Alfred a. takang

Phone: 470-***-**** Email: adzb48@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** **** ***** **, ************ GA 30135

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 23 years of experience in public accounting practice, business consulting, business management, financial planning and analysis. I am seeking career advancement in accounting, finance and business management.

Core Competencies

-Unique ability and experience to see the “big picture” that seamlessly ties strategy, execution, and implementation together.

-Competency in translating business issues into software solutions including opportunity identification, requirements development, delivery, support, and analysis.

-Planning/Forecasting – Organization of the planning process strategically, Midterm planning, annual planning (Budgets). Consolidation/verifying of single operations budgets, and ensure that the given objectives will be reached.

-Cost Planning – Appraisal and verifying of the cost rates for the calculation, setting up of the cost budgets for cost center/cost type orders.

-Result Analysis- Creation of commercial cost/revenue variance analysis including measures defined and tracked in all important financial issues (i.e. contribution margins, personal expenses, other operation expenses such as working capital).

-Product Cost Controlling – Check analysis of product cost, and initiate measures for cost reduction.

-Excellent analytical and MS Excel Skills.

-Cash Analysis- Bad debt management and general planning and control cash flow of the company.

-Preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports in accordance with the group instructions ( i.e. sales forecast, operation report, balance sheet, P & L report).

-Preparation of auditable yearly financial statement, and the management of the year-end-audit.

-Invest Controlling – To plan and control the investments including preparation of investment appraisals before and after the investments was made.

-Recording and managing of all fixed assets and preparation of all relevant reports (i.e. Fixed Asset Table)

-Measures Controlling – Planning, Controlling, Reporting and Coordination of all local reporting activities – including logistics, HR, Quality, Production, Accounting, and preparation of controlling reports.

-Strategic Market Positioning

-Budget Administration

Technical Proficiency

Oracle / PMBOK / Earned Value / Gantt / Customer Service / Quality Assurance/Pricing Plans /SQL/

Taxes / and Tables.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Controller/Senior Accounting Manager

Global Resources, LLC

February 2005- Present

Overall Goal: To create a more responsive and market driven organization resulting to increased profitability while streamlining cost and business expenses.

Help company to improve productivity, performance, profits, customer loyalty, sustainability, asset utilization, and reduction in cost.

Develop monthly/ annual Budget, and Monthly forecasting for the client business.

Develop and manage reporting analytics, market based analytics, AOP reporting, and monthly/annual budgeting. Drive long term report automation initiative. Help the business to improve profitability by implementing key performance indicators (KPI) in order to measure, monitor (track), and manage business performance over time to ensure bottom line profitability.

Develops standards of measurement for the cost of goods sold ( cogs) including determining, the most appropriate allocation of cost, and other expenses, and develop metrics to track operational efficiency.

Develop proper reporting by putting together a Flash report (weekly) report using the key performance indicators (KPI) that will measure the performance of the business on a weekly basis.

Develop, and manage reporting analytics

Prepares/manages daily/monthly reporting to ensure information is timely, complete, and accurate.

Partner with business leads to review monthly departmental results to ensure the accuracy, and timeliness of financial reporting to Executive management, including industry metrics, and financial ratios, so as to accurately forecast future periods.

Drive long term report automation initiative.

Actively participate in the analysis of reports to improve the performance of multiple business lines.

Collect data requirements from internal and external analytic customers.

Support operations by examining data integrity analyzing market data and establishing financial models/reports to track key financial and volume metrics.

Perform variance analysis relative to Budgets prior forecasts, and report opportunities, and business risks to client (business owner) or senior management

Monthly Capital forecast, preparing, updating, distributing, consolidating and reporting current Fiscal year capital projections and carry forwards.

Identify trends of productivity.

Conduct opportunity analysis on cost reduction and process improvement initiatives.

Process improvement analyzing any potential revenue streams related to assets

Drive the report automation process for analysis reports, and assess business needs for enhanced business intelligence.

Analyze and report on financial outcomes data using analytical software such as Access, Excel, or Business Objects, and present findings to internal and external customers.

Perform sales trend analysis to determine the seasonality of the business, percentage of each month contribution to the total revenue.

Ensures that operational, and design effectiveness of internal controls are maintained.

Prepares analysis, and variance explanation for monthly expenses vs. forecast

Implement the goals, objectives, and policies of the finance department.

Work with business to increase cash flow, profitability, and ease operational inefficiencies.

Creates, develop or customized organizational development, and performance improvement services to meet the needs of the business using professional knowledge, and current developing trends in the organizational development, and performance improvement field.

Accounting Manager/ Assistant Controller

Georgia Rehabilitation Outreach, Atlanta, Georgia

June 2001 – February 2005

Overall Goal: To manage the daily financial operation in all areas of general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll management, and cash flow management.

