Daniel Waples, CPA

** ***** ****** ****** *********,, MA 02472 – 952-***-**** – ad1cge@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Detail-orientated controller with 10+ years of accounting and auditing experience looking to help make an impact in a new position to help drive efficiencies, improve financial reporting and compliance, maximize efficiency, and work with a great team of individuals. Seeking to leverage my overall experience, accounting skills, and strong work ethic to contribute to the success of the organization, its employees, and customers.

Licenses

Certified Public Accountant, Indiana Board of Accountancy 2014-Present

Professional Experience

Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc. Woburn, MA Corporate Controller Aug 2022 - July 2023

•Developed the month end close process from no closes prior to my arrival in 2022 to a full monthly reporting package

•Implemented a monthly budget to actual review of budget to actual financial information with all department heads to foster real time decision making opportunities for the organization

•Performed payroll, AP processing and check runs, T&E approvals, cash management and forecasting, and day to day operations for the company

•Performed monthly close functions including all journal entries and reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts in addition to creating a monthly and quarterly financial reporting package

•Developed and created ad hoc reporting to further drive the needs of the business

•Head liaison with the external auditors and regulatory bodies including the annual audit of the financial statements

Dentsply Sirona Waltham, MA North American Implants Accounting Controller Oct 2019 – Aug 2022

•Close and submit the monthly financial statements for four entities while collaborating with and supervising my staff and centralized corporate functions

•Review all manual journal entries, reconciliations, SOX testing, and Hyperion webforms in addition to uploading the information to our centralized corporate reporting functions monthly

•Helped break out an entity into two separate companies and to create two new ERP instances while working closely with European and American teams to complete this task

•Review sales return deviations for items that fall outside of normal policies. Review and approve third party and intercompany invoices for four entities

•Perform several analyses of the financial numbers including income statement reviews, comparisons to forecast/budget, accrued liability reviews, gross margin reviews, etc. both during the month and during close to verify that our numbers are accurate and in line with forecasted and budgeted numbers

•Helped implement several efficiencies such as implementing materiality thresholds for tasks, turning our month end reporting and SOX testing digital rather than hardcopy, helping transition tasks from local to centralized functions, etc.

Dentsply Sirona Waltham, MA Senior Staff Accountant Nov 2017 – Oct 2019

•Collaborated with various internal departments such as production, IT, marketing, R&D, internal audit, centralized GBS functions, etc. as part of day-to-day activities

•Managed relationships with external firms such as auditors to help facilitate the successful and timely completion of the various audits needed

•Performed daily, monthly, and quarterly journal entries, reconciliations, analyses, SOX testing, and Hyperion reporting to close out the periods in question

•Prepared multiple schedules for the quarterly and annual financial statements reported to the SEC in addition to providing flux analyses explanations, comparisons to forecast and budget, roll forwards, etc to help verify the accurate reporting of the information

•Worked on several projects to reduced wasted time such as working with IT to have a journal entry upload file created and overall creating faster and quicker ways to perform activities such as automating spreadsheets that were very manual at the time

Home Point Financial f.k.a. Stonegate Mortgage Indianapolis, IN Senior Staff Accountant Sept 2015 – Aug 2017

•Worked in tandem with various internal departments such as servicing, capital/secondary markets, internal audit, finance, etc. as part of day-to-day activities as well as on special projects

•Provided supporting documentation to external firms such as the auditors and third-party valuation specialists to help foster timely audit and month end or quarterly closes

•Performed complex monthly and quarterly transactions such as the monthly derivative entries for loans held for sale (LHFS), interest rate lock commitments (IRLCs), and forward sales

•Prepared and presented internal analyses to C suite executives and upper management to determine the reasonableness of reported financial results and overall performance of the company

•Prepared multiple schedules for the quarterly and annual financial statements reported to the SEC in addition to providing flux analyses explanations for several internal accounts

•Performed journal entries throughout the month and reconciled general ledger accounts on both a monthly and quarterly basis

Crowe Horwath LLP South Bend, IN Senior Staff Auditor Jan 2012 – Sept 2015

•Managed the entire audit process from start to finish of financial institutions, benefit plans, and investment companies ranging from small community banks to SEC 404 banks

•Supervised a team of 2-5 staff accountants to resolve problems and achieve work and reporting deadlines

•Reviewed work completed by staff accountants including planning work, internal control work, substantive work, and financial statement preparation and review

•Performed internal control walkthroughs and internal control testing on a variety of engagements including private, FDICIA, and SEC 404 banks, in addition to substantive testing

•Communicated with the client in regards to client needs, client requests, findings and recommendations, and client feedback

•Coordinated and planned for the audit process including procuring proper internal and external resources, leading planning discussions with the entire team, and managing the audit timeline from beginning to end

•Performed research for clients regarding applying accounting standards to specific circumstances

•Prepared financial statements and footnotes for privately held banks and reviewed financial statements, footnotes, and MD&A for 404 and FDICIA banks

Education

Valparaiso University - Valparaiso, IN Dec 2011

B.S. in Business Administration, Accounting

Cumulative GPA: 3.94/4.0

Accolades: Magna Cum Laude, Graduated first among business school graduates

Additional Skills

•Workday, Movex, M3, Quickbooks, Blackline, Hyperion Suite, Smartview, Merlin, MediusFlow, Bill.com, Certify, Paychex, Carta, Salesforce, CoStar, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Adobe Acrobat, Lotus Notes

•Corporate Accounting, General Ledger, GAAP Standards, SOX Compliance, Financial Reporting & Analysis, Financial Statements, Accounting Research, Team leadership, Group Presentation, Auditing, Process Development

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