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Wade Smeltzer

Arcadia,LA

Summary

Accomplished financial management and accounting professional with 9 years of demonstrated positive impact company growth. Proven skill in employing accounting and financial management best practices and team leadership. Committed to introducing changes to achieve continuous improvement and successfully influencing processes driving operational excellence. Expertise in financial statement preparation and analysis, operational management, forecasting and cost control.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Controller/Accounting Manager

Superlift
West Monroe, LA
10.2020 - Current
  • Planning, directing and coordinating all accounting operational functions
  • Managing accumulation and consolidation of all financial data necessary for accurate accounting of consolidated business results
  • Coordinating and preparing internal and external financial statements
  • Coordinating activities of external auditors
  • Providing management with information vital to decision-making process
  • Managing budget process
  • Assessing current accounting operations, offering recommendations for improvement and implementing new processes
  • Evaluating accounting and internal control systems
  • Evaluating effectiveness of accounting software and supporting database, as needed
  • Developing and monitoring business performance metrics
  • Overseeing regulatory reporting, frequently including tax planning and compliance
  • Hiring, training and retaining skilled accounting staff
  • Month End Closing (HFM) Oracle, Sage 500
  • Forecast 1+11 and 6+6
  • Physical Inventory
  • Assets
  • Intercompany Entries
  • Managed banking reconciliations and monthly balance sheet statements.
  • Managed journal entries, collection efforts, reconciliations and payroll processing.
  • Checked payroll, vendor payments, commissions and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance.
  • Prepared cash flow projections, cost analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
  • Established and enforced internal controls, workflows and policies for tracking, reconciling and reporting on accounting activities.

Senior Cost Accountant

Clement Industries
Minden, LA
01.2018 - 10.2020

Daily Duties:

  • Daily Cash Reporting (email by 9:00AM)
  • Regions Bank- Receipts and Disbursements
  • Calculate Parts Bookings (Previous BL$-Shipments for day=Calculated-Current= Bookings)
  • Run M2M report for Shipments Month to Date and Daily
  • Record cash receipts in M2M
  • Trailer payments are "Prepayment" receipts (M2M)
  • Parts payments are "AR" receipts
  • Create any required BOLs (shippers) and invoices when closing trailer sales
  • Update Gross Margin Sold report
  • Update GM Shipped Trailers report
  • Close completed trailers
  • Issue material to trailers as needed- Finished Goods
  • Complete job operations as needed-
  • Generate Bill of Ladings for paid trailer orders
  • Parts invoicing / Issue RMAs (as needed)/ Credit Memo's for Returns
  • Freight Invoice Review
  • Post transactions to GL
  • Raw Material recon
  • Received Goods Not Invoiced recon
  • Cycle Count Review- After Cycle Counter Counts
  • Submit journal entries as needed- closing entries
  • Raw Material Sub ledger Recon
  • Update Revenue FCST (after 15th)- Forecast Trailer Sales for Plant
  • Projects assigned by Controller
  • Weekly Duties:
  • Part Costing
  • Tire/Wheel off-site tracking (to transition to Cycle Counter)
  • Cycle Counter counts
  • Cycle count variance analysis
  • Approve inventory adjustments =/< $1,000
  • Submit inventory adjustments to Controller >$1,000
  • Positive Pay processing
  • Cycle Counter timecard review
  • Shipped not invoiced report
  • Cylinder Review (Mondays)
  • BOM costing on all new Trailers
  • Costed BOM's into Item Master
  • Review adjustments made by Cycle Counter (approved adjustments /scrap / substitution)
  • Monthly Duties:
  • Revenue forecast draft due to Ron by 14th
  • Revenue forecast meetings with Production & Sales
  • Run M2M utilities (mid-month)
  • Bank Recon (10th work day)
  • EOM reports (PDF & excel)
  • Customer Statements
  • Sales & Use Tax payment (post marked by the 15th)
  • Blue Book Reporting
  • Federal Excise Tax Deposit Payments (as needed)
  • Cambridge, (consignment vendor), ACH payments
  • A/R Aging review w/sales (mid-month)
  • A/P Aging review w/Vicky (mid- month)
  • Review End Of Month count variances with Cycle Counter
  • WIP Review (every 2 months - then quarterly)
  • Account Reconciliations
  • FSA- Benefits
  • Prepaid Expenses
  • Accrued Expenses
  • Quarterly Duties:
  • Fixed Asset review (review FA accounts)
  • Balance sheet accrual accounts review with Greg
  • Federal Excise Tax Return
  • Annual Duties:
  • Roll Standard Cost
  • Physical Inventory
  • Budget (Capital & Operating)
  • Assist with annual Tax Pack
  • Occupational License Renewal
  • Updated general ledger with latest entries.
  • Reviewed documents and accounts for discrepancies and resolved variances.
  • Cash Flows
  • Calculated monthly LOC amount for payment
  • Predicted, planned and recorded costs of raw materials, labor and operation.
  • Calculated tax owed, prepared and submitted returns and upheld compliance with all applicable laws
  • Prepared accounts for industry audits and supported audit process
  • Updated general ledger with latest entries
  • Gathered, analyzed and reported financial information
  • Calculated labor and overhead rates, annually updating costs

