Manager Management

James Johnston

***** ********* *****, ******, ** 48092

*****.*.********@*****.*** 586-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-johnston-2ab18b57

Objective: Controller Career with a Growing Company in it’s Industry

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Treasury management for a national temporary help company and a national security services company

• Financial statement preparation and close; monthly, quarterly and annual statements for companies up to $50M in revenue

• Financial and job cost analysis of all jobs in company for small $100 jobs to multi-million dollar jobs

• Accounting and administrative management; have been responsible for a team of up to 20 employees

• Creative design of technical solutions and systems to support dynamic growth

• QuickBooks Enterprise, Excel including pivot tables, macros, and charting. MS Access design, SAP Crystal Reports design, Transaction Pro importer, QODBC, ODBC, Great Plains Dynamics, I have reviewed in detail Intacct and NetSuite as possible replacement ERPs, and I am very experienced with treasury management using various banking and credit card management websites

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Designed and managed cash distribution solutions to large groups temporary employees on temporary assignments away from home via various treasury and payroll tools.

• Improved accounting processes that left 10s of thousands of dollars un-billed or accounted for.

• Converted from Great Plains Dynamics to QuickBooks Enterprise with custom add ons to obtain superior job cost functionality and a more productive accounting department. At the time this reduced the accounting staffing needs from 5 people to 4 people.

• Custom designed an easy to analyze job cost report that ensured accurate billing and cost visibility. This ensured every billable cost for a job was billed and identified missing costs and billing opportunities. It also easily provided drill down details on non-billable costs for review by management.

• Custom designed a payroll system used with multiple entities nationwide, with automated job costing with an estimated volume of about $29M in payroll costs processed this year.

• Ensured bad debt was nearly nonexistent, averaging 0.09% of revenue in the last year vs. 2.41% when I took over as controller.

• Played a key role in the efficient operation of the business in lean times and growth in boom times.

• Key relationship manager for critical service providers that made up the bulk of our expenses or were key to our operation, such as the banking relationships, PEOs, travel agencies, rental car companies, CPAs, Armored car services and others key providers as needed.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Controller / Treasurer / Company Officer, Huffmaster Management, Inc. 2001 - Present

Troy, MI

Huffmaster is a very dynamic fast paced company. There are 3 main entities, with 10 divisions among them. As the leading provider of strike management solutions, Fortune 500 and Healthcare businesses rely upon Huffmaster Crisis Management for contingency planning, replacement employees and strike security. Huffmaster’s Protective Services Group offers innovative programs for clients with elevated security threats, workplace violence concerns, termination support needs, as well as consulting, Investigations and Training.Revenue is on target to double this year over last.

• Optimized accounting systems and resources to quickly and efficiently staff new jobs that come up, some of which multiply our company employee size by a factor of 10 and supported the jobs while they are deployed and ensure timely and accurate billing and payroll

• Grew our capabilities to provide competitive national temporary help and security services with negotiated key relationships; revenue has doubled this year over last

• Introduced a new business line recommendation that leveraged our unique capabilities and has the potential to greatly add to our current business by adding over $47M in revenue per year while helping to support the current operations

• Achieved every quarterly bonus rock / goal in the Entrepreneurial Operating System required to earn a full bonus every quarter; I pride myself on meeting and exceeding goals

• Produced monthly, quarterly and annual comparative financial statements vs last year and budget with analysis and explanation of significant variances

• Improved our financial reporting and job costing systems to allow us to better manage the business with fewer accounting staff

• Minimized the need for costly exceptions to automated processes by redesigning the automated process to be able to handle the new requirements or working out better alternative means to accomplish what is needed

Controller, Hometowne Building Company 2000 - 2001

Farmington Hills, MI

Hometowne was a group of home building companies selling well over 100 homes a year for about $50M per year in revenue.

• Produced monthly and annual financial statements as well as individual job P&Ls with analysis

• Eliminated Sub-contractor G/L and W/C insurance compliance issues

• Managed employee payroll and benefits

• Reviewed sworn statement submissions to bank

• Ensured all home purchase contracts and finance / investor contracts were in compliance at all times.

• Reconciled all home closing statements and prepared final job P&Ls for sold properties for ownership

• Coordinated with the Bank and CPAs

Accounting and Systems Manager, Trader Publishing Company 1990 - 2000

Livonia, MI

Trader was at the time the nation’s largest firm devoted to classified and photo guide advertising publications as well as world’s largest used vehicle website

• Introduced the idea of an online version of our classified and photo guide magazines to our regional VP prior to commercialization of the World Wide Web. The company eventually moved into this area once the WWW was firmly commercialized.

• Grew my responsibilities from a billing clerk to regional accounting and systems manager

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Arts, Finance and Economics, University of Western Ontario

• 94th percentile ranking on G.M.A.T. and recruited by Stanford University’s MBA program. I declined the offer as I was not prepared to move to California.

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