STEPHEN MCCOURT

Wilmington, DE *****

302-***-**** ad4gi5@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sfmccourt

FINANCE LEADER

Versatile Financial Professional with experience in multiple industries. Strong general ledger skills with expertise and the ability to adapt quickly to any ERP environment. Expert at guiding managers in cash movements, creating budgets, forecasts and rolling forecasts. Solid ability to communicate financial results and analysis to non-financial managers with demonstrated success in:

Using new technology to build financial infrastructure, facilitate projections and reporting.

Evaluating internal procedures for efficiency and effectiveness. Provide clear recommendations for improvements and problem resolution.

Successful mentoring operational managers in using the financial process as a planning and control tool.

Improving internal customer relations by communicating expectations and eliciting feedback from all levels of management.

EXPERIENCE

INCYTE, Wilmington, DE 2023 – Present

Sr. Accounting Consultant

Responsible for leading the SOX Compliance project. Interact cross functionally with Big 4 internal audit partner, IT Controls team, and Accounting. Reviewing and uploading process narratives into Audit Board, scheduling meetings and trainings, along with setting/meeting deadlines.

JP MORGAN., Newark, DE 2016 – 2022

Vice President-Payment Lifecycle Manager III

Manage team of 3 processing manual wire transfers.

Successfully mentored one team member to supervisory role.

Implemented process improvements in documentation and technology reducing errors by 98%. Systems allowed meaningful and reliable metrics to be quickly generated. The number of requests, wires, and rejections could be quickly calculated. Recognized for Inter-team project cooperation for the new process.

Successfully off boarded 7 different processes to other teams with no service interruption. Onboarded 2 operations to the team. Integrating the activity into the team’s workload.

Developed strong relationships with internal customers. Used as the topic expert for transfers. Successfully complete high profile critical transfers for acquisitions.

ADVANCE CENTRAL SERVICES, INC., Wilmington, DE 2008 – 2016

Financial Reporting Accountant, Specialist, 2010 – 2016

Analysis - Reviewed Budget submissions from the markets for reasonableness. Provided a monthly high level summary of opportunities and exposures.

Streamlined and automated reporting for 10 newspaper markets to senior management and ownership. Reduced or eliminated manual inputs to reports, increasing accuracy and efficiency.

Initiated efforts to streamline reporting delivery process through the use of macros. Production timeline reduced by 2 days for delivery of monthly financial packages with volume increase from 1 market to 10.

Developed solid working relationships with newspapers and management. Proactive and dependable source of information to clarify solutions to current and potential issues.

Developed capital project activity tracking system. This insured complete and accurate reporting of all capital expenditures.

Financial Reporting Accountant, Consolidated, 2008 – 2010

Reviewed incoming information to identify issues. Worked with the newspapers to correct or have a ready explanation for management reports.

Transitioned consolidated reporting operations to Hyperion Access, resulting in 30% timesavings.

Adapted reporting process to changes in systems and management directives, maintaining deadlines and report accuracy above 99%.

RELEVANTE, INC., Horsham, PA 2005 – 2008

Project Manager / Consultant

Led multi-project team of 9 employees. Managed month end closing activities, account reconciliations, accruals, and journal entries. In addition, audit preparations, gathered and reviewed documentation for internal, external, and SOX audits.

Designed, organized and executed multiple internal Marketing and Organizational projects.

Created and documented project process and management procedures.

Set corporate policy for consultant continuing education, rewards, and bonuses.

Interviewed candidates and team orientation for new hires.

Reviewed weekly activity and maintaining communications with geographically diverse workforce.

Budget verses expenditure tracking, interacted with related managers to update timetables for anticipated activities.

EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration

St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA.

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

University of Scranton, Scranton, PA

COMPUTER SKILLS

Excel, Access, Word, JPMargan Access, SharePoint, Hyperion Enterprise & Essbase, Smartview, Khalix, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Great Plains, Macros

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