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Director of Finance/Controller

Location:
Minneapolis, MN, 55038
Posted:
March 15, 2010

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Resume:

GREG ANTON KRIZAN, CPA (Inactive), MBA

**** ***** *****, ***********, **

651-***-**** *******@***.***

EXPERIENCE:

October 2009 R CADIANCE, LLC

to Present Centerville, MN

FOUNDER (10/09 – PRESENT)

R Cadiance is a business consulting firm specializing in business start ups and income tax planning.

March 2006 INFRASOURCE UNDERGROUND, LLC

to October 2009 Centerville, MN

DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS (10/06 – 10//09)

InfraSource is a wholly owned subsidiary of Quanta Services, PWR, a publicly traded company with revenues in excess of $2 billion. Managed the financial reporting for the central region and overhauled the revenue recognition process to comply with GAAP. Lead the merger and implementation efforts of four different operating companies into our company.

• Elected and served on JD Edwards design and implementation team for corporate.

(Same Company)

REGIONAL CONTROLLER FOR THE MIDWEST (3/06 – 10/06)

As the regional controller for the Midwest, I built a staff of professional and energetic people to staff the newly created Midwest region.

• Lead budgeting and forecasting process based on economic indicators for several different industries.

• Prepared monthly financial statements, analyzed results, and published a discussion and analysis section and formally presented to president and CFO.

• Implemented SOX controls for the Midwest region including all subsidiary offices.

July 2005 DELTAK LLC

to March 2006 Plymouth, MN

CONTROLLER

Deltak was a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Power Resources, a publicly traded company with revenues of $500 million. Responsible for all aspects of financial

reporting including foreign currency translations, cash projections, budgeting, and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

• Led monthly meetings with project managers, engineering, manufacturing, and construction advisors to review global projects and ensure proper revenue recognition.

• Teamed with operations to design reports to analyze productivity, track key metrics and recommended improvements.

February 1999 USFILTER INC., A SIEMENS BUSINESS

to July 2005 Roseville, MN

FINANCIAL PARTNER – Water S&P Division (4/02 – 7/05)

Collaborated with general managers throughout North America to optimize business performance by analyzing trends, competitors, and changes in the market place. Distributed and modified annual budget templates to utilize business drivers, assessed key risks and assumptions. Reviewed and updated POC contracts monthly.

• Increased operating income each year by 10% for four consecutive years in the Wastewater Ion Exchange product line by implementing financial models for all systems requiring capital greater than $10,000 expanding our customer base internationally.

• Reviewed and approved all capital authorization requests and challenged the key assumptions in the request.

• Created financial models using DCF, IRR and NPV for salespeople to evaluate the payback on significant sized jobs.

(Same Company)

CONTROLLER – Recovery Services (5/00 – 4/02)

• Worked with chemists and engineers to efficiently treat resins containing metals for the lowest cost.

• As manufacturing of circuit boards and plating companies moved offshore, our regional business shrunk 80%. Strategized and implemented new product lines to become international while utilizing existing plant’s capacity.

(Same Company)

ASSISTANT CONTROLLER - Recovery Services (2/99 – 5/00)

• Key business partner to analyze the process flow of product through the plant to identify constraints and opportunities.

• Evaluated initial and ongoing operating costs of alternative solutions.

February 1998 SQUID INK MFG. INC.

to February 1999 Spring Lake Park, MN

CORPORATE CONTROLLER

Squid Ink is an ink and ink jet printer manufacturer in the packaging industry with annual revenue of $2 million.

• Performed activity based costing on inks developed internally by chemists.

• Selected and implemented ERP system including setting milestones and budget.

May 1996 MESABA AVIATION INC.

to February 1998 Minneapolis, MN

ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Mesaba is a Northwest Airline’s Regional Airline with annual revenue of $300 million.

• Created models to project and analyze profitability by aircraft type utilizing various cost drivers such as flight hours, cycles, landings, completion factors, on-time factors, foreign object damage.

• Created models to project and analyze costs by station for customer service utilizing cost drivers such as number of landings, mishandled baggage, customer complaints, destination by other means, full-time equivalents, weather related events such as de-icing.

August 1994 MARPRINT INC.

to May 1996 White Bear Lake, MN

CONTROLLER

Marprint was a privately-held printing company and distributor of marking, labeling and code dating equipment with annual sales of $12 million.

• Served as key advisor that resulted in the sale of Marprint.

• Presented operating results monthly to the board of directors.

January 1991 TRACEY & THOLE CPA’s

to August 1994 Hudson, WI

AUDITOR

Tracey & Thole was a small CPA firm with 11 CPA’s that specialized in not-for-profit or governmental clients.

• Audited grants and funding received to verify that all moneys were used according to the restrictions that accompanied these funds.

• Reconciled cash, verified that investments were safely invested and met policy guidelines.

EDUCATION:

2001 Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN

M.B.A. – executive program tailored for CPA’s

1990 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI

BS – Accounting Degree

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Oracle, Solomon, JD Edwards, Spectrum, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Hyperion



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