ERP / Accounting Systems Guru
Resume:
GRADY JAMES BRACKNELL, III
Dallas, Texas 75219
Cellular: 203-***-**** • E-Mail: **************@*****.***
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OBJECTIVE:
Seeking a challenging position in a corporate environment supportive of leadership development, functional/technical skill enhancement and long-term professional growth.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Intercomp Consulting Services Inc., Flower Mound, Texas 2008 - Present
Independent Consultant
Manage miscellaneous accounting/finance ad-hoc project within the ERP world.
• Experience assisting clients in the process of choosing the optimal accounting system (Great Plains expertise).
• Assist managing Accounting staff in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll and general sales & use tax functions.
• Assist Accounting Staff in scrubbing current data and chart-of-accounts to help optimize current Accounting ERP/Accounting systems.
• Experienced with various Microsoft customization tools available to provide straight through data process whether it be order entry or web-based data.
• Payroll experience administering multiple payrolls as well as assisting payroll staff for comparing complex payroll cycles.
• Familiar with banking reconciliations including the intricacies of FICA payroll adjustments and their ramifications on payroll reconciliations.
• Provided reporting expertise via FRx software, SQL Server Reporting Services, and other Oracle based reporting tools to aid the ever growing corporate reporting needs.
• Well versed in installing controls within the Accounts Payable group regarding 1099 Vendor Payable items to reduce year end 1099 errors before they happen.
• Love training accounting/finance staff on system functionality (including 3rd party apps/modifications) in order to help reduce day-to-day errors and increase system ROI for senior finance team.
Gerson Lehrman Group, New York, New York 2007 - 2008
Product Manager
Managed a very large financial ERP system and payment processing website including client reporting, transaction issue resolution, product road mapping, and overall strategic vision for the Corporate Finance team.
• Heavy emphasis on business process reengineering and aligning ERP applications (as well as other integrated business systems) to maximize ROI/operational efficiency for a growing internet based company.
• Additional emphasis on managing overall financial system portfolio from a strategic point in order to help create the three year financial systems product roadmap including our payments product integration points.
• Provided client support on accounting systems selection (Oracle vs. Great Plains) as well as requirements gathering and documentation for the selection/RFP process.
• Managed Third Party payments platform product, issues and roadmap while migration to a more stable platform for outgoing payments is implemented.
• Provided reporting expertise via FRx software for setup of financial reporting for ever growing corporate reporting needs.
• Redesigned major in-house integration of 1099 Vendor Payable items to reduce major portions of yearly manual work needed to finish approximately 15,000 1099’s.
• Created financial reports via Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services that could be emailed automatically to appropriate business owners for various critical month-end financial analyses.
• Provided ERP system training (including 3rd party apps/modifications) to a variety of different clients around Great Plains core Financials modules and applications.
Affinion Group (Formerly Trilegiant & Cendant Marketing Group) Trumbull, Connecticut 2005- 2007
Senior Technical Business Systems Analyst
Worked with the Financial Systems Support and Control Team to deliver Business Process reengineering, ERP system strategy and support, and project management for Corporate Finance Group IT initiatives.
• Provided support to end-users of internal revenue recognition application (Oracle backbone) and managed Informatica ETL sessions associated with all revenue data.
• Managed all projects/project teams related to revenue recognition system modifications/enhancements (including IT solutions team members for major enhancement modifications or personally using SQL/PSQL with UNIX/Informatica to make minor changes).
• Handled reporting minor requests via SQL/PSQL and Brio to support user requests for enhanced/additional information.
• Supported the global Lawson ERP users (approximately 80 users) on issue resolution, reporting requests and all future enhancements/implementations.
• Worked with global finance team and off-site development staff to ensure requirements/needs analysis and design was documented and aligned with corporate strategic initiatives.
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• Coordinated efforts between global finance group and development group to ensure thorough and adequate test case scenarios were created as well as ensuring proper user acceptance testing principles were adhered to for all system enhancements.
• Performed heavy revenue recognition system/ERP data analysis, data reconciliation and data control measurements (mostly SOX compliance enhancements both system and process oriented).
• Periodically held training sessions to help internal functional business users understand how data flows throughout our organization and how it ultimately ends up on our financial statements (heavy emphasis on our revenue recognition model).
• Managed Corporate Finance reengineering work-flow and processes to include new corporate objectives (Company was sold and reorganized in October, 2005).
• Developed road map for long-term ERP strategy which will reduce IT software and support costs.
• Implemented key internal control structures for use in Sarbanes-Oxley sections 404 and 409 certification.
• Developed key financial metrics for new SEC reporting requirements.
• Identified and documented key Continuity (disaster recovery) plan items for the Corporate Finance group.
