William Corcoran
Chicago,IL
Summary
Talented financial leader with 25+ years’ experience across accounting, finance, internal audit, public accounting and financial consulting. Well-versed in accounting, finance, budgeting, reporting, audit and tax compliance functions for multinational companies. Cross-industry experience in alternative energy, electrical energy, commercial and residential security, not-for-profit, professional services, insurance and telecommunications. Motivated to keep company financial operations compliant, accurate and cost-effective. Ready to bring my experience and take on challenging new full-time role.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Controller
Watterson
06.2023 - Current
- Post/prepare journal entries and monthly balance sheet reconciliations as well as generate monthly financial statements within QuickBooks for use of executive leadership team
- Responsible for improvements to revenue recognition /month-end financial close policies.
Senior Manager of Accounting and Finance
Epsilon Xi, LLC
07.2022 - 06.2023
- Supervise and develop the talents of a team of two employees within the Accounting, Billing, Payroll and Accounts Payable departments of a Professional Services company with $20M plus in annual revenues
- Post/prepare journal entries and monthly balance sheet reconciliations as well as generate monthly financial statements within NetSuite for use of executive leadership team
- Generated information used in preparation of annual income tax returns and serve as primary contact for preparer
- Prepare bi-weekly payroll and manage payroll tax issues with tax authorities.
Controller
Definiti LLC
08.2021 - 07.2022
- Supervised and developed the talents of a team of ten (three direct/seven indirect) employees within the Accounting, Billing and Accounts Payable departments of a private-equity backed Financial Services company
- Implemented Contract Billing and Accounting module along with external consultant within Sage Intacct
- Managed annual audit of the financial statements by the external auditors
- Prepared bi-weekly payroll and managed payroll tax issues with tax authorities
- Lead along with Chief Financial Officer the preparation and completion of the annual budget.
Controller
NBOME
09.2019 - 08.2021
- Supervised and developed the talents of a team of three employees within the Accounting, Payroll, Billing and Accounts Payable departments of a not-for-profit company
- Generated ASC606 (revenue recognition) memos for external audit team and computed revenue adjustment dollar values for recognition in annual financial statements
- Lead and participate in financial systems implementation of QuickBooks to Sage Intacct
- Researched lease accounting standard and applied correct capital lease recognition on annual financial statements
- Managed annual audit of the financial statements by the external auditors.
Financial Consultant
International Finance Group
09.2018 - 09.2019
- Completed and reviewed monthly cash and fixed asset reconciliations for Fortune 500 client
- Integrated acquisition’s accounting team into corporate accounting team
- Drafted footnotes and computed values within footnotes of quarterly and annual SEC filings.
Assistant Controller
Oasis Legal Finance
03.2018 - 08.2018
- Supervised and developed the talents of a team of 3 employees (1 senior and 2 staff) within the Accounting/Payroll departments
- Managed annual audit of the financial statements by the external auditors.
Financial Consultant
DLC, Inc.
07.2017 - 03.2018
- Prepared Visio documentation on the Transfer Pricing processes for 150 US and European legal entities of top 20 Fortune 500 company
- Responsible for implementation of Transfer Pricing document repository
- Review hundreds of Transfer Pricing contracts to determine consistency in language throughout contracts and remedy those contracts which were inconsistent.
Assistant Controller
Hub International, Inc.
12.2015 - 06.2017
- Prepared monthly accounting entries and balance sheet reconciliations for subsidiaries of a consolidated legal entity more than $1.5B annual revenues
- Supervised and developed the talents of a team of 4 employees (3 managers and 1 staff) within Accounting department
- Responsible for memos on software capitalization accounting and calculation of internal-use software development costs capitalized on annual financial statements
- Worked on project reconciling title insurance policies of local Chicago office with general ledger records (cash/deferred revenue, accounts receivable) to ensure policies are being reflected correctly in the general ledger.
Assistant Controller
Ethos Energy Power Plant Services, Inc.
09.2014 - 12.2015
- Supervised and developed the talents of a team of 7 employees within the Accounts Payable and Billing functions which processes several thousand U.S
- And International vendor invoices and several hundred US and International customer invoices monthly
- Prepared monthly accounting entries and balance sheet reconciliations for subsidiaries of a consolidated legal entity in excess of $500M annual revenues
- Coordinated and reconciled monthly intercompany accounts receivable, accounts payable, sales and costs of the U.S
- And International subsidiaries.
