Accounting Manager
Resume:
Samuel J. Thomas
Spokane Valley, WA 99037 *******@*****.***
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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