Sales Manager

Janet Bergamo

* ****** ****

Thomaston, CT *****

Home Phone: 860-***-****

Cell Phone: 203-***-****

E-Mail: *********@*****.***

SUMMARY/OBJECTIVE:

Goal oriented finance professional with over 25 years of experience

in financial planning, accounting, financial reporting and systems

integration for Fortune 500 companies. I am searching for a career

opportunity where my experience with GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, strong

analytical skills, leadership, teamwork, ability to prioritize, meet

tight deadlines and a commitment to improve operations and cost

efficiencies can be fully utilized.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Reynolds Consumer Products, Beacon Falls, CT

2005 - Present

Baker's Choice Products, baking cup division

Plant Controller/HR Manager

Responsibilities include:

. Control the locations financial practices

. Prepare the AOP for the plant

. Mid-month and quarterly forecasting

. Created and maintain standard costs and inventory valuations

. Weekly cash-flow report

. Month end close and financial reporting requirements

. All monthly accruals and journal entries

. Financial reports: income statement and balance sheet

. Year-end tax packages

. Identify and report KPI's to drive business improvement opportunities

. Ensure completion of SOX requirements for internal and external audit

controls

. Work with internal and external auditors

. Capital appropriation process and post-project reviews

. Account reconciliation of balance sheet accounts

. Variance analysis of all expense accounts with commentary

. Prepare sales analysis

. Create, in conjunction with corporate management, targeted goals for

performance, measures of quality, safety and profitability

. Manage record retention

. Supervise and conduct quarterly performance evaluations of employees

in finance, procurement and human resources

. Execution of special projects as needed

Due to downsizing I acquired these additional responsibilities in

December 2005:

Human Resources Manager:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

. New hire recruiting

. Hiring and termination packages

. Ethics and compliance training

. Salary payroll processing, back up for hourly

. Payroll reconciliation

. Manage employee compensation

. Coordination of employee's benefits

. Monthly metrics

IT Support:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

. Resolve location IT issues and/or notify corporate IT of issues

location cannot resolve

. Assist employees with software issues and training as required in

Excel, Word, Oracle, Accountmate and PowerPoint

Accomplishments:

. External financial audit was conducted in 2009 and the only issue

found was segregation of duties, all other SOX requirements were

brought into compliance from previous audit in 2005.

. 500k reduction in 2006 expenses vs. 2005 due to monitoring,

analysis and control of expenditures.

. Identified 300k in accounting errors from previous finance

management

. Implemented financial analysis of all accounts, actual vs. budget

vs. prior year

. Developed current accounting procedures and practices for location

in coordination with corporate

. Created the current standard costing system in excel as there is no

inventory module being used

. Created an employee database in excel that tracks time, attendance

and performance issues as the company still uses a punch clock.

This then is uploaded into Ceridian.

. Created several databases to track inventory, sales and variances

due to the use of different software that was not integrated when

we switched to Oracle

. Oracle system integration from Accountmate for A/P, A/R and G/L

. Created process narratives for key processes of the plant

Cannondale Bicycle Corporation, Bethel, CT

2004 - 2005

Senior Accountant, Corporate Headquarters

Responsibilities included:

. Prepare/present to senior executive's expense analysis/variance

reports and consolidated global sales margin analysis

. Prepare/issue P&L statements

. Prepare budgets and quarterly forecasts

. Variance analysis of all A/P, A/R, project accounts and all balance

sheet accounts

. Maintain all budgets and G/L

. Support month end closing process by entering

adjusting/accrual/reclass journal entries

. Prepare ad hoc financial requests.

Accomplishments:

. Created a new expense reporting model and budget/forecast for ease

of use.

. Developed a consolidated global Sales Margin Report to identify

sales and costs.

. Implemented monthly reviews of expenses with managers to maintain

budget control.

. Developed current accounting procedures and practices.

Timex Corporation, Middlebury, CT

1999 - 2004

FINANCIAL ANALYST, Corporate Headquarters, U.S. Operations,

Controller's Division

Responsibilities included:

. Prepare/analyze and issue to senior executive's the following reports:

expense, sales and cost variance analysis.

Sales, customer and brand margin. Returns, capital and development

variance, project reporting, head count

. Prepare and post month end closing entries

. Prepare/issue Income Statements

. Create financial modeling with raw data

. Prepare ad hoc financial reporting and requests

Accomplishments:

. Created macros to reduce the amount of time to produce financial

reports from 7 days down to 3 days

. Developed with IT new reporting to maintain and provide accurate

and timely data

. Created new Customer Margin Analysis to track sales independently

of the top 25 customers

. Established new budget/forecast reporting system for ease of use to

all departments

. Trained outsource person in India via the internet and in person to

overtake my position

Motorola, Inc., Boca Raton, FL

Beepwear Paging Products, LLC (a j/v co. of Motorola and Timex),

Middlebury, CT

BOOKKEEPER/SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 1996

-1999

Responsibilities included:

. Order entry

. Invoicing

. A/R, A/P

. Bank and account reconciliations

. Journal entries

. Expense reports

. Sales commissions

. Support office of 12 executives including the President

. Incoming and outgoing shipping and mail

. Assist sales and marketing teams in various projects including trade

shows and sales meetings presentations

. Solely responsible in setting up all aspects of the office (filing

systems, Peachtree Accounting system, etc)

. Implementing a timely monthly closing process

. Created all procedures

. Ad hoc financial requests

Self - Employed (part-time)

BOOKKEEPER 1996 -

2001

Maintained books for various small businesses which I provided the

following accounting functions: A/P, A/R, G/L through trial balance,

payroll, payroll taxes, sales and use taxes and quarterly's. I worked

directly with CPA's to file year-end tax returns each year. I

converted all businesses to computer accounting system using

QuickBooks.

M&B Motorsports Inc. dba Allstar Rent-a-Car, Waterbury, CT

BOOKEEPER/OFFICE MANAGER

1989 - 1996

I managed a staff of eight employees and implemented the use of

computer accounting system. Responsible for all cash management,

payroll and payroll taxes, A/P, A/R, sales and use taxes. Created all

work schedules.

COMPUTER LITERACY:

Oracle, Discoverer, HFM, Ceridian, Accountmate, PeopleSoft, Hyperion,

Data Warehouse, Peachtree, Quick Books, AS/400, Visual Basics Macros,

Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Web, SAP (trained

only)

EDUCATION:

Naugatuck Valley Community College, Waterbury, CT

Associates Degree - Accounting, presently working towards

GPA: 4.0 (Dean's List)

VOLUNTEER WORK:

Boy Scouts of America Troop #53 - Committee Member, Secretary and

Fundraiser Coordinator

Light Up Thomaston - Committee Member and Treasurer

REFERENCES:

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