Ross Johnson *** Silver Rock Trail, Castle Rock, CO, 80104 ad44pa@r.postjobfree.com 763-***-****

Areas of Expertise

Account Reconciliations

Month & Year End Close

Financial Statement Preparation

Financial Reporting

Financial Planning & Analysis (KPIs)

Dashboards

Budgeting/Forecasting

Audit Preparation

Cash & Accrual Accounting

Process Reengineering, Controls

Software Implementation/Conversion

Bank Reconciliations

Staff Supervision

Project Management

A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets

Corporate credit cards

Cost Accounting, Inventory

Outsourcing

Procurement

Legal/contract mgmt

SOX

Acquisitions, Mergers

Fund Accounting

HR, Payroll, Benefits

Working with IT & Operations

Creative ideation; problem resolution

Industry Lines

Manufacturing

Retail

Technology (Hard/software, SaaS)

Professional services

Financial services (Banking, Insurance)

Franchising

Agriculture

Medical products

Entertainment

Distribution

Consumer products

Advertising

Telecommunications

Computer Applications

SAP

JD Edwards

Epicor

QuickBooks

CoStar

ADP (& other outsourced providers)

Excel (pivots, vlook-ups, formulas)

Numerous proprietary software

Education/Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Accounting with honors, University of Minnesota

Minors: Mathematics, Mgmt Info Systems

CPA (inactive), Price Waterhouse

Professional Experience

With over 40 years of Accounting and Finance experience, I have both held and consulted as a\ CFO and Controller for companies ranging in size from Start-ups to Fortune 500 firms across numerous industries. My extensive hands-on experience as the senior accountant in most accounting and finance functions plus. Deep experience working across a variety of other departments (operations, IT, HR, legal, sales & marketing, client services, executive management, and with the Board of Directors).

Principal Areas of Practice

All accounting and finance functions (non-tax, non-SEC) in a hands-on and/or supervisory role. Additional specialization in problem solving, streamlining/process reengineering, opportunity identification/ROI generation, cross-functional project mgmt., reporting & analysis, and software conversions.

Major Consulting Projects and Employment

Pursuit Collections (hotel, restaurant, leisure) Sr. Proj. Consultant & Interim AR Manager

Re-designed daily A/R billing process. Result: Brought past due billings to 99% current from 5 months past due.

Re-designed A/R reporting package. Result: incorporated extensive KPI metrics, and detailed customer and variance analysis.

Advanced Assembly (technology mfg) Sr. Project Consultant & CFO

Produced financial reports; redesigned all accounts reconciliations and prepared numerous accts recs monthly, converted books to GAAP, established financial processes, trained multiple departments staff, established controls, and computerized processes and systems.

Re-designed monthly close. Result: Improved from 20+ day close to closing in 3 days.

Re-designed monthly financial statement package. Result: incorporated extensive financial analysis, KPI metrics, and detailed variance analysis.

Assumed full Controller responsibilities when the in-place Controller resigned. Including supervision of accounting staff, management presentations & operations coordination, monthly presentations to holding company executive management.

Karsh Hagan (marketing agency) Controller

Produced financial reports; reconciled accounts, billed clients, established financial processes, educated owners on financials, trained multiple departments staff, established controls, and computerized processes and systems.

Produced monthly financials on-time for first time in over 10 years. Result: Numerous changes in owner financial business mgmt. Operating cost cuts over $300k annually.

Created new financial analysis reports for clients’ profitability. Result: Illustrated over 50% of clients not profitable; $250,000 fee obtained immediately from one client. New year negotiations resulted in over $1MM in increased fees.

Created a new financial report analyzing employee productivity.

Reconciled all general ledger accounts (none done correctly for years). Result: One error resulted in increased GI & operating profit over $2M from errors going back to 2008.

Re-designed systems and converted to electronic. Result: Cut over 80% of time to process media A/P; increased accuracy of several processes; improved vendor relations; others.

Ball Corporation (manufacturer, Fortune 500) Senior Project Consultant

Resolved payroll accounts not reconciling for over 18 months old from initial outsourcing to ADP; Ball terminated all payroll staff resulting in a lack of expertise to manage reconciliations, tax payments, etc., after the ADP conversion.

Result: located over $10M in payroll account reconciliation differences.

Result: found $30M in duplicate cash payroll funded not found by Ball’s treasury department

Result: additionally, determined, the process to allocate production personnel’s time between WIP and various P&L expense accounts varied dramatically across the different operating divisions producing incorrect financial statements and forecasts. Additionally, the data provided inaccurate information for product pricing models.

