Management Quality

FRANK CROMBE

** **** ****** 585-***-****, ***-*837

Scottsville, NY 14546 *********@*******.***

OBJECTIVE

Certified Management Accountant position maximizing the utilization of my extensive experience, skills and education,

dynamically contributing to:

– Building shared vision

– Creating and implementing business strategies

– Improving operating performance and bottom line results

QUALIFICATIONS

Over Fifteen years of increasing management responsibilities in Finance and Accounting

Ability to work accurately and independently

Managed Quality improvement and change processes in Sarbanes-Oxley, International Organization for

Standardization (ISO) and Total Quality Management (TQM) Environments

Powerful skills in analysis, synthesis and evaluation applied in a practical manner

Relentless desire to improve efficiencies and increase productivity

Constantly develop creative solutions to problems and challenges

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Cash Flow: Turned around very poor cash flow situation utilizing best practices including aggressive Accounts Receivable

collection and abeyance of Accounts Payable obligations. Result: For the first time in fifteen years the company did not

borrow funds to operate through their traditionally slow Sales times.

Financial results: Planned, organized, guided and coordinated integration of departmental duties to publish financial

results on a timelier basis. Result: Reduced closing time from 16 days to 5, saving the company $98,000 or 68% per

month in administrative closing costs.

Costing: Assessed and formulated companywide cost model for goods produced. Result: Allowed the organization to

achieve a key niche in the international marketplace with a distinct competitive advantage increasing sales by 5.0%.

Quality: Initiated and implemented company-wide TQM Program successfully training 130 employees in the use of

Quality techniques and methods. Result: Initiated and assisted in the development of nine Quality teams that solved

companywide problems and improved processes, saving the company over $200,000 or 2.0% in overall operating costs.

Auditing: Analyzed and assessed company and auditors’ worksheets, compared similarities and differences, reconciled

and developed method to integrate both sets. Result: Converted Company’s spreadsheets and electronic work papers to

fully integrate with auditors’, saving over $12,000 or 33% annually in audit fees.

Quality: Fashioned and directed new procedures for the timely reporting of monthly internal financial and productivity

reports decreasing the time to publish from 5 days to 1. Result: Improved managerial information and timeliness of

results so supervisors could proactively address potential problem areas. The resulting savings were $360,000 or 3.6% in

operating costs.

Costing: Designed and directed a streamlined method to efficiently track cost of goods sold to product lines. Result:

Evaluated and eliminated redundancies and errors in reporting at cost savings of $88,000 annually.

Quality: Evaluated the impact of poor delivery times on customers and circulated findings to management. Result:

Improved, through coordination of a team effort with line supervisors, the on time delivery percentages from a low of

52.0% to 95.0%.

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EXPERIENCE

Controller – Schlegel Systems Inc., Rochester, NY (Manufacturer) 2009-2010

Full control of all financial functions reporting both domestic GAAP and parent IFRS. Initiated and improved

Accounting practices as with the positions below. Full absorption costing encompassing 10,000 distinct products

in Lean Manufacturing, Just-in-Time inventory environment. Recently certified as ISO 2008.

Controller – Metalico Rochester, Inc. Rochester, NY (Scrap Processor) 2008–2009

Full control of all financial functions in a Sarbanes-Oxley environment. Initiated improved accounting

policies, internal controls, audit, decision support analysis, managerial, regulatory and compliance

reporting that had fallen to neglect. Performed operations overview, collections, inventory, strategic

planning along with traditional transaction processing (AP, AR, Payroll (PR) and benefits, accounting and

cash management). Reviewed and enacted new benefit plan that saved $50K for 77 employee workforce.

Corporate Controller - Eagle International Institute, Inc. Rochester, NY (Training) 2002–2008

Full control of all financial functions: accounting policies, budgets, internal control, audit, corporate

ethics, decision support analysis, valuations (’05 & ’08), managerial, regulatory and compliance reporting,

operations overview, strategic and tax planning, fixed assets along with traditional transaction processing

(AP, AR, PR and benefits, accounting and cash management). Handled direct negotiations with bankers,

Board of directors, shareholders, accountants, auditors, venture capitalists, attorneys, insurance and benefit

agencies among others to strengthen the company both internally and externally.

Senior Analyst/Controller - The Bonadio Group, Roc., NY (CPA and Financial) 2001–2002

Performed all aspects of controller for organizations not currently able to hire full time staff.

Evaluated and adapted client records for compliance, functionality, efficiency and tax preparation .

Controller - Allen-Bailey Tag & Label Inc., Caledonia, NY (job shop custom manufacturer) 1996-2001

TQM facilitator and company-wide trainer. Improved financial, budgeting/ forecasting, costing, trend

analysis and other reports for greater efficiency and faster processing. Prepared Audit schedules; worked

with auditors in preparation of consolidated financial reports. Integrated company reports and spreadsheets

to auditors’ programs for rapid analysis and testing. Calculated annual LIFO entry. Costed and made

improvements in tracking material movements between product lines. Initiated Disaster Recovery Plan.

Solved many company problems using both TQM team and individual methods.

Various Accounting Positions of Increasing Responsibility 1982-2001

Rotork Controls, Inc (job shop custom manufacturer, ISO)

Robert F. Hyland & Sons Inc. (General Contractors)

Harris Moran Seed Inc. (Agricultural Producer)

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATION

Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors 1982

College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Certified Management Accountant (CMA) 2000

Institute of Certified Management Accountants (ICMA), License Number 22854.

ACTIVITIES

Associate Member New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA), #585650

Member Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), Team Captain

Member Institute of Certified Management Accountants #1029189

Member International Resource Group, Inc.

Member – Financial Executives International

Board member Audubon Nature Pilgrimage, The Nature Conservancy, Burroughs Audubon and 1000 Acre Swamp

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