CHRISTOPHER E. MURPHY, MBA
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LHH Accounting Contract Roles:
Pinnacle Treatment Centers (Corporate) (Hybrid/Remote Accounting) 12/24 – 05/25
Consultant Manager Accountant
Accounting and Financial Reporting processes:
Transformation Team for a growing Treatment Center, in the Health industry.
Revenue Recognition (Water Fall) allocation for accruals from cash.
Took on the SOP responsibility of creating a master reconciliation Excel template for balance sheet account summary sheet for the corporate office. This simplified the view for upper management for a more decluttered look as an executive summary for decisions on what the pertinent account balance should consist of.
Responsible to 37 balance sheet account analysis and close process for bank accounts.
Software Systems that I worked with from the various sites are listed below:
oMicrosoft Dynamics Great Plains (ERP)
oSage Intacct (ERP) system
oBill.com (Payables system)
oPapersave (Billings system)
oFloQast (Balance Reconciliations)
oShare Point (Cloud drive)
LHH Accounting Contract Role:
Trulieve (Corporate) (Remote Accounting) 9/24 – 11/24
Consultant Manager Accountant
Accounting and Financial Reporting processes:
Transformation Team for a growing medicinal/leisure cannabis cultivation, distribution and retail industry.
Took on the responsibility of creating a master reconciliation Excel template for balance sheet account summary sheet to be used in all states for the corporate office. This simplified the view for upper management for a more decluttered look as an executive summary for decisions on what the pertinent account balance should consist of.
Modified the presentation of quarterly contacts to include service dates and needed monthly/quarterly accruals with detailed descriptions that defined the contracts terms.
Worked with the inventory distribution team to put together an in depth roll forward of product movement to and from the Arizona distribution center. This mapped out differences from their internal and external movements and pointed at the needed classifications to made either in their POS system Dutchie or in the general ledger. Also trained new management to take over this process from beginning to end.
Took on shared responsibilities with the AP Transformation contracted team to research vendor receipt invoices in the invoiced not received (INR report) that were over 90days old to be further investigated for release from the liability accounts.
Software Systems that I worked with from the various sites are listed below:
oMicrosoft Navision/Dynamics NAV (ERP)
oNAV JET report queries for downloads from the system
oSAP Fiori and GUI Accounting, Financial Close, and Reporting Software (ERP)
oADRA Balancer: Balance Sheet Reconciliation Software
oDutchie Leaf Logics POS receipts reports
oMJ Freeway DOMO POS receipts system
Trinity Health Systems (Des Moines, IA) (Remote Accounting) 1/24 – 8/24
Consultant Senior Accountant
Accounting and Financial Reporting processes:
Accounts Receivable aging for Health Care provider percentage of billing through Medicaid/Medicare.
340B Medicare pharmacy drug pricing discounts and receivable schedules.
Transformation staff for newly acquired Mercy One Health systems and integration of People Soft ERP SaaS cloud based systems from Netsuite Oracle Reporting.
Financial close with banking responsibilities from an employee vacancy with an additional 20 journal entries to make a 45 item Tasks List.
Took on the responsibilities of three accountants, and provided training for new employees to delegate work load tasks to their understanding of the procedures.
Mercy One Centerville Financial Analysis on a monthly basis for variance explanations.
Peoplesoft ERP systems financial closes, analysis and reporting.
Work with system reports from Allscripts Star SQL Revenue System.
Streamline processes for close procedures and closing task for a more organized presentation to Regional Systems VP leadership.
Team training and process for over 30 balance sheet reconciliations.
Software Systems that I worked with from the various sites are listed below:
oNetsuite (Oracle)
oPeoplsoft SaaS (ERP)
oAll Scripts Star SQL (Revenue system)
oAdaptive (Financial Planning software)
oQuickbase (Banking Transactions)
oBill.com (Payables system)
Penn Medicine (Corporate) 1/18 – 1/24
Corporate and EB Senior Accountant
Accounting and Financial Reporting processes:
Consolidations of intercompany journal entries and Inter Entity Transfers (IETs) through monthly closes and annual audited financial statement filings.
