Controller/Accountant in floorcovering/home furnishings industry for premier retailer
Freelance writer/editor
MBA
Passed 4 parts of CPA exam
QuickBooks certified
Einstein Moomjy, Inc., Pine Brook, NJ, US, Controller
Perform timely and accurate month-end, quarterly, and annual financial closings. Prepare and review financial statements, general ledger activity, journal entries, and accruals for $25+ million annual revenue private corporation.
Produce and evaluate detailed internal management reports to influence marketing and purchasing decisions and budgets.
Establish and maintain internal controls. Perform interim internal reviews reducing accounting firm fees by 30%. Manage external financial and tax audits.
Consistently meet deadlines for 60+ employee biweekly payroll, monthly sales commissions, and quarterly bonuses. Evaluate, propose, and administer benefits plans. Consolidate multiple payrolls reducing ADP processing and delivery costs by 25%.
Execute initiative to establish purchasing controls and expand consigned goods operation reducing inventory levels by 20%.
Evaluate insurance needs and proposals. Research office equipment acquisitions and analyze lease or buy options.
Supervise biyearly physical inventory taking, reconciling, and reporting for diverse 15,000 SKU product line of carpet, handwoven and machine-made rugs, furniture, and accessories.
Einstein Moomjy, Inc., Pine Brook, NJ, US, Accounting Manager
Manage and supervise full cycle of accounting operations for 10 member office staff.
Prepare monthly and quarterly NJ and NY sales and commercial rent tax returns and annual 1099 tax forms.
Manage information systems, data/voice telecom network and all peripherals, applications, and security at corporate center and 5 remote sites. Troubleshoot and resolve LAN and WAN network issues.
Research and prepare needs analysis and collaborate with programmers to design and implement $300K custom retail application resulting in a 30% office staff reduction. Negotiate purchases and contracts yielding a 50% cut in system maintenance costs.
Research, propose, and install new auto-attendant telecom system reducing telecom maintenance and staffing costs by 15%. Investigate and implement technologies and calling plans lowering costs for local and long distance by 25%, WAN networking by 10%, wireless by 30%, and Internet by 35%.
Manage the introduction of new furniture and hardwood flooring product lines to the system facilitating $3+ million sales increase.
Train staff in all computer applications and accounting procedures. Write all operational user documentation for computer system.
Einstein Moomjy, Inc., Pine Brook, NJ, US, Information Technology Project Manager/Systems Analyst
Led multi-phase systems redesign and upgrade in order to reduce costs, streamline processes, and support business expansion.
Key contributions include:
Supervise and implement conversion to computerized retail system yielding 25% office staff reduction.
Trained staff; identified and resolved change management issues.
Design and implement bar code labeling and automation of physical inventory procedures lowering costs by 50%.
Design and implement system to manage consigned goods improving efficiency and eliminating duplicate payments.
Establish procedures and reports to improve A/R turnover and to identify and address problem collectibles
Einstein Moomjy, Inc., Pine Brook, NJ, US, New York Corporate Division Accounting Manager
Managed Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Sales and Cost analyses, collections, sales taxes, sales commissions, bank reconciliations, General Ledger journals, and financial reporting for $7 million annual revenue corporate division.
William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, US, Masters, MBA-Accounting Concentration
MBA general studies in Accounting, Finance, Marketing, HR, Economics, IT, Law
Additional concentration in Accounting - Audit, Regulation (Tax&Law), Financial, Managerial, International
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, US, Bachelors, English Literature
Major - English Lit
Minors - History & Philosophy
Graduate School Awards, Award
2010 Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
Cotsakos School of Business 2009-2010 Dean’s Graduate Award
William Paterson University Outstanding MBA Graduate with a Concentration in Accounting Award
Cotsakos School of Business Excellence in MBA (Accounting Award)