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Corporate Accountant Adjunct Professor

Location:
Phoenix, AZ
Posted:
January 12, 2022

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Stan Chaplin, cpa, mba

**** *. ****** **. # *** 847-***-****

Phoenix, AZ 85015 adpwbv@r.postjobfree.com

Executive Profile

Masterful corporate accounting and finance professional offering more than 15 years’ experience. Poised for a role instituting financial structure, driving financial strategy, and guiding senior-level peers with significant financial data that impacts business decisioning. Reputation for establishing financial infrastructure where there was none, and sharpening the real financial picture where it didn’t previously exist. True talent is enhancing processes and optimizing value, to deliver not just the numbers, but the meaning of the numbers, in order to drive revenue, performance, and profitability.

Strategic Financial Leadership

Corporate Controllership

Operational Leadership

P&L Management

Financial Reporting & Analysis

Financial Statement Consolidations

Fixed Assets Management

SEC Reporting

SOX Compliance

Team Leadership & Development

Experience & Achievements

Capital Project Associates, LLC June 2017 to present

Owner/President - Real Estate investment company

Purchase and improve residential properties for resale or income producing properties

Comptrollers Office – Cook County Government November 2013 to September 2016

Director of Financial Control-

eImprovement.Com, Racine, WI October 2008 to April 2013

Controller: Strategically directed the full scope of financial management: accounting, budgeting, and forecasting, and instituted the business’ 1st formal financial structure. Previously, the company relied on QuickBooks, manual processes, and an external CPA firm, and, more recently, faced a lack of historical financial statements, insufficient methodology to analy pricing, track revenue and expenses, and several years’ worth of unfiled taxes. Closely collaborated with peers on the executive leadership team, to position the financial management function as a key driver of strategic corporate objectives.

Overhauled legacy accounting procedures, and formulated a financial snapshot of the business, to enhance partners’ understanding of the company’s sales volume, profitability, and other KPIs.

Launched Dynamics GP ERP, an upgrade from QuickBooks, which integrated data from the online sales systems into the accounting system and expense monitoring tool.

Created supplier and operational cost tracking, to provide a timely fulfillment record of approximately 350 orders daily. Also, arranged for daily emailed reports, for verification, from eImprovement’s primary distributor.

Instrumentally contributed to a capital expansion initiative, by partnering with an external investment banker to compile historical financials, as well as forecasts and projections, for presentation to potential investors.

Key Contract Consulting Positions (April 2006 to September 2008)

RHMR Milwaukee, WI (April 2008 to September 2008)

Senior Accountant – SAP, CNH, Racine, WI Integrally contributed to the SAP go-live implementation for this multi-national concern, and transitioned legacy accounting data pertaining to capital assets, fixed assets, cash, and several bank accounts, into SAP. Prepared journal entries, performed monthly close functions, and led monthly account reconciliations. Additionally, provided expertise regarding addressing foreign tax issues in SAP.

Independent Consulting (May 2007 to April 2008)

Senior Financial Analyst, USA Blue Book, Waukegan, IL: Conducted the full scope of accounting functions: prepared P&L statements, computed balance sheets, calculated cash flows, and conducted monthly account reconciliations. Developed management reporting as well. Placed a sharp, consistent focus on identifying opportunities to install processes and systems to optimize accounting practices. Provided training and leadership.

Reduced A/R from $11 million to $6.5 million, by customizing a program to identify and properly assign legitimate aging, then eliminate those receivables from the ledger.

Identified idle inventory and implemented system for tracking and made recommendations for inventory reduction

Introduced a standard fixed asset system to the business, and reduced over-depreciation by approximately $30K.

Spherion, Chicago, IL (December 2006 to May 2007)

Financial Analyst – DWS Mutual Funds, Deutsche Bank: Instituted a systematized, automated process to approve payments for TA sub-account billing, which accounted for $5-$6 million / month in broker fees. Payment verification required ensuring that brokers were billed according to contractual T&C, tracking expenses based on asset/participant charges, calculating allocation of fund expenses, and analyzing board/corporate fund expenses.

Instituted a database to analyze brokerages, funds, and billing percentages that comprised brokers’ compensation. Solicited input from the VPs, and shared the data with the company’s treasury department.

Streamlined billing previously submitted by US mail, email, spreadsheets, and PDFs into electronic files, automatically migrated into Excel.

RHMR, Northbrook, IL (September 2006 to November 2006)

Consolidations Manager, IMC Holdings, Grayslake, IL (2006): Joined the organization to consolidate the disparate accounting systems of 12 US and international entities; used Comshare and Excel consolidation tools. Then, standardized transactional activity; reconciled inter-company accounts, financial statements, and fixed assets; and automated reporting.

Kelly Financial Services, Glenview, IL (May 2006 to August 2006)

Financial Analyst, Kraft Foods, Northfield, IL: Performed fixed asset retirement, fixed asset reconciliation, and analyzed and approved fixed asset impairment and restructuring charges. Additionally, prepared internal reporting, and executed the monthly and quarterly closes. Provided training to another fixed asset analyst.

