Brandi Farr
Chicago,IL
Summary
Innovative, results-oriented financial manager, capable of building focused teams, implementing rapid transitions and positively impacting the bottom line and corporate culture. Seeking a position in fast-growing foodservice, healthcare, higher education, facilities, customer service company. Ability to assess challenging situations, identify critical issues, then formulate and enact solutions quickly and decisively. Focused Accounting professional with 20+ years of experience maintaining financial records and reviewing account activity. Proven track record of developing accurate spreadsheets and delivering organized reports with Excel, Power point, Managing Reporting System. Accomplished in taking on tasks within strict deadlines while prioritizing urgent needs.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST
Temperature Equipment Corporation.
01.2023 - Current
- Financial and analytical manager for multi-unit totaling $120M
- Responsible for all Sodexo financial reporting for 1 unit
- Managed and reconciled P&L statements for all units
- Extensive Forecasting experience, analysis for all retail units on monthly basis broken down by week
- Help with creating new contracts for subcontractors
- I have cross divisional experience in Healthcare, Higher Education, and Facilities
- Supported 1 VP, 4 ED’s, and Several Managers.
Multi-Unit Controller
SodexoMAGIC.
09.2014 - 12.2021
- Financial and analytical manager for multi-unit totaling $120M
- Responsible for all Sodexo financial reporting for 1 unit
- Managed and reconciled P&L statements for all units
- Extensive Forecasting experience, analysis for all retail units on monthly basis broken down by week
- Help with creating new contracts for subcontractors
- Cross divisional experience in Healthcare, Higher Education, and Facilities
- Supported 1 VP, 4 ED’s, and Several Managers.
Multi-Unit Controller
Sodexo.
09.2013 - 01.2014
- Financial and analytical manager for multi-unit totaling $20M
- Responsible for all Sodexo financial reporting for 10 units
- Managed and reconciled P&L statements for all units
- Responsible for posting and reconciliation of client ledgers for all 10 units
- Maintained/reconciled client books for contract price, patient days, and capped items
- Established new procedures to help unit transition from a Fee to a P & L Account
- Supported managers in understanding all financial reports to manage business
- Created new policy and procedure for units to ensure unit is audit ready at all times
- Extensive Forecasting experience, analysis for all retail units on monthly basis broken down by week
- Help construct new amendment to capture unidentified items
- Was able to capture contract items that were not being tracked (observation days) which added additional revenue of $44K to bottom line
- Cross divisional experience in Healthcare and Higher Education
- Supported 1 RDM, 2 GM’s, and 18 Managers
- Managed 2 support staff.
Unit Controller II
Sodexo.
07.2008 - 09.2012
- Manage all accounting and financial matters for nine accounts/units totaling $11.6M
- Manage unit financial records to verify details of recorded transactions
- Responsible for A/P, A/R, budget, payroll for 180+ union employees in ADP, financial reporting, inventory
- Five years experience as SEIU collective bargaining agreement administrator
- Ten years experience as Teamsters Local 743 collective bargaining agreement administrator
- Maintain union accrual spreadsheets
- Proficient in UFS, Dashboard, all management reporting systems
- Ensure that assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses for responsibility area are accurately reported and accounted
- Responsible for the creation and monitoring of 10 P & L budgets
- Perform monthly/quarterly/year-end close process to ensure accuracy and integrity of results at unit level
- Maintain records and reports necessary to comply with company, government, accrediting agency standards, regulations and codes
- Perform unit Audits (Cash, financial, inventory) to ensure audit readiness at all times
- Manage two admin staff, support 13 unit managers, 1 GM.
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Aramark Inc.
03.1999 - 06.2008
- Responsible for the financial reporting of accounts totaling $10.7M
- Generate and maintain billing reports for client services
- Complete quarterly and fiscal financial reports
- Maintain and reconcile Scanplus system, flex, student and staff meal plans for a 2,600 student population
- Responsible for analytical outcome of all financial data reported to corporate office
- Maintain all office policies and procedures to ensure audit readiness
- Established new cash handling procedure in compliance with corporate expectations
- Train all new bookkeepers and clerks on office procedures and ARAMARK software
- Responsible for MRS (management report system), WOR/MOR (weekly/monthly operating report), TDR (transaction detail report), EDD (expense distribution detail report), Scanplus, accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, payroll for 80+ employees with human resource functions
- Generate expense reports and facilitate the appropriate charges
- Arrange travel for executives
- Recognized for exceptional work on implementing new cash handling procedures and all office support for opening a new $6.2M account.
Education
A.A - Accounting
DeVry University
Chicago, Illinois06.2013
Major: Accounting -
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois01.1996
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- 10 Key advanced user
- Oracle
- Certificate of Excellence in Accounting
- Certificate of Completion - Loan Processor
- Labor Management System (LMS)
- Market Connection (Direct payment system for Accounts payable)
- Unit Financial System (UFS)
- Essbase User
- Brio (Management Reporting System)
- Event Management System (EMS)
- Proposed/researched new Purchase Order system
- Worked to vet vendors for new Purchase Order system and worked with team to implement
- Invoice Processing
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- Account Reconciliation
Timeline
ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST
Temperature Equipment Corporation.
01.2023 - Current
Multi-Unit Controller
SodexoMAGIC.
09.2014 - 12.2021
Multi-Unit Controller
Sodexo.
09.2013 - 01.2014
Unit Controller II
Sodexo.
07.2008 - 09.2012
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Aramark Inc.
03.1999 - 06.2008
A.A - Accounting
DeVry University
Major: Accounting -
Northern Illinois University
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