Manager Project

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A highly qualified, productive, and effective Experienced Accounting

Manager having expertise in overseeing large scale domestic and

international corporate accounting initiatives. In last position worked

for IBM and had broad scoped oversight and responsibility over

international, significant, diverse and complex accounting programs that

increased productivity and quality while reducing costs. Have considerable

expertise in implementing automation and best practices, streamlining and

standardization, overseeing worldwide accounting processes and compliance,

improving quality and accuracy. Managed various operational and analytical

accounting functions and projects that focused on Accounts Payable,

Payrolls, Reconciliations, Intercompany Accounting, Royalties, Acquisitions

& Divestitures, Transfer Pricing, Financial Reporting, General Ledger and

Internal Controls. As equally competent at diversified personnel management

and hiring a highly productive and effective accounting staff. A results-

focused and dynamic leader who exemplifies a management style steeped in

respect, motivation, development, quality, and exemplary customer service.

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TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCIES

Lotus and Lotus Smart Suite: 1-2-3, WordPro, Freelance, Approach,

Microsoft Office Lotus Notes

Applications Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access,

Project,Visio, Outlook

Business Intelligence SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Brio, DB2 Query

and Business Warehouse Management Facility (QMF), Financial Information

Tools Warehouse (FIW) and Geography Mega-Centers,

International Assignee Accounting System

Financial Systems and Common Ledger, Intercompany Accounts Payable and

Financial Reporting Consolidation Systems, Officer and International

Tools Assignee Payroll, Tesseract, Ceridian, Worldwide Royalty

Contract System, Alliant Royalties, Transfer Pricing

System, Oracle/Hyperion, Essbase, APEX

Hardware and Operating S/390, AS/400, PC, OS/2, DOS, MVS/JCL, TSO/ISPF, Windows

Systems 9X, XP, 2000, NT

AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND QUALIFICATIONS

14+ years personnel management and Proven ability to lead teams and achieve

evaluation milestones

Oversight of budget, staffing mentoring Thrive in cross-functional and matrixed

and recruiting environments

Operation and ownership of financial Strong inter-personal and communication

systems skills

Controls, SOX compliance and audit Analytical, problem solving and solution

readiness oriented

IT interface for design, development and Effective time management and

installation organization skills

Current on accounting matters and Resourceful, innovative, self-directed

emerging issues and proactive

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

MBA, Management Information Systems, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT

Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Villanova University, Villanova, PA

Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Certified in Financial Management

(CFM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

International Business Machines Corporation

1985 - 2009

Accounting Project Manager 2007 - 2009

Manager, Software Royalty Accounting 1999 - 2007

Manager, World Trade Intercompany Accounting 1996 - 1999

Services

Manager, International Assignment and Payroll 1993 - 1996

Accounting

Job Scope and Mission: Managed various operational and analytical

accounting functions and projects that focused on Accounts Payable,

Executive & International Assignee Payrolls, Bank & Tax Reconciliations,

Intercompany Accounting, Royalties, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Transfer

Pricing, Financial Reporting, General Ledger and Internal Controls &

Measurements, Budget & Resource Staffing.

Accomplishments:

o Generated $275-500K annually, in external revenue by installing a best of

breed worldwide royalty accounting system that tracked, calculated,

reported and disbursed $2B in annual payments for 300+ contracts.

o Effectively addressed internal software licensing concerns by crafting

public corporate response for CFO, Controller, and General Auditor.

o Established Accounting Services organization as the primary accounting

vitality organization and as part of this effort Chief Accountant agreed

to hire 20+ entry level accountants in first year of operation.

o Standardized and reduced the number of World Trade Corporation ledgers by

migrating World Trade & Europe HQ's ledgers to US ledger platform and

single worldwide chart of accounts (WWCOA).

o Improved accounting processes, reduced and eliminated outstanding

reconciling items and aged activity by transitioning North American

Distribution and Intercompany Services into a single Center of

Competency.

o Eliminated hardcopy Intercompany Agreement forms by developing an e-mail

based application which facilitated the future conversion to a web based

system.

o Created synergy, increased subject matter expertise and developed

productive relationships with HR staff and public accounting firm as a

result of initiating a large scale cross-functional re-organization.

o Reduced bank reconciliation cycle time by 50%, achieved 82% decrease in

O/S checks, reduced manual table updates by 80%, saved $20K annually and

generated $45K interest income by consolidating 4 bank accounts to 1.

o Realized a reduction in support and a reduction in equipment and

occupancy expenses by updating PC banking software and eliminating one

dedicated Cash Management Funding Terminal and two Bank of NY wire

terminals.

o Achieved satisfactory internal audits with no fact sheets or

recommendations as a result of leading a process improvement project that

led to the creation of two Control Risk Assessments & Audit Programs.

Additional IBM Experience:

Corporate HQ Accounting 1991 - 1993

World Trade Intercompany Accounting 1988 - 1991

Vendor Accounting Operations 1985 - 1988

Responsibilities: Performed various operational and analytical accounting

functions focused on Accounts Payable, Intercompany Accounting, Cash

Management, General Ledger, Consolidation, Financial Statements.

Other Work Experience:

H&R Block

1993 - 1998

Tax Accountant with client interface, general office management and

supervision of junior staff

American Red Cross Certified Water Safety Instructor

1981 - 1985, 1993 - Present

Conduct private and group swim lessons for infants, children and adults.

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