Project Manager Sales

Dear Employer,

I have worked as a successful Assistant Controller for a highly reputable company TeliaSonera International Carrier, Inc. For the past twelve years I handled all the revenue booking, revenue analysis, month end revenue reporting, finance system, credit and collections responsibilities. With wire approval and check signing privileges, I was a trusted steward of TeliaSonera’s cash assets.

Liable to C-level executives and human resources, I was tasked with revamping a failed sales commission tool that had been obsolete for 3 years. With my management of the tool, finance knowledge and creative IT skill I rebuilt it using Access and Excel. My strengths are with data and systems analysis, reporting and working with financial applications.

My crowning achievement was the development of an analysis and reporting tool to verify monthly and quarterly results related to budgets and forecasts. This tool satisfied a corporate need to convert thirty legal entities from their local currency to SEK and then to EUR in order to minimize variances when comparing budget, forecast and actual values with a zero dollar budget to complete the project.

I am instrumental with leading a globally distributed team to success while remaining under budget. Without direction, I developed several analytical tools and taught colleagues in foreign financial entities how to use them. My responsibilities often required thinking outside the box when implementing new technology in a financial environment to achieve a more accurate month-end reporting.

Employing the entrepreneurial spirit learned from my MBA studies in conjunction with my accounting knowledge and information technology skill, I can bring effective communication skill, leadership and team building ability in addition to a proven commitment for a first-rate service and satisfaction to your position.

My resume which is included with this letter will serve to provide a greater detail of my extensive background and experience and what I can offer.

Thank you for your time and would appreciate a chance to schedule a meeting with you to discuss how I can help your organization.

Regards,

Norman Laythe, MBA, CFE

WORK EXPERIENCE

TeliaSonera International Carrier Inc., Reston, VA

Asst. Controller - Revenue Assurance September 2000 – February 2013

• Finance team leader for joint projects between Sales, Commissions Coordinator, IT support, and C-Level Management.

• Managed month-end close revenue process including G/L transaction postings, reconciliations and variance analyses.

• Managed full cycle receivable function (cash posting, credit and collections process).

• Managed bad debt communications with C-Level Management.

• Managed full cycle payable function for voice product division in accordance with reciprocal contract agreements.

• Prepared revenue report trends and variance analysis for C-Level Management and Sales department.

• Ensured compliance with FCC Universal Service Fund (FUSF) and state sales tax.

• Implemented business process improvements and internal SOX controls that improved financial accuracy.

• Entrusted with signatory responsibility of checks and wire bank payment approvals.

• Project Manager and developer of an Access and Excel based budgeting process tool, a transaction level currency conversion tool for 30+ countries, and a revenue commission tool to calculate complex sales incentive plans.

• Maintained SQL database and report developer for month-end reporting process.

• Project Manager of an automatic banking process that improved accounting system functionality.

• Managed local USA financial system transitions from Peachtree to Oracle (2001), Oracle to Iscala 5.0 (2003) and Iscala 5.0 to newer versions of Iscala (2005 to present).

Swisscom North America (Swissfone), Washington D.C.

Director of Financial Applications May 1998 – September 2000

• Provided timely revenue reports to Finance and Marketing departments for accurate accounting, collections and revenue trends.

• Managed Customer Care team, and customer and vendor dispute process.

• Manager and software administrator of Intertech billing platform.

• Liaised with Marketing on product development to ensure billing platforms support new product initiatives.

• Coordinated the merging of two billing platforms that reduced the billing percent of revenue from 1.2% to .9%.

• Supervised and trained customer service personnel.

• Designed and managed an Executive Dash Board to facilitate real-time decision making integrating Microsoft Access, Excel, FrontPage 2000, HTML, Crystal Reports 7.0 and SQL 7.0.

Excel/Telco Communications Group Inc, Chantilly, VA

Supervisor of Billing and Technical Support Specialist January 1996 – May 1998

• Liaised with Finance and Marketing departments to ensure the accuracy of monthly revenue reports.

• Supervised and trained personnel to utilize revenue tracking databases.

• Managed carrier billing process.

• Analyzed and designed program specifications for Visual Basic programmers.

• Modified and compiled Turbo Pascal V.7 programs.

• Conducted process and control audits on commercial pricing tables.

• Audited residential, commercial and carrier customer invoices, using self-designed Excel and Access databases.

EDUCATION

University of Maryland University College, Master of Business Administration, 2008

Columbia Union College, Bachelor of Science, 1998

Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) ACFE License 519768, 2008

SKILLS

MS Excel (Pivot Tables and DB Connections), MS Access, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, SQL, Iscala, Oracle, QuickBooks,

Peachtree,Visual Basic (VBA)

Key Focus Areas

Financial Reporting MBA Microsoft Excel

Pivot Tables Microsoft Access Microsoft Office

Microsoft Word PowerPoint Sales Tax

Database Modeling Cognos Visual Basic

SQL MS Project MS-DOS

VBScript iScala Crystal Reports

Accounting Account Reconciliation Accounts Receivable

Accounts Payable General Ledger QuickBooks

Business Process Business Objects SOX Compliancy

Mail Merge Requirements Analysis Process Development

Customer Relations Project Management Commission Analysis

Financial Statement Analysis Sales Support Process Improvement

Certified Fraud Examiner Peachtree System Development

CFE Global Cross-Functional Team Leadership

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