Manage projects daily to include managing the key driver components of resources, time, budget, materials, and personnel

Prepares general ledger journal entries, and analysis of GL

Prepare financial report summaries to predict economic and financial standing taking into consideration revenues expenditure net assets based on past and present operations.

Execute and maintain proper internal reporting/controls.

Develop standards of measurement for key metrics, and proper allocation of expenses, and developing, tracking metrics to measure operational efficiency.

Ensure the accuracy, and timeliness of financial reporting to Executive management, including Key industry metrics, and Financial ratios.

Assist with year-end/annual audits

Responsible for month-end close

Develop annual budget and monthly forecasting for the company

Perform variance analysis relative to budget and prior forecast, and report risk, and opportunities to senior management.

Full cycle Implementation of company goals, objectives, and policy

Review A/P supporting documentation for proprietary of coding, timeliness, and approvals.

Manage the month-end close process for timeliness and accuracy to include actual reporting, P & L prep, variance analysis, and distribution of reports.

Ensure compliance with all accounting policies, and systems including general ledger, financial reporting, record maintenance, and retention.

Assist in the identification and resolution of the company’s technical accounting issues by researching evaluating and preparing well documented position papers in the company’s transactions, legal contracts, and other business practices, and initiatives.

Assist in the annual impairment review of intangibles assets, and long-line assets.

Manage, identify and rectify bottom line variations, and also conduct variance analysis based on actual.

Prepare financial report summaries to predict economic and financial standing taking into consideration revenues, expenditure, and net assets based on past and present operations.

Focal point for escalation to upper management for resolutions and approval

In charge of cost model analysis on all projects

In charge of metric establishment and analysis

Responsible for contract analysis, and recommendation

Manage projects daily to include managing the key driver components of resources, time, budget, materials, and personnel

In charge of financial reporting, and analysis

Perform all financial planning, forecasting, and reporting in the business.

Responsible for month-end close out

Senior Business Consultant/Project Director

George S May International Company

October 1997 – June 2001

Overall Goal: To help clients with product and process cost reduction, yield and quality improvement, forecasting, team management.

Establish the process for business process improvement, and process mapping.

Established a change control and review process for all changes to all documents

Defined the systems requirements for the front end service order systems

Defined the process and help with the implementation of the new process

In charge of project planning, and forecasting

Review Sessions with the project team to ensure the initiative is successful from inception to deployment.

Assist with process improvement for all Project Management activities

Lead and manage client projects, responsible for project/contract revenue and gross profit, account growth, customer satisfaction results, execution of business controls, provide thought leadership effective executive level client communication.

Senior District Sales Manager / Senior Marketing Consultant

Star Enterprises- Texaco, Atlanta, Georgia

September 1992 - October 1997

Overall Goal: To build new business, securing customer loyalty, and forging strong relationships with external business partners. To mentor and coach, and also combine strong business acumen with innate leadership abilities to recruit, build, and retain top-performing sales team.

Managed and provide visionary sales leadership in highly competitive markets.

Secured key clients, and also increasing product distribution to grow market share.

Tenacious in building new business, securing customer loyalty

Implemented training course for new hires ensuring controls were in place, and ensure speedy profitability.

Recipient of the District Sales Manager award July 1997

Met or exceeded all sales Quotas through tenure, averaged more than $20 in annual sales in District.

Instrumental in complete turn –around of under-performing sales team, set higher expectations and instituted individual accountability resulting in 150% revenue increase over 2 years.

Director of Operations in Charge of 15 locations.

Checkers Drive-In Restaurants – Atlanta, Georgia

October 1988 – September 1992

Overall Goal: To ensure profitability for each of the assigned Districts by reducing waste. The clean up save the company over $2.5 million each year.

Directly responsible for the overall operation of the entire market

Responsible for budgeting, and budget controls for the entire market

Managed the Profit and Loss for the market ensuring proper controls are in place to reduce shrinkage.

Doubled sales per store from $1million to $2.5 million

Introduced new products in the market place that increased market earnings by 20%

Increased sales from $20million to $32million

Developed credibility, loyalty, trust and commitment and managed ongoing sales process and respond to all and anticipate customer needs.

Full responsibility for bottom-line factors including company vision, long range strategic planning, product and service management

Education & Training

Master of Business Administration – General Business

Almeda University

Boise Idaho

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

Almeda University

Boise Idaho

Bachelor of Science in Information Systems

Mercer University

Atlanta, Georgia

Master of Business Administration- Finance & Business Management

Mercer University

Atlanta, Georgia

Bachelor of Science in Economics

University of Yaoundé

University of Yaounde- Courses in Law

Business Finance Consultant Training

Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Business Consultant Training

Chicago, Illinois

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