MICHAEL PRYOR

**** ******** **** • Vacaville, California 95688

916-***-**** • ad04rh@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior accounting professional with demonstrated expertise in management of general accounting function, cost accounting, and operations. Superior analytical skills, practiced at drilling down to transaction/workflow details in support of process and profit improvement. Collaborate effectively with department managers to resolve variances, refine forecasts, and identify opportunities for improvement.

•General Ledger •Financial Analysis • Cost Analysis

•Employee Management •Federal Grant Compliance •Modified Accrual Accounting

•Grant/Fund Management •State/Federal Tax •Financial Statements

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Accounting Manager

Workforce Development Board of Solano County Sept. 2022-May 2023

Managed all accounting functions for daily business including Budget, cash forecasting, monthly close, financial statement production.

Grant management for nonprofit accounting organization.

Managed 4 employees and managed all daily accounting functions. .

Leadership and professional skills when dealing with employees and customers.

Senior Accountant Mar 2018-Mar 2022

Valley Redwood, Inc. Sacramento

Managed all office and accounting functions for daily business including AR, AP, 4 bank statements, Sales tax, Payroll and Payroll taxes, HR, cash forecasting, monthly close, financial statement production.

Maintained and analyzed $7 million inventory and cost flow.

Full charge bookkeeper with experience to develop programs to make things work.

Personal and professional skills when dealing with employees and customers.

Financial Analyst Temp SEPT 2016 – JUNE 2017

Sacramento Regional Transit Sacramento, CA

Responsible for daily operations of revenue handling and reconciliation in vault. Worked with finance department to ensure accuracy of revenue and budget data. Influenced A/R plans, policies, and procedures.

Maintained and analyzed key performance indicators and financial ratios.

Executed and reported variances and gap analysis reports in terms of net sales and returns.

Supervised vault personnel and daily revenue operations.

Accounting Manager AUG 2005 – APR 2016

Eastman Building Products Sacramento, CA

A 50 year old company brokering commercial lumber and products across Northern California doing $12 million a year and employing 20 employees.

Maintained full charge of all accounting functions for companies plant, property, and equipment.

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Fixed Assets, Inventory control, all Tax Issues, all employment issues and all aspects of Payroll. Managed/supervised a staff of 3 and control of $1.5 million capital project. Work closely with CEO and Sales managers to review costs, reconcile variances and identify opportunities for productivity, cost, and revenue improvement.

Performed comprehensive variance analysis and determined root-cause for each variance.

Key contributor to annual budget process, working with various department heads to review

historical activities, trends, and future directions.

Managed month-end and quarterly closing cycle. Organized procedures to support ease of

closing procedures. All adjusting entries to GL.

Key member of accounting system implementation for standard cost, AP and Gl/Financial

Statements.

Managed physical inventory process and all related issues of asset custody. Cycle counts and

Automatic reorder points.

Oversee all aspects of daily business cash requirements including balancing multiple checking

accounts.

Compliance determination for all state and local tax and regulations for operations.

EDUCATION

Sacramento State University, Sacramento CA

Bachelors of Science, Accounting/Finance 1997

Computer proficient in MS OFFICE, BUISNESSWORKS, QUICKBOOKS, SAP, PEOPLE SOFT

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