Sales Accounting

G LENN A . W ILTGEN, CPA

**** **** ****** ** ~ Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402

Telephone: 319-***-**** *****.*******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACCOUNTANT, GLENN WILTGEN., Cedar Rapids, Iowa 2008-Present

Self - employed

• Provides part-time accounting services to emerging to mid-market size businesses from $0 to $75 million in

sales.

• Mentors business owners on improving their bottom line, with primary focus on increasing cash flow.

• Facilitates key relationships with financial institutions and venture capital resources.

• Improves working capital through process improvements in receivable collections and inventory

minimization.

• Trains accounting personnel to improve timeliness and accuracy of financial statements.

• Identifies opportunities to improve gross margins and reduction of operating expenses.

• Develops budgets, long-term plans and short term strategies for business owners.

• Successfully negotiates the buy-out of owner’s partner and underlying financing.

APACHE HOSE & BELTING CO. INC., Cedar Rapids, Iowa (ESOP ownership) 2006-2008

Accountant /CFO

• Served as chief accountant overseeing accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash flow and budgeting of

staff of seven.

• Maintained a confidant relationship with CEO, including the execution of special projects and

communications with outside board of directors and banking institutions.

• Lead the planning process including annual budgeting, implementation of strategic initiatives and monthly

sales and operating targets.

• Responsible for all audit and legal matters, including interactions with outside legal counsel, external and

internal financial auditors, ESOP professionals and business valuation firms.

• Researched acquisition targets, communicated with prospective owners/senior management, financial

evaluations, negotiated purchase agreements, conducted due diligence reviews and secured transaction

closings.

• Responsible for the company’s risk management program.

• Oversaw human resource management, including recruitment of new talent, and staff development, while

administering ESOP, employee benefits programs, incentive compensation and non-qualified plans for

executives.

• Actively managed cash and investments with brokers for the company’s 401k plan and employee stock

option plan.

CRYSTAL GROUP, INC., Hiawatha, Iowa (privately held) 2004-2006

Accountant /VP

• Served as chief accountant of the company, overseeing financial and corporate accounting such as cash

and credit management, cost and tax accounting, treasury, and contract reviews.

• Instituted best practices for all accounting policies, preparing annual budgets, financial reports, for review

by owners, President and senior staff.

• Managed and developed innovative methodologies to execute IT, financial, and operational audits to

uphold regulatory and corporate standards of practice for over $12 million in sales.

• Ensured optimal risk management and principle financial compliance by devising and presenting critical

operations research to improve credit management, cost accounting, and capital justifications.

• Performed regular auditing and process reviews to better integrate various internal control procedures in

accordance with acceptable professional standards.

• Designed comprehensive models to accurately forecast monthly across multiple operations.

• Directed personnel management operations, leading recruitment initiatives to hire and train highly

qualified candidates, while administering benefits and 401(k) programs.

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CAMBREX CORPORATION (NYSE – CBM, publicly owned subsidiary) 1992-2004

Accountant / Divisional Controller

• Conceptualized and integrated an entire finance function to decentralize from corporate accounting.

• Established annual budgeting processes and instituted standards for budget presentations and submission

through analysis and development of sales and production plans, manpower requirements, capital

investments, and departmental spending.

• Led all IT operations after establishing the first IT department by recruiting IT professionals, developing

standard operating procedures for system security, and formalizing standards for user desktops for

hardware specifications and software base loads.

• Partnered with corporate IT to spearhead a self-directed site team and implement an innovative, fully-

integrated enterprise software system (ERP) in a record three month timeframe, while setting the standard

for subsequent site implementations.

• Led compliance initiatives with SEC regulations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), upholding an effective

internal control structure to streamline acceptable procedures for financial reporting under Section 404.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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FIELDSTONE CABINETRY, (Manufacturer) Northwood, IA 1985-1992

Accountant/Controller

MCGLADREY & PULLEN (Public Accounting Firm), Des Moines & Dubuque, Iowa 1983-1985

Audit Services

CONDLEY & CO. (Public Accounting Firm), Abilene, TX 1981-1983

Senior Auditor

MCGLADREY & PULLEN (Public Accounting Firm), Dubuque, IA 1979-1981

Staff Auditor

E D U C AT I O N

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA, Cedar Falls, Iowa

Bachelor of Arts in Accounting

C E RT I F I C AT I O N

IOWA BOARD OF ACCOUNTANCY

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office XP Microsoft FRx (Financial Reports) Hyperion Financial

Business Objects (Data Warehouse) Crystal Reports Hyperion Planning

Expandable (Enterprise) Ross iRenaissance/RenCS (ERP)

Datalogix CIMPRO

Friedman Frontier (Enterprise) Global (General Ledger)

C O M M U N I T Y I N V O LV E M E N T

Big Brother Big Sisters Board Member R o t a r i a n ( P a s t Tr e a s u r e r )

Board of Economic Development Corp C h u r c h P r o j e c t Vo l u n t e e r

The Safe Place Foundation Board Member Big Brother Mentor

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