Accounting Manager

BARRY BIELEFELDT

Professional Experience

*/** ** */** Manager Artistree Accounting. Michaels Stores, Inc – Irving, Texas Michaels Stores, Inc. is an arts and crafts retail chain with stores in the United States and Canada. Revenue for fiscal year 2019 was 5.07 billion dollars.

Financial package preparation for Artistree, framing division of Michaels.

Balance sheet analysis and variance explanations for all of Artistree.

Coordinated annual count of Michaels Stores framing departments to value the department for the chain.

RMS12 Steering Committee for conversion from Retek6 for inventory operating system.

Quarterly Non Perpetual Inventory valuation to insure departments properly stated. 4/14 to 2/16 Senior Development Accountant. Howard Hughes Corporation – Dallas, Texas Howard Hughes Corporation is a real estate developer of master planned communities and mixed use properties. Fiscal year 2014 revenue was 634 million dollars.

Development Accountant for six regional predevelopment properties.

Reconcile budget and commitments for properties to insure budgetary constraints met.

Process progress billings into E-Builder and track approvals to insure vendors are paid timely.

Lead on annual budgetary process to insure proper documentation and support for Board approval.

Quarterly reconciliation and variance analysis preparation for internal purposes and external auditors. 11/07 to 4/14 Senior Accountant. Digital Generation, Inc. – Irving, Texas Digital Generation, Inc. distributes media content to television and online agencies around the world. Fiscal year 2012 revenue was 387 million dollars.

Financial package preparation for Television division including variance analysis and monthly close meeting package.

Balance sheet analysis and support for all accounts.

Reconcile Intangible Assets for domestic and foreign divisions to understand currency exchange differences.

Facilitate bank debt interest payments, principal payments, interest swap calculations.

Annual budget review with departmental Vice Presidents.

Created detailed analytic spreadsheets to assist auditors with variance explanations.

Coordinate the quarterly and annual audit with external auditors for Television division. 12/99 to 11/07 Manager – Merchandise Accounting. Michaels Stores, Inc. – Irving, Texas Michaels Stores, Inc. is an arts and crafts retail chain with stores in the United States and Canada. Revenue for fiscal year 2007 was 3.86 billion dollars.

Steering committee for the conversion from retail method of accounting to weighted average cost.

Member of the Retek team that converted inventory to perpetual inventory for all stores.

Assisted with the conversion from People Soft financial software to Oracle

Restatement of prior year financials for the conversion to cost accounting from retail method of accounting.

Coordinated Merchandise Accounting close period from eight day to three day close.

Implemented and managed the reporting for Accounting close variance meeting.

Coordinated the quarterly and annual audit of inventory with external auditors. EDUCATION

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, Dallas, Texas

Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting

Computer Skills

Experienced in using the following accounting software packages: ACCPAC, Real World, J.D. Edwards, HFM Reporting, People Soft, Oracle, Hyperion Essbase, and Great Plains using FRX Reporting. e-Builder Enterprise, Excel and Microsoft Word

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