Independent Contractor, New York, New York 2003 - 2005
ERP Systems Integrator / Implementer
Work independently and through 1099 contracts on ERP systems integration, Business Process reengineering, ERP implementation and database development contracts.
• Heavy emphasis on business process reengineering and aligning ERP applications (as well as other integrated business systems) to maximize ROI/operational efficiency.
• Additional emphasis on managing overall financial system portfolio from a strategic point in order to help create the three year financial systems product roadmap including our payments product integration points.
• Provide client support on accounting systems selection as well as requirements gathering and documentation for selection/RFP process.
• Manage strategic initiatives to ensure the successful implementation of accounting software and other related third-party products.
• Provide reporting expertise via FRx software for setup of financial reporting post implementation.
• Help design databases within Microsoft environment for integration into back-office accounting environments.
• Provide ERP system training (including 3rd party apps/modifications) to a variety of different clients.
priceline.com Incorporated, Norwalk, Connecticut 2001 - 2003
ERP Financial Systems Analyst
Managed financial systems support, long-term systems strategy, and vendor contract negotiations for a major e-commerce travel website.
• Directed the support of financial data integrations in to back-office and project management for ERP/HR applications group (approximately 50 end-users supported day-to-day).
• Managed staff of two Oracle programmer/developers in charge of Oracle-based refund system (Visual Basic) and financial data transformation from Website into ERP application (e.g. via Informatica).
• Coordinated and documented requirements gathering process with internal business users and development staff.
• Responsible for minor programming changes (i.e. Informatica, SQL/PSQL, VB) to support enhancement requests.
• Lead all Business Intelligence and reporting initiatives for Corporate Finance group.
• Responsible for all corporate financial systems strategic initiatives.
• Renegotiated approximately 80% of current vendor contracts to include ongoing savings of $80,000 per year.
NexVue Information Systems, Stamford, Connecticut 2000 - 2001
Business Consulting Services
Responsible for software sales cycle and project management for a financial systems consulting boutique.
• Senior project manager on multiple concurrent software implementation projects.
• Heavy emphasis on client training/training sessions with focus on reporting, data reconciliation, core financials business process and integrating various business system data into ERP application.
• Responsible for cultivating long-term sales pipeline opportunities (i.e. application info-sessions/web casts) as well as closing newly qualified business opportunities.
• Internal product/program manager for Great Plains line of financial software.
PrintCafé-Programmed Solutions, Norwalk, Connecticut 1999 - 2000
Technical Support Analyst
Provided technical and functional support to clients on Macola Progression Series financial software for a major e-commerce solutions provider.
• Provided implementation consulting to clients converting to Macola Progression Series.
• Trained internal and external clients on Macola software, report writing and system administration.
• Created all client training materials and documentation for Macola training classes.
• Provided application support to clients on how to engineer internal business process flows to mirror PSI and Macola software best practices.
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• Helped provide clients technical application support on the integration between PSI and Macola software (e.g. PSI estimating to PSI job cost/planning to Macola Purchase Order or Macola Receivables/Invoicing).
Publicis Incorporated, Dallas, Texas 1999
Staff Accountant - Project Management
Managed all corporate accounting system re-engineering and implementation projects for a multi-national advertising firm. Liaison between MIS and upper-level financial management for several concurrent projects.
• Worked with corporate accounting group and IT team to gather system enhancement/process change requirements for all new financial systems initiatives.
• Implemented new check writing software system to handle approximately 5000 checks monthly.
• Transitioned approximately 70% of all vendor invoices to an EDI system.
• Implemented new web-based cash management reporting system.
COLLEGE INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE:
Warburg Dillon Read,LLC - UBS AG, Stamford, Connecticut, Specialist, Ops Risk & Control, 1998
GE Capital Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, Treasury Analyst, 1997 - 1998
Bachner,Tally,Polevoy & MisherLLP, New York, New York, Staff Accountant, 1997
Epstein,Fogarty,Cohen & SelbyLLC, Greenwich, Connecticut, Full Charge Bookkeeper, 1996
Prudential Securities, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, Sales Assistant / Wire Operator, 1995 - 1996
EDUCATION:
Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, Associate of Arts, 1994
Fordham University, Bronx, New York, Bachelor of Arts in Economics, 1998
SOFTWARE:
Great Plains, Solomon, Macola, PeopleSoft, Lawson, GEAC SQL Financials, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Oracle database navigation tools (i.e. SQL Navigator, Toad), Brio, Informatica, Crystal Reports, FRx, MS Project, Visio
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:
SQL, Fortan, Cobol, Visual Basic, JavaScript
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:
Available upon request
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