Accounting Manager

Kenneth Kruzansky *** Pocono Rd. Brookfield, CT. *6804 203-***-****

Email: **********@***.***

Summary

Results oriented financial accounting professional with a focus on the bottom line. Solid

experience in the technical and operational aspects of managing an accounting department

including cash management, treasury and financial reporting. Strong administrative and analytics

skills coupled with an ability to develop creative solutions. Skilled in planning and implementing

financial systems. Hands-on team player able to work with all levels of employees.

Accomplishments

Managed accounting function for a $200M division of major publicly traded company.

Saved company $600k in real estate and property taxes by securing state tax abatement.

Saved company $50k annually by working with ADP to restructure the payroll function.

Worked with JP Morgan Chase to automate many cash management tasks that generated

savings of approximately $30k per year.

Wrote job descriptions and detailed the internal control touch points for various accounting

functions as part of Sarbanes-Oxley documentation.

Professional Experience

Versus LP, Stamford, CT. 1996-2008

A Comcast owned, leading national Cable TV/Satellite broadcaster of sports programming.

Initially a temporary employee when company was still a start up effort in the process of

launching two channels-Outdoor Life and Speedvision. Brought on full time to help build

accounting group and handle diverse accounting functions as company grew and underwent

changes in ownership. Following the sale of Speedvision and Comcast’s acquisition of a 100%

interest in Versus assigned a wider range of more complex accounting and financial reporting

tasks along with additional supervisory responsibilities.

Manager of Accounting

Managed general ledger, financial reporting, inter-company accounting, accounts payable and

fixed asset functions. Worked with sales groups and receivable team on contract, billing and

revenue reporting issues. Coordinated work flow with external and internal auditors including

‘Prepared by Client’ (PBC) requests. Created close schedules and managed monthly, quarterly

and annual close cycle. Verified sub ledger reconciliations. Oversaw account analysis, review

and adjustments. Assisted in budget and forecast process. Prepared Property and Use tax

returns. Provided Comcast tax group with state tax allocation factors. Handled Treasury/Cash

Management and bank reconciliations. Supervised staff. Reported to VP - Controller.

Revised internal financial reports to provide concise meaningful results that department

heads could use in forecasting and tracking variances against remaining budget.

Developed supplemental statistical information for use in the senior management financial

reporting package.

Created reports to facilitate charge back and reconciliation of inter-company transactions.

Worked on Comcast’s supplemental reporting package which included flux analysis of

Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and changes in key metrics.

Provided supporting schedules for upstream SEC reporting. Schedules included various 10Q

and 10K schedules such as roll forwards, commitment disclosures, intercompany elimination

details and on an annual basis foot note related information.

In conjunction with Director of Project Accounting developed detailed cost analysis that

tracked costs of individual shows and specific marketing campaigns.

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Managed Accounting for a subsidiary that involved foreign currency, deferred revenue

recognition analysis-review and calculation of commission payments.

Worked with financial software consultant to automate tasks that reduced input time and

eliminated the possibility of keying errors.

Key member of a team that included the Comcast financial reporting group, other Comcast

owned stations and an outside consulting firm tasked with development and implementation

of a standardized chart of accounts, financial reports and accounts payable process for all

Comcast owned TV stations.

Created cash tracking and planning schedules that showed daily available cash in relation to

bank balances.

Worked with Accounts Receivable team to create a cash proof schedule that ensured cash

applied in the receivables module tied to the amounts deposited in the bank before month

end close was finished. This eliminated almost all deposit related bank reconciliation issues.

Set up the internal controls policy, user security settings and reports for the JP Morgan

‘ACCESS’ treasury system. Coordinated the conversion to JP Morgan’s ‘Receivables Edge’

platform for enhanced lock box reporting. Trained staff on use of each product.

Value Behavioral Health, Falls Church, VA. (Formerly Preferred Health Care Ltd) 1988-1995

One of the nations largest managed behavioral health care organizations. Joined company as

Accounting Coordinator and helped grow the accounting function as the company grew.

Manager of Accounting

Managed general ledger accounting, inter-company accounting, payroll, accounts payable,

accounts receivable and fixed asset functions. Responsible for monthly, quarterly and year-end

closings. Coordinated year end audit with outside auditors, including preparation of tax work

papers. Produced internal and external financial statements, including SEC schedules,

reconciliation’s and analysis for senior management. Oversaw cash management. Developed

property valuation schedules for insurance broker.

Created and implemented an in-house accounting function including job descriptions and

procedures.

Developed a more efficient cash management system resulting in a 50% reduction in time

spent by senior accountant on this function.

Reviewed cost allocation methods to more clearly identify and accurately charge end uses.

Managed the transition from an AS-400 financial software package to a PC based financial

reporting package. This included development of a new generic chart of accounts for both

companies.

Education

University of Connecticut MBA - Concentration Accounting & Finance

University of Hartford Bachelor's Degree - Economics & Finance

Skills & Training

Microsoft Dynamics – Great Plains FRX Report Writer

Workforce ROI Project Software Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Encoda Traffic & Billing System Various Supervisory & Management Courses

Sales & Use Tax Training Seminar 1099 Reporting Class

Classes offered by JP Morgan Chase

Other Activities:

Former member and officer of the local ICMA chapter

Current Officer and Board Member of a major non profit organization in Danbury, CT.

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