Berle Bowen
Englewood,CO
Summary
Communicator | Creator | Accountable
Manage domestic month-end close, reconciliation, and inter-company accounting, analyzing B/S and P&L budget variances. Evaluate and improve compliance with SOX, supporting internal audits. Control CAPEX projects, collecting approvals and managing budgets. Build models to predict contract revenue. Produce billable hour reports for monthly invoicing, generate tax reporting, and account for fixed assets.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
E-4/Specialist
Army National Guard
Akron, OH
06.2003 - 05.2007
- Selected to conduct 8 training classes on Category II and Category III Military Source Operations (MSO).
- Served as liaison to Special Operations intelligence trainers by providing briefs on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) planning, collection, analysis, and threat reporting.
Finance & Accounting Manager
The Colorado Trust
02.2021 - Current
- Finance Implemented regular workflow monitoring procedures that helped reduce month-end close time by 30%.
- Assist in preparing all financial reporting, including quarterly, annual and periodic financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
- Manage fixed-asset accounting, including the capitalization policy, depreciation calculations, journal reclasses, fixed-asset roll-forwards, and fixed-asset account reconciliations.
- Assist with managing the cash management system, including preparing the cash requirements report and reviewing timely bank reconciliations as needed.
- Reduced company expenditures by 20% by consistently detecting potential cost savings.
- Serve as signing authority for budget, expenditures, purchases, employment, and payroll matters.
Senior Financial Analyst
Charter Communications
11.2016 - 09.2020
- Finance Designed and created a financial planning technique that saved company $186,000 other direct cost each month.
- Presents on-going revenue forecasting and revenue variance analysis on a monthly basis for assigned Corporate Business Units (CBU’s).
- Financial planning consists of a 12-24 month outlook.
- Met monthly and quarterly budget goals, +/- 1.5% of target, for three division budgets totaling $18 million.
- Identified, diagnosed, tested, and implemented solutions for problems within accounting systems.
- Identified opportunities to reduce certain variable costs by 15%.
- Performed year-end processes to roll general ledger balances at the end of fiscal year.
- Prepared the company’s budget in cooperation with CFO.
- GAAP Negotiations.
Senior Financial Auditor
Charter Communications
08.2014 - 11.2016
- Finance Produced monetary recovery of nearly $12K by identifying errors in agent compensation payouts.
- Examines accounting records; i.e.
- General ledgers, asset registers, expense accounts, sales journals and payroll journals to verify sales and use tax has been properly collected and recorded.
- Communicates audit outcome, verbally and in writing, to taxpayers, business representatives or management; discloses audit findings and identifies policy and compliance implications.
- Assists with preparing and reporting the funding forecast and fund balance projections.
Education
Masters - Organizational Leadership, Strategic Digital Marketing
Colorado State University
11.2018 - 01.2020
B.A. - Business Administration, Finance
University of Phoenix
06.2006 - 07.2010
Timeline
Finance & Accounting Manager
The Colorado Trust
02.2021 - Current
Masters - Organizational Leadership, Strategic Digital Marketing
Colorado State University
11.2018 - 01.2020
Senior Financial Analyst
Charter Communications
11.2016 - 09.2020
Senior Financial Auditor
Charter Communications
08.2014 - 11.2016
B.A. - Business Administration, Finance
University of Phoenix
06.2006 - 07.2010
E-4/Specialist
Army National Guard
06.2003 - 05.2007
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