Manager Accounts Payable

Carl S. Demers, CPA

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New Milford, CT 06776

860-***-**** / **********@*******.***

SUMMARY

An experienced finance manager and a veteran general accountant who

produces the traditional financial statements for executives and auditors,

excelling in tracking, organizing and analyzing data essential to the

informed decision-making of operational managers. Industry experience:

manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and public accounting.

Certified Public Accountant.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office - Excel (including data functions: subtotaling, pivot

tables), Word and Access

Financial Systems - PeopleSoft (v8.4; including PeopleTools: Nvision and

Queries),

Navision Attain (MS Dynamics NAV), ACCPAC for DOS, Integral, SAINT

and Platinum.

EXPERIENCE

Panolam Industries International Inc., Shelton, CT

2007-2009

Financial Analyst: Reported to the Corporate Controller and supervised

general accounting, accounts payable and

billing staff of finance department; responsible for monthly financial

statements as well as financial reporting on departmental expenditures of a

$367 million laminates manufacturer. Additional responsibilities included:

. Oversaw conversion of excel fixed asset records into PeopleSoft

asset management;

. Assisted in the independent audit process (DT - Big 4);

. Compiled information for corporate income tax returns;

. Responded to various tax compliance notices and requirements;

. Reconciled intercompany transactions with counterparts;

. Assisted in testing Sarbanes - Oxley compliance readiness

(GrantThorton lead);

. Created a query to match bill of ladings invoiced to shipments

recorded in PeopleSoft;

. Compiled historical financial data for board-hired consultants for

market evaluation.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc., Parsippany, NJ 1998-

2007

Accounting Manager: Reported directly to the CFO and supervised general

accounting and accounts payable staff of finance department responsible

for monthly financial statements as well as financial reporting on

departmental expenditures, development expenditures by project, sales by

product, forecasted cash requirements and forecasted inventory levels of

a $150 million U.S. subsidiary of the Netherlands-based pharmaceutical

company - Ferring Group. Additional responsibilities included:

. Oversaw financial system conversion from ACCPAC for DOS to Navision

Attain;

. Assisted in annual budget and interim forecast process;

. Modified budget/forecast model to include balance sheet assumptions

(inventory, cash, receivables, payables) and ease reporting for

parent consolidation;

. Coordinated the independent audit process (PwC - Big 4);

. Compiled information for corporate income tax returns;

. Reconciled intercompany transactions with counterparts.

Carl S. Demers, CPA

860-***-**** / **********@*******.***

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EXPERIENCE (continued)

New York United Hospital Medical Center, Port Chester, NY (closed 2005)

1992-1998

Controller: Reported directly to the CFO and supervised general accounting,

accounts payable and payroll staff responsible for the preparation of

monthly financial statements and statistical reports and for coordination

of independent audit process for this $70 million, 250-bed community

hospital. Earlier served as senior accountant and accounting manager.

Additional responsibilities included:

. Oversaw two financial system conversions to SAINT and then to

Integral;

. Participated in revenue-finding/cost-saving and re-engineering

projects;

. Maintained various fund balances for the Foundation for United

Hospital;

. Reported quarterly to state agency for financial assistance;

. Assisted in annual budget process and institutional cost reporting

(KPMG - Big 4);

. Preparing the annual tax returns;

EDUCATION

Continuing Professional Education - Areas of study

. Corporate accounting - Securities and Exchange Commission reporting

(SEC), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), budgeting, business law, employment

law, mergers and acquisitions, international financial reporting

standards (IFRS)

. Annual Federal, New York and Connecticut tax updates; Financial and

Estate Planning.

Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT

Bachelor of Business Administration: Summa Cum Laude (3.95 GPA), Accounting

major and Computer Science minor. Internship in tax department of

Burroughs Corporation. Honors included:

. Connecticut Society of CPAs Scholarship;

. Ancell School of Business Accounting Award;

. Vice President of Accounting Association;

. Delta Mu Delta, National Honor Society in Business Administration;

. Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Institute of Management Accountants

National Society of Accountants

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

New York / Connecticut Association of Tax Professionals

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