Project Manager Management

Professional Experience

*+ years of professional finance and accounting experience. Extensive experience in “hands on” accounting, budgeting,

forecasting & analysis. Reporting, consolidations, and reconciliation functions. Project management, process

improvement and cost savings, delivering timely and meaningful information to management.

Principal Areas of Practice

Financial Statement Preparation & Reporting and Analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting, Trend Analysis, Variance Analysis, Profitability

Analysis, Management (Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable), Metric Performance and Project Management .

Major Projects

Senior Revenue Accountant – De Lage Landen Financial Services - 9/12 - 1/13 (Contractor)

Prepared financial reports and provided financial support to business managers. Performed journal entries, account analysis, account

reconciliations and month-end close responsibilities.

Senior Financial Analyst – Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC (joint venture between BP and DuPont) - 7/11 – 2/12

(Contractor)

• Assisted in preparing departments monthly and quarterly budgets, actual vs. budget and forecast financial statements, and also

performed cost variance analysis between actual vs. budget and forecast for several departments and provided analysis and

commentaries. Communicated and drove efficiency through process improvements and provided value added strategic decisions to

support Executives, Commercial and Functional Operations Leadership Teams. Implemented performance metrics and assisted in

planning, executing, and completing financial audits. Developed and communicated recommendations for business and process

improvements. Review Vendors / Service Level Agreements and contracts to validate that invoices were properly billed in

agreement according to contracts.

Senior Accountant - Quad 656 Consulting & Accounting Services – 2/10 – 3/11

• Prepared monthly financial statements analyzed and reconciled accounts. Accrued expenses (professional fees, management

reporting, office account and legal reserves. Recorded tax provision, other comprehensive income and Non-sub-ledger deferred

income. Review results of thirteen operating units and analytical including analysis of account reconciliations prepared by the

Group. Recorded monthly activity of (4) holding companies including coordination with external bookkeepers. Also recorded cash

payments /receipts and ensuring proper elimination including transactional FX.

Senior Accountant - Siemens Medical Solutions - 5/08 - 10/09

• Audited and Prepared complex consolidated financial statements via SAP ERP system for various business units in its Health Care

sector for management and shareholders. Analyzed and summarized account variances in financial statements. Inventory accounts

ranged from 500k to 40 million dollars. Responsible for reconciling various Balance Sheet accounts to sub-ledgers on a monthly

basis. Administered monthly analytics reports to business units throughout North American region . Also utilized SAP Profitability

& Analysis report to analyze profit margins and cost variances.

• Increased efficiency in account reconciliation process via implementing Microsoft Vlookups function and a Pivot table to classify,

calculate and compare total dollar amounts of 50 accounts numbers from sub-ledgers database to general ledger accounts which

instantly provided variance for each account number. As a result, it indicated were the variance was and made it easy to research

and explain reason for the difference between general ledger and sub-ledgers. There were three sub-ledgers in which I utilized this

process.

• Streamlined month-end accounting processes via using Microsoft links and writing programs such as macros, formulas, links

and Vlookup functions, which resulted in saving time during month-end closing process.

• Improved financial and operational transparency via designing MS Excel financial reports into an easy readable and concise

format, complimented with graphs and charts to show trends and measure performance based on prior months and years. In

addition, I included internal accounting references and explanations on how calculations were derived .

Analyst - Lincoln Financial Group - 5/07 - 5/08

• Project Manager for creating a cost tracking system for various expense accounts, mainly travel and entertainment expenses for all

the company's internal and external wholesalers. As a result of the new cost tracking system, expense reports were more

transparent via viewing expenses in a segregated format by business channels and each wholesaler. Created benchmarks for the

average monthly T & E report and averages for types of expenses such as; hotel, airfare, automobile and meals for wholesalers .

Accountant - Lincoln Financial Group - 3/05 - 4/07

• Prepared consolidated financial statements, performed inter-company transactions (inter-co-payables, inter-co receivables and due-

to and due-from several of the subsidiaries) and eliminations entries for several lines of businesses for individual life, investments

and annuities distribution channels of Lincoln Financial Group subsidiaries. Responsible for monthly GAAP financial reporting

and a process owner for a SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) critical process and responsible for documentation and monitoring of controls.

