Accounting Company

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DANE A. BOWMAN

352-***-****; Cell;917-***-****

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CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Internal Auditor Staff Training & Development

Turn-Arounds Human Resources Advisor

Process Re-Engineering Insurance Administrator

New Methods & Procedures Job Costing

Financial Planning Fund Accounting

Operations Restructuring Regulatory Compliance

Curiosity driven detail-focused Chief Financial officer with extensive experience in

Construction, Financial Services and Not-for-Profit sectors. Willing to implement and work

with traditional as well as new tools and systems for meeting goals and objectives. Equally

comfortable communicating with clients and vendors in discussing issues relating to

receivables and payables, or working in seclusion in efforts to accomplish pressing tasks.

Equally comfortable working with management and staff on planning strategies. Experience

backed by MBA in Accounting, BA in Business Administration and a CPA in New York

State.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

11/2012-11/2013

Stone Tile Direct, LLC/ Verona Installations; Orlando Fl.,

Responsible for all accounting functions. Processing payroll and ensuring payroll tax payments are

made. Quarterly payroll returns -941s and FL RT-6, manual as well as automated; prepare all state

sales tax returns and processed payments through auto-pay; Bank reconciliations. Job costing and

reconciliation with general ledger. All general ledger postings. Record all A/P and A/ R transactions.

Prepare annual tax returns for several companies and personal returns for principals.

Director of Finance –Consultancy- IGX Construction New York, NY

Directed accounting staff of 3. Responsible for accounting function of privately held NY

metropolitan area residential interior construction company with numerous high end projects.

Operations Restructuring: Restructured accounting function in response to fast company

growth and the inability of largely manual processes to keep up. Modernized and automated

accounting processes and functions. New systems enabled outside review of books and led to

securing a large credit facility to continue aggressive growth plan.

Staff Training & Development: Trained Bookkeepers about balance sheets and profit

and loss statements so that they could properly code transactions. Also taught them to prepare

charge orders and to properly bill for them.

Workers Compensation: Researched and analyzed workers compensation rate increases.

Recommended the company reduce reportable claims by paying for minor injuries out-of-pocket.

Reduced rates considerably and improved company experience rating.

Prepared corporate and payroll tax returns. Oversaw all insurance audits making sure that

insurance certificates for all subcontractors were in place. Worked with architects and engineers

to ensure that work-in process billings were in conformity with contract documents. Document and

prepare change orders for submission to clients.

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Director of Finance

CLINTON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, NEW YORK, NY 2005 – 2007

Implemented policies and procedures for not-for-profit housing development company

while supervising finance department staff. Oversee all billings and charge-backs for

approximately 30 related low and middle income housing entities including accounting for

subsidized housing.

Review management, partnership management and administering agent’s fees. Review all

accounting records; prepare tax returns and financial statements for a number of building

management clients.

Chief Financial Officer

FOUNTAINHEAD CONSTRUCTION, NEW YORK, NY 1999 – 2005

Directed staff of 5, responsible for accounting function of privately held NY metropolitan area

residential interior construction company with numerous high end projects. Developed and

implemented accounting policies and procedures for various high profile clients.

Turn-Arounds: Changed ineffective accounting systems that did not meet company needs.

Designed and implemented vendor and subcontractor reports which more efficiently served

banking and internal company information needs.

Process Re-Engineering: Restructured process and procedures for reimbursing company

Project Managers for out-of-pocked expenses. Standardized procedures to comply with generally

accepted accounting principles.

Result: Properly accounted for balance sheet and P&L transactions.

New Methods & Procedures: Analyzed current accounting software and recommended

changing to fully automated accounting software with billing module that properly track costs,

incorporated purchase orders, change orders and billing into one integrated system. Made audits

of accounting systems easy for outside accountants.

Financial Planning: Introduced formalized billing accountability with cost and revenue

forecasting. Put systems in place for estimating costs and percent complete.

Software Upgrades: Upgraded accounting software in order to

enhance accounting and bookkeeping functions in response to fast

company growth by modernizing and automating accounting

processes and functions. New systems enabled outside review of

books and led to securing a large credit facility.

Financial Controller

NEWPORT PAINTING & DECORATING, NEW YORK, NY

1997 – 1999

Supervised staff of 4 responsible for accounting functions of privately held, unionized commercial

painting and paper hanging company with clients like the Essex Hotel.

Regulatory Compliance: Negotiated with regulatory agencies after a tax lien was placed

on the company owner’s home for failure of previous controller to pay payroll taxes.

Corrected 3 years of payroll tax filing documentation, determining that most of the

taxes had been paid late. Held meetings to resolve issues with the IRS and NYS Department of

Finance.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Accounting Professor-Strayer University 01/2012-Present

Business Professor-Southern Technical College, 08/2011-03/31/2012

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Assistant Professor-Accounting BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE-CUNY, 2005 – 2009

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR-QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2006 – 2008

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR-BROOKLYN COLLEGE- CUNY Summer II 2007

Prior experience as Controller, Accountant/Head Bookkeeper.

Shrewsbury Construction/B&J General Contractors.

EDUCATION

PACE UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NY

MBA in Accounting

BARUCH COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (CUNY), NEW YORK, NY

BA in Business Administration

CPA in New York State, 1995

MAS 200, Quickbooks, Peachtree Microsoft Office, Builder Information Systems, Champion

Accounting System, Concord Accounting Software, Promation Advantage, Lotus Smartsuite

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