Financial Accounting & SOP Transformation Expert

CHRISTOPHER E. MURPHY, MBA 609-***-**** **************@*******.***

Accounting Consultant Transformation Team SOPs Driver Developmental Team Leader

Areas of Expertise

Management Accounting Financial Modeling Communications Flux Analysis

Revenue Recognition ASC 606 Systems Integration Account Reconciliation Financial Stmts

340B Medicare Pricing Cost Accounting Consolidations Grants

Standard of Ops Process (SOPs) Expert Excel Formulas Construction Accounting Audit Closes

Career Highlights

Accounting background has been focused on helping companies accomplish their goals for standard operating procedures (SOPs) from new systems or key employee turnover to a more streamlined process model.

• Created a master reconciliation Excel template for balance sheet account summary sheet for the corporate office. This simplifies 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.

• Managed the preparation of company budgets and ensure alignment with financial plans.

• Liaised with auditors to ensure proper financial oversight and compliance with regulations.

• Drive process improvements across financial reporting, modeling, forecasting, and dash-boarding functions.

Professional Experience

Other Contract Roles interim: 10/25 -02/26

Spectrum Health (Corporate) Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid/Remote)

CFG (Corporate) Mt. Ephraim, NJ

Accounting and Financial Reporting processes:

Transformation Team for a growing Health Center, in the Philadelphia Health industry.

Reconcilation SOPs for balance sheet accounts ranging from Bank to Prepaids, and Accruals, Aging

Took on the SOP responsibility of creating a master reconciliation Excel template for balance sheet account summary sheet for the corporate office.

Software Systems that I worked with from the various sites are listed below:

oMS Dynamics Business Central (ERP) system

oAthena Collector (EHR)

oSage Intacct (ERP) system

oStampli Billing System

LHH Accounting Contract Roles:

Pinnacle Treatment Centers (Corporate) Marlton, NJ (Hybrid/Remote) 12/24 – 05/25

Consultant Manager Accountant

Accounting and Financial Reporting processes:

Processing and system posting Payroll

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.

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:

oPlanful (FP&A system)

oMicrosoft Dynamics Great Plains (ERP)

oSage Intacct (ERP) system

oBill.com (Payables system)

oPapersave (Billings system)

oFloQast (Balance Reconciliations)

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 contracts 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

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.

Peoplesoft ERP systems financial closes, analysis and reporting.

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) Philadelphia, PA 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.

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management SaaS System for Target, budgeting, and annualized projections. Also, Hyperion Essbase Budgeting lock and send files and forecasting.

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.

Software Systems that I worked with from the various sites are listed below:

oOracle InFor 365 PM

oLawson/Hyperion Essbase

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.

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.

Education

Johnson & Wales University: Providence, RI

MBA Accounting, 1999

B.S. Degree Management, 1997

2026 CPA Candidate

Completed BEC Economic, Risk Management and Cost Accounting section & FAR – Financial Accounting and Reporting section

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