Manager Sales

WENDY COUGHRAN

Email: abo4ns@r.postjobfree.com

Address: currently moving from Peoria

City: SCOTTSDALE

State: AZ

Zip: 85260

Country: USA

Phone: 623-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 70

Primary Skills/Experience:

See Resume

Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Wendy Coughran, MBA

623-***-**** abo4ns@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

To utilize my finance & business skills to provide customer service (both internal & external) and support while developing new management tools for measuring and tracking company performance.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

* Self-starting resourceful business person whose continued perseverance,

goal-setting, and financial support promotes success for the company.

* Provides value by offering accounting/finance reporting tools, training,

organizational skills, analytical skills, and strong problem-solving skills,

software re-design skills, computer conversion skills.

* Demonstrates high performance standards requiring attention to detail,

defining priorities, building schedules, establishing deadlines, and

appropriate delegation of responsibilities to generate quality work.

* Produces working budgets to measure actual performance to plan and

provide accurate worksheets/reports that lend support for sound/concise

decision making.

* Accurately translates financial statements from multiple foreign currencies

into U.S. currencies enabling review, understanding, and analysis of

necessary accounting information.

* Continues work-process review to reduce expenses and increase

productivity.

* Pinpoints areas of concern, streamlines workflow, and encourages learning

& team building.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Kellogg Supply, Phoenix, Arizona 2011-2012

4 Million in Revenue, 30 Employees, subsidiary of Kellogg Garden Supplies

Controller

o Submitted to Corporate the Final Financial Statements for Kellogg

Supply, Created & Reviewed Specialized Reports, Related Journal

Entries, Reconciliations

o Supervised Accounting Staff (7 Individuals)

o Learned Current Software System

o Converted All Data from the Current Software System to the New

Software System

o Re-designed new Independent Operating (IO) Software to replace

Commission Software

o Learned and Trained my Staff on the New Software while achieving

a smooth transition

o Uploaded the software and taught the IO`s how to operate the New

Handheld Devises

Capital Lumber Company, Phoenix, Arizona 1998 - 2010

400 Million in Revenue, 350 Employees,13 Locations in Western

United States

Accounting Manager/Treasury Service Manager

o Monthly/Fiscal Year-end Close

* Related Journal Entries

* Account Reconciliation Analysis

* Exception & Specialized Report Review

* Division & Consolidated Financial Statements

o Supervised Accounting & Clerical Staff

o Sales/Cost of Sales/Inventory Analysis

o Cash Flow Management (including RLOC, Interest Income,

Commitment Fee`s, Service Fee`s, Swaps, Principle & Interest,

Wires, Standard & ZBA Accts ), A/R Aging Review

o Calculated Monthly Commission for Sales Personnel

o Property Tax Returns (Real & Personal) for 12 Western States

o Sales Tax & Business and Occupational Tax Returns for

12 Western States

o Budget/Projections/Performance to Plan Analysis

o Audits

* Conducted Internal Audits throughout Western United States

* Achieved Successful Completion of External Audits

+ Tax Audits

+ Annual Financial Audits

+ Rolling Stock Insurance Audits

o Fixed Asset Management & Crystal Report Writing

o Maintained Leases

* Real & Personal Property Leases

* Rolling Stock Leases

o Converted Financial Statements from Foreign Currency to

U.S. Currency

o Special Projects

* Worked with Neighboring Property Managers to Value

Capital`s Real Estate

* Computer Conversion & Migration of Data

* Executed Other Projects as Requested

John E. Gaskin`s Personal Manager of Finance (Owner`s Personal Finances)

o Monthly/Fiscal Year-end Financial and Tax Closures

o Cash Flow & Trust Transfers

o Property Management & Property/Sales Tax

o Fixed Assets Management

o Lease Management

Weyerhaeuser/Friedman Recycling,Recycling Industries, Phoenix/Tucson,AZ

1993-1998

Accounting Supervisor

o Monthly/Fiscal Year-end Close

o Supervised Small Accounting Staff (high volume A/P including EDI)

o Internal Audits

o Budget/Projections/Performance to Plan Analysis

o Special Projects

* Created and Implemented Standards for an -Electronic

Document Management-

* Created Retention Schedules

* Conducted Training of New Windows Gui-Based A/P & A/R & PR

* Other Frequent Projects for the Financial Manager and

Operations Manager

Clorox Company, Oakland, CA 1981 - 1993

5,400 Million in Revenue, 8,000 Employees, Locations throughout the World

Accounting Supervisor of Clorox International, FPD, HVR, KFC

(4 subsidiaries of the Clorox Company)

o Managed the Reconciliation and Maintenance of Billion

Dollar Accounts

o Converted F/S from Foreign Currency to U.S. Currency

(BHD, CAD, EUR, GB, JPY, KWD, etc.)

o Supervised A/P, A/R, and Clerical Staff

o Foreign and Domestic A/P (reduced terms), Billing (increased turn- around time for outgoing invoices), & A/R (reduced credit period

from 90 to 60 days)

o Foreign Commission Calculations

o Monitored Inter-Company Accounts for multiple Subsidiary

Companies

o Worked with International Marketing and Advertising Departments

(assisted with studies related to demographics, firmographics,

psychographics, geographics, behavioral variables, competitor

analysis, brand/product development, product placement, product

pricing, promotions, and public relations)

o Conducted Weekly Meetings (review A/R collections, potential

problems, update staff on International information/changes,

receive feedback/ideas)

o Special Projects

* Constructed reports to track marketing projects by region,

country, city, salesman, project, product, product size,

and pricing

* Completed Reconstruction of the Chart of Accounts, G/L,

Subsidiary Ledgers, F/S

* Trained and Created Rotational Staffing

EDUCATION

* Masters of Business Associates (MBA), emphasis in Accounting,

UOP 2005-2006

* Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, Computer Programming, &

Networking (BSIT), UOP 1997-2001

References/Letter`s of Recommendation Available Upon Request

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