General Manager Accounts Payable

Lesley Price

Finance Manager Profile

******@*****.*** • 540-***-****

LinkedIn • Forest, VA, 24551

Analytical and detail -oriented professional with extensive experience in all levels of accounting, including financial management, financial reporting, accounts payable/receivable, and auditing. Instrumental in evaluating financial/accounting processes to improve and re-implement revised procedures for financial and operational efficiency. Proven ability to lead, manage, and establish finance team to optimize finance operations. Renowned for utilizing financial data, analytics, and KPIs to assist in making crucial decisions. Equipped with exceptional leadership, communication, problem solving, multitasking, relationship building, negotiating, interpersonal, and analytical skills.

Areas of Expertise

Contract Negotiations

Financial Statements & Accounting

Data Collection & Analytics

Process Improvement

Inventory Control

Accounts Payable/Receivable

Operational Management

Auditing & Budgeting

Finance Management

Professional Experience

Delta Star, Inc., Lynchburg, VA 2018 – 2023

Business Unit Controller, DSE Plant 2020 – 2023

Serve as business partner to general manager for decision making, shop loading, and optimization of financial performance. Manage Lynchburg, VA Delta Star plant along with assisting divisions financial accounting and reporting. Assist effective business decisions by defining proper metrics. Supervise, assess, and interpret financial data to assess business alternatives and decision making. Gather cost reports and collaborate with manufacturing, engineering, and material control on any variances. Direct all department annual budgets and monthly forecasting, as well as any variances. Serve as main point of contact for sales, operations, human resources, manufacturing, material control, engineering, contracts, customer solutions, and finance. Ensure proper invoicing, commissions, escalation, job closing, and all costs at end of month. Monitor job statuses on daily basis for revenue recognition, cost estimation, decision making, and profit optimization. Work with material control to ensure accurate inventory. Train new controllers at other plants as well as assist in audit and inventory at other locations. Coordinate with sales to quote job labor on basis of data and collect escalation on material and labor increases. Act as financial representative for plant union contract negotiations.

●Supported in development of new steel plate storage to improve inventory accuracy and new oil fill station to increase efficiencies.

●Negotiated new health insurance for company in order to save money.

●Supported process improvement engineer to build staging lanes to improve flow of materials through the plant.

●Helped engineering with plasma table nesting program to reduce scrap steel plate.

●Calculated ROI on business expansion and added new business division to grow company’s gross margin by 20%.

●Collaborated with manufacturing on departmental labor overages to improve efficiencies.

●Created shop loading document for all plants in order to optimize capacity and headcount while increasing revenue.

●Communicated with business units throughout United States and Canada to optimize capacity, revenue, and load.

Business Unit Controller, Field Service 2018 – 2020

Served as business partner to general manager in order to streamline financial performance. Managed field service divisions financial accounting and reporting. Created appropriate metrics to support effective business decisions. Supervised, assessed, and interpreted financial data to evaluate business alternatives and decision making. Ensured high-quality financial data and business information as well as financial closing timelines. Gathered cost reports and directed discussions on variances with sales and operations. Administered department's annual budget and monthly forecasting along with communicating any variances. Delivered training to replacement controller after promotion to the plant.

●Developed schedule load logic to maximize revenue and asset utilization.

●Maintained timely and efficient communication with relevant finance group functions and other internal customers in order to identify and discuss issues to improve operations, sales, work quality, and efficiency.

●Communicated with business units throughout the United States and Canada in order to collect revenue on warranty, inside sales, and transfer costs.

N.B. Handy Company, Lynchburg, VA 2013 – 2018

Staff Accountant

Administered several accounts receivable/payable, cash, payroll, and accrual reconciliations. Facilitated branches and general managers with financial questions and queries. Calculated sales commissions as well as managed subsidiaries in QuickBooks. Reviewed daily billing, collections, accounts receivable, and various banking responsibility to calculate daily collateral. Communicated with bank daily to oversee line of credit. Trained new employees and interns to enhance productivity. Created financial statements in excel and GL software, and Mincron. Prepared scorecard, scored, and collected data for vendor performance evaluations.

●Accomplished as 2016 Corporate Employee of the Year and President’s Council Member due to optimal level of personal excellence.

●Set up, gathered, and calculated several customer rebates and accruing throughout the year.

●Created quarterly board presentations and financial statements to provide information about company's revenue.

●Conducted various month/year-end audit processes to ensure zero discrepancies.

●Oversaw all corporate credit card accounts through Concur as well as approved and recoded all expense reports.

Additional Experience

Senior Associate at Dixon Hughes Goodman, LLP, formerly Goodman & Company, Roanoke, VA

Staff Accountant at Cherry Bekaert, formerly McLeod & Company, Roanoke, VA

Education

Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Information Systems

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

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