incurred to date and a forecasted
outlook. The financial model tied directly back to the project plans task-
by-task labor hours.
June 1996 SMOS Systems, San Jose, Calif. Contractor
Created a fiscal year end bonus report in Excel workbooks, which
distributed bonuses for 213 employees. This report calculated the
percentage of company's year-end profits to be allocated to employees as
bonus, as well as calculated in variables for each individual employee to
include: status, supervisor evaluation rating, and percentage of year
worked, leave of absences, promotions and profit share. The president and
CFO to modulate various possible outcomes and to produce employee's bonus
checks used this report.
October 1995 - June 1996 Safeway Headquarters, Oakland Calif. Contractor
Maintained large nutritional database used to produce nutritional labels
for all bakery items nation-wide and to standard nomenclatures. Created
various Excel spreadsheets to streamline operations such as: a conversion
of vendor information into Safeway standard formats. Maintained rapport
with vendors to collect nutritional data and with Safeway regional
department heads to assure smooth transaction of information. Supervised
and trained data-entry clerk.
January 1990 - October 1995 Smith & Shows Public Relations, Menlo Park,
Calif. Business Manager
Consulted management on profit and cost impact of daily business activities
to assure positive company growth. Responsibilities included general
accounting, financial analysis, 401K management, office management, A/R
collections and database management. Additional duties included
supervising office coordinator, data-entry clerks, and telemarketers.
August 1985 - December 1989 Smith & Shows Public Relations, Menlo Park,
Calif. Office Manager
Responsibilities included A/P, A/R, cash flow, jocost, purchasing, systems
management, creation and management of telemarketing database. Additional
duties included supervising office coordinator.
Education - San Jose State University - BS Business Marketing. 1989
Technical Skills & Software - Microsoft's: Excel, Word and PowerPoint,
Spectrum and QuickBooks.