William James Roberts

Phone: 949-***-****

*** ******* ***, *********, ** 92870

E-mail acxxuc@r.postjobfree.com

Experienced Accountant with a passion for Cost Control and team work!

Summary of Experience

Hands-on, accomplished financial professional with a proven operational and financial leadership record in the lean manufacturing, traditional manufacturing and distribution sectors, including private and public organizations. Strong background in budget planning, new product introduction, P & L leadership as well as operations, acquisitions evaluation and integration, business restructuring, logistics, cash management, tax and corporate planning. QuickBooks ProAdvisor specializing in setup and companion software. Background in Cost Accounting allows for unique insight into fine tuning of efficiencies.

Professional Experience

Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. 4-14 to Present Client-centric cGMP contract development and manufacturing organization.

Controller

Designed billing and collections system. Wrote policy and procedure guide lines.

Managed implantation of new billing system and General ledger.

Established daily reporting for cash flow and billings.

RHI Management Resources, Irvine, CA 1-13 to 4-14 Project Financial Professionals 9-02 to 5-03

Consultant- Specializing in Client Recovery

Completed budget plan and budgets for medical device manufacturer for newly acquired subsidiary in Europe and, set up procedures for tracking of inventories and resulting receivables in US dollars from parts shipped to distributor for sale worldwide in various currencies. Finalized yearend audit.

Developed Excel tool for estimating and tracking jobs, and did yearend tax planning for advertising company.

Defined and implemented procedures to allow national health club operator to track and reconcile daily deposits. Finalized all budgets for coming year and analyzed revenue recognition procedures to allow compliance with new GAAP/FASB rules.

Fabrication Concepts Corporation, Santa Ana, CA 5-03 to 12-12 Fabricator of sheet metal structures, and equipment assembly for fortune 500 companies in 15 different industries.

Controller

Decreased A/R to less than 50 days, with over 40% of volume in Capital Equipment sales.

Designed & implemented daily flash report package for Sales, Purchase Commitments, Collections, & Loan status.

Manage 10 day or less close cycle with delayed month end billings due to customer acceptance policy. Directed key factors to meet all covenants of bank credit lines.

Designed and established automated financial reporting package that includes: P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash S&U, and Inventory Continuity, with comparisons to Budget and Prior Year Data.

Assumed responsibility for controllership of sister company. Dissolved company and integrated remaining salable products into Fabcon.

Manage all statutory compliance for internal and external reporting.

William James Roberts

RemoteVideo, Inc . Irvine, CA 5-00 to 12-02

Start up provider of CCTV Security Solutions to various industries.

Controller / VP Operations

Established Financial Reporting System including Internet order capture for real time information reporting to management team.

Implemented procurement and delivery system using virtual warehouse to keep on hand inventory close to $0.

Managed statutory compliance for all financial transactions.

Implemented process improvements and business controls for optimal performance.

Successfully hired and managed support staff for planned growth.

Located and procured new facilities as part of company’s planned growth.

Other experience:

GrandKids for Hire-Laguna Hills, CA-Developed Business Plan and Polices for startup.

BF Goodrich Tolo Div., Irvine, CA – Organized monthly close to comply with parent needs, Installed parent chart of accounts and other policies and procedures. Improved knowledge of cost to complete.

Bayes Planning Group- Lake Forest, CA – organized Company reporting for several companies after buy outs and public offerings.

WesPac Technologies Corp, Irvine, CA – Managed successfully Logistics, Manufacturing, Engineering and Sales Staff.

Siemens AG – Tustin, CA – Implemented paperless manufacturing materials procurement system, driven by MRP. Implemented batch costing methods to properly track costs and variances.

Computique – Santa Ana, CA – Responsible for retail data collection / inventory planning system running on HP9000 platform.

Hollywood Accessories –Compton, CA – normalized monthly and semi monthly reporting.

Black-Clawson –NY, NY – Established reporting and hired local Controller for Brazilian division. (Lived in RIO for 2 years)

American Standard – Hamilton, OH – Eng. Clerk to shop dispatcher to Cost Accountant.

Education

Xavier University: Cincinnati, Ohio

MBA degree Major – Industrial Management

BSBA degree Major – Accounting

Teaching: Orange Coast College – Windows, Excel, Word, and Quick Books

University of Redlands – Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Access

Keller University – Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, CPA review

Software Expertise: ABBA, Crystal Reports, Data Works, Dbase, Epicor, MS- Excel, SAP, Filemaker Pro, Great Plains, Hyperion, Ceridan, Global Shop, JD Edwards, Kronos, Lotus/Wind, MACPAC, ADP. ManMan, Mapics, Mas90, MRP, ACCPAC, MS-Access, MS-Office, MS-Project, Multiplan, Novell, Group Wise, Turbotax, Oasis, Oracle, MS-Outlook, Paradox, MS-Word, Peachtree, Platinum, MS- PowerPoint, QuickBooks (All Versions), QUAD, Point Man.

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