Project Clients & Past Employers

• Balboa Insurance Group - ($2B subsidiary of Bank of America specializing in insurance products)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment International - ($1B entertainment company)
• Candle Corporation - (Privately held software development company, acquired by IBM)
• DreamWorks SKG ($2B entertainment company)
• NDC Infrared Engineering Inc. - ($60M international manufacturer of measurement equipment)
• Pocino Foods Company - ($50M Food Processing & Distribution company)
• AltraBiofuels - ($20M privately-held, high-growth biofuel technology company)
• Fox Latin America Channel - (Television production and distribution company)
• Rain Bird Corporation - (Privately held international manufacturer of sprinkler and irrigation products)
• Philip Hacker & Company, CPA - (Firm specializing in profit participation audits)
• Al Harthy Icori - (International private construction company)
• Coopers & Lybrand - (Industry experience included oil pipeline construction, banking, and manufacturing)

Functional Finance & Accounting Experience

Financial Reporting & General Accounting
• Hands-on and supervisory controllership experience for various large and small companies, including G/L, A/P, A/R, collections, payroll, tax and treasury functions.
• Managed all areas of general accounting, including period-end close, G/L account analysis & reconciliation, journal entries/adjustments/inter-company eliminations, consolidations, currency conversion, A/P and financial statement preparation.
• Directed and participated in month-end and year-end closing processes for a variety of companies, assuring the timeliness and accuracy of data including developing accruals, reconciling accounts and preparing journal entries.
• Designed and prepared internal monthly financial review packages including executive summaries and variance analysis.
• Directed all accounting and financial reporting activities including consolidations, review and analysis of financial statements of 10 international subsidiaries and over 40 licensees.
• Oversaw the accounting for capital projects in excess of $5 million, including oversight of cost segregation studies which supported the proper allocation of the costs to the fixed asset accounts and the appropriate depreciation lives for financial purposes.
• Served as liaison to tax consultants to identify and quantify tax credit for research and development.
• Managed Accounts Payable function for a manufacturing company with transactions of over 12,000 invoices a month.
• Analyzed company's financial statements with respect to revenue, expenses, profits and cash flow with budgets and trends.
• Evaluated government subsidies, loans and investments for a construction company.

Financial Planning & Analysis
• Prepared and presented the annual operating plan and monthly forecasts in accordance with company objectives for variety of companies including large manufacturing/distribution companies, a software company and a multi-entity international entertainment company. Presented the company's financial results, explanations for performance variance and corrective action plans to the President and COO of the company.
• Developed, planned and helped execute a comprehensive strategic plan for increasing profitability of existing operations and identify new business opportunities for a $50M food processing company.
• Developed reports and key performance indicators to provide plant management with a tool to analyze and initiate cost improvements, inventory turns and product line profitability initiatives.
• Assisted the President of the company to evaluate financing alternatives for plant expansion.
• Prepared financial models to analyze and forecast return reserves and price protection rebates.
• Partnered with senior management to identify and execute cost and productivity initiatives.
• Prepared business unit performance reports, including cash flow analysis and forecast to corporate parent.
• Partnered with sales management to determine product pricing and customer incentives matrix.
• Led team to formalize foreign currency risk policy in the US and Europe.
• Managed domestic and foreign equity investments of over $1B within a broad range of industries including financial services, manufacturing, hotels, petroleum, and transportation.
• Provided leadership in establishing a joint venture with Icori Estero Construction, an Italian construction company; responsibility included managing financing and leading start-up activities.

Project Management
• 4,500 hours of project management including initiation, design, implementation and control for packaged and customized software, as well as non-systems projects.
• Identified and managed offshore resources to develop customized management reports.
• Managed teams of consultants, client staff and external resources to produce comprehensive homegrown solutions including process and business practice improvements, and system design.
• Led cross functional teams across multiple departments to define scope, business issues and users/ system requirements.
• Participated in the post merger accounting integration including working with new division accounting/financial personnel to ensure smooth transition to company's internal financial reporting requirements.
• Led finance transition team to integrate financial systems and processes for a company acquired by a large, publicly traded financial services institution.

Manufacturing, Cost Accounting & Inventory Management
• Held leadership roles in the management of manufacturing companies.
• Directed plant accounting operations including cost accounting, production scheduling and reporting.
• Developed weekly reports for a manufacturer providing the dollar impact of variances related to cost of materials, yields and labor which allowed for timely operational adjustments to control costs.
• Assisted operations to manage inventory levels by providing target metric goals (i.e. Number of Days of Inventory and Inventory Turnover) along with actual results.
• Partnered with senior management to identify and execute cost and productivity initiatives.
• Served as liaison to auditors, including schedule preparation in areas that included fixed assets and inventory (i.e. inventory valuation, obsolescence provisions, receiving and shipping cut-off, and inventory-in-transit).
• Analyzed and reported on purchase variances, bill of material variances and product margins.
• Implemented control and processes to ensure accuracy and integrity of raw material and finished goods inventory.

Financial Audit & Internal Controls
• External audit background in manufacturing, construction and entertainment.
• Performed internal control audits, which included flow charting processes, risk assessment, identifying control weaknesses and recommending new controls to compensate control risks.
• Performed audit of third party insurance agent's underwriting activities including evaluation of internal control weaknesses and recommended new controls to be in compliance with SOX requirements.
• Executed profit participation audits in the entertainment industry, including merchandising activities.
• Managed production and distribution audits of large television, theatrical, and video productions by companies such as Warner Bros., Disney, Universal, and Sony Pictures.
• Executed financial performance and contractual compliance audits subsidiaries and distributors. Audited various licensees in Europe, South America and South East Asia.
• Established policies, procedures and controls for accounts payable and traveling expenses.
• Coordinated year-end, internal and cycle count audits. Monitored accounting and internal control procedures to insure accuracy and reliability of financial records.

Systems Expertise: Selected Detail

Microsoft Excel
• Expert Level Excel User, including pivot tables, conditional formatting, name definition and creation, data validation, filtering (auto filter and advanced), formula auditing, financial functions (PV, NPV, FV), logical and nested functions (IF, AND, OR, SUMIF, COUNTIF), charting, usage of analytical tools (goal seek, scenario analysis), date and time functions, and spreadsheet documentation and debugging.

Hyperion Enterprise, Essbase & Outlooksoft
• Basic usage including database inquiries and report generation.

PeopleSoft
• Actively involved in systems conversion, including mapping of chart of accounts and reconciliation.
• Introduced Peoplesoft nVision reports and Hyperion reports to streamline and automate processes for reporting flash revenue, Trend analysis reports, Consolidated Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Account and Cash Flow Statements.
• Functional user of GL and AP module.
• Created nVision reports, queries, trees and combo-edits.

Canopy Software for Food Industry
• Managed systems conversion from MAS90 to Canopy Software including developing chart of accounts, reports and reconciliation.
• Created reports utilizing reporting tools in Canopy Software.
• Identified and managed offshore resources to develop customized management reports utilizing Visual Studio.

Other
• Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Background integrating customized and foreign accounting systems.

Education & Credentials

• Certified Public Accountant, California, U.S.A
• Chartered Accountant, India
• University of Calcutta, India - Bachelor's degree in Law
• University of Calcutta, India - Bachelor's degree in Accounting