Financial Planning and Analysis

CATHERINE HALL

Phone: 410-***-**** ● Email: ****************@*****.***

EXECUTIVE P ROFILE

Accounting and Business professional. Demonstrated efficiency and expertise in various accounting platforms, including Sage and QuickBooks. Attention to detail and business acumen has been demonstrated in many service industries, mission-critical environments, general contracting, manufacturing, non-profit, grant management, retail, restaurant, and e-commerce organizations. Proven leadership, management, and team-building skills. Demonstrating integrity, courage, transparency, and the ability to build trust and relationships within and beyond my team. P ROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DS Smith, Cambridge, MD (6/2023 to Present)

Finance Business Partner

~ Recruited to drive a culture of financial accountability for the facility.

~ Prepare detailed monthly financial forecast for P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, prepare bridges, and analysis of monthly financial and operating results, explaining key variances from budget, forecast and prior year to leadership team.

~ Prepare annual operating budget; Ensure BU leadership team has sufficient ownership and understanding of required performance, key assumptions, and risks/opportunities.

~ Track monthly operating KPI’s (quality, service, waste) and verify accuracy of shop floor data.

~ Develop, monitor, and execute specific initiatives to optimize working capital with particular focus on inventory and past due receivables.

~ Identify and implement process improvement opportunities within the finance function.

~ Manage detailed portfolio of productivity projects to improve site level operating efficiency and financial performance.

~ Oversee capital planning, capital forecasting and business case development for key investments.

~ Monitor and implement site internal controls as necessary to ensure reporting integrity, safeguarding of company assets, and risk identification.

~ Monitor, assess, and recommend improvements in product costs by validating material, labor, and overhead standards, analyzing sales and production pricing, run rates, and volume.

~ Ensure inventory is properly valued and controlled by maintaining strong reconciliation and cycle count processes.

~ Partner with Finance Resource Center to ensure a smooth monthly closing process with timely and accurate financial results.

Egide USA, INC, Cambridge, MD (2/2021 to 9/2023)

Controller

~ Recruited to report to Group CFO, supporting CEO, GM, and dotted line oversight for HR and Purchasing.

~ Oversee monthly financial close and reporting process. This includes the General Ledger, Revenue Recognition, Cost Accounting, A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets, Cash and Consolidations.

~ Manage and prepare financial statements and financial reports, providing insightful analysis of financial data and experience-based recommendations.

~ Responsible for presenting data for tax reporting and filings in the US. to outside accounting firm, managing fire insurance claim verification and general ledger posting.

~ Build and maintain domestic and lending and banking relationships.

~ Manage annual audit and the relationships with external audit and tax resources.

~ Optimize cash management, including improving and implementing efficient cash controls.

~ Enhance the company’s overall internal control framework by collaborating with teams across the Egide Group for ongoing process improvements to increase efficiency.

~ Ensure debt covenant compliance and complete biweekly borrowing base agreement.

~ Set up, monitor, and payroll for full-time and part-time employees. TechOps Specialty Vehicles, Stevensville, MD (5/2019 to 2/2021) Senior Accountant

~ Report to Controller, President, and Private Equity Firm.

~ Manage cash flow on a daily and weekly basis, producing effective weekly and monthly cash reforecasting reports and margin analysis, forecasting cash needs.

~ Maintain and develop WIP schedules for all long-term projects, project margin analysis.

~ Complete full-cycle accounting and monthly close, control general ledger, reconcile purchasing dept. entries to bank monthly.

~ Time and attendance supervisor for 15 to 30 staff - manage job coding, job hours, and daily labor reporting.

~ Create job profitability reports to develop and include standard costs, overhead, and determine variances.

~ Communicate with operations team, vendors, customers, and production staff regarding production and payment schedules.

~ Refine processes in HR, manage health insurance and 401k, complete business and sales tax filings.

~ Produce quarterly, monthly, and annual financial statements, as well as annual workpapers for tax firm.

