PAULINE “POLLY” GRANGER

*** ***** *****, *********, ** 70507, 337-***-****

ac5xtu@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Working for a mid-size to large company in a role that deals with both executive and operations personnel to perform vital financial and reporting activities. The ideal role would include database mining, report development, process improvement, training, presentations and financial analysis.

EXPERIENCE

11/2015 to 11/2017

Caring for my terminally ill Father.

11/2014 to 11/2015 Warrior Energy Services (division of Superior) Odessa, TX

Operations Controller

Financial Controller to 9 districts of Cement & Acidizing line of business. Designed and implemented the Accounts Payable function. Budgeted 2014 & 2015. Prepared inventory adjustments, job bonuses accruals, per diem accruals, revenue reports, fixed assets & CAPEX reports for line of business. Prepared variance analysis in conjunction with operations personnel & Vice President to determine adjustments in costs. Development of job cost/margin analysis from raw data, including cleaning up product cost for bid, and documenting conversion & blending formulas for determination of unit costs. Preparation of Income Statements for review by VP & District Managers. Development of sales reports for use and analysis by sales personnel.

05/2014 to 11/2014 Bristow Group New Iberia, LA

Senior Accountant - Contract

Back fill accounting during SAP implementation. Sales & Use tax consultation, benefits & payroll tracking and accounting, beta testing for SAP implementation.

09/2008 to 09/2013 CETCO Energy Services Broussard, LA

Senior Accounting Manager (Process Improvement & Report Development)

Designed and implemented the general ledger function of ADP to Navision ERP. This required determination of mapping of accounts and sub-accounts, working with programmers to determine output of data. Also developed a data import into general ledger module of accounting ERP, and the job module for job costing.

Report developed Job Cost Reports using SAP Business Objects. Persuaded process improvements to effect better data population to ERP. Prepared presentations to roll-out job costing process and reporting to sales, operations and executives.

Report developed purchasing reports, and automated same to Outlook inboxes. Several report designs were necessary to cover job purchases, third party rentals, and accounting accruals.

Created and implemented Capital Expenditure process from Board approved budgets through fixed asset identification. This activity involved implementation of functions in the ERP, data testing, report development, written and flow charted process documentation for SOX and ISO. Prepared a dual presentation with fixed asset accountant to operations personnel and project managers.

Worked with HR & IT programmers on new universe in SAP BI for ADP E-Time data with a goal toward developing both exposed man hours and employee utilization reports. Exposed man hours report in use by HSE dept. Data is blended in Excel with ERP data to report job & customer along with payroll hours. Report developed variables in report to determine exposed hours against pay codes and pay rules. Working on developing automated KMI report; ultimate goal – auto calculated TRIR incident ratio.

Developed sales tax policy for business unit. Tested accrual function in ERP, wrote instructions and trained AP and AR personnel on use and sales tax law, as well as liaison with Corporate Tax on same. Managed two (2) sales & use audits by parishes. Worked with SAP implementation team on sales/use tax function for GOM mapping to blocks/fields.

Training Finance Staff on SAP Business Objects to run pre-built reports and automated delivery.

Worked with AMEX project managers to automate reporting on travel expenses which purposed import into ERP both in general ledger and job module.

Member of Energy Services Business Unit Innovation Council.

Senior Accounting Manager (Financial & Personnel Management)

Managed 9 to 11 financial accountants, clerks and temporaries toward preparation of the financial statements for 3 divisions of business unit.

Cleaned up sales data in new ERP which went go live 5 months prior to employment. Reviewed pre-built SRS reports to determine their use in closing of the books including sales cutoff.

Developed inventory reconciliation procedures with Navision implementation project manager. Required data clean up and assessment of data in standard reporting, and creation of reconciliation process. Worked with inventory personnel and ERP functionality to correct errors in cycle counts, return of consumables and input of data into job contracts most of which consisted of timing issues.

Cleaned up AR account using SRS reports and determined accrual/reconciliation process for AR including recognition of accrued sales.

Put controls and audit procedure in place on payroll process within Ceridian. Developed manual input of payroll to job module. Audit found numerous payroll errors, including a $20K payroll bonus paid out in error. Audit also found numerous irregularities occurring in shop and field payroll. Established payroll policy alongside Human Resource personnel to permanently resolve issues.

Developed cross-training process amongst subordinates and outside personnel. Guided training and back checking existing processes to close SOX gaps.

Conducted variance analysis at close which included report development and analysis of same. Also included working with operations personnel to determine variance within time parameters of close for public company.

