Accounting Director at Delaney Accounting & David Henry Consulting (2023-12 – 2025-12)
Trucking focused accounting and assurance firm
- Served as signing engagement partner on compilations and review on 15 engagements
- Planned and performed engagement procedures
- Prepare financial statements and notes
- Prepared and signed independent auditor's reports
- Liaison with lending institutions and investors to ensure all concerning areas are covered and ensure yearly covenant & agreement compliance
- Serve as engagement partner on Tax engagements
- Managed bookkeeping for more than 500,000 transactions a month to ensure proper coding
- Prepared and managed month end close for 7 transportation groups
- Ensure accounting compliance throughout the company in the following areas: fixed assets, debt, repairs, leases, and tax compliance
- Review and provide corrections on financial statements and engagement workpapers of staff members
- ERP implementation for Quickbooks online
- Train staff of 10 on planning, procedures, and documentation of assurance engagements
Controller / CFO at Language & Culture Worldwide, LLC (2023-05 – 2023-12)
DEI training firm
- Performed all duties across cash, AP/AR, payroll, and financial reporting
- Partnered with banks to deliver financial reporting and debt covenant compliance
- Developed forward-looking liquidity models to support operational and strategic planning
- Report directly to board on company operations
Assistant Controller at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2022-10 – 2023-03)
Art Museum
- Reported to Controller as all around accounting help
- uploaded invoices, gathered approvals, and processed invoices for payment
- processed weekly check run for invoices
- prepared monthly department financial statements
- Reconciled monthly bank accounts
- Booked donations into accounting system
- Processed invoices and book income
Accounting Manager at Dream Exchange (2022-05 – 2023-04)
Start-Up Trading Firm
- Prepared multi-year financial statements and supported investor reporting and capital discussions
- Reported performance to investors and lenders, including financial metrics and covenant compliance
- Supported capital raise efforts through financial transparency and reporting
- Cleaned up 4 years of accounting records including classifying transactions, financial statement reporting, and equity management
Accounting Manager at Smith Bucklin (2021-06 – 2022-04)
Nonprofit association management firm
- Produced standard monthly financial statements, to include balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows
- Prepared months end close workpapers to ensure compliance with assurance engagements
- Prepared month end and year end work papers, as well as reconciliations as part of the financial
- Help decrease month end close time through process improvement
- Train staff in preparing financial statements and review work for corrections
Controller at Cristo Rey (2020-11 – 2021-03)
Jesuit Nonprofit High School in Chicago
- Provided financial statements and department expense statements
- Ensure proper reporting regarding revenue recognition, net asset classifications, functional expense allocation, donations endowments & investments and disclosures
- Created month-end close processes to improve month-end close time to 2 days through establishment of a month end close checklist, reviewing and cleaning up 20+ account reconciliations, aligned lease accounting with ASC 842, and migrated fixed assets from MS Excel tracking to ERP system
- Collected old accounts receivable of 200K
- Budget management: create reusable templates for budget creation. Meet with managers to create detailed budgets based on school strategy and constraints. Provide analysis on budget to actual differences
- Grant management: track all grant income and expenses monthly
Senior Accountant at Holly Hunt (2015-05 – 2020-08)
Home Furniture manufacturing, distribution and sales company
- Owned month end close process
- Prepared monthly financial statements according to GAAP and SEC requirements for rolling up to public entity
- Prepared month department financial reports to manager and provided analysis to improve business operations
- Reconcile all 50 balance sheet reconciliations and provide feedback, root cause analysis, and remediation action
- Prepared and file sales tax returns for 40 states. Lead implementation of new nexus rules and register in 30 states
- Designed and implemented accounts payable plan to reduce time spent and use of paper
- Designed and implemented process improvement procedures to reduce time to complete month end close processes
- Prepared month end close entries in accordance with GAAP for inventory, fixed assets, sales, commissions, cash, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivables, leases, and accruals
- work with audit to provide information for controls, expense testing, and fixed assets
- Analyze returns, design customer service revamp plan that led to a 30% decrease in returns, yearly increase in restocking fees of $400,000, improve average resolution time from 1 month to 2 weeks, improved internal controls, cross train, eliminate theft, root cause analysis of issues, and remediation
- ASC 842 - lead implementation of new lease standards for 20 leases valued at $30 million. prepare and right of use and lease liabilities entries each month
- ASC 606 – designed revenue recognition polices and controls around customer contracts and reviewed contracts monthly to ensure revenue was booked properly
- Managed budgeting and cost tracking for 30+ leasehold buildout projects with budgets ranging from $50K to $1.5 Mil in cost
- ERP Implementation: Lead migration specialist in migrating fixed assets from sage to Microsoft dynamics. prepared data for upload into new system, reconciling new system to general ledger, design and test controls for separation of duties. Part of system wide implementation team for revenue, general ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable module. Duties included downloading data from old system, preparing data for upload into new system. reviewing process workflows and communicating regarding errors and segregation of duties to IT
Senior Associate (Assurance) at Warady & Davis LLP (2013-05 – 2015-05)
Chicagoland public accounting firm
- Planned and performed reviews, compilations, audits, and tax returns for real estate clients (multifamily, mixed-use, commercial)
- Prepared financial statements in accordance with GAAP, IFRS, and SEC requirements
- Ensured proper accounting for: Property acquisitions and dispositions, Lease accounting and fixed assets, Construction revenue (percentage-of-completion), Asset Valuation, Debt, Equity
- Designed and tested internal controls to support audit compliance
Senior Associate (Tax) at Grant Thornton (2010-06 – 2013-05)
Top 10 worldwide public accounting Firm Chicago Office
- Prepared and lead tax engagements for corporations, partnerships, and nonprofits for companies in manufacturing, media, public utilities, real estate, and asset management industries
- Led staff of 7 in completion in 5 engagements yearly
- Specialized in: Preparing tax provisions, Book to tax difference schedules, Partner basis calculations, Debt allocations and waterfall structures, Income and expense allocations per partnership agreements, Depreciation and cost segregation, K-1 preparation and investor reporting, Payroll and 1099 reporting
- Prepared multi-state apportionment schedules
- Supported acquisitions and dispositions with tax structuring and reporting
