STEVE ROBINSON-BURMESTER

*** ******* ******, ********, ** 95695 H: 530-***-**** C: 916-***-**** adu7f2@r.postjobfree.com Executive Profile

Professional accounting manager with 35+ years of award-winning service in accounting department management, financial statement presentation, audits, banking relations, risk management, internal control, and multi-divisional budget control. Skill Highlights

GAAP Expertise Management of accounting

Budgeting Financial Analysis and Reporting

Auditing Internal control oversight

Banking Relations Excellent written and oral communication Information Technology Management Human Resources Management Core Competencies

ACCOUNTING: 2015 Sacramento CFO of the year honoree by the Sacramento Business Journal. Thirty-five years’ experience in a wide range of accounting functions: internal and external auditing, accounting systems programming and installation, and the duties of accountant, controller and chief financial officer. Managed accounts payable, payroll, benefits, accounts receivable, billing and inventory control, produced monthly detailed financial and operations statements, corporate tax returns, cost allocation plans, managed cash flow, annual corporate budgets, fixed asset schedules, reviewed and adjusted 50,000 annual general ledger transactions, and produced hundreds of complex analyses and internal reports to help guide management. Served 25 years as Board assistant treasurer. Acted as liaison to corporate banker, loan officer to secure credit lines and the company accountant in the creation of annual Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) and corporate tax returns. Financial ethics representative. COMMUNICATION: Excellent writing skills. Presented numerous analyses and reports to management, the board of directors and outside entities. Written or produced more than 100 feature-length videos over the past ten years.

ANALYTICS: Developed and maintained a detailed, dynamic cost allocation plan. Daily monitored, forecast and reported to management the provision of 1 million annual transit rides. Created a highly accurate and acclaimed 30-year demand projection model based on a hybrid of national and regional data forecast models. Analyzed annual expenditure patterns by line item by vendor to control cost variance and forecast budgeted expenditures. Consistently maintained annual total budget variances of 2% or less.

LEADERSHIP: Recruited and led dedicated teams of accounting, human resources, information systems and data analysis staff for 35 years with extremely low turnover. Developed and directed a comprehensive corporate wellness program since 2006 to improve absenteeism and reduce annual benefit expense by $300,000 a year. The wellness plan has won the Sacramento Business Journal's Healthiest Employer accolade for the past 2 years in a row. Professional Experience

Director of Finance Jan 2017 to date

California State Council of Service Employees Sacramento, CA Administered the finances of the California State Council. Completed timely and accurate financial reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and Concur expenditure tracking.

Supervised accounting staff.

Purchased and maintained necessary insurance and bonding. Prepared and monitored annual budget to within 2% each year. Maintained confidential financial and executive information and files, and all records of receipts, payments and other financial matters.

Prepared all required financial reports and provided the Executive Director and managers with financial information as needed to perform their duties. Provided accounting schedules and assisted the State Council auditor and auditors from government agencies to comply with state and federal law, including preparation of an annual fiscal audit and an annual LM-2 report to the Department of Labor. Maintained clean audit opinions each year. Produced legislative and political campaign reports for the State Fair Political Practices Commission. Served as the company's ethics liaison.

Managed the company's COVID response program.

Directed the information systems and human resources departments. Accountant-controller-chief financial officer Sep 1991 to Sep 2016 Paratransit, Inc. Sacramento, CA

Managed the accounting, data analysis and information systems departments for a $40 million multi-state agency.

Analyzed operational and financial data.

Presented results to Board of Directors and management. Supervised staff in accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, inventory control, data analysis and information systems.

Maintained an active banking relationship to secure loans, lines of credit and drafted a corporate investment policy to maximize annual rate of return despite several recessions. Controlled an $18 million inventory.

Managed an average 7.9% annual revenue growth over a 25-year span. Created annual corporate budgets and consistently kept actual expenditures to within 2% of budget.

Built a $5 million reserve by 2016 through a combination of strict cost control and revenue growth.

Received clean opinions in each of 25 consecutive annual financial audits. Performed targeted statistical analyses to guide management utilizing complex Excel spreadsheets, Seagate Crystal Reports, and SAGE ERP 300 accounting software. General Manager Jan 1990 to Sep 1991

Smedley, Munn & Co, CPAs Sacramento, CA

Organized and implemented a microcomputer consulting division within a CPA firm. Developed applications for construction management and scheduling. Installed and customized SAGE ACCPAC, Microsoft GP Dynamics and Timberline accounting software. Manager Jun 1988 to Jan 1990

Ernst & Young, CPAs Sacramento, CA

Developed and implemented the Accounting Systems Consulting Group for Ernst & Young. Managed the resource scheduling of the massive Department of Motor Vehicles database redevelopment project utilizing Microsoft Project Installed and customized SAGE ACCPAC and Great Plains accounting software.

Systems Analyst Jun 1987 to Oct 1987

Hewlett Packard Palo Alto, CA

Designed and implemented procurement software for the corporate component procurement team. Wrote analytic programs to optimize worldwide semiconductor procurement. Education

MBA, Finance and Accounting Information Systems

UC Davis Graduate School of Management Davis, CA Finance, Accounting, Cost Accounting, Information Systems, Systems Design, Programming, Economics, Organizational Psychology, Entrepreneurship Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Statistics

UC Davis Davis, CA

Psychology, Statistics, Economics, Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Sociology Affiliations

Financial Executives International, board member, professional development chair UC Davis Graduate School of Management, alumni

Woodland Opera House Guild, member

Yolo County 4-H, adult volunteer