IBNR Lag report/claims report for liability calculations.
Corporate Department accounting representative, which included the Penn Signature Services monthly financial close and budget analytics.
Experience with revenue recognition with our Penn Signature Services at the University of Pennsylvania - Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. This includes entries into the general ledger for deferred liability income and prepaid services to be amortized in revenue recognition serviceable dates.
Transformation team from Lawson systems to a cloud based Infor 365 system named PennFor.
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management SaaS System for Target, budgeting, and annualized projections. Also, Hyperion Essbase Budgeting lock and send files and forecasting.
Financial reporting closes and variance analysis through the Lawson general ledger system.
Performed all functions close procedures for employee benefits and 74 Hospital Accounting Units for 6 Hospitals under the Penn Medicine umbrella.
Streamline SOP processes for close procedures and closing task for a more organized presentation to Senior VP leadership.
Grant Accounting, including the daily activities and monthly State Reporting and support for a $28 Million Long Term Care Covid-19 Grant from July – December 2020, and also the extension into January and February with a $10 Million funding plan. This includes creating Financial Documents and processes to account for all funds spent and the preparation for an audit at the end of the grant.
Atlantic Medical Imaging 6/17 – 10/17
Senior Accountant
Accounting and Financial Reporting processes:
Expanded experience as an Expert level Microsoft Excel and Pivot table analyst, V-Look ups, as with AS400 Infinium (similar to the Oracle accounting systems).
Payroll Budget analysis through Primepoint and Pivot excel and system report downloads to create a financial model to assist the VP of operations in the 2018 budget planning. This provided in depth data on procedures per radiologists and OAs management.
In depth variance analysis of 13 property expenses and comparisons on a YTD and MTM basis. Communication with OAs Management on material variances in payroll and other expenses.
Lead Accountant on all close processes for modalities, LT debt schedules, Capital and Cash accounting.
Experience expanded with knowledge of Peachtree, Sage 50 Lite, Zotec ERP reporting, Primepoint, EHR payroll reporting.
Resorts Atlantic City 3/11 – 6/17
Accounting Supervisor
Consolidations with the parent company, including elimination entries for the annual audit financial statements and regulatory filings.
Recruited and develop the initial professional accounting staff consisting of a Senior and Staff Accountant through training modules and streamlined processes. This was done after three months of opening the new company of DGMB.
Set up and implementation, and training of the Infor PM reporting accounting systems for the AS400 Infinium base system and set up of the chart of accounts and report functions and accounting procedures.
Lead Project Supervisor Accountant for a $43 Million Margaritaville Multiphase building construction and outlet construction with Capital interest and accrual accounting functions. Setup and maintenance of percentage of completion WIP accounts to completed in service assets and variance analysis to PM Project Managers.
Lead Accountant for a $38 Million Food Court project with all multi-phase functions of Cost accounting and asset management accruals.
Develop staff training on the new system and download techniques for a more user friendly streamlined general ledger excel format using filters and Pivot tables for needed information to management and other users from planning and analysis.
Expert level Microsoft Excel and Pivot table, V-Look ups, and Infor PM reporting accounting systems for AS400 Infinium (similar to the Oracle accounting systems).
Caesars Entertainment 6/05 – 3/11
Senior Accountant (Bally’s) 6/08 – 3/11
Hyperion Budget Planning system for annual budget and financial modeling with the Hyperion Essbase software.
Cost analysis with Macro builds for F&B outlets and cost report.
Inventory Cost accounting management and variance analysis within 1% of inventory totals.
The preparation of the Balance Sheets, Income Statements, and Cash Flow Statements for Deloitte & Touché, and our corporate auditors.
Quarterly and Annual financial statements and note filings to the Casino Control Commission (CCC). Very intensive and detailed reports with scrutiny from the Commission to follow GAAP.
EDUCATION
Johnson & Wales University: Providence, RI
MBA Accounting, 1999
B.S. Degree Management, 1997
2025 CPA Candidate
Completed BEC Economic, Risk Management and Cost Accounting section & FAR – Financial Accounting and Reporting section