CPA, Team Leader, Controller, Accounting
Resume:
ANN MARIE SCOTT
*** ***** ***** *****, *********, FL 32904
*************@*****.***
OVERALL SUMMARY
Ann Marie is an accomplished, creative accounting and business manager with strong analytical abilities and is an efficient, effective motivator and team builder. She is experienced in private industry; both in service and in manufacturing.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Consulting Experience Oct 2004 – Present
• Set up software client on QuickBooks, prepared 5 years of account reconciliations, set up filing system, and prepared current year tax return.
• Effectively managed relationships with counterparts in Vietnam, China, Brazil, etc. to bring their newly formed companies in line with corporate policies and reporting standards.
• Multi-National Intercompany reconciliations, including foreign currency translation, process improvements, and system testing.
• Month-end closing.
• Provided process improvement analysis and final procedure documentation for Cash Accounting and Control and Finance Departments,
• Payroll Manager - Resolved process bottlenecks, inefficiencies and inconsistencies. Managed U.S. and foreign Accounts Payable and Payroll.
• Managed both client and consulting staff.
• Responsible for the Accounts Payable and Purchasing modules on the PeopleSoft 9.0 upgrade team; prepared Visio documentation for all process flows.
• SEC reporting for healthcare corporate financial restatement; corporate cash primary lead/analyst in filing 2004 and 2005 10K; first timely filing 2006 (10Q).
• Sox 404 Testing at facility sites – remediation and regression testing.
• Cash Transfer Testing – librarian and coordinator for team of 6; promoted to manager of this process accomplishing total transition back to client.
• Developed and implemented uniform bank reconciliation forms and process.
Trained both client and consulting staff – totaling 99 reconcilers.
• Developed and implemented production reporting on 1500 reconciliations/month.
• Developed and implemented management review (quality control) for all bank reconciliations. Managed team of 22. Met goal of bringing the client current with all bank reconciliations (first time in client history).
• SOX Compliance – Policy and Procedures; managed team as well as documenting procedures (70+) for Cash Accounting and Control; Sections 302, 906.
• Interviewed, identified, and brought 26 local candidates on board as new members of reconciliation team to bring client to state of self-reliance.
• Leader for Callaway Associate model – Birmingham, AL; point person for job orders and vetting process of candidates.
• Managed Bank Reconciliation Database – Implementation and Procedures
• Developed and implemented journal entry process and controls > 60% reduction in number of entries (from totally manual to fully automated).
• Developed and implemented portal viewing of bank statements and reconciliations for 1400 facilities.
Full-time Employee Experience – Accounting August 1996 – August 2004
• $287K annual overhead savings – brought payroll processing in-house from ADP and reorganized payroll department.
• $3.2M payroll tax savings - investigated, analyzed, resolved tax charges.
• 100% reduction in payroll closing process (4-days/month time savings booking Lawson PR to Oracle GL).
• Responsible for federal-state-local tax withholding remittance & reporting for multi-states including W2, 940, 941, and 1099 production.
• Reconciled all general ledger accounts.
• Prepared interim and year-end work papers for external auditors (E&Y).
• Responsible for expatriate transactions and final tax settlements.
• Managed acquisitions/divestitures.
• Managed two Lawson system upgrades and PR tax system upgrade (BSI).
• Implemented electronic timekeeping (Oracle iTime) and employee self service (Lawson).
• Prepared process documentation for Finance Department.
• $244K annual overhead savings–reorganized & completed centralization of payables.
• Implemented metrics reporting for performance analysis.
• Responsible for sub-ledger and general ledger closing; U.S and multi-national.
• Responsible for intercompany transactions and foreign currency translations.
• Implemented direct deposit of expense reimbursements.
• Reconstructed Airborne shipping process to enable auto pay of weekly invoices.
• Assisted in system conversion (testing and accuracy) from proprietary to Oracle.
• Managed GL account reconciliation and variance reporting.
• Prepared interim and year-end work papers for external auditors.
• Centralized and managed fixed assets using Lawson.
• Responsible for financial statement preparation according to GAAP and restatement of financials post-acquisition.
• Cost accounting for WIP and COGS.
• Responsible for monthly GL closing, inter-company transactions, account reconciliation, and variance reporting.
• $1.2M reduction in sales tax assessment.
• Assisted in annual inventory.
• Managed system conversion to Lawson from proprietary system.
• Responsible for daily cash account reconciliation and overnight sweeps.
• Managed fixed assets including tracking of capital expenditure approval, placing in service, depreciation, impairment.
• Managed sales tax remittance and reporting.
• 2 day reduction in revenue reporting – implemented on-line reporting for 650 locations (PC Anywhere).
• Performed commissions audit; implemented approval process.
• Performed credit card reconciliation and research.
Full-Time Employee (Non-Accounting) Experience Sep 1984 – Oct 1989
• Administrative support to Sr. EVP of Operations for a national retail department Store Chain.
• Backfill for secretaries to CEO and President.
• Scribe for quarterly executive meetings.
• Maintained corporate jet travel schedules.
• Prepared statistical information for each store visit by EVP (avg. 3 stores per week).
• Maintained store hours for all locations.
• General administrative support to Risk Control Manager.
• Gregg shorthand and typing.
Entrepreneurial Experience May 1973 - Sep 1984
Farmer
• Herd health maintenance – 500 pigs and 150 cows.
• Logistics – meals, supplies, tools, parts, fuel to the fields (1,100 acres corn and 500 acres wheat).
• Chisel plowing and disking, broadcast fertilizer, anhydrous application, weed control, hay and straw baling and hauling, pigs to market, hauling of harvested crops (to bins for drying and/or to market).
• Feed grinding.
• Newborn piglet care.
• Preparation of cash flow statements and balance sheet.
• Contracted with government agency for land set-aside and other assistance programs (ASCS).
• Obtained yearly production loans.
• Negotiated land lease contracts with approximately 35 landlords.
• Prepared payroll.
• Prepared and filed business tax returns.
EDUCATION
BBA—Accounting (August, 1996) University of Georgia
CREDENTIALS
• Certified Public Accountant – GA (active) – passed exam first sitting. License #CPA024331 (Active)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Highly skilled technical writer; proficient in using Visio, Oracle, Lawson, PeopleSoft, Great Plains, JD Edwards, FRx, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, ADP-PCPW, Reflections, AS400, MAS90, ReportSmith, Crystal Reports, QuickBooks.
References are available upon request.
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