William P. Corcoran, CPA, MBA

** **** ******** ******, **** 3002, Chicago, IL. 60611 312-***-**** ac8zwg@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: william-corcoran-cpa-mba-46b8231a/

Summary

-Proven leader with 15+ years’ experience across accounting, finance, internal audit, public accounting and financial consulting

-Proficient in accounting, finance, budgeting, reporting, compliance, audit and tax functions for multinational companies

-Cross-industry experience in alternative energy, electrical energy, commercial and residential security, professional services, insurance and telecommunications

Work Experience

International Finance Group, Rolling Meadows, Illinois

September 2018-present

Consultant

-Complete and review monthly balance sheet reconciliations for Fortune 500 client in Insurance industry

-Prepare budget vs. actual variance analysis

-Integrate acquisition’s monthly accounting into client’s monthly accounting

Oasis Legal Finance, Rosemont, Illinois

March 2018 – August 2018

Assistant Controller

-Supervised and developed the talents of a team of 3 employees (1 senior and 2 staff) within the Accounting and Payroll departments

-Lead annual audit of the financial statements by the external auditors

-Oversaw cross-functional team and participated in financial systems implementation of Quickbooks\ Dynamics SL to Business Dynamics 365

DLc, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

July 2017 – March 2018

Financial Consultant

-Prepared Visio documentation on the Transfer Pricing processes for 150 US and European legal entities of top 20 Fortune 500 company.

-Responsible for implementation of Transfer Pricing document repository.

-Determined process efficiencies for the US and International journal entry preparation and suggested remedies of improvement to the Chief Accounting Officer.

Hub International, Inc., Chicago, Illinois December 2015 – June 2017

Assistant Controller

- Consolidated monthly financial data for 40 US and 15 Canadian legal entities within Hyperion Reporting system.

-Prepared monthly accounting for subsidiaries of a consolidated legal entity in excess of $1.5B annual revenues in accordance with GAAP.

-Supervised and developed the talents of a team of 4 employees (3 managers and 1 staff) within the Accounting department.

-Lead annual audit of the financial statements by the external auditors.

-Wrote accounting memos on fixed assets and goodwill supported with GAAP rules

-Prepared fixed asset and prepaid asset company policies that are used throughout the various legal entities of the company.

Ethos Energy Power Plant Services, Inc., Alpharetta, Georgia September 2014 – December 2015

Assistant Controller

-Supervised and developed the talents of a team of 7 employees within the Accounts Payable and Billing functions.

-Prepared monthly accounting for subsidiaries of a consolidated legal entity in excess of $500M annual revenues.

-Coordinated and reconciled monthly intercompany activity for U.S. and International subsidiaries

-Analyzed and prepared monthly actual versus budget financial performance variances

Acciona Energy North America, Inc., Chicago, Illinois October 2008 – August 2014

Manager – Accounting

-Consolidated and prepared accounting of 50 legal entities in accordance with US GAAP and IFRS on a monthly basis of $200M annual revenue company.

-Designed treasury forecasting model used for management of company cash with Spanish parent company.

-Ran monthly meetings with Operations, Legal and Development departments of company in preparation of rolling twelve-month treasury forecasts.

-Analyzed and produced monthly actual versus budget financial and cash performance variances within monthly performance presentation that was delivered to the Spain parent company and private equity groups.

-Prepared annual budgets as well as rolling twelve-month forecasts in compliance with guidelines given by Spain parent company as well as executive management.

-Lead cross-functional team in financial system implementation of HOST consolidation package.

-Managed annual audit of the financial statements by the external auditors as well as preparation of annual federal and state income tax returns.

Stanley Convergent Security Solutions, Naperville, Illinois

December 2004 – October 2008

Director – Financial Reporting

-Built Accounting, Tax and Accounts Payable departments upon transition of company from Honeywell.

-Oversaw and developed talents for group of 6 within Accounting, Financial reporting, Tax and Accounts Payable.

-Lead cross-functional teams in financial system implementations of Oracle to Great Plains and Great Plains to SAP.

-Prepared monthly financial statements as well as actual versus budget financial variance explanations for $600M annual revenue company for the use of executive management, financial institutions and private equity groups.

-Managed annual audit of the financial statements by external auditors and audits of state tax audits.

-Documented processes and ensure compliance with those processes for Sarbanes-Oxley audits.

-Provided analytics and participated in discussions of due diligence work for sale of company to Stanley Works.

-Merged HSM financial reporting, tax and accounts payable functions over to Stanley Works.

Education

Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

Master’s in Business Administration

University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

Bachelor of Science in Accountancy

Computer Skills

SAP

Oracle

Dynamics GP – Great Plains

HOST Analytics

Hyperion

Quickbooks

Microsoft Excel

Dynamics NAV – Navision

JD Edwards

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