Accounts Receivable Management

Stephen B. Chambers

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Highly accomplished, results-driven senior accounting and financial management executive with more than 15 years of progressive experience in finance and operations management with local and global organizations. Demonstrated ability to streamline business operations that drive growth and increase efficiency and bottom-line profit. Expertise in financial analysis, strategic recommendations and applications, corporate reporting, budgeting, forecasting and modeling. Effective leader and problem solver implementing cross-departmental solutions. Strong qualifications in developing and implementing financial controls and processes in addition to productivity improvements. Extensive experience formulating and executing IT solutions across the corporate landscape, providing brand new reporting regimens as well as cost and time-saving solutions to the finance department, and also operations, sales, production and senior management. Possess solid leadership, communication and interpersonal skills to establish rapport with all levels of staff and management. High ethical standards, integrity and engaged development define me and my leadership style.

Core Qualifications

P&L Responsibility

Multi-Site Operations

Best Practices & Benchmarking

Profitability Improvement

Auditing & Audit Controls

Corporate Reporting

Cost Accounting

Internal Controls/Technology

Revenue Forecasting

Accounts Payable

Foreign Exchange

Reporting & Analysis

Income Tax Planning

New Business Development

Corporate Administration

Consensus Building & Teaming

Strategic Planning

Decision Making

Capital Acquisitions

Financial Compliance

Financial Reporting

Investment Strategies

Sales Forecasting

Accounts Receivable

GAAP

Payroll Management

Tax Schedules/Remittances

Venture Capital/Financing

Organizational Leadership

Performance Optimization

Budgeting & Finance

Accounting Systems & Controls

Cash Flow Analysis & Management

Financial Management

Financial Presentations

Management Accounting

Balance Sheet & General Ledger

Collections

Liquidation/Bankruptcy

Cost Benefit Analysis

General Accounting

Corporate Tax

Professional Experience

LDR Global Industries, Chicago, IL

2007-Present

Director of Accounting

Direct all day to day financial and administrative functions. Hire, train and manage staff performing all duties including and not limited to corporate reporting, financial reporting, internal controls, technology, revenue forecasting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting and finance, and financial management. Execute strategic analysis, identify opportunities for increased growth and margins and reduced costs, formulate proposals and solutions, present key findings, design and implement effective policies and procedures, create and effect new reporting, budgeting and modeling tools.

Selected Achievements:

Direct accounting functions for five corporate entities

Drive monthly consolidation of financials involving U.S. and foreign currencies with Chinese and Taiwanese accounting firms

Forge initiative with IT to design, develop and maintain

Semi-automated FIFO costing program for $12-14MM inventory consisting of over 13,000 SKUs producing bottom-line fiscal and manpower savings

Flexible budgeting model to track profitability by customer and product line

Automated inventory tracking system creating bottom-line fiscal and manpower savings

Automated program to apply customer payments from lock box to bank’s raw data files

Create fiscal savings of $3.25MM by developing system to track customer deductions

Increase Profit by decrease of DSO from 72 to 52 days, maintained overall 98% current A/R balances

Achieve $400K annual fiscal savings by implementing review of customer contract files

Improve monthly financial reporting timeframe from the 25th to 10th of the month

Shamrock Packaging, Aurora, IL

2003-2007

Controller

Direct all financial and administrative functions. Hire, train, and manage staff performing all duties including and not limited to financial reporting, human resources, accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, inventory control, customer service, billing, credit and collections, payroll and transaction processing for multi-site locations in Aurora, IL and El Paso, TX. Execute strategic analysis, identify opportunities for increased growth and margins and reduced costs, formulate proposals and solutions, present key findings, design and implement effective policies and procedures, create and effect new reporting, budgeting and modeling tools.

Selected Achievements:

Streamline administrative processes with hardware and software technology upgrades

Generate over $400K annual savings with 50% staff reduction

Achieve over $200K annual cost savings through negotiating and structuring optimal insurance, contract labor, freight, communications and office lease contracts

Execute development of the company’s first interactive, flexible budgeting tool providing multi-state ownership with effective tools to participate in management

Enhance reporting timeliness over 100% from fifteen days to seven

Independent Direct Distributors, Batavia, IL

1999-2003

Controller

Direct all financial functions. Hire, train, and manage staff performing all accounting duties including and not limited to financial reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, credit and collections, payroll and transaction processing. Execute strategic analysis, identify opportunities for increased growth and margins and reduced costs, formulate proposals and solutions, present key findings, design and implement effective policies and procedures, create and effect new reporting, budgeting and modeling tools.

Selected Achievements:

Structure and implement several interactive computer models

Dynamic, flexible budgeting tool empowering department and divisional managers with actual, forecasted and potential changes in the market

Cost model providing accurate forecasting of customer profitability with multiple variables

Cash flow model quadrupling investment income facilitating the company’s operation without financing

MS Access database tracking all direct labor costs by department, job function, customer and unit processed

Lead sales and marketing teams into a new niche book market

Manage purchasing

Oversee creation of promotional literature

Drive and direct sales calls

Implement marketing efforts

Direct financial management and responsibility through to gross profit

Porter Pipe & Supply Co., Addison, IL

1998-1999

Controller

Direct all financial, administrative and MIS functions. Hire, train, and manage staff performing all duties including and not limited to financial reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, credit and collections, payroll, human resources, IT, technology and internal controls and transaction processing. Execute strategic analysis, identify opportunities for increased growth and margins and reduced costs, formulate proposals and solutions, present key findings, design and implement effective policies and procedures, create and effect new reporting, budgeting and modeling tools.

Selected Achievements:

Direct all banking relationships

Implement daily on-line cash management procedures

Attain the doubling of investment income

Drive customer trends and profitability. Reported daily revenue and costs to CEO.

Accomplish implementation on Y2K mainframe upgrade enhancing technology

Monitor and maintain all corporate tax records.

File annual S-Corporation taxes

File quarterly reporting to Federal and State authorities

File Illinois State Sales and Use Tax Return

InterPost North America, Elk Grove Village, IL

1990-1998

Accounting Manager

Direct all financial functions for thirteen offices across North America. Hire, train, and manage staff performing all accounting duties including and not limited to financial reporting, general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, collections, cash management, billing, revenue analysis, cost analysis, payroll, and human resources. Execute strategic analysis, identify opportunities for increased growth and margins and reduced costs, formulate proposals and solutions, present key findings, design and implement effective policies and procedures, create and effect new reporting, budgeting and modeling tools.

Selected Achievements:

Advise CEO by providing weekly revenue, cost and variance reporting

Prepare budgets, review and investigate variances with CFO

Achieve monthly financial reporting to overseas parent by the 5th business day

Supervise and conduct annual audits for two separate corporate entities

Provide audit information to corporate auditors at InterPost USA and InterPost Canada to prepare all corporate taxes

Direct monthly consolidation of financial reporting for thirteen branches

Drive ongoing development of new software for InterPost North America with IT Manager

Johnson Fire Proof Door Company, Inc., Lake Bluff, IL

1988-1990

Company Accountant

Direct all accounting functions. Report directly to the CEO.

Education/Training

Bachelor of Science, Finance, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, IN

Overseas study, International Business, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

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