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Les Layton

General Accountant

PROFILE

A skilled financial professional with more than 15 years of diversified accounting and corporate finance experience. This includes 10 years of accounts payable & receivable, cost accounting, GL maintenance, financial reporting and variance analysis. A strong financial background ensures organizational goals and internal user needs are met. Proven abilities using ERP systems and Excel to reduce month end closing times by 25%. I am a hard working, dedicated, ethical and reliable person with excellent communication skills and a capacity to work well with all levels of an organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Over 6 years of SAP skills in the area of A/P, A/R, Capital Assets, Balance Sheet, and GL. Advance level knowledge of Excel, visual basic, Access and PowerPoint. A combined working knowledge of over 10 years for QuickBooks Premier, ACCPAC, JD Edwards, MS Dynamics, Oracle 9.0, Visual Manufacturing, Banner and Brio data base query.

CAREER SUMMARY

EASYHOME CANADA – Home appliance and furniture leasing January 2011

Reconciliation Accountant (Contract)

Reporting to the Marketing Accountant

Responsibilities

• Categorizations of marketing expenses for 2010 from a download of the general ledger, using excel filters.

• Reconciliation of the general ledger to marketing report summarizing advertising and promotion spend for 2010.

Achievements

Created time saving improvements to the marketing summary, linking data by sophisticated excel formulas, reducing data entry time by approx two hours per month.

BIOSCRYPT INC – Biometric security systems April 2010 to May 2010

Accountant (Contract)

Reporting to the Accounting Manager

Responsibilities

• Preparation of multi company bank reconciliations.

• Account reconciliations with detailed analysis

• Responsible for fixed asset depreciation schedule and associated journal entries.

DURHAM COLLEGE Sept 2008 to May 2009

Cash Analyst (Contract)

Reporting to the Director of Finance

Responsibilities

• Detailed analysis of all banking deposits for 12 cash points around the college.

• Analysis of GL banking transactions.

• Create detailed bank reconciliation by month for 2008/2009 fiscal year.

EZEE-ATM LP - ATM Management Service Provider May 2008 to Sept 2008

Senior Accountant (Contract)

Reporting to the CFO

Responsibilities

• Preparation of monthly profit & loss balance sheet and cash flow statements.

• Monthly revenue forecasting for senior management.

• High volume bank account reconciliations with approx. 2000 entries.

• Cash management administrator for approx 100 ATM machines.

MARSH CANADA LTD - Insurance Brokers Sept 2007 to May 2008

Staff Accountant (Contract) Reporting to the Central Zone Operating Officer (Junior VP)

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze controllable spending variance report for sales force of approx. 500.

• Responsible for monthly revenue forecasting for central zone.

• Prepare corporate taxable benefit schedule for HR dept calculating stand by charges and identifying taxable expenditures for employees T4 statements.

Achievements

• Created an Excel VBA program, providing management with an enhanced view of their sales forecast pivot table, saving approx 6 hrs per month.

TDS AUTOMOTIVE – Sub-assembly and sequencing for major auto manufacturers Treasury Assistant/Cash Analyst May 2001 to Apr 2007 Reporting to Treasurer

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze accounts receivable aging and high-light delinquent accounts.

• Responsible for preparation and comparison of capital expenditures versus plan, and reporting any variances greater than 5%.

• Co-ordination of accounts payable cheque proposal process in SAP approx 1000 venders.

• Preparation of monthly financial reporting presentation for senior management.

Achievements

• Successfully developed management reporting models at TDS, using visual basic programming, including automation of financial statements in Excel, downloaded from SAP, and linked to a Power Point presentation.

• Created DSO report using visual basic including print menus.

• Reduced turn-around time for management presentation by 50% by improved efficiencies

• Identified several uncollected accounts reducing DSO from 60 to 30 days

UNILEVER CANADA INC – Personal Care and Homecare Products

Financial Analyst 1996 to 2001

Reporting to the Corporate Finance Manager

Responsibilities

• Coordinated budget preparation and cash flow planning process.

• Prepared monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.

• Responsible for evaluating the profitability of new product introductions through analysis of bottom-line impact. Facilitated management decisions through analysis of General Ledger variations month- to-month, quarter-to-quarter, year-to-year.

Achievements

• Ensured corporate financial statements were accurate and were in compliance with GAAP

General Accountant/Customer Business Development Group Accountant Reporting to the Corporate Accounting Manager 1993 to 1996

Responsibilities

• Preparation of monthly and quarterly commodity tax returns, (GST, HST, PST, royalty and withholding taxes).

• General ledger Administrator ensuring accuracy and consistency of financial statements and responsibility centers.

• Sales tracking administrator for Sales Account Managers

• Provided analytical expertise to the CBD Group in assessing account performance and

market trends.

• Corporate retail coupon administrator.

• Preparation of monthly and quarterly balance sheet reconciliation

• Responsible for preparation of Journal Entries.

Achievements

• Provided management with a model for recording monthly coupon expense, reducing analysis by one day, eliminating manual data input.

• Created a sophisticated, “user-friendly”, menu driven, sales tracking system. Resulting in annual savings of $84,000 by improved efficiencies and reducing manual input – received a special merit bonus for the project.

Cost Accountant 1991 to 1993

Reporting to the Cost Accounting Manager

• Maintained Bills of Material.

• Responsible for analysis of production variances (efficiency, volume, rate, price, mix, yield etc.)

• Prepared journal entries to record inventory movement.

• Involved in year-end physical inventory to GL reconciliation.

• Assisted with monthly cycle counts in conjunction with supply chain.

Achievements

• Created new reports for management, including comparison of inventory turnover by division.

EDUCATION

• CGA Enrolled in 4th Year of the Program

• Business Studies Diploma Barking College, Romford, Essex, UK

WORK RELATED COURSES & SEMINARS

Two day Intermediate VBA Programming course

SAP user training course.

‘Think on your feet’ communications course

Corporate team building seminar

Corporate communication course

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