Accountant
Resume:
Richard Magruder
Coffeyville, KS 67337
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CANDIDATE PROFILE
The candidate is a well-educated, scholarly, articulate, analytical and disciplined business professional. He desires to be a part of team of talented, dedicated and disciplined business professionals who are intent on promoting the success of their company. The candidate has a passion for knowledge and considers an extensive knowledge base a crucial factor in his ability to succeed in his role as a business professional. To accomplish this, he has accumulated a large library of books on law, history, science, math, agriculture, engineering and economics and has devoted three hours of weekly personal study to these books for the last 20+ years. The candidate’s goal is to be a respected expert in his fields of specialization and one to whom other
business professionals look for sound advice and counsel.
SALARY REQUIREMENT
$55,000 with benefits
EDUCATION
Master of Accounting and Financial Management
Emphasis: Accounting
Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
MBA
Emphasis: Project Management, Finance
Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
B.S. in Business Administration Major: Accounting, Minor: Finance
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
B.S. in Forest Management
University of Montana, Missoula, M T
COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in Excel, Word 2007, Access, PowerPoint, JobBoss software, BNA fixed asset
software, SAP and QuickBooks Online, familiar with SQL, Agris, JD Edwards, DeLorme XMap
7 GIS Editor software and Sage 100 ERP.
EXPERIENCE
Taylor Crane & Rigging, Coffeyville, KS
February 2014 to present
Senior Accountant/Controller trainee
Responsible for assisting Controller with all aspects of accounting and financial management:
financial statement preparation, banking relations, debt management, cashflow management,
account reconciliations, bank reconciliations and management reports for a small company
providing industrial moving and craning services in the Midwest.
C. Dean Gigot Farms, Garden City, KS
July 2012 to January 2013
Controller/Office Manager
Responsible for all accounting functions including P & L, balance sheet, cashflow statement, A/P,
cash management and bank reconciliations for a 60 circle/heifer development/stocker operation
including an office staff of two accounting assistants.
Worked with local CPA to correct numerous accounting entries committed by accounting
assistant that forced filing of extension request of the farm’s 2011 and 2012 Kansas and
federal income tax returns.
Un-reconciled four farm bank accounts back to early 2011 and then re-reconciled to correct
bank reconciliations for multiple previously reconciled checks and deposits that were deleted
or voided after monthly reconciliations had been completed.
Assisted 20 Spanish-speaking Mexican farm laborers with questions regarding employment
issues.
Assisted farm general manager in hiring and training new accounting assistant to replace
terminated accounting assistant.
Assisted farm general manager in creating a map of farm property using DeLorme XMap 7
GIS Editor software.
Randstad Temporary Staffing, Wichita, KS
January 2012 to April 2012
Tax Software Support
Responsible for assisting CPA’s, lawyers and tax preparers with questions regarding the use of the
income tax preparation software of a major supplier of software to the accounting and legal
professions.
Period of Unemployment
April 2010 to January 2012
May 2010 to July 2010 – finished Master of Accounting and Financial Management degree.
July 2010 to November 2010 – conducted intensive personal study of all aspects of the cattle industry utilizing Internet resources such as the website of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and books such as Building the Beef Industry – A Century of Commitment 1898 – 1998, Marketing of Agricultural Products and others.
November 2010 to January 2011 – studied for and passed the Missouri Life and Health Insurance license exam.
April 2011 to October 2011 – conducted intensive personal study of the grain industry and grain marketing and hedging utilizing Internet resources such as the website of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and books such as Marketing of Agricultural Products, Economics of Futures Trading, Grain Marketing Economics, Inventory Pricing in the Grain Industry, Principles of Field Crop Production, An Introduction to Grain Marketing, The Grain Trade in
the Old Northwest and others.
October 2011 to December 2011 – conducted intensive personal study of Microsoft Works and Microsoft Office software spreadsheet techniques utilizing the microsoft.com website and books such as Using Microfoft Excel 1997 and Excel for Chemists: A Comprehensive Guide.
December 2011 to January 2012 – conducted intensive personal review of discounted cash flow mathematics utilizing Brigham’s Financial Management textbook, Cissell’s Mathematics of Finance and a TI BA II Plus calculator.
Graphic Packaging International, Inc, Kansas City, MO
September 2007 to April 2010
Senior Accountant
Responsible for approving invoices for payment, created month-end adjusting journal entries for financial statements and month-end reports for packaging manufacturing plants of a major international supplier of consumer packaging products located in Kansas City, Missouri and Quincy, Illinois.
