Staff Accountant Financial Reporting

WILLIAM ROSS BRADY

**** ****** **** *****

San Antonio, Texas 78240

Cell: 210-***-****) E-mail: ****.*****@*********.***

PROFILE

A technically skilled “hands on” accountant who can see the company’s big picture yet be very effective with problem solving at the detailed level. I communicate well with all levels of management and employee. Have supervised and helped an accounting professional and clerical staff to ensure their success. Knows that the person who constantly sees the financial details is obligated to propose ways to reduce the company’s cost and /or increase their revenues. All of the San Antonio positions were contract positions.

CORE COMPETENCIES

•Monthly Closings

•Cost Accounting

•MS Excel

•Fixed Asset Accounting

•Account Reconciliations

•Inventory Valuation

•ERP Report Writer

•Variance analysis

•Budgeting

•Financial Statements

•IT Systems Implementation

•Big 4 Audits

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Elbit Systems of America M7 Aerospace, LLC San Antonio, TX

Aerospace MRO airframe and cockpit electronics company with $80 million in annual sales

(Years: August 2020 to September 2020)

Senior Accountant

Responsible for:

● Book biweekly payroll and labor distribution from third party payroll service

● Book biweekly cash entry for payroll moving cash from concentration account to payroll account

● Prepare on a weekly basis rolling 13-week cash forecast for corporate office

● Analysis of previously booked general ledger entries and correction of same

Pluribus / BCFS not-for-profit organization San Antonio, TX

Human Resources Staffing / Disaster First Response firm / Temporary Housing for Indigents and Developmentally Disabled

(Years: Dec 2019 to March 2020)

Accountant/Labor Analyst

Responsible for:

● Labor analysis of biweekly payroll output

● Prepare and distribute billing and general ledger reports

for purposes of billing customers and booking revenue

and cost of Pluribus operations

Standard Aero Inc., San Antonio, TX

Aircraft Engine MRO company with annual sales of $110 million

(Years: Dec 2018 to February 2019)

Senior Financial Analyst

Responsible for:

● monthly, quarterly, and annual incurred cost preparation (Schedule H) for internal management

and government auditors

● Review customer RFQ’s prepared by customer sales representatives for the use of company

approved direct and indirect cost rates

● Review and approve employee expense reports for compliance to company policy and government

contract regulations using SAP Concur

● Apply customer cash payments received by corporate office as shipments only included a pro-forma

invoice. This required a lookup from the project manager worksheets

METRO ROOF PRODUCTS, Oceanside, CA

Stone Coated Metal Roof Manufacturer with annual sales of $25million

(Years: June 2007 to February 2011)

Accounting Manager

Responsible for:

● Supervise staff of two (one Payables clerk/Receptionist and one Receivables/Payroll clerk)

● Responsible for all adjusting journal entries, account analyses and reconciliations

● Prepare various complex calculations for credits due to largest customer

● Hire and train new clerical accounting staff

● Change payroll systems from PC based Intuit to Internet based ADP

● Troubleshoot Acc Pac accounting system reports

GENERAL ATOMICS INC., AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS DIVISION, San Diego, CA

Unmanned aerial vehicle (“Predator”, “Gnat”) supplier to DOD with annual sales in excess of $450 million.

(Years: Oct 2005 to Oct 2006)

Financial and Cost-Accounting Manager

Responsible for:

Supervise staff of seven (four professionals and three clerical)

Balance Sheet account reconciliations

Inter-Company billing to and from Parent company and other subdivisions

Monthly Financial Statements preparation and analysis for distribution to executives,

Maintenance of Fixed-Asset systems, annual physical inventory audit of over 900 assets

PWC client assistance package, audit, and statement preparation

TRENT TUBE CO., DIVISION OF CRUCIBLE MATERIALS CORPORATION, East Troy, WI

Manufacturer/Distributor of Stainless-Steel Tube, Pipe and Engineered Stainless Products with annual sales of $50 million/year. (Years: 2000 to 2002)

Divisional Controller

Responsibilities included:

Supervising a staff of eight responsible for the functional areas of accounts payable and receivable, payroll, customer invoicing, cash collection, production cost accounting

External audits, bank auditor relations, corporate and income tax reporting, profit, loss,

expense and sales analysis, general ledger reconciliation

Three year plan, annual budget and operational reports for five businesses housed at four separate plant locations

Accomplishments:

● Collected long overdue receivables, reduced the reserve for bad debts and thus increased

profitability $40,000

Reduced staff by one accounting manager during company’s difficult financial period saving the company $50,000 annually

Led a continuous improvement team which saved the company $20,000 annually

GENERAL ATOMICS INC., SORRENTO ELECTRONICS SUBSIDIARY, San Diego, CA

(Radiation Monitoring and Detection Equipment Supplier to DOD and the Electric Power Industry

with annual sales of $25 million. (Years: 1980 to 2000)

Divisional Controller (1999 to 2000) ● Managed Accounting, I/T, Contracts and Facilities departments that supported four separate

manufacturing businesses with annual sales of $25 million.

Served as an internal consultant in a manufacturing systems software implementation at an

affiliated company which ultimately helped save Sorrento Electronics $400,000 per year through

a software cost-sharing arrangement

Reduced staff during difficult financial times saving the company $220,000 per year

Instrumental in collecting a $2,200,000 receivable owed to the company for over two years

Prepared numerous discounted cash flow analyses for foreign competitor acquisitions

Accounting Manager (1993 to 1999)

● Prepared financial statements, maintained capital expenditures log, analyzed monthly

inventory changes and production costs, calculated overhead and other rates, made reserve

estimates, prepared contract estimates-to-complete, booked revenue on long term contracts,

responsible for outside auditor interface, tax schedule preparation, manufacturing systems

software upgrade and cost estimating systems.

● Helped identify and schedule various costs that were captured in indirect pools or directly

charged to several Navy contracts that were suspended and then finally cancelled. This resulted

in cash collection of more than $800,000 over the original contract value

● Directly involved in the implementation of manufacturing accounting software at several

affiliated companies which allowed for a cost savings of $50,000 to Sorrento Electronics

over a three-year period, due to an arrangement whereby the personnel cost plus a G&A expense

allocation for any hours worked by S.E. employees on the affiliate’s software start-up became

billable to the affiliate

● Learned 4th generation report writing language and was able to cover this area when the

I/T manager resigned

Cost Accounting Manager (1988 to 1993)

● Responsible for inventory cycle counting program, work order cost analysis, material burden,

fringe benefit and overhead rate analysis, contract cost analyses, estimates-to-complete and

revenue booking rate adjustments and manufacturing cost related modules of recently acquired

ERP software.

● Learned and operated the cost estimating process so that when business volume decreased and

the estimator position was eliminated this service was still available. This saved the company

$50,000 annually in reduced salaries and benefits

● Led the accounting related portion of the computer software conversion allowing the company to

have a fully integrated system on one platform, which covered all of the management

requirements for information relevant to manufacturing planning and cost control

EDUCATION

BBA, Accounting, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

MBA, Partially Complete, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA

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