Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Finance Manager

This candidate is a MBA degreed accounting professional from Yale School of Management with over 10 years of progressive experience.  He's currently with a large publicly traded manufacturing company for over 3 years where he has held several roles.  This candidate is currently supporting the Corporate FP&A, G&A Controller and senior member of the 7-person Corporate FP&A team.  His other role was a Divisional Controller.  Prior to his current role, he spent 1 year supporting Corporate FP&A, 1 year as a BU analyst, and 1 year as a Sales Planning Manager.  His previous roles include Divisional Consolidations (Corporate FP&A), Cashflow forecast, capital reporting and was one of two direct reports to the Director of Corporate FP&A at a large software development company in the Bay Area Peninsula. He also held a Divisional and Group Cost Consolidation role for 2.5 years at a publicly traded $96 billion computer hardware corporation.

This candidate is intelligent, is very systems savvy and has excellent communication skills. This candidate is also very comfortable working with all levels of management including staff level.

ID: 63517

Director of Finance

This candidate is a strong finance professional with extensive operational accounting and technical experience in the semi-conductor industry. He has passed the CPA exam and has over 15 years of progressive experience resulting in his current role as a Sr. Director at an 8,000+ employee communications and software engineering firm. 

In his current position he is responsible for the development & maintenance of a complex multinational legal structure, managing the international close process, preparation of external financial statements, managing corporate tax functions, all while maintaining GAAP compliance. Previously he managed all aspects of the multi-national product division, developed financial reports for all aspects of M&A activities, and was heavily involved with the acquisition and/or divestiture of 15 entities. The candidate is an expert in Sox & GAAP compliance rules along with knowledge FAS109/123R and FIN 48. This Finance professional is well versed in Revenue Recognition SOP and SAB. He has managed a staff up to 35 people and is well spoken. He is currently looking for $180k base salary.

ID: 60624

Director of Accounting


This candidate has passed all 4 parts of the CPA exam, he is degreed in Accounting and has experience working for a Big4 firm. Some of his expertise includes:

  • Working as the Assistant Controller at an e-commerce company while it grew from 100 employees to 1200. At this company he was promoted to Director of Revenue and in this role he was responsible for the revenue as it grew from $86M to $430M in less than 2 years.
  • In addition, he managed the Global Accounting operations, financial close, consolidations, reporting, and compliance.
  • He designed and implemented processes which reduced the global close from 15 days to 4 days, and centralized the global accounting team, while standardizing controls and processes throughout accounting function.
  • He is currently employed at a $1.5 billion dollar company as the Director of Accounting but would like to be at a smaller growing company so he could really make an impact.

He is well spoken and available to interview immediately. He is looking for a base salary of $160k.

ID:64996

Controller

This candidate is a BIG 4, CPA with over 15 years of experience working for a mix of privately held smaller organizations to large publicly traded companies.  He has 6 years of Controller experience in the software industry.  His experiences include: all day to accounting functions, revenue recognition, FAS 123R, tax, GAAP accounting, M&A, FP&A, systems implementation, develop and maintain policies & procedures, working with external auditors, and all other related accounting and finance function. 

The candidate is looking for that next opportunity where he can take the company to the next level financially.

ID: 3113

Financial Analyst

This candidate is a degreed Financial Analyst with corporate finance/FP&A  experience.  He is a CPA candidate and has been responsible for building forecast models, budgeting, reporting, P&L, balance sheets, cash flows and analysis.  He is currently a Financial Analyst and is proficient in Hyperion, Oracle, SAP and is advanced in Excel.  Below are his highlighted skill sets:
  • CPA candidate with an MBA in Finance
  • Strategic planning, Forecasting, budgeting, Spreadsheet Modeling, Financial Analysis, KPI's reporting & valuation, Financial Statement Audit; Design, Implementation and Roll-out of Hyperion's Financial Software applications across many verticals as well exposure to Hyperion Essbase & Oracle Financials
  • Strong consulting (client facing) background and experience implementing, presenting and training finance organization and to cross functional teams including e.g. FP&A, Tax, Treasury and IT
  • Strong skills with spreadsheets, building metrics-based models and rapid decision analytics
  • Worked with engineering/development teams on the financial application implementation and design
Seeking a salary of $65k

ID: 72003

Senior Accountant

This candidate is a degreed Accountant who most recently was handling the Accounting and Reconciliation of a 69 location restaurant group. She was responsible for managing the posting of weekly inventory, preparing month-end and quarter-end accounts receivable accruals of vendor rebates. She Interfaced with internal groups of management and procurement to manage the vendor rebates and charge backs for all inventory and food purchases. She used excel to track and manage the rebates process and report back to management. Her prior position was as an Accountant/Internal Auditor for a defense contractor company.   She also worked as an accountant for Sears, Roebuck and Co. (a large department retailer).

The candidate is available to interview immediately and start within 1 weeks notice. She has excellent communications and is available to interview immediately at $60K base.

ID: 63035

Assistant Controller

This candidate holds a CPA and a Masters degree with 14 years of public accounting and industry experience.  She is currently the Assistant Controller for a $600M manufacturing publicly traded company in Taiwan.  She reports to the Corporate Controller and manages a staff of 8 (4 direct reports and 4 backend office).  She is responsible for AP, GL, Cost, financial reporting, month end, audit, internal and external reporting, technical accounting, and revenue recognition.  Besides her responsibilities listed above, she was also managing payroll, SOX, as well as international consolidations.

  • Managed AP, Payroll, GL, and all other day to day accounting functions
  • SEC, Revenue Recognition, Financial reporting, SOX
  • Strong systems skills
  • International consolidations
  • Development and trained staff

This candidate is very hands on and is very excited about the finding an Assistant Controller opportunity.   She has excellent communications and is comfortable working with all levels of management.  She is available to interview immediately at $150K base.  She comes highly recommend.

ID: 69660

Accounting Manager

This candidate is a UK Chartered Accountant with Big 4 experience.  He was most recently with a $13 Billion manufacturing company for the last 5+ years.  He started in the internal audit group and was promoted to Audit Supervisor and most recently to Corporate Accounting Manager. In his role there he was responsible for a team of 4 and had both operational (GL) and technical (SEC duties.)  He is available immediately.  Below is a summary of his qualifications:

  • Strong GL and month-end close experience
  • Knowledge of US GAAP
  • International experience
  • Strong knowledge of IFRS
  • Strong technical accounting experience including SEC reporting, FAS 123R and SAB 104
  • Salary Requirements are $125K

ID: 65825

Accountant

This candidate holds his MBA in Finance and has 2 years of experience.  He is currently an Accountant for a privately held company where his responsibilities include; AP, Payroll, assist with month end close and AR, reconciliations, and some HR functions.  He is very interested in an opportunity with a stable company.  He is intelligent and has excellent articulation. He is available to interview immediately at $55K base.

ID: 49117