Controller/Accounting Manager
Resume:
Richard Friedman
East Rockaway, NY 11518
Home: 516-***-****
Cell: 516-***-****
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A proven senior financial executive with experience in accounting, finance, and business management for successful publicly traded and privately held manufacturing companies. A career of key positions and responsibilities in accounting and finance evolved to include the ongoing challenges of systems design, implementation and integration, project management, cost accounting, business and operational consolidation.
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Finance
• Budgets, sales, and cash forecasts, comparing to actual operating results allowing for optimum use of cash, personnel, and manufacturing resources.
• Secured long and short term financing, preparing, and filing all documentation. Maintained loan reconciliations and banking covenants required in the credit agreement.
• Responsible for all cash management and borrowing. Daily reconciliation of sweep accounts to revolving lines of credit and asset based loans.
• Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, actual and forecast, comparing to the operating budget.
Accounting
• Monthly financial statements with management presentations, suggestions, and concerns.
• Managed and supervised multi-faceted accounting systems and department integration.
• Computerized accounting departments allowing for the automatic distribution of labor, material, and overheads to cost accounting databases and reporting systems.
• Complete audit work papers quarterly and year-end for timely tax and SEC filings.
• Designed and implemented project/standard/job cost control reporting systems providing management with optimum gross profit margins and cost control.
• Developed and upgraded standard, process and job order cost accounting systems in a manufacturing environment in conformity with GAAP and the DOD’s FAR.
Computers
• Software: MAS 90/200/500, QuickBooks, Macola, Opus, Monarch, MS Office, and fully integrated proprietary systems.
• Managed and interacted with computer departments and systems to provide management with timely implementation of software, programs, and accurately posted data.
• Interfaced and worked with MRP/ERP systems, using current software suites to retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and report data in meaningful and practical formats.
• Designed and implemented computer programs/routines for specific industry standards.
Contracts
• Directed and prepared all contract documentation, from bid submittal to award.
• Performed contract negotiations, both prime and subcontract, using substantiation from cost breakdowns, bills of material and forward pricing escalations.
• Designed and implemented contract administration systems for multi-departmental environments.
R. Friedman
Employment History
Mar 2004 – Oct 2008 PL Developments, Westbury, NY Controller of a privately held
manufacturing/packaging/distribution company of private label O-T-C
pharmaceuticals to major retail chains.
2003 Uniflex Inc., Hicksville, NY Temporary assignment: Plastic Bag Mfg.
Created and maintained General Ledger worksheets and financial reports
during a corporate reorganization. Introduced new methods to collect and
report weekly/monthly financial data.
1991 – 2002 RFI Corporation, Bayshore, NY as Controller and IT Mgr. of this
wholly owned subsidiary of a publicly traded electronics manufacturer.
Major products include RFI/EMI Filters, high voltage capacitors,
transformers and pulse forming networks for the DOD and commercial
applications.
1984 – 1991 Weisstech Corporation, Roslyn Heights, NY as Controller, Data
Processing, and Office Manager of this start-up company producing
plastic packaging film.
Favorite Plastics Corporation, Brooklyn, NY as the Controller and Data
Processing Manager of this plastic packaging film manufacturer.
1983 – 1984 Hughes-Treitler Manufacturing Corp, Garden City, NY as Controller,
Contracts Administrator, and Office Manager of this manufacturer of
high-tech heat exchange equipment for major prime and sub contractors of the DOD and commercial use.
1977 – 1983 EMS Development Corporation, Farmingdale, NY as Controller of this
manufacturer of anti-magnetic electronic control systems for NAVSEA
and foreign governments.
Education: Bachelor of Science in Accounting
Bentley University
Waltham, Massachusetts
Courses and Seminars:
Continuing education courses in accounting, computer hardware, and
software. Import/export seminars: Regulations and Filing requirements, SEC:
Regulations and Filings, Government Contracts/Cost Accounting regulations, Lean
Manufacturing, NYS Empire Zone Application and Filings.
References furnished upon request
Richard Friedman
23 Emmet Avenue
East Rockaway, NY 11518
Cell: 516-***-****
Home: 516-***-****
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Business Acumen Summary
TECHNICAL
• Prepare, review and report financial information including financial statements, budgets and business plans.
• Review and insure compliance all accounting, tax, financial reporting, and business practices. This would also include cash management operations, capital budgeting and credit risk management.
BUSINESS
• Combine strong technical knowledge with comprehensive business, financial and systems experience for business applications.
• Design, integrate, and install robust business processes as part of an enterprise resource planning system (ERP) supporting financial and operational activities.
• Retrieve, compile, evaluate, and analyze financial information in support of business activities.
• Validate, verify, and challenge financial and business information against standards and expectations.
MANAGERIAL
• Participate and perform as a financial executive on the management team responsible for the results of operations of the business unit and strategic planning for growth initiatives.
• Employ sound judgment and rationale based on diverse experience in resolving financial, operational, and business issues and problems.
LEADERSHIP
• Develop, motivate, and oversee a competent support group through team-building, mentoring, and maintaining focused discipline to critical functions.
• Create and instill a strong sense of culture in the workplace that supports the company’s mission statement, business model, and belief in the importance of the customer to our success.
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