Manager – Accounting
Acciona Energy North America, Inc.
10.2008 - 08.2014
- Consolidated and prepared accounting of 50 legal entities in accordance with US GAAP and IFRS on a monthly basis and prepared necessary consolidation entries of $200M annual revenue company within HOST package
- Designed treasury forecasting model used by the CFO and Controller in their management of company cash with Spanish parent company; Ran monthly meetings with Operations, Legal and Development departments of company in preparation of rolling twelve-month treasury forecasts
- Analyzed and produced monthly actual versus budget financial and cash performance variances within monthly performance presentation that is delivered to the Spain parent company, executive management, financial institutions and private equity groups
- Prepared annual operating asset budgets as well as rolling twelve-month operating asset and development forecasts in compliance with guidelines given by Spain parent company as well as executive management
- Oversaw and participated in financial system implementation of HOST consolidation package
- Managed annual audit of the financial statements by the external auditors.
Director – Accounting, Financial Reporting and Taxes
Stanley Convergent Security Solutions/Honeywell Security Monitoring
12.2004 - 10.2008
- Built Accounting, Tax and Accounts Payable departments upon transition of company from Honeywell
- Oversaw and develop talents for group of 6 who deal with the accounting, financial reporting, tax and accounts payable functions
- Responsible for financial system implementations of Oracle to Great Plains and Great Plains to SAP
- Prepared monthly financial statements as well as actual versus budget financial variance explanations for $600M annual revenue company for the use of executive management, financial institutions and private equity groups
- Managed annual audit of the financial statements by external auditors and audits of state tax audits
- Documented processes and ensured compliance with those processes for Sarbanes-Oxley audits
- Provided analytics for and participated in discussions of due diligence work for sale of company to Stanley Works
- Merged Honeywell Security Monitoring financial reporting, and accounts payable functions over to Stanley Works.
Manager – General Accounting, SEC Reporting and Taxes
Universal Access
10.2000 - 11.2004
- Produced monthly financial statements and annual and quarterly SEC documents for $200M annual revenue company
- Managed annual audit and quarterly reviews of the financial statements by external auditors
- Provided monthly financial analysis for the Chief Financial Officer and Controller suggesting areas of improvement.
Staff Accountant
US Cellular
11.1998 - 10.2000
- Completed monthly balance sheet reconciliations and journal entries.
Staff Accountant
West & Company, L.L.C.
01.1997 - 10.1998
- Tested internal controls in relation to cash, billing and revenue processes.
Education
Master’s in Business Administration -
Loyola University
Chicago, IL02.2005
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy -
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL12.1996
Skills
- Staff management
- Financial Close compliance
- Financial statements expertise
- Audit compliance
- Tax compliance
- Budget/Forecast preparation
- ERP Systems expertise/Systems implementations lead
- Financial planning
- Accounting Policy development
Certification
Certified Public Accountant - Passed CPA Exam first attempt
Timeline
Controller
Watterson
06.2023 - Current
Senior Manager of Accounting and Finance
Epsilon Xi, LLC
07.2022 - 06.2023
Controller
Definiti LLC
08.2021 - 07.2022
Controller
NBOME
09.2019 - 08.2021
Financial Consultant
International Finance Group
09.2018 - 09.2019
Assistant Controller
Oasis Legal Finance
03.2018 - 08.2018
Financial Consultant
DLC, Inc.
07.2017 - 03.2018
Assistant Controller
Hub International, Inc.
12.2015 - 06.2017
Assistant Controller
Ethos Energy Power Plant Services, Inc.
09.2014 - 12.2015
Manager – Accounting
Acciona Energy North America, Inc.
10.2008 - 08.2014
Director – Accounting, Financial Reporting and Taxes
Stanley Convergent Security Solutions/Honeywell Security Monitoring
12.2004 - 10.2008
Manager – General Accounting, SEC Reporting and Taxes
Universal Access
10.2000 - 11.2004
Staff Accountant
US Cellular
11.1998 - 10.2000
Staff Accountant
West & Company, L.L.C.
01.1997 - 10.1998
Master’s in Business Administration -
Loyola University
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy -
University of Illinois
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