Sales Manager

Title:Angela M Grimes

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Name: Angie Grimes

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

City: Antioch

State: IL

Zip/Postal Code: 60002

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Background

Most Recent Job Title: Director, Finance

Most Recent Employer: Yaskawa

Career Level: Manager, Director Level

Availability or Timeframe: Immediately

Authorized to work in the US: Yes

Security Clearance:

Do you have transportation: Yes

Over 18: Yes

Education: Masters

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Job Preferences

Desired Salary: $100,000 Yearly

Willing to Relocate:

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Desired Job Types: Employee

Work Status: Full Time

Desired Shifts: 1st Shift

Desired Travel: 10%

Category: Accounting, Banking/Finance, Manufacturing/Industrial, Materials/Inventory

Management, Operations

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Angela M Grimes, MST

1184 Blue Heron Circle

( Antioch, Illinois 60002 ( H 847-***-**** ( C 224-***-**** (

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summary

A highly accomplished, enterprising top finance Director with a proven track record of

achievements in taxation, treasury, accounting, accounts payable, and risk management.

Implements new processes to realize extensive cost savings for a company. Strong in

process improvement and cost savings. A strong team builder that enjoys the challenge of

developing subordinates and accurately assessing their strengths and developmental areas.

key accomplishments

Treasury:

Implemented comprehensive payables solution issuing 95% of payments with the

first year saving $43k. Structured a foreign exchange hedging policy for hedging $6

million in foreign exchange exposure. Created and implemented a short and long term

investment policy. Implemented a purchasing card program for the company reducing the risk

of fraud. Executed twelve week rolling cash forecast.

Accounting: Improved month-end closing process from 5 days to 7 hours while decreasing

finance department staff 40%. Improved reporting by using balanced scorecard and EVA

concept. Part of the management team, growing profitability from $1.7 million in 2002 to

$28 million in 2008. Created multiple policies to improve accountability and compliance.

Co-led a cross-functional team between information technology and finance to structure SAP

to enable better divisional reporting, consolidate subsidiaries, and to bring the Canadian

subsidiary in house. Led Finance department on JSOX project for parent in Japan.

Tax: Implemented Advanced Pricing Agreement (APA): Coordinated and negotiated APA with

the IRS and NTA, with outside consultants, to eliminate $1 mill annual transfer price from

exposure from intercompany royalty payments and inventory purchases. Conducted a state tax

review and was able to identify $234k state credits in Illinois and California, engaged a

research and development study with an outside consulting firm to claim an additional

$441k on after tax credit, in 2001 and again in 2008. Researched and executed $1 million M-

1 pre tax adjustment on acceleration of SAP implementation depreciation deduction.

Conducted several no change or favorable tax audits for State Income Tax and Sales and

Use.

experience

Yaskawa Electric America, Inc

. Waukegan, Illinois

Directed Tax, Treasury, Accounting and Accounts Payable, reporting directly to the Vice

President of Finance. Managed a group of 5 direct and 4 indirect reports.

Director, Finance 2009- Mar. 2010

Directed all areas related to Tax, Treasury and Accounting - Continued duties from prior

rolls

Prepared mid year and year end consolidated financial statements

Led the monthly close, able to close in 7 hours

Coordinated and negotiated advanced pricing agreement with IRS and NTA

Part of the team to implement a training program to develop high potentials and

succession planning

Assumed duties for risk management; disaster recovery, finance risks, green committee,

and pandemic planning

Sr. Manager, Tax, Treasury & Accounting 2007-2009

Managed all areas related to Tax, Treasury and Accounting

Directed the monthly, mid- year, and year end close

Prepared & consolidated financial statements for external auditors, reviewed all

consolidation work

Reviewed bank reconciliations, account analysis and journal entries

Managed internal controls, policies and procedures and enhanced or implemented as

appropriate

Reported financial results for internal and external reporting

Manager, Tax & Treasury

2005-2007

Maintained duties of all tax functions from prior years

Lead on all external audits relating to tax, including Federal, State, and Local taxing

authorities

Manage exposures to fluctuations in market interest rates and currency exchange rates

Maintain banking relationships with US and Japanese banks

Created policies relating to cash, hedging, and investing

Managed and reviewed monthly cash forecast, debt covenants and Letters of credit

Tax Manager

2002-2005

Maintained all duties of Sr. Tax Accountant and added the Fixed Asset function.

Researched and implemented new web based fixed asset software (BNA) for better accuracy

and reliability.

Maintained approximately $50 million of fixed assets

Creating and enforcing fixed asset policy for company

Reported capital project activities

Sr. Tax Accountant

1999-2002

Centralized the tax function and implemented a federal and state tax software system.

Implemented Vertex within SAP, from configuring the system to setting up the software on

the user end. Revamped the sales and use tax exemption process to be legally compliant.

Prepared Federal, State Income, Sales & Use tax, Property taxes, provisions, estimates

and extensions, including Earnings Stripping Calculations, UNICAP, 5471 s for Canada, and

Brazil subsidiaries, FAS 109 preparation

Filed Sales and Use tax returns in 28 states, updated the exemption process to be

compliant

Responded to audit request for IRS and State and Local tax authorities

Investigated and resolved technical tax issues

Coordinated with outside firm for Transfer Pricing documentation for US and Canadian

subsidiary

Additional Experience

HARTFORD COMPUTER gROUP, Inverness, Illinois, Sales Tax Accountant, 1998-1999.

Facilitated all aspects of taxes, including Sales and Use Tax for 46 states, Federal and

State compliance review, audits, property taxes.

Micro/systems 4, Northbrook, Illinois, Staff Accountant, 1995-1998. Preformed a full

spectrum of accounting functions, created monthly and quarterly financial statements,

accounts receivable, accounts payable, performed bank reconciliations, billing, and worked

on client 941 payroll returns and Sales and Use Tax returns.

education

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY,

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Master of Science

in Taxation, 2006

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL TEXAS,

Killeen, Texas

B.S

., Accounting

affiliations

Association of Finance Professionals (AFP)

Treasury Management Association of Chicago (TMAC)

computer skills

SAP/R3, Insource/OneSource Tax Software, Microsoft Office Products (Excel, Word, Visio,

Power Point, Project), Vertex, BW, BNA Fixed Asset Software, FAS/SAGE Fixed Asset

Software, RIA Checkpoint

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