RCN and Associates, LLC - Edgewater, MD (2/2018 to 4/2019) Staff Accountant/ QuickBooks Certified Pro

~ Responsible for managing WIP schedule for major construction client for bond audit purposes. Review books for errors to prepare for audit and clean up entries.

~ Analyze various client’s month to month transactions and review journal entries, assist in closing books, counseling in a variety of QuickBooks issues, and/or assisting with setup and cleanup of data.

~ Prepare income and personal property tax returns for individuals, partnerships, and corporations in UltraTax.

~ Run clients weekly and bi-weekly payrolls and complete quarterly and annual tax reporting.

~ Research tax and payroll tax questions; offer suggestions for tax planning and study tax laws for potential tax savings for corporate and individual clients.

~ Meet with new small business clients to discuss accounting needs and plan out services.

~ Types of clients worked with: real estate management, development & partnerships; builders and steel industry; restaurants, retail stores, medical clinics, and non-profits in MD, DC, VA, and Florida.

Friends Research Institute - Baltimore, MD (12/2016 to 5/2020) Accounting Manager and Consultant

~ Recruited to report to Chief Operating Officer

~ Analyzed and reconciled long term issue with federal grant funding account and management reporting.

~ Review monthly project costs, to determine overhead rates for billing, finding, and adjusting variances.

~ Produce monthly financial statements and workpapers to compile 20 to 30 long-term grant funded projects with separate general ledger accounts, and present to board, grant providers, and in gov’t fund report submissions.

~ Record cash receipts and bank deposits, review checkbooks, and bank accounts for Maryland and California office, reconciling and/or reviewing all four bank statements (indirect supervision of 2).

~ Prepare all journal entries for data entry, coding A/P invoices for clerk, and producing checks.

~ Maintain audit schedules and work closely with auditors at fiscal year-end on annual audit and Federal Single Audit.

Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, MD (02/2015 to 12/2016) Finance Manager

~ Report to Chief Operating Officer

~ Created new budget process with departments, successfully forecast bookstore sales and created budget backing into gross margin.

~ Collaborate with management to support overall organizational goals and objectives, meeting with department managers regarding financial results, special reporting requests, grant management.

~ Control General Ledger and ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met. Present updated balance sheet and P&L to finance committee monthly.

~ Create fixed asset schedules, restricted fund schedules and manage accordingly.

~ Provide an accurate and timely monthly and year-end close, work with auditor to ensure a clean and timely year-end audit and completion of Form 990, calculate and provide sales tax compliance.

~ Recording and management of A/P, reconciliation of staff CRM entries with receipts and bank activities and managing a daily cash flow analysis. Travel Advantage Network, Millersville, MD (10/2003 to 05/2006) Account Management Specialist

~ Recruited to report to Controller, verify all areas of member account information and sales management for national territory of members, create and manage data reporting sheets for reporting client revenues.

~ Attained high percentage of client retention and facilitation of member usage, achieving

“InTangible Employee”, “CollecTanner” and other awards for kindness, service, charity, and cross training as well as Certificate of Recognition for Exemplary Technical Service. American Urethane, Odenton, MD (08/1997 to 02/2002) Office Manager

~ Assist Controller; Completed A/R entries and deposits, enter time sheets and run payroll and paychecks for 20 staff, answer phones, send correspondence, create organization of MSDS safety information, run vendor and client credit checks, supervise shipping and receiving department, receiving awards for 100% shipment time consistently; Quality Control - Achieved <0.1% defect rating awards by completing quality control inspection. EDUCATION A ND C E RTIFICATIONS

~ Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Business Administration, University of Maryland GC (GPA: 3.8)

~ Notary Public of Maryland (currently non-active), QuickBooks Certified Pro COMPUTER SKILLS

SAP general ledger functions, Power BI, SAP BO, Excel (Vlookups, pivot tables, etc), Excel Add-Ons

(IBM, Merlin XL, Smartview), Quick Books; Sage 50 and 100, UltraTax, Word, Access, Salesforce; JobBoss Manufacturing CRP, Altru Non-Profit Management Software, Publisher, Power Point; Photoshop; Illustrator; FrontPage; Corel Graphics; PageMaker, and others

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