Private Tutor

Private Tutor
Private Tutor, Private Tutor
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Tutored students for accounting courses online through skype business and zoom plus team meetings
  • I have a white board and explained the principles of financial accounting along with managerial accounting plus I tutored cost accounting
  • I did this to make extra money to help pay for my DBA

Accountant II

CenturyLink
Monroe, LA
10.2013 - 01.2018
  • Reconciled balance sheet accounts
  • Prepare reconciliations
  • Provided support for internal and external auditors
  • Variance analysis and explanations done on several accounts
  • Accrual's done on certain payroll accounts
  • Investigated issues spanning multiple departments
  • Prepare required ad-hoc monthly and quarterly reports
  • Assisted management with larger projects
  • Ensure that revenue recognition is done correctly on each account
  • Use accounting software SAP to extract data and download to Excel and make spreadsheets to study accounts
  • Prepare backup for reconciliations by running accounts for ledger and comparing to last month's activity
  • Work with Cost centers and Work Orders and Job Orders in SAP
  • Taking care of customer service including handling queries and complaints
  • Move Daily Time for Tech's to correct job order and cost center
  • Training new staff members
  • Ad-Hoc reports done on weekly basis.

Education

Doctoral degree - Accounting

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA
08.2023

Ph.D. - Accounting

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA
09.2023

MBA - Accounting

Colorado Technical University
Colorado Springs, CO
03.2015

Bachelor's - Accounting

Colorado Technical University
Colorado Springs, CO
08.2013

Skills

  • Account Reconciliation
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Account Analysis
  • Journal Entries
  • Financial Report Writing
  • Accounts Payable
  • Office Management
  • SAP
  • Sage
  • Business development
  • GAAP
  • Payroll
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Regulatory Reporting
  • Financial Statement Preparation
  • SOX
  • Tax experience
  • Financial analysis
  • Auditing
  • Financial modeling
  • Microsoft Office - Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, and data manipulation within
  • Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Office PowerPoint
  • Time Management
  • Highly Organized
  • Sage 500, Oracle Hyperion (HFM)
  • Inventory Management
  • M2M (Made 2 Manage ERP System)
  • Staff Training

Certification

BALANCE SHEET (9 years) RECONCILIATIONS (9 years) VARIANCE ANALYSIS (9 years) ACCOUNTING (9 years) EXCEL (9 years) Cost Control General Ledger Accounting

Timeline

Controller/Accounting Manager

Superlift
10.2020 - Current

Senior Cost Accountant

Clement Industries
01.2018 - 10.2020

Private Tutor

Private Tutor
01.2017 - 01.2019

Accountant II

CenturyLink
10.2013 - 01.2018

Doctoral degree - Accounting

Liberty University

Ph.D. - Accounting

Liberty University

MBA - Accounting

Colorado Technical University

Bachelor's - Accounting

Colorado Technical University
Wade Smeltzer