Manager Sales

Raymond Daley

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

Address: **** ******** *****

City: Lithonia

State: GA

Zip: 30038

Country: USA

Phone: 404-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: $140,000

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Raymond G. Daley, CPA

4419 Lakeside Trail Lithonia, Georgia 30038 Telephone: 770-***-**** Mobile: 404-***-****

Email: *********@********.*** Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/raygdaley

CFO/Controller/VP Finance & GAAP/Sarbanes Oxley Specialist

BS (Accounting), Chartered Global Management Accountant, CFO/Controller/VP Finance & GAAP/Sarbanes Oxley Specialist with more than 20 years of financial leadership experience in designing corporate financial strategies, building internal controls and exceeding financial performance targets for leading organizations such as Harland Clarke, Equifax Inc. and Price WaterhouseCoopers.

Experience includes serving as VP Finance for Harland Clarke (formerly John H. Harland) in Atlanta, Georgia charged with managing up to 7 direct/40 indirect reports that supported approximately 12 plants across the United States for a division of the company that generated $1.2 billion in annual gross revenue.

Areas of Specialty Include

P&L Improvements SEC Reporting

Financial Statement Analyses Multiple Project Management

Strategic Planning & Execution Ensuring Regulatory Compliance

M&A Financial Due Diligence & Integration Defining Service-Level Agreements

Multi-Million-Dollar Budget Management Implementing Cost Reduction Techniques

Career Highlights

Collaborated closely with sales, marketing and production personnel to perform in-depth analyses to eliminate slow moving/unprofitable products, consolidate offerings, and reduced package size. Consequently, achieved significant revenue increase and expense reductions that generated profits in excess of $5 million annually.

Developed a new suite of predictive models entitled, `Stratics` in conjunction with sales and statisticians that assisted a wide-array of financial institutions to clearly understand account holder activities. As a result of product success, effectiveness and targeted marketing realized annual profitable in excess of $10 million and received the `Chairman`s Competitive Advantage Award` for outstanding contributions.

Led a 6-member team that flowcharted and documented controls and procedures to support Sarbanes Oxley requirements for the division, which proved instrumental in ensuring regulatory compliance during the year. Subsequently, worked with internal/external audit teams during their compliance testing utilizing the new controls and procedures.

Presented to Harland senior management and obtained approval to develop a compensation system that enabled the calculation of sales commissions based upon operating margins and/or profitability, thereby enabling management to better manage company assets based on current and accurate information.

Benefit Statement

A convincing and credible communicator with a demonstrated 20+ year track record of accomplishments implementing financial management improvements, building internal controls and strategic planning/execution that consistently reduced operational costs while ensuring regulatory compliance and profitability objectives.

Key Areas of Competency

Staff Development Month End Financial Closing

Financial Forecasting Supporting Multiple Locations

Creating a Shared Financial Vision Quantitative & Qualitative Analyses

Internal/External Audit Management High Standards of Ethics & Integrity

Evaluating & Addressing Financial Exposure Instituting Financial Management Improvements

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Professional Experience & Accomplishments

Best Warehousing and Transportation Center, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia 2010 to Present

(A 3rd party logistics provider specializing in full service and client specific solutions)

Chief Financial Officer - Primary duties focused on managing all finance and accounting functions including financial reporting, planning and budgeting, banking, taxes and a wide-array of administrative functions.

Favorably negotiated and structured a new financing agreement that generated a more favorable interest rate and covenant agreement terms.

Contract Consultant, Atlanta, Georgia 2009 to 2010

Provided consulting services in the areas of forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning, month-end closing and reporting, financial analyses, and other special projects for a wide-array of companies.

Harland Clarke, Atlanta, Georgia (After company was purchased my position was eliminated) 1997 to 2009

(A leading provider of printed products and database marketing software to financial institutions)

Vice President, Finance, Printed Products Division (2000-2009); Finance Director, Corporate Financial Analyses (1999); Vice President, National Accounts (1998); Finance Director, Financial Markets Division (1997) - Responsible for financial accounting functions which included strategic planning month-end closing and reporting, contract negotiations and management, cost accounting, sales and use tax, revenue reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and various financial analyses. Additionally, provided financial support and advertisement to manufacturing operations, sales, marketing, IT, HR, contracts administration, call center and numerous administrative functions.

Performed in-depth financial due diligence on various acquisitions, including a $125 million acquisition, the largest in the company`s history.

Prior 1997 Professional Experience

Equifax Inc., Atlanta, Georgia Divisional Vice President/Controller (1994-1997)

Director, Financial Projects, Office of the CFO (1993) 1993 to 1997

Price Waterhouse, Atlanta, Georgia Senior Audit Manager (1993); Audit Manager (1988);

Senior Accountant (1986); Staff Accountant (1983) 1983 to 1993

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Science (Accounting), Cum Laude

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

Certified Public Accountant, Georgia (Active Status)

Chartered Global Management Accountant (Active Status)

Endorsements

"Ray was instrumental in advising the management team of Harland Analytical Services (HAS) toward becoming a true business. He drove several initiatives that were strategic for HAS.-

...Jeff Heggedahl, President, HAS

"Ray has extensive experience in corporate accounting. His key strengths include problem solving, analytical, strategic thinking and excellent management and people skills"

...Michelle McMillan, Director of Financial Accounting, Harland Clarke

"Ray is an excellent manager...asking the right questions and getting the most out of his employees. I enjoyed working for Ray and would do it again if the opportunity arose"

...Ryan Busenitz, Finance Manager, Harland Clarke

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