Created & maintained an Excel spreadsheet for the plant engineer in order to prevent maintenance & repairs expense budget overruns and irate calls from the corporate office.
Created & maintained an Excel spreadsheet for the plant general manager in order for him to provide monthly art cost expense by customer for the corporate office.
Worked with plant purchasing manager and purchasing assistant to insure that purchased equipment, raw materials and supplies were invoiced at the correct price.
Worked with plant receiving clerk to insure that correct quantities of purchased equipment,
raw materials and supplies were received.
Worked with vendors to resolve disputes on invoices regarding prices and quantities billed.
New Horizons Assistance Corporation, Kansas City, MO
August 2007 to September 2007
Accountemps Temporary Controller
Responsible for accounting functions and office management for a small not-for-profit corporation providing housing for mentally and physically disabled inner-city residents.
Contributed positive emotional support for new executive director and staff of struggling intercity not-for-profit in the successful preparation for critical industry accreditation review.
Created Excel spreadsheets for Executive Director that gave a more complete picture of the monthly financial performance of the organization.
CHS, Inc., Mitchell, SD
June 2006 to May 2007
Assistant Controller/Business Office Manager
Responsible for managing a business office staff of five clerical and para-professional individuals for a large agricultural coop, assisted with customers when necessary, processed end-of-day reports and resolved improper accounting entries, assisted controller with month-end and year-
end accounting close, performed inter company account reconciliation with corporate parent.
June 2006 to November 2006:
Transformed a business office with a strong reputation of providing poor customer service into an office operating with a team concept and focused on providing quality customer service to both internal and external customers.
Modified the company procedure regarding the fuel inventory reconciliation for two company convenience stores that resulted in significantly fewer adjusting entries for fuel inventory discrepancies.
November 2006 to May 2007:
Modified the company spreadsheet regarding the inter company account cash transfers from fifteen different locations to our corporate parent that simplified and shortened the process of reconciling our corporate inter company account.
Created a spreadsheet and procedure to simplify the reconciliation of cash transfers from fifteen different locations to corporate parent bank account.
Nu-Tech Industries, Grandview, MO
February 2001 to June 2006
Staff Accountant
Responsible for fixed assets, general ledger, accounts receivable, balance sheet and income statement consolidation of two company divisions, account reconciliations and resolving delinquent accounts with customers for a subsidiary company of a major international supplier of aircraft components and systems to all segments of the aviation industry.
February 2001 to March 2001:
Worked with customers and bank to identify and post $250,000 in checks received at lock box that previous accountant failed to post to customer’s accounts.
Created workbook with columns and totals for each month’s checks received to provide verification that all deposits received at lock box equaled payments posted to customer’s accounts.
April 2001 to December 2003:
Led the billing department in a project to improve accuracy of the invoicing process to encourage customers to promptly pay invoices.
Managed a triple-count physical inventory in 2003 whose accuracy was so sufficient that our corporate parent allowed us to do cycle counts in later years instead of annual physical inventories.
Collected a large past due amount from a customer constituting almost 50% of our sales that, if uncollected, would have resulted in the termination of our business relationship with them and threatened the continued existence of our company.
January 2004 to June 2006:
Led the successful conversion of our fixed assets record from BNA software to Global Tax Management fixed asset software provided through our corporate parent.
Wrote SOX control procedures for accounts receivable and fixed assets.
Haldex Midland Services, Kansas City, MO
July 1998 to February 2001
Staff Accountant
Assisted senior accountant with month-end and year-end closings, responsible for weekly cash forecast of outstanding checks, account reconciliations and bank reconciliations for the U.S. division of an international supplier of brake components and systems for the trucking industry.
Responsible for providing corporate parent, Haldex Group of Stockholm, Sweden, with a two-week forecast of cash requirements to support outstanding checks. On one occasion, received E-mail from corporate office expressing appreciation for the accuracy of my cash forecasts.
Responsible for contacting corporate bank, PNC Bank of Pittsburgh, PA, with all issues regarding bank accounts including bills of exchange from a major supplier in India.
MVP, America, Kansas City, MO
December 1997 to May 1998
Accountant
Responsible for accounts receivable and accounts payable.
Accountemps, Overland Park, KS
August 1997 to November 1997
Collector
Responsible for collecting past due workmen’s comp accounts.
Citicorp Credit Services, Kansas City, MO
July 1991 to July 1997
Collections Representative
Responsible for collecting past due credit card accounts.
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