Paul S. Hurst CPA inactive acxu4g@r.postjobfree.com 563-***-****

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Bettendorf, Ia 52722

Career Objective

Solutions oriented accountant with firm understanding of business requirements allowing for agility in all aspects of the business reporting process.

Manage new opportunities and solutions in businesses due to a wealth of experience across many industries including accounting, warehousing, printing, insurance processing, employee benefits, construction, machining, agriculture, fuel, financing, investments and taxation Lime Springs Beef Lime Springs, IA 1/11/2016 – present Startup slaughter house focused on providing local beef to the marketplace Controller

Configure and implement software procedures for new plant

Develop processes for managing data capture from all points in production

develop accounting reporting and responsibility to management

close down process and wrap up financial accounting Granular Inc. San Francisco, Ca 1/5/2015 – 10/23/2015 Software to manage the large farming operations from planning through harvest Customer Success Representative

Monitor and maintain relationships with 25 software customers

Train new customers on the use of our farm management software

Managed North American accounts while personally located in Iowa AgWorks Software LLC Davenport, Ia 6/1/2010 – 12/31/2014 Software to manage inventory and billing for the supplier of fertilizer, chemical & seed Software Integration Specialist

Create and install product, customer and equipment databases for new customers

Instruct (remote and on-site) all users on the software

Managed data base backup process and drive farm

Gathered data needed to produce custom reporting needs for government reporting

Recruited because of relationship created when I integrated their software into our accounting operation at Country Star Coop

Sunrise Cooperative, Inc. Fremont, Oh 9/21/2009 – 5/31/2010 Provides agricultural services to farmers in North Central Ohio including farm input (fertilizer, fuel chemical & seed), harvest and grain marketing

Controller

Assisted with merged companies financial processes

Learned operations of AgVantage software

Integrated peripheral software programs to update accounting software

Closed out the 401k plan from predecessor company

Automated bank reconciliation process using features of their software they had not used Paul S. Hurst CPA inactive acxu4g@r.postjobfree.com 563-***-**** Country Star Coop, Inc. Bucyrus, Oh 5/20/1996 – 9/20/2009 Provided agricultural services to farmers in North Central Ohio including farm input (fertilizer, fuel chemical & seed), harvest and grain marketing

Controller

Managed payroll for 80 employees, reported and tracked payment of taxes, created regular reporting to managers

Responsible to maintain, manage and improve benefits packages

Negotiated $100k savings per year in workers' compensation taxes by leasing employees

Automated budgeting process for all eight branches and seven divisions

Created and maintained regular budget status update to Board of Directors & division managers

Converted many manual reporting processes to computerized reporting

Commodity margin analysis for monthly statement

Converted four agronomy branches from independent computer installations to corporate solution that provided visibility across all branches information of inventory levels and status of orders

Learned and maintained convenience store industry and related software

Implemented bar code tracking process for inventory receipts, sales and audit

Implemented and maintained a computer process for the state and federal fuel tax requirements

Learned, utilized and improved the integration of iRely software in use by the company to enable better reporting across the eight branches and seven sales divisions

Managed corporate office of five accounting employees and had oversight of 12 accounting staff members at other branches

Installed and improved communication between all eight branches using new technology available

Responsible for recovering $12k of sales taxes by careful review of expenses and analysis of the law Education

Bachelors Degree – Accounting Bob Jones University Life long learning seminars

Software skill set

MS Excel (also Google Sheets, Office Suite X calc and other spreadsheets)

MS Word (also Google Docs, Office Suite X Writer and other word processing solutions)

MS Access (also FoxPro)

MS SQL

Quick Books

MS Outlook (also Gmail and several other email handling solutions)

MS Publisher

MS Power Point

MS OneNote (also Evernote)

Community activities

Active volunteer in school programs, worship leader, weapons safety advocate, leader in industry focus groups, avid outdoor enthusiast

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