Gregory M. Rand Cell: 440-***-****

Email: adhde2@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective:

Highly qualified, Accountant/ Finance Manager, with extensive experience in managing multi-site facilities in both the financial and operation realms.

Coordinating with the management team to improve operational and financial performance of the company. With extensive knowledge of financial management, financial analysis, bar operations, restaurant management, gaming management, human resources, operational procedures, accounting principles, taxation policies and generally acceptable accounting practices.

Employment History:

Senior Accountant April 2016 to Present

Ringside Talent Acquisition Partners.

Professional Accounting Services provided to the following companies:

Premier Dealer Services, Hexion, Crawford & Hoying Real Estate Developers and property management, Columbus Airport Authority, Eloquii, Wesleyan Ohio Conference, Jacksonville Transit Authority, White castle, Safe ware Insurance, Republic Services, Chase Bank.

Experience

Working with senior management during the Chapter 11 process for accounts payable and purchase order system also meeting the timeline for compliance with chapter 11 requirements. Rebuilding transactions on SAP system after ransom ware attack.

Experience with Yardi account management, sage fixed assets, Real page accounting system and QuickBooks. Fixed assets and general ledger reconciliations. Year end audit papers and monthly accounts. Asset Segregation accounting treatment for accelerated depreciation rates.

Microsoft Dynamics accounting system, Sage fixed assets system. Monthly account reconciliation. Responsible for fixed assets system and maintenance of an $11 B reconciliation of fixed assets. Grant lodgments and closeouts of grants and compliance to grant allocations. Reconciliation of monthly accounts for internal and external audits.

Implementation of Great Plains accounting system conversion from QuickBooks. Setting up accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank accounts and general ledger, chart of accounts.

Reconciliation of month end and year end account reconciliation incorporating account audit worksheets, general ledger, and fixed assets. Bank account reconciliation function

Responsible for month end and year end account reconciliation incorporating account audit worksheets, general ledger, implementation of change over to great plains. Bank account reconciliation function.

Special project accountant. Over three years of neglect in fixed assets. Totaling $78million of assets that had not been researched. Analysis was required to enable grant compliance and appropriate rates of depreciation to each class of asset to be completed for asset write off.

Responsible for all month end and year end bank account reconciliation incorporating account audit worksheets, general ledger, implementation of TRECS cash control system.

Responsible for all month end and year end account reconciliation incorporating account audit worksheets, general ledger, implementation of QuickBooks bank account reconciliation function, accounts payable and accounts receivables and tax reconciliation.

Experienced in general ledger, payroll, bank reconciliations, cash management, accounts payables, account receivables, fixed assets, depreciation accounting and tax schedules. Responsible for all month end and year end account reconciliation incorporating account audit worksheets, general ledger, fixed assets.

Financial Banking Regulatory Compliance Audits, APR rates changes within Mortgage market. Mortgage Broker compliance audits.

Researching that the lender and borrower have complied with federal and state regulations governing the mortgage market.

HTMG- Rand Management LLC January 2000 to Present

Industry Advisor CEO/CFO

Experienced in, accounts payables and accounts receivables and month end reconciliation. Implementation of computerized time attendance system for payroll which decreased input by one day per week also improved accuracy.

Bank reconciliations carried out on new systems which allowed for expedient balancing of this function, decreasing errors by 25 percent and saving of time spent on this function

Responsible for maintaining general ledger, trail balance and Created journal entries for both month end and year end. Produced year-end worksheets for auditors which allowed for expedient completion of the year-end figures. Compilation of annual report to members.

Cash flow management, creating cash flow budgets inclusive of capital expenditure budgets. Financial accounting budgets creation and quarterly reviews inclusive of investigations to variation of budgets.

Inventory, POS systems, implementation of this system for inventory control keeping track of any variations. Setting up of system included plus’s and recipe costing to assist the bringing into line Gross Profit margins.

Central Coast Leagues Club Savings of 10% on Turnover Of $5,250,000 pa

Cardiff Workers Club Savings of 7% on Turnover of 3,500,000 p a

Fixed assets, prepared depreciation schedules, profit loss on realization of fixed assets. Establishment of fixed assets system for the following companies

Nambucca Heads RSL Inc. allowed club to gain a $500,000. Tax benefit. Tax affects accounting and lease accounting.

The completion of the Central Coast Leagues Club also realized a tax benefit of $22,000,000. As asset left on financial statements that had been disposed of where never written off. This was discovered when establishing the fixed assets system.

Analysis and compiling operational and financial reviews for companies including benchmarking / Key Point Indicator’s industry trends and solutions to key issues effect trading.

Several venues gained significant wage savings during my reorganization and restructure of operations.

Cardiff Workers Inc. Wage savings of $1,200,000. P A

Ipswich Golf and Country Club. Wage savings of$ 250,000 P A

Umina Beach Inc. Wage savings of $ 250,000 Per annum

Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club Wage savings of $ 325,000 per Annum

These are just to name a few there were 119 venues over a16 year period.

