Financial Analyst Corporate Accountant

ANDREW JOSEPH JR.

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PHONE: 908-***-****, EMAIL: **********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

Experienced Professional seeking to obtain a position with a diversified organization where I can utilize my strong analytical and leadership skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ANYWHERE BRANDS

Finance & Accounting Director 08/2020 – 2/2023

• Collaborate with executives and directors to create budgets and track key performance indicators.

• Build and manage monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts.

• Developed financial tools to analyze variances, business pipeline and industry trends.

• Provide meaningful explanations relating to revenue and expenses plan vs actual variances.

• Prepare monthly financial accruals, deferrals, reclassifications, and interdepartmental entries, ensuring they are recorded timely and properly in accordance with US GAAP and internal policies.

• Work closely with billing team to troubleshoot and resolve any issues related to month end reporting.

• Prepare and review monthly balance sheet account reconciliations in Blackline providing proper support and documentation substantiating GL balance and ensuring all reconciling items are cleared in a timely manner.

• Prepared, distributed, and maintained financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S GAAP.

• Responsible for managing and administering contractual rebates ensuring broker compliance with contractual terms and conditions.

• Assisted as needed with the annual audit process.

• Assisted in preparation of annual tax reports.

• Developed and enhance financial models using various tools to drive effective data analytics and provide recommendations that enable quality performance management discussions and better decision-making.

• Collaborated with the IT and Business Application teams to enhance system processes and controls.

• Developed, maintain, and distribute ad-hoc reports and financial models as needed.

• Continuously improved and refine processes and procedures that scale effectively as we grew to increase efficiency and quality of the team’s deliverables.

• Trained new employees as needed.

ANYWHERE BRANDS

Finance & Accounting Manager 04/2017 – 08/2020

• Produce daily month to date summary of open and closed transactions for senior management.

• Produce quarterly franchise health scorecard for executive management team.

• Develop financial models to assist team members with explaining fluctuations in financial results.

• Load brand revenue budgets, monthly actuals and forecast updates into financial system.

• Review daily transactions reported by brokers to ensure the accuracy of the data reported.

• Prepare monthly price stratification reports for senior management.

• Prepare monthly revenue accrual and deferral entries as needed.

• Record monthly accrual estimates for transactions posted after period cut-off.

• Measure quarterly accrual estimates against actuals for late reported transactions.

• Review, approve and process payments for rebate and incentives earned by affiliates for achieving certain commission milestones.

• Provide training and ongoing support for FDR to finance and accounting organization.

• Produce Broker detailed market trend report by State.

• Consistently take advantage of opportunities to streamline business processes, provide value added analyses and implement positive change.

• Calculate annual IBNR rates used to determine accrual estimates due to late reporting.

• Investigate & resolve reconciling items on monthly balance sheet reconciliations.

• Calculate quarterly license fees due to affiliates.

• Perform ad hoc financial analysis, modelling and work on special projects as needed. ANYWHERE BRANDS

Senior Financial Analyst 12/2009 – 04/2017

• Assist with the budgeting & forecasting process by preparing presentations and providing recommendations to senior management.

• Prepare bad debt expense and note impairment forecast for all brands.

• Determine and record journal entries for accruals in accounting system through review of the monthly income statement and discussions with personnel from Sales, Audit, Finance, Learning, IT, Accounts Receivable and Strategic Business Development departments.

• Identify and provide detailed and thorough explanations for variances between actual results and forecasts to senior management monthly.

• Review and update monthly expense forecast in Hyperion Planning tool through review of actual results with business groups.

• Prepare annual measurement analysis to determine if affiliates met requirements for partial forgiveness of conversion promissory note.

• Produce daily sales outstanding report for all brands on monthly basis.

• Monitor capital project activity and spending levels through monthly review with project leads to obtain status updates and identify/report any material over spending.

• Assist in preparation of annual capital budget for company owned brands.

• Ensure fixed asset additions, impairments, retirements, transfers, depreciation, and other adjustments are reported in compliance with company policies.

• Responsible for redesign of company’s Approval for Expenditure (AFE) form and SharePoint site

• Developed, implemented, and maintained system procedures related to fixed assets and capital expenditures.

• Assist in the identification and implementation of process re-engineering and automation of manual activities on a continuing basis.

ANYWHERE BRANDS

Senior Accountant 12/2008 – 12/2009

• Prepare monthly revenue and cost accrual/deferral entries for all brands.

• Maintain an audit ready control posture and ensure the data reported in the financial statements follow GAAP, company’s accounting practices, and regulatory requirements.

• Record monthly loan amortization entries for all brands.

• Investigate & resolve reconciling items on monthly balance sheet and bank reconciliations.

• Responsible for consolidation and review of the quarterly balance sheet reporting package.

• Review and analyze receivables data to determine bad debt reserve requirements.

• Review promissory notes for unusual terms and conditions.

• Assisted in the development and implementation of effective accounting strategies, policies, and procedures.

• Worked on special projects as needed.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE (IBM)

Corporate Accountant 02/2005 - 12/2008

• Compile and analyze financial information to prepare monthly closing entries.

• Maintain an audit ready control posture and ensure the data reported in the financial statements follow GAAP, IBM accounting practices, and regulatory requirements.

• Analyze contracts for appropriate accounting treatment by performing monthly Sarbanes-Oxley testing and reporting for Strategic Outsourcing agreements with non-standard terms & conditions.

• Monitor and track business trends to provide an insightful accounting analysis to Consolidation Accounting and various Finance & Planning teams to help improve business performance.

• Perform detailed review, analysis, and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.

• Supervise the input and handling of financial data and reports for automated financial system.

• Perform Gross vs. Net analysis for contracts with non-IBM OEM HW/SW and subcontractor services.

• Analyze & review Selling General & Administrative (SG&A) Expense with management monthly.

• Prepare amortization schedules for Strategic Outsourcing contracts.

• Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting control procedures. EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree in accounting

COMPUTERS/TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Essbase, Oracle, Hyperion, DASH, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Crest, QuickBooks Online, Microsoft Dynamics, People Soft, Microsoft Office Tools (Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, Access, PowerPoint & Word), Financial Data Repository System (FDR), Blackline, ARMS, Power Bi, and Tableau

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