Manager Sales
Resume:
Eric Thomas
Fredericksburg, VA 22407
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WORK EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
**/**** - ******* ********* *******, Quarles Petroleum, Inc,
Fredericksburg, VA
. Gathers and compiles historical and current financial data for
financial reporting for management including budget performance, sales
projections, and expense analysis
. Creates PowerPoint presentations for Board of Directors quarterly
meeting, banks, and sales meetings
. Analyzes and prepares financial statements including final publishing
for entire organization
. Expert skill level use of Excel including pivot tables, graphs, ODBC,
formulas, macros, database queries, and spreadsheet automation
. Cost analysis including determining cost per unit, selling price, and
profit margin and determining variances between monthly projections
and daily performance data.
. Budget preparation including compiling historical performance data and
providing budget schedules and templates to management, and performing
uploading procedures and final publishing of annual budget
10/2007 - 10/2008 Accounting Manager/Business Manager, The Salvation
Army/Area Command, Washington, DC
. Oversees accounting activities of 13 locations including 2 shelters
and 10 social service units
. Directly supervises Area Command Accountants, human resource
department, and information technology
. Recruiting, hiring, and training accountants and administrative staff
. Responsible for month end closings, financial statement preparation,
and cash management
. Creates and manages budget of $18 million
. Streamlining all accounting procedures and full automating all
accounting activities including maintaining and reconciling all bank
accounts
. Manages the financial activity and program requirements of many social
service programs including emergency housing, energy, water, and
food/clothing assistance
. Financial manager of angel tree, toy land, and feast of sharing
programs
7/2006 - 10/2007 Accountant, The Salvation Army, Fredericksburg, VA
(promoted to Accounting Manager/Business Manager)
. Performed all accounting functions for the Salvation Army's service
center, social services, fund raising, church, and two thrift stores.
. Prepared and process all deposits including updating donor database.
Donations consist of approximately $385,000 per month with
approximately 70 deposits per month.
. Process invoices, take advantage of all discounts, and print and mail
checks. Payables volume consists of approximately $250,000 in invoice
processed per month consisting of approximately 85 transactions per
month.
. Prepared month end closing journal entries and monthly financial
statements
. Assisted in preparing annual budget of $5 million.
. Prepared and filed monthly sales tax report
. Responsibilities also included office management, cost management, and
information technology management
8/2004 - 6/2006 Business/Marketing Teacher, Colonial Beach High School,
Colonial Beach, VA
. Provided instruction and supervision on the following topics:
Accounting, Finance, Economics, Management, Marketing, Career
Planning, Programming, and Computer Office Applications.
. Served as DECA Advisor, class sponsor, and web developer
10/2002 - 6/2003 Corporate Accountant, Climax, LLC, Bristol, TN (went out
of business)
. Corrected three years of improper accounting procedures in two months.
. Performed year end closes for three previous years left opened.
. Prepared financial statements that were correct and laid out properly.
. Reduced the company's delinquent accounts receivables to three
percent.
. Performed all aspects of accounting, including cash management,
budgeting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, general
ledger, billing, invoicing, and cost accounting.
. Prepared all state and federal tax filings for year end. Developed
policies and procedures to correctly deal with credit card receipts.
Responsibilities also included inventory maintenance, product
promotion, ordering and shipping, and day to day accounting
activities.
5/2002 - 10/2002 Assistant General Manager, Long John Silver's, Morristown,
TN
. Responsible for operations of a restaurant with approximately $1
million in sales per year. Supervised 10 employees, responsible for
hiring, training, evaluations, scheduling, disciplinary actions, and
terminations.
. Responsible for placement and distribution of monthly promotional
material packets, promoting suggestive selling procedures, and
maintaining profit & loss margins within company limits. Prepared
daily and monthly operations reports.
11/1998 - 4/2002 Staff Accountant, Electrolux, LLC, Bristol, VA (went out
of business)
. Performed end of the month closings, recorded all sales journal
entries and cash receipts journal entries at end of the month with
sales volume of approximately $200 million a year and 1,700 monthly
transactions.
. Served as Accounts Receivable Supervisor ensuring accounting
procedures we followed reconciliations were turned in on time, and
all sales contracts were properly funded.
. Prepared a detailed analysis of the activities of 15 finance
companies.
. Prepared 150 bank reconciliations for cash and credit cards per
month.
. Reconciled returned checks, customer refunds, and accounts receivable
reconciliations for all Canadian business.
. Experienced in income statement and balance sheet preparation.
. Research and correction of sales tax on contracts for all fifty states
and Canada. Also responsible for filing of all sales reports.
. Provided customer service regarding in-house financing program of
payment arrangements, questions regarding payments, and account
issues.
. Managed banking relations with our Canadian banks including account
maintenance, streamlining banking services, and account decision-
making.
Developed new accounting procedures, which simplified the accounting
process and more accurately accounted for returned checks and debit
memos.
EDUCATION
. 9/2003-5/2004 University of Virginia's College at Wise, Wise, VA
Teaching Certification, Business Education Endorsement, GPA 3.5
. 9/1992-5/1996 University of Virginia's College at Wise, Wise, VA B.S.
Accounting, Minors Economics and Business Administration, GPA 3.4
CERTIFICATIONS
IC3 Computer Applications Certification ? Microsoft Office Specialist Word
and Excel Certification
Teaching License: Business Education Endorsement in Virginia and North
Carolina
SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE
Great Plains ? JD Edwards ? Macola ? MAS 90 ? Microsoft Access, Excel,
FrontPage, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word ? Quicken, QuickBooks & QuickBooks
Pro ? AS 400 ? Peachtree
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