Fayeza Hussain

• Managed daily cash positioning and liquidity across multiple bank accounts and entities
• Developed and maintained short-term cash forecasts to support strategic decision making.
• Oversaw banking relationships, including account and user administration, while treasury services.
• Executed wire transfers, ACH payments and other treasury transactions while maintaining compliance with Internal controls
• Identified opportunities to improve treasury processes resulting in increased efficiency and stronger controls.
• Collaborated with accounting, finance and business teams to ensure accurate accounting and cash forecasting
• Led the end-to-end earnout reporting process for multiple acquisitions, including calculation, forecasting and stakeholder communication
• Compiled the accounting and valuation support for contingent consideration arrangements, ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with accounting standards.
• Provided upper management with insights into earnout performance, payment projections and acquisition related financial impacts.
• Coordinated audit requests across accounting, financial and treasury and operational teams to ensure timely completion of audit deliverables

• Manage the consolidated financial reporting process, including, preparation and review of monthly, quarterly, and annual financials including the review financial disclosures for accuracy and completeness
• Assist in managing the month-end close process to ensure the accounting team processes accurate and timely journal entries and account reconciliations
• Prepare and/or review monthly, quarterly, and annual Management discussion and analysis reporting
• Lead implementation of new accounting standards, financial reporting requirements, and monitor emerging accounting standards. Worked on implementation of ASC842
• Research technical accounting issues and prepare memorandums for significant transactions, areas of accounting complexity, and M&A transactions
• Update internal control documentation and manage internal and external audit requirement
• Manage finance process improvement initiatives to create efficiencies and reduce timelines for deliverables as needed

• Month-end close responsibilities included preparing and analyzing financial statements (Profit and loss, balance sheet), presenting the financials to VP and CFO
• Managing, monitoring and being the point person during close. Reviewing the journal entries for accuracy and completeness. Responsible for making sure that the close deadlines are met by the team which included one direct report and four indirect reports
• Being the point person for interim and yearly audits and making sure team meets the audit deadlines. Compiling and reviewing all audit schedules such as Trial balance, Fixed assets rollforwards and variance analysis. Collaborate with Internal control team on a quarterly basis to make sure the company is SOX compliant. Work with external auditors to ensure correct and timely closing and reporting at year-end
• Perform ad hoc analysis and projects as requested by upper management.
• Worked on the Global Financial Transformation Migration project to S4/Hana from Legacy systems (Oracle, FFA). The project included cleansing of legacy data, manual file preparation, data load and manual pre/post data validation

• Month-end responsibilities include analyzing the operating expenses such as Technology costs, telecom costs incurred during the month and working with the FP&A team to analyze variances against the budgeted expenses. Also, required to book accrual and adjusting entries when needed.
• Responsible for the Fixed Assets process which includes managing the Fixed Assets subledger, booking depreciation, distinguishing the technology costs as CAPEX and OPEX and handling the proper accounting treatment for such costs per GAAP. Also, analyzing the fixed asset activity with the FP&A team and work to get the variances explained.
• Review and analyze specific balance sheet and income statement accounts; identify and resolve problems with these accounts.
• Responsible for reviewing and analyzing bank reconciliations and booking any adjustments is required.
• Responsible for maintaining the correct Intercompany balances
• Adhoc projects included streamlining processes for bank reconciliations and Intercompany transactions.

• Facilitated international understanding and implementation of inter-company policies, consequently formulating a global intercompany policy for Anixter.
• Analyzed and ensured the accuracy of P&L expenses such as T&E, P-Card, DSO comparisons, AR aging, FASB rent schedules and lease obligations for annual 10K. Provided assistance to internal and external auditors by addressing their questions and concerns.

· Assisted in the launch of a Ralph Lauren LP, and orchestrated overall accounting duties, including posting journal entries, posting cash transactions, Processing and recording payroll expenses and accruals, reconciling AP, AR & Bank statements, preparing P&L, B/S for the month-end reporting, and preparing reporting package for RL Canada quarterly to meet SEC requirements.

§ Assisted the SAP project team with the current business processes for RL Canada so as to ensure the efficient transition from Great Plains to SAP.