Michelle Boyd
Glendale Heights,IL
Summary
Accomplished Director of Finance professional bringing proven expertise operations and practices. Manages activities with good understanding of current needs and future targets. Offers excellent project management and team leadership abilities.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Director Of Finance
Marriott Suites Deerfield
Deerfield, IL
01.2006 - Current
- Manage the complete finances for a multi-million dollar company while maintaining all internal controls, reducing expenses and contributing to a steady profit growth year over year.
- Supervise and handle all day to day operations of the accounting department including the overseeing of cash deposits, credit card processing, bank reconciliations, and calculation of Management/Franchise fees based upon revenues.
- Disbursements for all payables and capital expenditures while always maintaining a positive cash flow.
- Identified, collected and organized date from multiple sources to prepare and produce monthly, quarterly, annual profit/loss statements which include all revenues, expenditures, journal entries, etc.
- Create work papers and review asset and liability balances along with net changes for reasonableness.
- Independently observe physical inventories to ensure accurate counts while maintaining that inventories are costed on a FIFO basis.
- Performed complex analysis for monthly forecasting providing actual and projected numbers to owners for the basis of their cash flow projections to investors.
- Complete annual budget plan and advise on key indicators to be used for profit and loss margins.
- Streamlined expenses to result in a 30% reduction year over year by re-bidding contracts with vendors, monitoring proposed staffing levels and actual staffing levels while making decisions based upon forecasted weekly volume adjusted to volume changes daily.
- Selected to several Task Forces projects which included the opening and transition of hotels within the organization.
- Assisted in training of new Controllers on polices and procedures, systems, along with other financial set-ups.
- Interview, hire, train , recommend performance evaluations, resolve problems, provide open communication.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Lane College
1988
Skills
- Financial
- Forecasting
- Payables
- Profit
- Staffing
- Budget
- Cash flow
- Cash flow projections
- Contracts
Timeline
Director Of Finance
Marriott Suites Deerfield
01.2006 - Current
Bachelor of Science -
Lane College
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