Julie Smith

Areas of responsibility include driving the month-end close process, consolidation of 16 business units (multi-currency) from three ERP platforms, financial analysis, reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany reconciliations, and fixed assets

• Sales and use tax preparation and submission, yearly and quarterly external audit coordination
• Accounting integration for new acquisitions
• Manage three direct reports (two staff accountants & one senior accountant).

• Implemented standard reconciliation format across all business units resulting in a more concise review process
• Created automated AR transactions through the ERP system resulting in a savings of 25 hours per month
• Automated ACH upload payment process and AR lockbox payments for 2 business units saving 10 hours per week enabling the AR team to focus on collections.
• Developed strong relationships with external auditors to ensure smooth audit processes and promptly resolve any identified issues.

• Successfully integrated new acquisition into ERP, responsible for GL and sub-ledger transactions
• Implemented process improvements to allow seamless consolidation of all business units resulting in a reduction to close cycle by 1 day
• Created auditing process for customer rebates resulting in more than $250K savings annually.
• Reconciled balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.

• Areas of responsibility include; month-end close process, financial analysis, reserve reporting and adjustments, intercompany reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, manage fixed assets, sales and use tax preparation, daily cash position, and external audit coordination
• Reduced manual adjustments throughout the accounting area while working closely with IT to develop efficient accounting processes in the G/L, A/P & A/R areas.

• Areas of responsibility included; costing, analysis, AR, AP, payroll, coordination of month-end close process, analysis of financials with commentary on variances, balance sheet reconciliations, external audit coordination, and ISO 9001:2008 internal auditing
• Developed a comprehensive standard costing tool which increased accuracy by 10% compared to previous methodology.

• Areas of responsibility include; coordination of month-end close process, analysis of financials with commentary on variances, upload and verification of financial statements into Hyperion, various reserve analyses and adjustments, intercompany accounting, customer incentives and royalty calculations with analysis, yearly budgeting preparation, balance sheet reconciliations, internal & external audit coordination and SOX testing & compliance.

• Areas of responsibility included; cost accounting, margin reporting and analysis, daily sales analysis and reporting, month-end general ledger close, financial reporting, reconciliations, consolidation of three legal entities, budgeting process, customer incentives, bank reporting, A/R securitization reporting, audit coordination, SOX documentation, compliance and coordination of yearly SOX audit.