Accounting Manager

MARTIN D. ANDERSON, CPA, CGMA

Bellflower, IL **724 ******.**********@*****.***

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Financial Statements Internal Controls Problem Solving

Financial Analysis Accounting Process Improvement SEC Reporting

GAAP SOX Compliance Multi-Location General Ledger Operations Support ERP Systems

Audits Special Projects Financial Modeling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Internal Control/ Process Improvement Consulting Projects, Dallas-Fort Worth area 2014-current Assisted Alcon’s Fort Worth manufacturing facility with the annual self –assessment of their internal accounting controls with primary emphasis on the production-to-inventory process. Other short-term projects were performed for Michael’s and CVSL.

Interviewed accounting process owners to update the Company control matrices

Performed walkthroughs of the various processes to confirm the documentation of the accounting process flows and the identification of the related control activities within each process.

Worked on Issues Management project at Nationstar Mortgage

Worked as a loan processor creating disaster assistance loans for the Small Business Administration

Select Energy Services, Gainesville, TX 2011 – 2013

A company providing water solutions and wellsite services to oilfield operators in every major shale play throughout the United States and Canada. Annual revenue was approximately $1 billion.

Controller

Identified accounting process flows and the control activities within each of the major processes

Standardized accounting process flows and controls throughout the corporate and eight regional offices

Documented accounting processes and controls in process narratives and risk-control matrices

Reviewed the Company’s monthly internal financial statements looking for potential errors that could necessitate additional control activities.

Prepared a monthly detailed analysis of the Company’s Selling, General & Administrative expenses with explanations of variances for the CFO.

Implemented BlackLine on Demand’s account reconciliation module with the intention of being able to monitor the preparation and review of Select’s 4000+ balance sheet account reconciliations.

Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc., Pekin, IL 2006 – 2011

One of the top ten corn-based ethanol producers in the United States. Annual revenue was $2.2 billion during my time there

Manager of External Reporting, Internal Auditor (2009 – 2011)

Coordinated the preparation for all Securities and Exchange Commission filings on Forms 10-Q, 10-K, S-1, and S-4.

Maintained the support folders for all SEC filings.

The S-4 for the bond offering was the first one in the ethanol industry. The prospectus had to be developed from scratch and it successfully raised $160MM.

Performed technical accounting research to determine the applicability of new professional pronouncements to the Company’s financial reporting.

Conducted internal audit projects for the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors performing work previously performed by a public accounting firm.

Served as a liaison between the Company and its external auditors

Manager, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance (2006 - 2011)

Designed, implemented, reviewed, and documented the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting consisting of ten major accounting processes

Approved proposed changes to existing process flows

Reviewed and approved system access reports to eliminate potential segregation of duties issues.

Achieved a successful first year implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley within budget and with no material weaknesses.

Dramatically cut second year and third year compliance costs.

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Collaborated with external auditors and SOX service provider (who tested the controls) to substantially reduce the number of key controls while remediating and strengthening existing controls.

Accelerated the embedding of SOX controls within the corporate culture by implementing and enforcing a quarterly departmental certification of controls process.

Worked closely with corporate management, external auditors and SOX service provider to assure there were never any material weaknesses noted in the SEC filings.

Monitored monthly closing process with the goal of identifying and eliminating process bottlenecks and reducing the total time required to close the books.

Stone Carlie & Company LLC, St. Louis, MO 2004 – 2006

An established Public Accounting Firm with clients throughout the Midwest.

Accounting Consultant working exclusively with Aventine Renewable Energy

Worked in close collaboration with Aventine’s corporate controller to prepare a bond offering memorandum and monthly corporate board reports.

Assisted the corporate controller and external auditors with the annual audit of the company’s financial statements.

Provided accounting support to Nebraska Energy LLC (a subsidiary of Aventine) on an as-needed basis.

Provided staff augmentation on an as-needed basis for employees at both the Pekin, IL and Aurora, NE locations.

Performed preliminary financial due diligence work on required SEC filings.

Clifton Gunderson, LLP, Springfield, IL 1995 – 2004

A public accounting firm whose local office served governmental, non-profit, and for-profit clients.

Manager/Supervisor

Planned and managed the audits of for-profit entities in industries including construction, banking and wholesale and retail sales

Submitted management recommendations to the senior management of each client.

Prepared and reviewed a variety of financial statements as well as income tax returns.

Merrill’s Contractors Inc., Springfield, IL 1992 – 1995 A privately-held asphalt-paving contractor primarily engaged in performing contracts with the State of Illinois.

Controller

Maintained the Company’s general ledger

Supervised the accounting staff

Managed the daily cash activity

Prepared monthly financial statements utilizing percentage of completion accounting

Prepared corporate tax returns

Managed the annual external audit.

Carter, Brown, Buck & Associates, Springfield, IL 1983 -1991

Henning, Strouse, Jordan & Sulaski, Bloomington, IL 1977 - 1982

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

BS, Accountancy, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL 1976

Certified Public Accountant 1977

Chartered Global Management Accountant 2012

COMPUTER SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Office (Advanced Excel including pivot tables and v-lookups, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook), Oracle, Navision, JD Edwards

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