Century Link (telecom, Fortune 500, International) Senior Project Consultant

Transition from Excel documentation to CoStar software 4,000+ EMEA real estate leases for compliance with ASC 842 working with EMEAs’ operating lease administration managers and accounting teams and Century Link’s corporate accounting, technical accounting, and project management teams, and CoStar’s software implementation specialists.

Quarterly, reviewed EMEA lease administrators’ data updates across 50 data fields for area’s 4,000 leases and provided hundreds of corrections to meet ASC 842 compliance.

Reviewed top 80% of leases (in approximately 15 languages) further correcting administrators’ data. Additionally, reviewed all new and renewing leases ensuring correct data established for entry in system.

Reviewed G/L reconciliations provided by EMEA accounting of all payments to master data schedules and resulting variance analysis. Frequently, generated correcting entries or extensive further documentation of variance to pass senior management review audit.

Added to the LATAM and APAC teams to catch up and further correct errors.

Added to the software conversion team to establish Excel data imports and subsequently verify data conversion accuracy.

Agfinity (agriculture, retail, energy cooperative) Shared Services Executive & CFO

Directed services provided to operating divisions including accounting, finance, credit, HR, payroll, IT, customer service, marketing, and general administration.

Reduced all non-operational departments’ operating costs (ranging from 18 to 70+%).

Improved GAAP compliance and established proper account reconciliations.

Brought company into compliance with ASC 842 (over 100 leases).

Significantly improved annual stockholder report (data and graphics).

Reviewed all retail locations sales and use tax policies/charges by customer categories; corrected, obtained refunds, obtained mitigated penalties, developed new controls.

Five Star Professional Services, Interim Controller

Reconciled accounts; produced financials; trained staff; developed processes.

Collected over 90% of all receivables from 90 to 270+ days past due within 75 days.

Built process and electronic system integrating sales team forecasting and new CRM system.

Streamlined operating process through work with VP of Operations; Provided hands-on support to warehouse to catch up on shipping significantly behind to clients.

Nano Stone (manufacturing, international) Consultant

Re-constructed 3 years acquisition records.

Correct complex initial acquisition journal entry per GAAP.

Compiled and correct year-end financials for 3 years.

Chandler Industries (manufacturing) Interim Controller

Cost accounting: Corrected significant errors in system (WIP, absorption, BOM, purchasing, inventory counts, forecast/budgets, GAAP, etc.) for five plants including Mexico.

Developed cash flow management system and bank debt compliance reporting.

Revamped physical inventory process for five plants including in Mexico.

Developed new budgeting process and tool.

Improve month (reduce to 7 days) and year-end close.

Develop staff training and assessment program (all staff high-school grads).

Managed annual and customers’ DOD audits obtaining clean opinions.

Corrected new acquisition entry/consolidation.

Converted several manual systems to electronic.

Target (retail) & Cognizant (software), joint venture, Fortune 500 Financial Analyst

Establish new system & provide in-depth financial analysis, reporting, processes, and controls for this new joint venture.

Train project managers & senior management on new system & tools.

Reporting, and senior management presentations for both companies.

Result: Sole financial individual supporting team of 300.

Rapid Refill (retail, franchise, services, manufacturing) CFO, Controller

Responsible for all A/R, A/P, financial rptg, regulated industry compliance, audit support, product costing, inventory, payroll/benefits/HR, budgeting/forecasting, and financial analysis for both the company and 70+ franchisees operating 100+ facilities.

Developed financial and operational system with dashboards, custom recommendations, and 1:1 coaching for all owner-customers. Solution provided financial, production, pricing, inventory, sales, and expense input vs. best results and practices. Prepared 70 written assessments, quarterly. Personally mentored 15 owners. Results: turnarounds, sales growth, cost decreases, improved customer satisfaction.

Redesigned cost accounting methodology addressing widely fluctuating raw materials costs, scrap waste and defectives levels, labor productivity, and burden levels across 70 locations. Result: reduced man-hours to maintain system by 60%. Increased cost accuracy.

Converted from traditional billing and collection program to electronic methodologies. Result: Accelerated cash collections average 40 days, reduced bad debt to near zero, reduced staff labor time by over 90%.

$300,000 tax savings identified missed by external specialists.

Price Waterhouse Auditor, Senior Auditor

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