Director of Finance and Administration at Concordia Partners LLC
2008 - 2011
An e-commerce direct marketing company selling vitamins, nutriceuticals, and homeopathic solutions. Direct the accounting, finance, human resource, inventory, and risk management functions. Manage two fulfillment centers and the company's customer contact center. Positioned the company for continued expansion and rapid growth through automation, new software systems, and stronger financial controls creating a fully scalable environment.
Negotiated new credit card contracts with automatic credit card updating functionality, reducing credit card expense while increasing sales. Analyzed and eliminated non-profitable products, saving annual product costs. Converted medical insurance to a high-dollar deductible policy with an HRA, significantly reducing annual benefits cost. Secured new premises, doubling the company's facilities. Researched, selected, and implemented a highly scalable and fully integrated time and attendance, payroll, and human resource system improving time tracking, payroll, and benefit expense management, reducing company costs. Performed complete risk analysis and purchased new policies providing more comprehensive coverage at lower rates. Initiated and developed ERISA documents, bringing the company into compliance with Federal laws.
Assistant Controller at Liberty Mutual Insurance
2005 - 2008
A Fortune 100 company selling personal and commercial insurance. Managed a Cash-Management Department responsible for reconciling over 200 bank accounts and 100 general ledger accounts on a monthly basis, and issuing over 225,000 1099s and over 1,000 abandoned property filings annually. Managed systems that interfaced with banking partners processing more than 10 million checks per year.
Managed a major reengineering project transitioning 10 million annual check processing volume from three systems to one, significantly reducing overhead costs. Initiated restructuring of annual 1099 process through new systems and SBU 1099 programs, improving compliance and eliminating over $1 million in annual IRS 1099 penalties. Developed new general ledger reconciliation processes, strengthening controls, significantly reducing reconciling items over 60 days old, and reducing write offs to near zero. Reconfigured bank reconciliation processes, eliminating daily reconciliations and one software system, resulting in a 25 percent increase in productivity. Managed the conversion of check processing and bank reconciliations as a result of the Fleet Bank/Bank of America merger. Redesigned Sarbanes Oxley testing, setting new company wide standards, and reducing testing by fifty percent.
Manager of Treasury Operations at Liberty Mutual Insurance
2002 - 2005
Managed the Accounts Payable and Employee Reimbursements departments, processing billions of dollars in accounts payable checks monthly and approximately $80 million in credit card transactions annually.
Converted employee reimbursement processing from a legacy system to Oracle iExpenses, resulting in a more accurate process and shorter reimbursement cycle. Upgraded the SunGard Cash Disbursements system, including reengineering business processes, writing functional requirements, and testing, providing additional functionality and reducing overhead. Re-negotiated the corporate credit card contract, increasing rebates by $1.2 million over five years. Integrated processing of accounts payable invoices and expense reports for two acquisitions into shared services.
Manager of Accounting Servces at Enterasys Networks
1999 - 2001
Formerly Cabletron, an $800 million network technology company. Directed the Stock Plans and Accounts Payable Departments.
Converted stock plans from an in-house manual system to a fully automated E-Trade system providing employees with instant access to all stock option information and trading. Handled all stock plan transactions for two acquisitions, one spin-off, and two reverse mergers. Expanded SAP processing for Accounts Payable transactions increasing efficiency and productivity by forty percent.
Controller at WASCO PRODUCTS
1997 - 1999
A $15 million skylight and patio door manufacturing facility with a job shop, and discrete and continuous manufacturing. Directed the financial, accounting, tax, and MIS functions. Managed risk management, fixed assets, bank financing, and human resources. Prepared financial statements, tax returns, budgets, cash-flow statements, and financial and variance analysis.
Led the conversion of the company's accounting system to the Avante' ERP software package and an NT network, creating a fully integrated manufacturing and financial system with state of the art technology. Implemented a time, attendance, and payroll system, reducing overhead and increasing accuracy. Created reporting to monitor labor-earned, burden-earned, and production variances, reducing costs. Corrected over 40,000 bills of material and routings, increasing accuracy in inventory control and reporting.
Controller at Coed Sportswear
1994 - 1997
A rapidly growing $25 million silk screen and distribution apparel company. Directed accounting, finance, taxes, MIS, and human resources. Negotiated lines of credit, managed banking and financing activities, prepared financial statements, tax returns, budgets, and cash-flow projections.
Converted the company to Macola, a fully integrated scalable manufacturing and financial ERP software package. Designed and developed pricing models, costing information, and profitability analysis for products, resulting in the elimination of unprofitable product lines, significantly reducing inventory and related costs. Initiated budgets, created cash-flow requirements, and developed a computerized financial reporting system providing thirty financial reports at month-end.
Controller at On Call International
2012
Responsible for all finance, treasury, tax, budgeting, and accounting functions for a worldwide travel assistance company. Manage human resources and payroll. Direct and/or perform financial analysis, make recommendations for and transition systems and processes to improve effeciency and reduce expenses.
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