David Graminski
*** ***** ******* ****** · O’Fallon, IL
**********@*****.***
Summary of Qualifications
Accounting/Finance professional with over 20 years’ experience
• Financial Analysis
• Accounting Operations
• Management and Team Building
• Exposure to SOX Audits
• Financial Reporting
• Cost Avoidance/Containment
• Experienced in high collection volumes
• System Conversions
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Cost Models
• Payroll Specialist
Experiences as a CFO and Controller
• Assume responsibility for planning, development, and implementation of effective accounting strategies, policies and procedures.
• Manage general ledger functions and the month-end/year end close process
• Establish and maintain effective communication and coordination with the company personnel, departments, management and corporate officers.
• Oversee preparation of daily, monthly, annual, and other periodic financial statement reporting while maintaining a staff of accounting, bookkeeping and administrative personnel in accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and collections.
• Supervise development and implementation of financial information and control systems, including general ledger, budgeting, cost allocation and other subsystems to ensure the effective preparation, maintenance, and reporting of internal and external financial records and analysis.
• As needed and appropriate, develop and maintain account schedules
• Maintain and audit of operational and procedural controls to ensure Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
• Assume the role of Human Resource Director
Supervise calculation and processing of payroll for 225+ personnel. Administer payroll taxes, reports, and payments.
• Maintain full control of all financial, accounting and cash management functions of a multi-state contractor for construction sites/clients located throughout Arizona, California, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada.
• Establish new accounts, credit limits and extensions.
• Prepare monthly job costing reports to determine revenue earned using percent complete on completed jobs as well as work in process. Compare budgeted costs to actual costs to determine variances. AIA Document reporting. Lien Waivers. Warranties.
• Successfully guided company through serious and adverse financial status, including renegotiation of outstanding payables, business alliances and partnerships with product vendors and suppliers.
• Instrumental in calculating and determining a $3.5 million receivables portfolio and aggressively collecting/securing over $2.5 million in delinquent debt from current and previous clients.
• Worked closely with bonding companies to secure liens and attachments on project sites for outstanding receivables.
• Successfully designed, developed, and integrated new corporate policies, internal financial controls and cost containment guidelines, employee job descriptions and office procedures.
• Performed phases of financial management and accounting for a $55 to $60 million division of Ecker Enterprises.
• Prepared and analyzed monthly financial statements; assessed and tracked outstanding receivables; monitored and tracked financial variances for each project site.
• Collaborated with project managers and superintendents to determine work-in-process, schedules, accounting, and budgetary requirements (variances).
• Prepared monthly Job Costing Reports to determine Revenue earned using Percent Complete on Completed Jobs as well as Work in Process.
• Complex analysis of Budgeted, Forecasted Costs to Actual Costs to determine variances.
• Coordinated and facilitated new hardware and software upgrades, internal conversions, and divisional tracking procedures.
• Instrumental in opening and relocating accounting office procedures from Nevada to Arizona.
• Coordinated the start-up and construction of warehousing facility and inventory tracking procedures for the state of Arizona.
Software Experience
EFI Monarch
Hagen
Business Works Gold
Microsoft Office Suite
PSI
Hyperion
Master Builder
Timberline
QuickBooks
Windows Operating System
Macola
SAP
Previous Employment
United States Tape and Label, Inc.
Maryland Heights, St. Louis, MO
May 2018 – September 2019
CFO/Controller
Medium to large printing and labeling plant specializing in a unique market of premium labels for product decoration and identification, promotional labels for coupons, booklets, direct marketing, digital labels and variable data industrial labels. Company also produces machinery for rent or purchase while also providing smaller runs of labels to support specialized individual brewing companies.
Revenue: 26 Million annually
ITS Solar, LLC
Millstadt, IL
April 2017 – January 2018
CFO/Controller
Contract Work
Small to Medium production plant specializing in a unique market of suppling wiring and combiner kits to major Construction companies such as McCarthy to build Solar farms.
Revenue: 13 Million annually
RR Donnelley and Sons
formally Consolidated Graphics Inc.
Ironwood Litho
Tempe, AZ
Precision Litho
Vista, CA
Nies Aircraft
St. Louis, MO
August 2004-August 2016
Controller
Small, Medium, and large size companies that include sheet- fed printer and web printers specializing in the design, reproduction and finishing of 2-6 color coated commercial print materials while offering other services such as storage, fulfillment, CD replication, and digital printing specialist. Revenue: 12-30 Million annually
Francisco Custom Pipe, Inc.
Wildomar, CA
March 2004-August 2004
Controller
Medium construction contractor specializing in the manufacturing and installation of mare hotels, horse corrals, custom barns and storage buildings for commercial and residential clients. Manufacturer of mezzanines for commercial warehouses and storage facilities.
Revenue: 15 Million annually
European Pavers Southwest, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
2001-2004
Controller
Large construction contractor specializing in the installation of inter-locking concrete pavers for custom homebuilders, commercial and municipal clients.
Gypsum Construction, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
1999-2001
Controller
Western Division
Division of a $225 million corporation - Ecker Enterprises. Nationwide general contractor specializing in commercial and residential construction
Sylvia Corporation
St. Louis, MO
1990-1999
Production Manager
Controller/Office Manager
One of the leading specialty manufacturers of lady’s hats in the nation.
Education
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, IL
Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting
Minor in Computer Science