CORPORATE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE Summary Profit-focused Director Finance, expert cost reduction, forecasting budgeting. Highly effective encouraging outstanding performance team members colleagues. Skills Budgeting financial management Superior time management Lean implementation Exceptionally organized Advanced financial analysis MS Excel expert Experience Corporate Director Finance April 2014 Current Company Name － City State Manage yearly budget process Great Wolf Resorts. Oversee quarterly production board book distributed executive committee owners. Analyze budgets, financial reports projections accurate reporting financial standing. Proposed achieved cost savings reducing labor operating expenses. Train develop group analysts. Assumed ownership forecasting strategic planning. Developed annual budgets collaboration eleven properties executive teams. Identified investigated variances financial plans forecasts interpreting financial results. Managed annual budget grew 22.9% 2 years. Forecast operating costs projects strategizing VP Finance, Regional Vice Presidents Chief Operating Officer. Hold two monthly calls property director teams Regional Vice President review 30-60-90 day forecast review previous month's P&L. Managing team implementing new budget forecasting system. Senior Manager Finance June 2013 April 2014 Company Name － City State Implemented labor management system. Manage financial analysts. Created labor metrics compare lodges dashboard published weekly ensure lodges operating efficiently profitable manner. Hold two monthly calls property director team Regional Vice President review 30-60-90 day forecast review previous month's P&L. Senior Manager November 2011 June 2013 Company Name － City State Created Key-Performance-Indicator Dictionary expenses. Wrote taught 'Business Basics' Manager Training effort improve property's business acumen. Worked finance create new forecast templates. Hold two monthly calls property's director team Regional Vice President review 30-60-90 day forecast previous month's P&L statements. Operations Analyst March 2008 November 2011 Company Name － City State Implemented ran monthly calls review P&L's lodge Regional VP, Corporate Director Retail, Corporate Director Food Beverage, General Manager, Director Finance lodge. Created pro formas potential new companies business ventures worked Vice President Development ensure new companies would run profitable manner. Implemented monthly reviews new companies. Reviewed financial statement companies looking acquire made suggestions ways improve profitability acquired company. Created Profit Loss Statement Call Center along Forecast Income Statement 30-60-90. Also put place monthly P&L Review call center forward looking reviews forecast ensure efficient possible. Reported summarized information CEO used earnings Quarterly Earnings Call Board Meetings. Worked Marketing firms provided information made suggestions media placement DMA, looked booking trends. Worked Corporate Directors Department develop addhoc reports needed. Budget Reporting Analyst February 2007 March 2008 Company Name － City State Promoted Budget Reporting Analyst, newly created position. Worked Business Intelligence System, Datavision, create new way budget forecast. Maintained Excel based forecasting templates Income Statements. Changed forecast budget templates help Directors Finance Resort save 5-10 hours month forecasting. Worked lodge General Manager Director Finance budget season. Put place process budget reviews Regional Vice Presidents General Managers lodge. Worked Corporate Director Spa develop present new way pay Spa Technicians would save lodge 10% wages produce higher productivity. Staff Accountant May 2006 January 2007 Company Name － City State Record inter-company journal entries, participate monthly close process, track activity balance sheet accounts perform monthly bank reconciliations. Interact companies GWR joint ventures ensure accurate financials. Worked team start Dictionary Expense Accounts. Took active role monitoring fixed assets. August 2004 May 2006 Company Name － City State Enter payments system, cut checks communicate vendors, review weekly aging. Cut five hours work per week better organization Accounts payable. Identified areas opportunity savings helped follow procedures keep spending under. control. General Manager August 2002 July 2004 Company Name － City State Promoted Regent Street McDonalds improve rating F A. In August 2002 Regent Street McDonalds decreasing sales; yearly net sales $1.65 million. In August 2003 sales increase 8%; July 2004 another sales increase 3%. Supervised 40 new crewmembers new nine managers. Over saw hiring, training, firing employees. Did annual reviews managers supervised crewmembers' review. Prepared yearly budgets, budgets reviewed updated monthly. Education MBA Accounting 1 2009 Lakeland College － City State Accounting Bachelor's Degree Accounting Upper Iowa University － City State Accounting Skills Accounts payable, Analyst, balance sheet, bank reconciliations, book, budgets, Budget, Business Intelligence, Call Center, Finance, financials, financial, firing, fixed assets, forecasting, General Manager, hiring, Director, Managing, Marketing, media placement, Meetings, Excel, Profit Loss, reporting, Retail, sales, strategic planning