Produced financial reports and packages were that presented to management and upper management for review; then presented to

shareholders.

• Discovered compliance violations of non-cash compensation and travel and entertainment policies of external wholesalers

• Reduced cost and time producing reports via streamlining, automating systems processes and redundancies in check processing.

• Discovered internal control weakness in Ariba payables system approval process and saved company thousands of dollars.

• Saved business unit over a hundred thousand dollars via discovering discrepancies from third party bills that had charges that did

not belong to our business unit. This was done by comparing erroneous bills to the business unit monthly budgeted and approved

expense reports incurred.

Areas of Practice

Senior Financial Analyst, Senior Accountant and Auditing, Budgeting/ Forecasting,

Financial Statement Preparation and Analysis, Performance / Management Reporting,

Project Management, SOX Section 404

Industry Lines

Professional Services, Financial Services, HealthCare / Manufacturing, Tech Biofuels, Non-Profit

Computer Applications

Extensive experience with Microsoft Office (Advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Access, Outlook), Hyperion

Financial Management (Consolidations), SAP General Ledger, Oracle, AS400, Cognos, Business Objects, Hyperion

Essbase

Education/Qualifications

• BS, Accounting & Business, Chestnut Hill College, Chestnut Hill, PA

• MBA, Global Management, University of Phoenix, Wayne, PA campus

• Hyperion Essbase Training, Slakes Software Solutions LLC, Fort Wayne, Indiana

• CPA Candidate (Met 150 – hour requirement)

• Linux / Java Certificate Program, Penn State

• Certificate of Anti- Money Laundering Training

Intangible Skills

• Strong work ethic / High Energy

• Trustworthy / Team Player

• Leadership / Multi-Tasker

• Adaptability / Positive Attitude

Personal Contact Information

• Eric L. Knight

32 Bandon Circle

West Grove, PA 19390

Cell - 484-***-****

**********@*****.***

Eric L. Knight, MBA

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Major Projects

Senior Accountant – Solomon Edwards Group – 8/02 – 2/05

• Prepared and analyzed consolidated financial statements, reconciled inter-company accounts, performed journal entries, and

accruals, recorded monthly depreciation expenses, assisted department managers with budgeting and planning.

• Saved company income of 20k by reconciling cash accounts to bank statements which was not recorded by the bank and

discovered internal financial fraud via unrecorded manual checks written by former employees due to a lack on internal controls

because of no separation of duties set in place.

• Contributed to increasing profits by analyzing P/L statement and identified large line items dollar amount expenses that should

have been capitalized. (E.g. building improvements) and amortized / write off over several periods.

Areas of Practice

Senior Financial Analyst, Accountant and Auditing, Budgeting/ Forecasting, Financial

Statement Preparation and Analysis, Management Reporting, Project Management, SOX

Section 404

Industry Lines

Professional Services, Financial Services, HealthCare / Manufacturing, Non-Profit,

Computer Applications

Extensive experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook), Hyperion Financial

Management (Consolidations), SAP General Ledger, Oracle, AS400, Cognos, Business Objects, Essbase

Education/Qualifications

• BS, Accounting & Business, Chestnut Hill College, Chestnut Hill, PA

• MBA, Global Management, University of Phoenix, Wayne, PA campus

• Hyperion Essbase Training, Slakes Software Solutions LLC, Fort Wayne, Indiana

• CPA Candidate (Met 150 – hour requirement)

• Linux / Java Certificate Program, Penn State

• Certificate of Anti- Money Laundry Training

Intangible Skills

• Strong work ethic / High Energy

• Trustworthy / Team Player

• Leadership / Multi-Tasker

• Adaptability / Positive Attitude

Personal Contact Information

• Eric L. Knight

32 Bandon Circle

West Grove, PA 19390

Cell - 484-***-****

**********@*****.***

Eric L. Knight, MBA

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