Danielle Boone

• Plan annual operating budget. Review and results and provide detailed analysis to executive management team of actual costs to planned costs.
• Forecast cash flows for operations including all operating revenue, costs, inter-company transfers with parent company, and bank financing. Closely monitor all cash transactions to align with forecast and update executive management team regularly of cash position.
• Responsible for managing month-end closings. Complete journal entries and account reconciliations to prepare quarterly financial documents. Collaborate with parent company outside auditor on quarterly and annual financial audits.
• Communicate directly with insurance companies on all insurance to include property and liability coverages. Work with insurance companies to secure additional coverage as necessary and to negotiate annual rates.
• Create product cost projections for new product designs to assist with sales quotes. Set standard costs for new products in manufacturing. Report and analyze actual costs to planned costs. Work with operations to identify and alleviate unfavorable operating variance.
• Supervise all accounts payable and accounts receivable transactions. Ensure proper procedures and approvals processes are followed. Monitor timeliness payments in and out and take corrective measures when needed. Collaborate with Human Resources management for all bi-weekly payroll processing.

Performed contracted accounting services for Public Housing Authorities. Reconciled and recorded all accounting transactions on a monthly and yearly basis. Consolidated results into federal government accounting systems. Prepared monthly financial reporting packages for Executive Directors and Board members. Prepared yearly operating budget. Maintained accounting records for government subsidy money. Worked with independent CPA firms who conducted early audits of housing authorities.

Prepared and posted journal entries for monthly accounting activities. Reconciled general ledger balances monthly. Prepared financial statements for offshore facilities. Posted sub-ledger balances to Hyperion for corporate roll-up. Analyzed manufacturing variances and inventory accounts and took action to correct problems. Processed vendor invoices for payment and reported discrepancies back to vendors. Conducted physical inventories in corporate owned and contracted facilities. Performed annual reconciliation of imports for US Customs documentation.

• Designed database that provided monthly, quarterly and yearly divisional financial reporting. New database contributed 2 day reduction in closing process.
• Part of team that implemented new offshore procedures for receipt and use of apparel merchandise. New procedures resulted in area's annual inventory loss being reduced from $1.5M to $25K.

Monitored and maintained online manifesting system for four distribution centers. Ensured proper receiving procedures were followed. Established new corporate procedures for any changes that occurred in the manifesting system. Reported and analyzed purchase price variances from outside vendors. Provided customer returned goods receipts reports for customer credit. Supervised four accounting clerks.

• Implemented new procedure for semi-annual corporate wide intransit inventory.
• Developed garment cost models for Global Sourcing management which provided cost savings projections on sourced garments.
• Reorganized and implemented procedures in Columbus, GA distribution receiving and customer returned goods departments which reduced work backlog and resulted in more efficient daily operations.