Kym Feltus
DFW,TX
Summary
Professional finance leader with extensive expertise in financial management, reporting, and strategic planning. Exceptional at fostering team collaboration and driving organizational success through effective budgeting, forecasting, and compliance. Highly adaptable, with strong analytical skills and deep understanding of corporate finance principles. Known for reliability, integrity, and results-driven approach in dynamic environments.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Controller
ServiceMaster
01.2022 - Current
- Maximizes return on financial assets by establishing financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems
- Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures
- Protects assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls
- Monitors and confirms financial condition by conducting audits and providing information to external auditors
- Maximizes return and limits risk on cash by minimizing bank balances and making investments
- Prepares budgets by establishing schedules; collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial data; recommending plans
- Achieves budget objectives by scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions
- Provides status of financial condition by collecting, interpreting, and reporting financial data
- Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
- Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, anticipating future legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, filing financial reports, and advising management on needed actions
- Ensures operation of equipment by establishing preventive maintenance requirements and service contracts, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques
- Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results
- Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential
- Lead Workday and ADP integration
- Reconciled and cleaned account recons that have never been reconciled
- Created new revenue accrual process by utilizing GAAP revenue recognition policies
- Decrease spend YOY by 33% by creating controls and processes in T&E, supplies and fuel
Asst. Controller
Georgia Pacific
01.2018 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: Leading manufacturer of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging and building products
- Oversee organization's daily accounting functions
- Perform month-end closing activities in timely and accurate manner, ensure compliance with company policies and meet closing deadlines
- Perform monthly/quarterly balance sheet account reconciliations, investigate differences, and determine resolution to resolve discrepancies in timely manner
- 35% decrease in capital expenses during pandemic to minimize risk of regional closings of paper mills
- Streamlined accounting processes and tasks by providing operations team with financial analysis and explanations to assist in increase of revenue by 20%
- Monthly balancing of Intercompany charges
- Ad hoc analysis and reporting
- Create value through process improvement and standardization
- Business support and analysis
- Conduct physical inventory counts of inventory stored on Plant site and third-party warehouses
- Help drive and maintain strong internal control environment
- Leading manufacturer of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging and building products
- Lead SAP integration and consolidation across multiple plant BU's
CONTROLLER
McKesson CORPORATION
01.2012 - 01.2018
- Company Overview: Leading healthcare company for wholesale medical supplies & equipment, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare technology
- Managed billion-dollar budget with CDC
- Responsible for overall client service strategy, daily activities and client relationships including interface with Specialty and USON (US Oncology) customers
- Worked with executive leadership team to create annual budget and track expenses against projected expenses.
- Significant interactions with senior-level management personnel and Business Partners
- Liaison to Specialty Leadership team to include Controller, CFO, VP of Pricing, and VP of Procurement
- Oversee processes and projects to ensure appropriate actions are taken to preserve and improve working capital and to prevent and eliminate financial risk
- Responsible for onboarding new business into Supplier Financial Services
- Ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley for McKesson Specialty/USON
- Oversee SOX testing
- Lead and developed a highly effective team of accountants to achieve an effective balance between production needs, departmental goals and quality assurance
- Leading healthcare company for wholesale medical supplies & equipment, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare technology
- Oversaw accounts payable and receivable operations for CDC with $1B in annual expenses.
Operations Accounting Manager
FedEx Office
01.2010 - 01.2012
- Company Overview: Retail Chain for shipping, printing and business services (#41 Fortune 500 ranking)
- Lead monthly financial close activities, including preparing complex journal entries, analytical review of balance sheet and income statement accounts, and reviewing and posting staff journal entries
- Perform quarterly and annual SEC and audit reporting including planning, review, analysis and submission, and responding to management and auditor's request
- Review and sign off on SOX testing and balance sheet reconciliations
- Ensure that reconciling items, unusual transactions, and fluctuations are documents and resolved within policy guidelines and accounting guidance
- Fixed Assets reconciliation and re-classes
- Reconciled use tax account that had not been reconciled in over 3 years (received Beacon Award by VP of Tax)
- Analyze and reconcile complex balance sheet accounts including high transaction volume accounts like, state sales and use tax
- Lead research, development and update of accounting procedures, policies, chart of accounts and internal controls for Operations Accounting Departments
- Oversaw analytical review of income statements for Branches, Regional, Area and support centers offices
- Retail Chain for shipping, printing and business services (#41 Fortune 500 ranking)
- Above Beyond Award Recipient for leadership and implementation of new and improved processes
- Deemed forward thinker and innovator featured in multiple worldwide FedEx newsletters
GL Supervisor
Atlantic Aviation
01.2008 - 01.2010
Senior Accountant
Alcatel-Lucent Technologies
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Company Overview: (#401 Fortune 100 ranking)
- (#401 Fortune 100 ranking)
Education
MBA -
SMU Cox Business School
Dallas, TX12-2021
BS - Accounting, & Business Management
University of North Texas
Denton, TX01.2000
Skills
- Financial Reporting
- Accounting Policies & Procedures
- Audit Preparation
- External Auditors
- Financial Forecasting
- Data Analysis
- Account Reconciliation
- General Ledger Accounting
- Budgeting
- Analysis
- Internal Controls
- Revenue Recognition
- Strategic Planning
- GAAP Compliance
- Public Accounting
- Executive Leadership Advisement
- Month-End and Year-End Closings
Websites
Affiliations
National Association of Black Accountants (NABA)
Technicalsummary
- Oracle
- SAP
- PeopleSoft
- Great Plains
- QuickBooks
- MS Office Suite
Civicorganizations
- Founder, The Strong Foundation
- Founder and Chairperson, The Women's Empowerment Charity Event
Podcast
Conversations with Kym
Publications
- Corporate America & The African American Woman
- Girl Today, CEO Tomorrow
- Strong's Resume Writing & Interviewing Tips
- From LA To NYC: A Woman's Guide to Entrepreneurship
Earlycareerroles
- Atlantic Aviation, GL Supervisor, 01/08, 12/10
- Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Senior Accountant, 01/06, 12/08
- Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Staff Accountant, 01/03, 12/06
Timeline
Controller
ServiceMaster
01.2022 - Current
Asst. Controller
Georgia Pacific
01.2018 - 01.2022
CONTROLLER
McKesson CORPORATION
01.2012 - 01.2018
Operations Accounting Manager
FedEx Office
01.2010 - 01.2012
GL Supervisor
Atlantic Aviation
01.2008 - 01.2010
Senior Accountant
Alcatel-Lucent Technologies
01.2006 - 01.2008
MBA -
SMU Cox Business School
BS - Accounting, & Business Management
University of North Texas
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