Project Manager Accounting

Rodney Vanden Heuvel, CPA

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Wantage, NJ 07461

Selective Insurance Group - Branchville, NJ 2000 - Present

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Senior Financial analyst 2009 - Present

Responsibilities

. Preparation of Annual budget and forecast.

. Preparation of the monthly variance analysis by department and

functional area.

. Assist in preparation of monthly profitability presentation to senior

management.

. Assist Pricing Group by providing fully allocated annualized budgeted

expenses.

. Preparation of the annual Savings Plan audit

. Heavy interaction with senior management.

Accounting Supervisor - SEC and GAAP Reporting 2007 - 2009

Responsibilities:

. Supervision of senior and staff accountant.

. Compilation of consolidated monthly financial statements including

balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows. Review of

GAAP and elimination entries.

. Provide management with monthly earnings estimate including EPS,

revenues and operating income.

. Assist with compiling the monthly letter to the board of directors.

. Assist in compilation and filing of 10Q.and 10K including MD&A writeup.

. Review of holding company financial transactions including incentive

compensation such as stock options, restricted stock and restricted

cash units.

. Participate in the development and review of the quarterly conference

call, earnings release and monthly board letter.

. Assist in annual savings plan audit.

. Heavy interaction with senior management and external auditors.

Accounting Supervisor - Cost Accounting and Asset Capitalization 2000 -

2007

Responsibilities:

. Supervision of one senior and three staff accountants.

. Management of activity-based costing and monthly allocation of direct

and overhead costs.

. Capitalization and amortization of Deferred Acquisition Costs (in

accordance with FASB 60), internal-use software and prepaid assets.

. Evaluation and analysis of capital projects for proper accounting

treatment.

. Supervision of Fixed Asset and Accounts Payable functions.

. Analysis of monthly and quarterly expense variances.

. Development of accounting policies and procedures for various

accounting processes.

. Annual Sarbanes-Oxley compliance including narratives, audit plans and

testing for multiple accounting processes.

. Compilation of various regulatory filings including Annual Statement

Page 11, Insurance Expense Exhibit, ISO datacalls, Department of

Commerce surveys.

. Research accounting issues using FASB and GAAP.

Lucent Technologies - Basking Ridge, NJ 1999-2000

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

. Supervision of two staff accountants.

. Compilation of divisional financial statements including balance sheet

and profit and loss.

. Performance of account analysis in an SAP environment.

. Expense reporting - providing regional controllers with detailed

expense reports and variance analysis.

Ashland Chemical - Boonton, NJ 1989-1999

Senior Accountant - International Consolidations

Responsibilities:

. Consolidations of financial statements for 26 foreign and domestic

subsidiaries in an SAP environment in accordance with FASB 52.

. Financial statement reporting to parent company - profit and loss,

balance sheet and statement of cash flow.

. Compilation of working capital, inventory days on hand, accounts

receivable days outstanding, fixed asset activity and capital

expenditures.

. Review and signoff on sales commission statements.

. Heavy interaction with foreign controllers, senior management and

corporate accounting.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS

. Development of cost allocation process utilizing Hyperion Essbase

. Project manager for asset management implementation.

. Project team member for two general ledger implementations, Sarbanes-

Oxley compliance, and corporate credit card implementation, expense

policy project and accounting redesign project and various other

corporate initiatives.

. Assisted in acquisition of multiple foreign entities.

. International assignments to Germany, Holland, Japan, Chile, Brazil and

Argentina to handle accounting issues.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Bachelor of Arts Degree, Accounting, William Paterson University

Certified Public Accountant - State of New Jersey

Graduate degree (in progress) - University of Phoenix

Computer/Technology Skills

Lawson (GL/AM/AP), Hyperion Essbase, SAP (FI/CO), Cognos, PM-10

(Alea), Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Access

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