Developed a close process to standardize journal entries and reconciliations for better filtering in ERP and for better archiving for audit purposes. Liaison with Ernst & Young auditors on 3 divisions on client assistance guides and reports. Discussions with management and auditors surround GAAP issues, and preparing supporting documentation for arguments on same.

Worked with project manager for ERP and programmer for TargIT Business Intelligence to develop reports and cubes of data from ERP. Reports still in use, but development in TargIT has been abandoned.

Project Manager for business unit on implementation of ADP. Guided business unit personnel and ADP programmers and HR to design payroll module, general ledger module, and E-Time module to accept job costing structure. Developed FTP between ADP and NAV to transfer job numbers automatically. Worked with other business unit personnel to standardize pay codes and labor levels. Brought project to successful conclusion despite numerous challenges.

Developed standard reports in ERP for management including P&L export to Excel. Training executives on use of standard reporting and analysis in ERP.

Reworked the 3rd party rental process connecting AP charges with AR invoices, and working with logistics to input correct data into ERP. Worked with operations personnel to develop process for tracking rentals when the rental period exceeds one month along with accrual process.

08/31/2007 TO 09/28/2008 Contract

CONTRACTOR

Sales Tax Administration-Set up process for filing sales/use tax returns in 36 states and taxing authorities. Communicate with taxing authorities to determine status and file returns or other forms to bring company to compliance.

Interim Controller for small production company. Set up general ledger in new oil & gas revenue accounting application. Transfer data from quick books to create subledgers. Determine reporting for LA Department of Natural Resources on production and excise tax. Re-worked AP toward long term debt. Hired personnel to assist in bringing the financial and governmental reporting to compliance.

06/15/2006 TO 08/15/2007 TESCO Corporation

Asst Controller - South Louisiana Region

Managed approximately 8 personnel performing AP, AR and payroll functions for South LA region.

Reconciled monthly offline fixed asset book to general ledger (Great Plains) and to RTMS (Rental Tool Man System) which was directly connected to sales contracts.

Project leader on Asset Inventory Team. Team goals involved inventory count matches to offline spreadsheet and RTMS application.

05/17/2000 to 06/15/2006 CARBO Ceramics, Inc.

Senior Accountant

Plant Capital Expenditures-Developed process for capture of detail and reporting. Worked extensively with Project Managers & Plant Managers on capturing data for capital projects in plant environment.

Fixed Asset Management-Worked with Project Managers and Engineers to book and dispose of assets

Sales Tax - Handled audits, developed function process for accruals, responsible for sale/use tax returns, and compliance with changes in sales tax rates and laws.

Reconciliations – Fixed Assets, Depreciation book, Prepaid Insurance, Property Tax, AP, AR, Grp Insurance Accruals and projections, 13 bank accounts including FSA benefits, and investments.

Cash Management and receipt bookings including 60 million average dollars in investments.

Liaison with Ernst & Young auditors on financial statement audits which included preparation of client assistance binders and reports.

Developed close process to standardize journal entries and tracking of entries. In charge of archiving all transaction activities and close activities even prior to passage of SOX which required same. In charge of most accruals to the financials except inventory, raw materials and equity. Discussions with management and auditors surrounding GAAP issues, and preparing supporting documentation for arguments on same.

Worked closely with ERP 3rd party programmers for modifications to ERP including detailing the general ledger for more detailed reporting. Also, designed and implemented an ADP to general ledger bridge separate from ADP to import payroll into ERP with programmer. This included mapping of accounts and sub-accounts and writing table templates to capture data in NAV. Tested bridge and prepared test documentation. Wrote plan of action and post implementation reports for audit review and archival purposes. Acted as internal IT for ERP.

Learned ADP’s Report Manager in order to provide reports on payroll.

Liaison between workman’s’ compensation auditors and company. Developed payroll reports which provided quicker resolution of workman’s compensation audits and projections for insurance fiduciary personnel to develop risk ratios for determination of premiums for company.

Developed a process for accrual of group hospitalization premiums for self-insured company using reports from 3rd party claims administrator.

Developed reports to help HR department determine year end safe harbor numbers, and true ups on 401K contributions. Also developed process with controls on payroll payouts on 401k contributions and matches.

Education

1988 TO 1993 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette LA

BSBA FINANCE

BSBA ACCOUNTING

Graduated 5th in class

Magna Cum Laude

3.75 Grade Point

Becker CPA review scholarship recipient

Older Student Orientation Leader 4 semesters

Secretary – Accounting Society 2 semesters

PASSED CPA EXAM 1ST TIME NOVEMBER 1993

INACTIVE

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