Overview
Work History
Education
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Vann Vaupel

Conway,AR

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience

Work History

Various Short Term Consultant

Robert Half International
  • Worked as an interim controller for a company that spanned 5 states
  • Researched and provided all financial information requested by venture capital firm to aid in the sale of a large healthcare organization
  • Analyzed leases for 12 locations to determine everything necessary to break the leases as part of a sale
  • Recalculated 6 months of payroll that had been incorrectly run
  • Caught up and corrected 6 months of payroll taxes
  • Made all GL entries for the previous 6 month period to aid in the transition to a new accounting system.

Payroll Consultant

Wehco Media
  • Learned Oracle E-Business Suite payroll in 2 weeks to step in for unexpected FMLA
  • Processed payroll for hundreds of employees across 10+ companies
  • Ensured compliance with all local, state, and federal taxes for all companies
  • Audited and corrected back taxes that had not been properly paid
  • Maintained and updated all HR information for all employees.

Staff Accountant

Denali Water Solutions
  • Created all general ledger entries related to payroll for five interrelated companies
  • Created and maintained reconciliations for all balance sheet general ledger accounts
  • Balanced inter-company accounts between five related companies.

Consultant-Financial Analyst

Windstream
  • Analyzed invoices to determine whether or not they could be paid in accordance with federal bankruptcy order
  • Managed and negotiated settlements with large outstanding balances with key vendors
  • Ran large scale data analysis on thousands of lines of ACH transactions to ensure priority vendors were paid in a timely basis.

Controller

PC Hardware, LLC
  • Led, hired, and developed accounting department team members
  • Prepared monthly financial statements for 5 companies
  • Oversaw all AR and AP functions for 5 companies
  • Developed and implemented a budget across 5 inter related companies
  • Created a depreciation and amortization schedule for the first time in the companies history
  • Initiated procedures to ensure the accuracy of P.O.s which led to an average of 5% savings per invoice
  • Cleaned up aged AP and AR dating back to 2016
  • Reviewed and closed open orders and P.O.s dating back to 2012
  • Designed custom reporting to fulfill the needs of operations
  • Maintained a weekly cash forecast.

Business Development Analyst/Project Coordinator

Cantrell Drug Company
  • Drove monthly sales from $1 million to over $2.5 million
  • Successfully negotiated multi-million dollar contracts with top GPOs and IDNs
  • Planned and managed multiple trade shows with budgets of $30,000+
  • Helped communicate with and reassure our customer base during multiple product recalls
  • Coached a team of customer service specialists in phone sales techniques to regain our customer base and sales numbers within 3 months of a shutdown and recall
  • Led a team of customer service specialists when the director of business development was unavailable
  • Reported directly to the president of the company and director of business development to help guide marketing and sales tactics.

Controller/Office Manager

Oozles
  • Designed and implemented financial operations and reporting for a multi-unit franchise system and multi-unit company stores
  • Calculated, billed, and reviewed all franchise system payments
  • Projected sales trends based on historical and industry data to advise franchisees and company managers on staffing and inventory levels
  • Contracted and implemented a direct deposit payroll system
  • Established relationships with multiple area banks to ensure smooth cash flow and banking systems
  • Managed transition when one of the partners exited.

Accountant

ARAMARK
  • Audited sales reports and reconciled them with inventory usage to uncover shrinkage and lost sales of 3% per day
  • Overhauled and maintained inventory systems for four locations resulting in elimination of items being over and under reported
  • Discovered thousands of dollars of errors in company expense distributions
  • Developed and trained associates in techniques that increased incremental daily sales by 7%
  • Designed and implemented new cash controls to prevent theft
  • Forecasted sales trends to develop production and labor budgets resulting in 5% average decreased waste and 8% reduced labor cost
  • Performed all HR functions for four locations
  • Maintained a database of over a thousand users for use in direct payroll deductions for meal purchases.

Controller

National Solutions
08.2023 - Current
  • Completed journal entries, reconciliations, and account analysis to prepare quarterly financial documents and general account management.
  • Prepared balance sheets, cash flow reports and income statements.
  • Managed payroll data entry and processing for Number employees to comply with predetermined company guidelines.
  • Provided treasury and cash management by overseeing reconciliation of banking activity, credit card processing, and sales tax returns.

Education

Master of Accounting and Financial Management -

Keller Graduate School of Management

B.A. Anthropology/Sociology -

Centre College
Danville, KY

Skills

  • Training delivery
  • Problem-Solving
  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity and Honesty

Timeline

Controller

National Solutions
08.2023 - Current

Master of Accounting and Financial Management -

Keller Graduate School of Management

B.A. Anthropology/Sociology -

Centre College

Various Short Term Consultant

Robert Half International

Payroll Consultant

Wehco Media

Staff Accountant

Denali Water Solutions

Consultant-Financial Analyst

Windstream

Controller

PC Hardware, LLC

Business Development Analyst/Project Coordinator

Cantrell Drug Company

Controller/Office Manager

Oozles

Accountant

ARAMARK
Vann Vaupel