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Manager Accounting

Location:
Fairfax, VA
Salary:
120000
Posted:
May 07, 2020

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ALBERT A.G. ROMANO

***** ***** ****** *****, *******, VA 22033 PHONE: 703-***-****

EXPERIENCE

*/**-******* ****** *****, Inc. Fairfax, VA

Controller/Contracting Officer

Responsible for entire corporate accounting function for a Group Holding Company and its subsidiaries, including two internationals (United Kingdom and Singapore), a US based R&D facility, and a Corporate HQ/sales office subsidiary.

Prepared and issued monthly, quarterly and yearly financials statements. Prepared and presented to the CEO and the Board of Directors a detailed quarterly review of the financial statements and made appropriate recommendations accordingly.

Conducted financial reviews with outside auditors (Price Waterhouse, RSM-McGladrey and Whitley Stimpson) assigned by the Board of Directors. Successfully completed 8 financial statement audits.

Prepared financial reports and projections for presentation to Merger and Acquisition Firms and prospective outside investors.

Converted corporate accounting system from QuickBooks to MAS90 along with eventual migration to SAGE100 cloud-based system. Designed and implemented a serialized inventory system in SAGE100.

Migrated Payroll, Human Resources and Benefits into ADP Platform.

As a contracting officer, negotiated multi-million-dollar contracts with various government and corporate entities including the United States Postal Service, Hewlett Packard, Pitney Bowes and NCR.

Managed a team of 5 staff accountants and with responsibility for inventory, invoicing, shipping, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables. Responsible for review, signoff, and oversight of all task orders generated by the master contracts.

Managed the IT team with responsibility of communication systems, server room, PBX cloud-based phone system.

1/04-1/09 GOLFDOM McLean, VA

Controller

Responsible for entire corporate accounting function for 4 company owned entities including two golf retail superstores, a standalone car wash business, and real estate holding company.

Implemented monthly accounting schedule for timely closing and issuance of all preliminary financial statements along with balance sheet reconciliations.

Prepared and issued all monthly financials statements and write-ups for monthly review with company board of directors.

Assisted with company wide conversion of POS system from an outsourced ASP provider to a 100% in-house based platform.

9/03-1/04 The Healthy back Store Newington, VA

Interim Controller

Oversaw corporate staff consisting of 2 general ledger accountants along with 2 accounts payable specialists.

Prepared yearly bank reconciliation of all depository and operating bank accounts. All bank accounts had not been reconciled since previous audit.

8/01-8/03 Thomasville Home Furnishings of VA/NJ Fairfax, VA

Controller

Oversaw corporate staff consisting of Accounting Manager and 2 staff accountants, Purchase Order Manager & Assistant, and Human Resources Manager.

Successfully guided company through 2 financial statement reviews by outside auditor.

Implemented corporate wide monthly closing schedule along with balance sheet reconciliation timeline.

Prepared and issued all monthly financials statements and write-ups for monthly review with company board of directors.

5/99-08/01 French Country Living, Inc. Sterling, VA

Controller

Successfully steered company through first financial audit in 2 years.

Outsourced payroll function brought Section 125 plan into compliance and resolved all outstanding tax withholding issues.

Setup new NT based corporate wide area network with frame relay connectivity, including procurement of all network and desktop related equipment. Responsible for overseeing entire corporate IT function.

Converted retail POS, general accounting, and financial reporting function into a single real-time system running on a totally integrated platform.

11/98-5/99 Sunrise Assisted Living, Inc. Fairfax, VA

Manager, Accounts Payable

Restructured entire a/p department and implemented companywide workflow procedures.

Worked with outside consultant to maximize utilization of Peoplesoft a/p reporting to allow more thorough analysis by a/p staff and corporate management.

Oversaw a/p staff consisting of 2 supervisory and 14 support personnel.

3/96-10/98 Telemet America, Inc. Alexandria, VA

Controller

Converted accounting system to Solomon IV (NT Version) for windows.

Developed new financial reporting system to track corporate revenue and expense performance by broadcast revenue service.

Prepared and filed quarterly tax estimates and worked with CPA firm to resolve issues on yearly tax return.

1/89-5/96 Woodward & Lothrop, Inc. Alexandria, VA

Manager, General Accounting

Converted general accounting and a/p functions from mainframe computer system to LAN based system during bankruptcy “Unwind” period.

Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for review by Controller.

2/84-12/88 J.C. Penney Co., Inc. Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Merchandise Manager

Managed entire purchasing and planning process for both men and women’s fashion departments with a total annual volume of $3M.

EDUCATION

1979–1983 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV

B.S., Accounting.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Accounting/POS software-

Sage100, MAS90, Syspro, Myriad Eclicktic, Storis Profit Systems, QuickBooks Pro, Peoplesoft, SolomonIV, and Accpac 2000.



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