High Profile

Special project consultant in Balance Sheet account research and analysis, tax research and analysis, and Sage 300 accounting system optimization. Process improvement in downloading monthly credit card transactions from external websites to uploading into Sage; in monthly financial reports including automation of currency conversion to USD. Prepare and reconcile various 1099’s, K-1’s, 1040-ES and related schedules for multiple entities. Monthly Investment to Equity reconciliation and rollforward for about 40 different entities. Full responsibility in working with external auditors in Europe on annual audit of a foreign entity. Research, recommend and optimize Sage functionalities, and create desktop procedures. Researched, Gathered and filed the appropriate governmental reports.

Project Consultant

Meek's Lumber:
Prepared bottom-up 2020 Budget for 4 regions covering 6 states and over 105 active planning units based on a new company structure, and new payroll system implementation, and location cash flow requirements. Gathered 2018 and 2019 financial information, including sales and payroll, from various business entities and financial systems for import into the budget template by Markets and by Planning Units for distribution to the company’s finance team to collaborate with Operation leadership on business outlook and updates. Consolidated budget template feedbacks from the finance team, and reconciled to the 2018 and 2019 financial statements, and reconciled the bottom-up budget to the top-down budget from the VP of Finance. Coordinated with Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, and IT to ensure the new Chart of Accounts is in synchronization with the new payroll system as well as the 2020 Budget reporting system.

Imagine Communications:
Assist the FP&A team in updating the R&D investment by project. Update and tie-out financial statements. Prepare revenue and cost of sales mapping to the financial statements. Update Q1 and Q2 revenue and cost of sales mapping for the Board package. Prepare and update Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flow and related support files, such as fixed assets schedule, debt roll forward, debt payments and interests. Prepare month-end close files and update financial schedules.

SNI Certes

KidKraft:
Downloaded Trial Balance from Great Plains and NetSuite for multiple legal entities, and reconciled Trial Balance to the audited financial statements by entity, and uploaded adjusting journal entries, including intercompany elimination entries, to NetSuite by entities from March 2016 through September 2018. Prepared monthly Disney royalty reports, and entered royalty accrual entries into NetSuite. Updated interest schedule, foreign exchange rates, B2C sales reports, and property tax summary. Reconciled accrued expenses.

Japanese automobile manufacturer:
Assisted with Fiscal Year 2019 Budget update. Initiated, prepared and coordinated Q1 forecast with the certified product owners (CPOs), budget coordinators and North America Finance, by incorporating targets, priorities, risks and opportunities. Prepared monthly financial statements and monthly accrual entries, and consolidated monthly variance analysis from the budget coordinators for executive review of the monthly financial results. Provided annual R&D information to the Tax department. Reviewed contracts and statement of work by pulling key information before entering them into the payable system for internal approval and purchase order (P.O.) issuance. Identified, researched and prepared journal entries for submission per required deadlines. Streamlined the manual accrual process from almost a full day to less than an hour operation.

Mid-tier hotel chain:
Assisted the Financial Report team with the preparation and proof read of the draft 10-K, 10-Q, and Earnings Release documents; updated the 401(K) audit files; assisted with the year-end audit and quarter-end audit by pulling and uploading the appropriate support documents; updated interim financial statements, financial workbooks, and rollforward files; prepared impairment analysis, and property, plant & equipment net book value reconciliation; prepared Armonk overage rent reports. Assisted the Accounts Payable team with AP voucher clean-up of about 5,000 entries. Assisted the Tax team by updating the depreciation schedule as result of the 2017 Tax Reform Legislation; researched Earnings & Profits (E&P) depreciation.

Conduent, Inc.

Assembled and led team of up to 4 financial analysts. Hired 4 employees in Dallas, TX and 5 in Jamaica; 2 of which became direct reports. Oversaw all aspects of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end analysis of financial statements for 30 global business units totaling $60M in annual revenue. Conducted variance analysis to budget and forecasting. Prepared financial models for potential new deals.

	Gained acknowledgment from several operational vice presidents on improved work ethics, timely delivery of reports and thoroughness in team’s output. 
	Partnered with global billing department, operations and collection teams to coordinate monthly billing to customers and ensure timely payment of invoices.
	Selected to train 4 financial analysts in the Philippines and 2 in Romania as part of workload transition.
	Became recognized as a “go-to” resource and indispensable business partner to operations teams; progressively advanced through additional job responsibilities.

Finance Manager

Accretive Solutions

McAfee:
Brought on board to perform monthly and quarterly reconciliation of ScanAlert transactions in accordance to SOP 97-2 revenue recognition for software products and multiple deliverables while ensuring compliance with McAfee company guidelines. Prepared and uploaded monthly and quarterly sales transactions from ScanAlert and Safeboot into SAP.

	Established procedures for ScanAlert monthly and quarterly sales transactions, reconciliation and revenue share process.
	Worked closely with sales team and legal department to gain new contract approval.
	Entrusted to provide leadership team with insights on revenue recognition.

Kforce Professional Staffing

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.:
Conducted month-end financial analysis and adjusted entries with the Jamaica accounting team. Oversaw monthly billing requests including various adjustments.

	Assessed deal structure for United Technologies Corporation (UTC) contract; trained new financial analysts on all financial aspects and trained Jamaica accountant on details of UTC contract.

Recursion Software, Inc.

Promoted after 2 years in Controller position to undertake corporate officer role focused on maintaining and updating product prices in General Services Administration (GSA) Advantage and filing quarterly sales report in the GSA system. Defined and enforced company policies and procedures.
Managed all aspects of all aspects of General Ledger, AR, AP, Purchasing, Payroll, and HR. Handled the financial application of SOP 97-2 Revenue Recognition for software products, SOP 98-4 deferred of effective date of SOP 97-2, and SOP 98-9 Modification of SOP 97-2 through reviewing software license agreements and contracts with customers. Updated VP of Engineering and Operations on daily operational achievements.

VP and Controller

Objectspace, Inc.

Assistant Controller

DSET Corporation

Senior Accountant

dfwbruce@gmail.com; (m) 214-577-1136
I am a senior financial manager in the Professional Services and High Tech industries, who has significant knowledge and experience to effectively lead teams to perform at high levels, and to resolve financial challenges efficiently and accurately.

Senior Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis with expertise in leading month-end close, forecasting and budgeting, long term financial planning, financial reporting, and financial analysis.  Collaborative leader, partnering with management teams and functional groups to leverage resources across the organization and produce actionable insights for strategic decision making.  Cash Basis Accounting. Experience with the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process.

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