Diana Berman

Phone: 512-***-****

Email: ade66a@r.postjobfree.com

CONTROLLER AND FINANCIAL EXECUTIVE

Tactical Financial Control with 10+ years of hands on experience working within large corporate environments. Adept at supporting senior leadership strategic decision making by ensuring informative management reports and analysis are created and disseminated on a weekly basis. Conscious of safeguarding assets assuring accurate and timely recording of all transactions by implementing disciplines of internal audits, controls and checks across all departments. Ability to create and implement financial policies and procedures to identify, resolve and document accounting issues in addition to creating procedures to make the close and reporting process more efficient and accurate. Seeking a role where I can utilize my years of experience in finance and lead an organization to optimal efficiency.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Financial Strategies

Budget Consolidation

Cash Flow Management

Debt Management

Developing Financial Reviews

Payroll Processing, AR & AP

Preparing Financial Reports & Statements

Team Building & Communication

Stakeholder Management

Federal Regulations & Processes

Reducing Costs & Improving Efficiencies

Accounting Operations & Concepts

General Ledger

Excel, Pivot Tables and Presentations

EDUCATION

St. Edwards University

BBA in Accounting

Texas A&M

Master’s in accounting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Access

Outlook

GreatPlains

PeopleSoft

Crystal

MAS90

QuickBooks

SAP one

MicroStrategy

Hubble

JD Edwards

Longview

Bloomberg

Esri

GAAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Easy Tiger LLC September 2019- Present

Financial Controller

Prepare ad hoc reports for management as required and maintain daily cash position and cash forecast analysis to ensure maximization of funds usage

Responsible for financial direction and internal control environment

Lead in planning, forecasting, audit reporting and target setting for financial consistency

Accountable for month-end processes, managing and driving reserve efficiency, revenue reporting, cost analyses, and internal controls

Design and built a streamlined cash flow and cash forecasting process, providing greater predictability and control.

Perform financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis, operational management

Monitor, supervise, control, and report on the business activities to the shareholders

Lead the Budgeting process and enforce strict measures to control the adverse variances achieving the maximum profitability

Design, develop and implement of Ad-Hoc analysis including board presentations

File sales and use tax returns, state business and occupation tax returns, incomes tax and payroll taxes

Supervise AP, AR, Payroll and HR

Evaluate the company's Internal Control system to ensure strict adherence to Policies and Procedures and instituted measures that closed any deficiency gap that may exist

Coordinate collection of outstanding receivables thereby increasing cash-flow

Evaluate and ensured strict adherence to budget by performing monthly/annual budget to actual analysis

Create personalized reports for Managers to assist with understanding their restaurant

Whataburger March 2014 - June 2019

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Developed a 5-year strategic plans for senior leadership ensuring financial gains

Created and implemented annual and quarterly budgets.

Conducted research while analyzing data determining trends, identifying potential problem areas and developing strategies for corrective action

Created modeling scenarios to provide forward-looking perspectives for sure financial strategy.

Created, coordinated, implemented, and performed annual forecasts and quarterly budgeting process, analyzing actual performance vs. budget

Documented and communicated material variances, conducted research determining root cause of variances, developed options geared toward the prevention of future variances

Designed, developed, and implemented Ad-Hoc analysis including presentations to C-level executives

Collaborated with team members within Finance, Accounting and Operations throughout the planning and closing processes

US Surface Warehouse September 2013- March 2014

Accounting Manager

Prepared financial and analytical reports required by the owners, investors and bank on a monthly basis

Ensured all expenses were entered within the set period and properly categorized as expenses or capital accounts

Researched all inconsistencies from month to month in addition to the prior year including balance sheet account reconciliation

Manually prepared consolidated monthly financial statements which included 4 companies, bank reconciliations, reviewing the general ledger for any discrepancies before prelims go out to owners for review and making any necessary adjusting entries after the owner’s review

Filed sales and use tax returns, as well as state business and occupation tax returns for different states including handling any requests of information for audits made by various states

Monitored inventory coming from overseas, reconcile deposits and final payment to vendor, including auditing freight bills that may or may not have charged anti-dumping duties and counter veiling duties on certain products

Collaborated with team members to develop new procedures for implementation

Financial Controller February 2013- August 2013

Seda France Inc

Prepare monthly financial statements and reporting

Supervised and reviewed accounting including accounts receivable, accounts payable and bank reconciliations

Reviewed general ledgers for accuracy

Implemented and improved accounting systems, policies and procedures

Responsible for financial statements, cash control, budgeting, inventory control, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, human resources, and cost control

Supervised a staff of 5 direct reports with overall of 30 employees

Managed cash flow and bank transactions ensuring accuracy

Planned and budgeted high-volume purchases for production

Involved with the restructure of the accounting department

Collaborated with C-Suites to review financial reporting on a monthly basis

Asst Controller June 2000- August 2012

Pisces Foods dba Wendy’s

Prepared various analytical reports consisting of food analysis, inventory analysis, labor analysis and trend reports for Operations

Prepared and filed sales and use tax returns on a monthly basis, payroll tax returns on a quarterly basis

Prepared General Journal entries, including quarter end accruals and cost deferrals

Reconciled all bank accounts on a monthly basis

Prepared monthly and quarterly sales tax returns

Audited Inventory transactions and making journal entries at Month end

Audited and reconciled General Ledger Accounts at Month end.

Handled Accounts Receivable (Invoicing, Receipts and Collections)

Prepared all monthly and quarterly sales tax returns

Processed payroll information, and audit quarter end payroll tax reports

Handled special projects for upper management

Updated accounting software when needed and responsible for year-end duties including 1099s and W-2s

Created customized Crystal Reports or modified can reports in Great Plains

Designed and implemented financial policies and procedures

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