Developing of company’s budget. This involved working with departmental managers, to determine costs and benefits of various program. Research analyzes data and review financial records. Inclusive of recommendations for correction to these variations.

Training and monitoring of staff performance, training needs analysis to develop staff to their full potential. This was done to set goals, assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities, conduct annual performance appraisals and administers salary adjustments.

Project Management. Involved with numerous redevelopments from development consent to building approval. Review of successful tenderer to establish exclusions from design and construct contracts. This allowed costing to be calculated on these exclusions for completion of project along with submission of cash flows for bank financing.

Example 1. Secured finance delaying the borrowing of funds which in turn secured better interest rates was able to save 5.50% on 2,500,000. In borrowings which over the period of the loan saved the company $687,500.

Example 2. Secured finance delaying the borrowing of funds which in turn secured better interest rates was able to save 3.25% on 3,300,000. In borrowings which over the period of the loan saved the company $125,000.

Facility Management tendering of contracts allowing the company to review contracts covering, inventory, maintenance, security, building and project management contracts. This allowed cost saving of 120,000 on a variety of services for the company.

Financial management. Several companies improved trading performance over previous years when my services had been engaged. This occurred due to the fact of a better MIS reporting system, which improved profit performance

1. Coolangatta Tweed heads Gold club. Experienced 4 years of trading losses in my first year as Chief Executive Officer these losses dissipated to a first-year profit of 119,000. This is a turnaround in 1 year of over 600,000.

2. Bundaberg Soccer loss of $333,000. The year before my commencement after the first year of my services as Chief Executive Officer, produced a profit of $112,000.

3. Cardiff Workers prior year’s financial losses of $700,000 for two years, I was engaged to reverse this trend and showed profit of $1,200,000 after first twelve months.

Security Plan.

1.Company experienced threat to operations one three fronts cease and desist order from police regarding quiet and good order in community, designed security proposal policy for this to allow the venue to still function and this was approved by licensing court.

2.Armed Holdup policy that was adhered to venue followed policy saving lives of over 5 staff members.

Education:

DeVry University Chicago, Illinois

Bachelor of Science Technical Management

Major Accounting Dean’s List

Bachelor of Business-Accounting Sydney NSW, Australia

Associate Diploma Insurance and Risk Management Canberra ACT, Australia

Canberra College of Advanced Education

Fellow in Club Administration - Club Management Sydney NSW, Australia

Industry Experience

Hotel

Country Club

Casino

Retail - Fashion

Restaurant

Public Service

Non Profit

Banking

Airport

Fast food

Public Utilities

Health Club

Industry Specific Education

Food Management Certification - Serve safe

Liquor and Dining Room Management Certificate

Responsible Service of alcohol

Responsible Conduct of gaming

Liquor Licensee for premises

Gaming Licensee for premises

Non Profit Organizations

Skill Set:

Accounts Payable Management

Accounts Receivable

General Ledger Reconciliation

Annual Reporting to Members

Budget Forecasting

Cash Flow Projections

Contracts / Tendering

Excel/Word/Oracle

External/Internal Auditing

Facility management

Financial Management

Financial Statement Analysis

Fixed Asset Management

HR and Payroll Management

Cash Control Management

Loyalty/Membership Systems

POS/Inventory Management

Project Management

Snr Management Expertise

Taxation Federal and State

Restaurant Management

Bar Management

Non Profit Organizations

Slot Machine Management

Software Experience:

AS 400 System

Yardi

People soft

ACCPAC

Attaché

QuickBooks

Oracle

Great Plains

Solution 6

Microsoft Dynamics

Real Page

Jonus Hospitality

Sun Accounting Systems

Lawson

Microsoft Excel, Word.

PowerPoint

King Street

Net Suite

Lawson

SAP

M3 Accounting Sage

Social Media

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LinkedIn Profile

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References:

Kevin Stead Finance Manger 614-***-****

Justin Welliver Hexion Finance Manager 614-***-****

Rosanna Gearheart Hexion Accounts Payable Manager 614-***-****

Gary Weinheimer Hexion - Administrator adhde2@r.postjobfree.com

Randy Busch C. F. O. Columbus Airport Authority 614-***-****

Minerva Retana Senior Accountant 904-***-****

Bill Ash Accountant 740-***-****

James Johnson Safeware Insurance Finance Manager 614-***-****

Michael Newcomb Safeware Insurance CFO 614-***-****

Rachel Hawkins - AAA Auto Club 614-***-****

Derek Purr - Manager 561-***-****

Tim Wright (Aus.) - CEO Greenbank RSL 073******* or 040*******

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David Morgan (Aus.) - HTMG 011-61-418756817

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Tom Powell (Aus.) 011-61-755293245 adhde2@r.postjobfree.com

Mr. Paul Gidley - (Aus.) Ferrier Hodgson, Newcastle, NSW adhde2@r.postjobfree.com

Mr. Peter Walker - (Aus.) Ferrier Hodgson, Sydney, adhde2@r.postjobfree.com

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