Samuel J. Thomas

***** * **** *** 509-***-****

Spokane Valley, WA 99037 ac52td@r.postjobfree.com

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Experienced controller with 25 years of accounting and financial management experience with a specialty in helping grow smaller companies into profitable, growing entities. Accomplished in implementing organizational and process change. Expert communication, analytical and financial skills. Excellent management style encompassing a philosophy that less is more, allowing staff to grow and exceed their capabilities. Great motivator and leader. Attitude and work ethic of a soldier combined with the big picture management style of a general. High ethics set as moral compass at all times. Believe in building efficiencies into all systems. AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Financial Reporting

• Financial Statement Preparation

• Job Costing

• Budget and Forecast Development

• GAAP utilized at all times

• Ratio analysis and interpretation

• Financial Analysis and Project Evaluation

• Human Resources

• Payroll

• Excel

• Great Plains

• Peachtree/Sage

• QuickBooks

• ADP software

• Notary Public certification (current)

• Excellent Business Writing Skill/Style

EXPERIENCE

Chipman Moving & Storage (Spokane), Inc. 1997-Present Spokane, WA

Controller

● Provide all accounting and financial support to the owner.

● Act as much as General Manager of organization as Controller/CFO.

● Provide financial and accounting expertise to three subsidiary companies.

● Have helped grow the company from a one-location, $2 million dollar company to a $7+ million dollar company with three locations across three states.

● Have acted as in-house information systems administrator.

● Have overseen the transition from no accounting system to a Sage/Peachtree system to the current Great Plains software.

Prior Experience:

● Assistant Controller with a large San Diego multi-location medical clinic

● Independent Contractor setting up small businesses with in-house accounting systems, and training employees to use them

EDUCATION

BS – Business Administration, Finance, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA AS – Business Administration, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA

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