Anthony PICCINICH
Saddle Brook,NJ
Summary
Senior finance leader with extensive experience in managing accounting, financial reporting, and FP&A for multi-location rental and logistics operations. Achieved an 80% reduction in month-end close time while enhancing financial controls and minimizing audit risks. Known for aligning financial performance with operational efficiency to drive profitability.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Controller
PARTY RENTAL LTD.
Teterboro, NJ
01.2019 - 08.2026
- Senior finance leader overseeing financial operations supporting a large-scale, multi-location rental and logistics organization serving the event, hospitality, corporate, and production markets.
- Led GAAP-compliant financial reporting, accounting operations, and month-end close, ensuring accurate reconciliations and comprehensive management reporting.
- Direct annual budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis, providing senior leadership with clear visibility into financial and operating performance.
- Reduced month-end close from 20 days to 4 days an 80% improvement through accounting workflow redesign, process automation, improved accountability, and stronger cross-functional coordination.
- Rebuilt financial controls surrounding rental inventory and fixed assets, improving asset accuracy and reducing exposure to shrinkage, loss, and financial misstatement.
- Developed rental asset lifecycle and depreciation models to evaluate asset utilization, profitability, replacement requirements, ROI, and capital investment decisions.
- Provided financial analysis for capital planning, asset purchases, operational investments, cost management, and profitability decisions, enhancing strategic financial insights.
- Partnered with warehouse and logistics leadership to analyze labor, transportation, fleet, operating expenses, and asset-related costs, identifying actionable opportunities for efficiency and margin improvement.
- Strengthened controls and accounting documentation, which led to zero material audit findings across multiple audit cycles.
- Partnered with senior management to translate financial results into actionable recommendations and improve accountability across operating departments.
FP&A Manager / Accounting Manager
HABAND / BLUESTEM BRANDS
Mahwah, NJ
01.2002 - 01.2019
- Directed FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and management reporting supporting executive decision-making.
- Developed forecasting models covering sales, gross margin, inventory, operating expenses, and working capital.
- Partnered with merchandising, operations, and supply chain leadership to improve inventory turns, SKU profitability, purchasing decisions, and working capital utilization.
- Identified margin leakage and led cost-reduction initiatives that supported enhanced EBITDA performance.
- Managed monthly close with focus on account reconciliations, journal entries, financial analysis, and variance reporting to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Streamlined reporting processes and financial analysis using advanced Excel, automation, and analytical tools to increase efficiency.
- Oversaw AP, AR, cash management, bank reconciliations, and accounting controls.
- Served as a cross-functional finance partner to operating leadership, connecting financial performance with inventory, purchasing, fulfillment, and profitability.
- Finance and accounting leader supporting complex multi-brand retail and e-commerce operations with significant inventory, purchasing, fulfillment, and working-capital requirements.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY
Jersey City, NJSkills
- GAAP Financial Reporting
- FP&A
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Capital Planning
- Cash Flow & Working Capital
- Cost and Margin Analysis
- Risk Management
- Bank Covenant Compliance
- Multi-Location Reporting
- Process Automation
- Operational Finance
- ERP analytics
- Continuous improvement
- Team Leadership
- Staff management
- Rental accounting
Accomplishments
- 80% FASTER MONTH-END CLOSE: Reduced close from 20 days to 4 days through process redesign, automation, and stronger ownership.
- ZERO MATERIAL AUDIT FINDINGS: Strengthened financial controls, documentation, reconciliations, and accounting processes across multiple audit cycles.
- RENTAL ASSET CONTROL: Improved financial visibility over rental assets through enhanced lifecycle, depreciation, profitability, and capital-planning models.
- INVENTORY & OPERATIONS FINANCE: Connected accounting and FP&A with warehouse, logistics, fleet, inventory, and operating teams to improve cost visibility and decision-making.
- CAPITAL & ASSET PLANNING: Developed financial analysis supporting asset replacement, investment decisions, ROI analysis, and capital allocation.
- BANKING & LIQUIDITY: Managed quarterly covenant compliance and lender reporting while monitoring leverage, liquidity, and debt-service requirements.
- TEAM LEADERSHIP: Built and developed finance teams with greater accountability, ownership, process discipline, and cross-functional collaboration.
Timeline
Controller
PARTY RENTAL LTD.
01.2019 - 08.2026
FP&A Manager / Accounting Manager
HABAND / BLUESTEM BRANDS
01.2002 - 01.2019
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY