Accomplished Director of Finance/Office Manger, adept in cash flow management and fostering employee relations. Spearheaded annual budget executions and financial statement preparations, while ensuring meticulous HR policy adherence. Demonstrated excellence in visual merchandising with significant contributions to seasonal resets across multiple stores, enhancing retail environments and efficiency.
Handled product merchandising for 5 stores, including inventory of all products utilizing a handheld device. Season conversions and resets were performed at all 5 stores for 7 major holidays according to plans. I was also part of an installation team that moved/reinstalled the department within the stores. The installations consisted of building and installing fixtures and resets of all product.
Accountable to the Board of Directors for monthly financial statements, annual budget preparation and execution. Maintained and reconciled multiple checking accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, dues processing payments to the association along with state and national associations, weekly deposits and member records.
Accountable for the financial operations of the company, to include the production of periodic financial reports, maintenance of accounting records, preparation of short and long-term forecasts, production and execution of the annual budget, processing bi-weekly payroll and employee pay adjustments, accounts payable, accounts receivable, reconciled bank accounts, counted daily drops, verified cash and credit card transactions and made necessary journal entries to balance, maintenance of personnel files, background checks and new employee on-boarding.
Administered health and welfare plans including enrollments and terminations, processed required documents through payroll and insurance providers, served as the COBRA administrator, administered leave of absence paperwork including FMLA compliance, coordinated short and long-term disability claims, maintained employee tax and 401(k) deductions, processed payroll for union and non-union employees along with journal entries to balance payroll.