Spherion, Chicago, IL (April 2006 to May 2006)

Accounting Manager, Wolters Kluwer (2006): Directed the accounting team in conducting account analysis, performing account reconciliations, preparing management reports, and executing the month-end close.

Permanent Full time Positions (July 1999 – March 2006)

Hollister International, Libertyville, IL December 2005 to March 2006

Senior Accountant / Analyst: Directed financials for all IT projects, and principally liaised to the project managers regarding a host of financial management issues. Provided high-level financial analysis and accounting, conducted fixed asset analysis, variance analysis, account reconciliations, and month end-closes.

Issued a series of strategic recommendations to properly reconcile the 2006 budget, plagued by numerous misallocations between the 50 cost centers.

Introduced standard allocation procedures to the IT organization, particularly to lend structure to methodology for shared services.

Provided expertise to optimize utilization of the new SEM budgeting system within SAP, to enhance users’ correct application of the functionality.

Streamlined the capital asset gateway process, building cost / benefit analyses for proposed IT acquisitions, to be passed through several gates to secure approval at different levels of the organization.

Rust-Oleum Corporation, Vernon Hills, IL June 2004 to December 2005

Industrial Business Group Analyst: Advanced to this role to record, report, and analyze all aspects of IBG sales, COGS, and SG&A. Reconciled accounts, accruals, and non-accounting data; reported group sales and margin results; and monitored the budget process.

Advised business group VPs on the impact of key financial data, pricing, cost reduction measures, and incorporated the VPs into the sales, pricing and cost analysis process, to enhance their core competencies and drive their strategic decision making.

Forged collaborations with the VPs in order to optimize group sales analysis and reporting. Incorporated the VPs into the process.

Provided insight to the executive team on notable changes indicated in daily, weekly, and monthly reports. Such insight proved essential to, when necessary, shifting the business focus onto higher-margin products.

Reduced close time from 3 days to 1 a day, chiefly by identifying non-value-added processes, and migrating other processes from manual to automated.

Capital Asset Manager: Principally directed the entire process from capital planning through disposal, which involved building capital budgeting models for ROI, NPV, and IRR, planning depreciation expenses for several cost centers, and conducting cash flow analysis for the treasury department. Assumed complete ownership of SOX controls for capital assets, to ensure compliance with SOX requirements. Explained key components of SOX from purchase through disposal, and identified areas of potential risk or liability.

Liberty Group Publishing, Northbrook, IL July 1999 to June 2004

Accounting Manager: Merited fast-track advancement through a series of increasingly responsible roles, culminating with this position. Scope encompassed driving the budget process, analyzing and reporting fixed and intangible assets, evaluating M&A financial statements, and collaborating with external auditors (10K & 10Q). Specialized in process optimization and productivity improvement. Oversaw the corporate accounting staff, (A/P manager, senior accountant, and banking / PR / insurance specialists), and indirectly oversaw 6 regional accounting managers and 100+ bookkeepers / accountants. Previously held the titles of Senior Corporate Accountant (2001 to 2003), Corporate Accountant (2000 to 2001), and Staff Accountant (1999 to 2000).

Introduced best practices in financial analysis to this organization, and established a standard financial close process.

Strategically guided implementation of SFAS 141/142, which proved essential in providing the accounting team and the management team with tools to optimize intangible assets.

Directed an initiative to formulate and implement procedures so the company would achieve compliance with newly-enacted DNC legislation.

Principally managed a key project to implement Great Plains software, which eliminated manual accounting procedures, standardized processes, and provided access to accounting data in real time.

Defined the company-wide capitalization policy; provided strategic expertise as a member of the capital expenditure approval committee.

Teaching Experience

DeVry University, Keller Graduate School, Naperville, IL December 2007 to Present

Certified Instructor (Visiting Professor), Finance, Accounting, & Budgeting

Columbia College of Missouri, Park City, IL November 2001 to April 2008

Adjunct Professor, Finance & Accounting

Education

MS, Accounting & Financial Management

MBA, Financial Management Focus

Keller Graduate School of Management Oakbrook Terrace, IL

BS, Business Administration/Finance

Columbia College of Missouri Columbia, MO

AAS, Accounting

AAS, Construction Management

College of Lake County Grayslake, IL

Designations

Certified Public Accountant, State of Illinois

Licensed Public Accountant - State of Illinois

Technology

Dynamics Great Plains

Frx

MS SQL Server

SAP (R3-FICO)

SAP BW (Business Intelligence)

SAP SEM (Budgeting & Forecasting)

PeopleSoft

J.D. Edwards

Millennium

FACTS Business Software

Business Objects

Tax Works

Hyperion

Hyperion Retrieve

Comshare Consolidation & Reporting

Best FAS

Crystal Reports

MS Office (Word, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint)

QuickBooks Pro & Premier

MS Project

Tax Act

Turbo Tax

Affiliation

Illinois CPA Society



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