Project Clients & Past Employers

• CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. ($5.9B commercial real estate service firm)
• Transtar Metals, Inc. ($224M high performance metals supplier)
• Encore, a Navarre Corporation Company ($663M physical and digital home entertainment and multimedia products publisher and distributor)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Functional Finance & Accounting Experience

Financial Reporting & Accounting
• Managed General Accounting, and oversaw A/R, A/P and Inventory Management during the period of Encore's most rapid growth.
• Prepared FYE financial statements, related audit leads and supporting consolidating schedules.
• Created Balance Sheet Flux Report and trained other team members to perform quarterly variance analysis.
• Conducted various monthly analyses/reconciliation/accruals (i.e., MDF and Sales Discounts Accruals, Cost of Goods Sold Analysis, Work in Progress Variance Analysis, A/R roll-forward, Inventory and Sales Reconciliation).
• Prepared monthly LIFO book valuation calculations.
• Reviewed monthly accruals and leads/journal entries prepared by accounting staff.
• Conducted SAB 101 FYE testing, and coordinated inflow of supporting documentation from six branches.
• Worked with client's Corporate Controller, Regional Director, and IT Analyst to develop a new returns reserve adequacy tool based on the ARMs Lotus Notes Database.
• Created return reserve adequacy test, documented procedures and trained accounting staff to perform monthly return reserve analyses.
• Conducted bad debt reserve adequacy test and trained accounting staff to perform monthly bad debt reserve analyses.
• Helped engineer a reduction in the Month-Close cycle.
• Prepared Month-Close Financial Packages, and conducted Month-Close Meetings with CEO, CFO, and the Company's Directors.
• Ensured compliance with Corporate deadlines (i.e., Month-Close, Audit, A/P cut-off), and provided adequate and accurate financial support to the Corporate Accounting team.
• Ensured proper processing and/or accrual of the UK sales, returns, and Value Added Taxes.
• Managed Inter-company Reconciliation, and ensured that Encore was current within corporate parameters.
• Ensured GAAP accounting, and establishing of the appropriate royalty foundation for new business agreements, including Riverdeep License and Distribution Agreement.
• Managed or assisted in the following business transactions: financial, bank and licensor audits, private equity placements, Chapter 11 Filling, and subsequent acquisition of Encore by Navarre Corporation.
• Played a key role in managing complex business transactions including: transitioning the Encore relationship with Navarre from title transfer to consignment, the move of the operations activities from Gardena to Minneapolis, and the consolidation of the warehouses to a single system/location.
• Trained Corporate Management during the transition of accounting responsibilities to the Corporate Office.
• Implemented monthly rebate process leading to recovering $1.6M from the Company's major Distributor (i.e., price deals and distribution fees on subsequent returns).
• Developed and maintained the purchase price true-up mechanism that saved approximately $1.3M in the initial purchase price adjustments.
• Conducted accounting research and interpreted accounting principles and pronouncements including Business Combinations (SFAS 141), Goodwill and Other Intangibles (SFAS 142) and Applying the Conditions in Paragraph 42 of FASB Statement No.144 in Determining Whether to Report Discontinued Operations (EITF 03 -13).

Financial Audit & Internal Controls
• In public accounting, planned and executed financial audits, including budget preparation, staff scheduling and supervision, consolidated financial statements preparation, critical accounts and matters analyses (i.e., litigation, inventory obsolescence, allowance for doubtful accounts, return reserves), and internal auditing controls review and evaluation in retail/apparel, manufacturing, real-estate, and entertainment industries.
• Established and implemented accounting policies and procedures, and assessed whether internal controls are Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.
• Planned for quarterly reviews and annual audits of the Company conducted by independent auditors.
• Coordinated with other teams within the finance function for the delivery of required schedules and reports (quarterly and year-end PBC request list).
• Conducted independent review of audit related schedules prior to delivery to the Company's independent auditors.
• Coordinated and controlled requests from the Company's independent auditors.
• Assisted Management in streamlining the Master Account Analysis Database.

Income Tax Preparation & Analyses
• Prepared FYE income tax provision, return to provision, and quarterly estimated tax payments calculations.
• Remapped the income tax asset and liability accounts to reflect 2005 income tax provision.
• Reviewed federal and state income tax returns prepared by Deloitte Tax LLP to ensure tax returns agree to FYE income tax provision calculations.
• Liaised between Corporate Management and Deloitte Tax team to coordinate tax fillings.
• Prepared 263A calculation to determine direct and indirect costs required to be capitalized.
• Prepared the state apportionment data breakdown and populated property, rent, payroll and sales apportionment worksheets.
• Conducted Nexus Questionnaire to assist Deloitte in determining the throwback of California sales.
• Prepared monthly LIFO tax valuation calculations.
• Conducted monthly LIFO INDEX analysis to determine the non-aluminum percentage of the inventory perpetual levels.

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