         ACCOUNTANT       Summary    Flexible bookkeeper/ accountant who adapts seamlessly to constantly evolving accounting
processes and technologies.      Highlights          Account reconciliations  Accounts Payable/Receivable    Complex problem solving  Bank reconciliations          Creative Problem Solving  Budget analysis & preparation        Effective time management  Complex problem solving        Excellent managerial techniques  Cost accounting          Multi-Task Management  General ledger accounting          Strong communication skills  Periodic financial reporting expert          Strategic planning  Intuit QuickBooks specialist  SAP              Accomplishments      My professional accomplishments are in the area of gaining well rounded accounting
knowledge about the business and communicating how the bottom line is affect by decisions.  I was part of a team that created, advised and implemented SAP in North America while
working for Colgate.  At other businesses I helped implement several different accounting
software solutions.        Experience     08/2016   to   03/2017     Accountant    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Handled the day to day accounts payable, accounts receivable, monthly financial closing, work in process, and sales tax.         01/2007   to   08/2016     Co-Owner    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Created a business plan to help preserve a historic landmark building and encourage economic
development in Historic downtown Rogers.  Created from scratch Poor Richard's Art (an artist
co-op) and then purchased The Rabbit's Lair and turned it into a fabric & fiber center that
became one of the top 10 shops in America.  Handled all day to day operations, finances, management of employees, strategic planning,
and worked with City of Rogers to help with beautification and implementation of events.         11/2001   to   01/2007     Owner    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      BKP was created after I had my daughter and wanted a more stay at home job.  It turned into
a bookkeeping/accounting firm that had 7 employees and over 120 different business
customers.  BKP specialized in small businesses that needed a bookkeeper to come to their site and keep
their accounting records up-to-date and train them in the day-to-day accounting needs.  BKP was sold to Beall-Barclay is 2005, where I became the Business Development Manager.         09/1999   to   06/2001     Accounting Manager    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Hanna's was a company that had  grown so fast it needed process, procedures,  and software
to bring it up  to speed.  While I was there we implemented new software, audits, and
inventory controls for the retail shops.         09/1997   to   09/1999     Cost Accounting Manager    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      My job was to implement SAP software.  Starbuck's was going through their manufacturing
processes and creating a cost accounting system.  It was a fabulous job, I just found the
Seattle gray days too hard.         06/1989   to   09/1999     Cost Accounting Manager    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      I begin as a cost-accountant for  the Irish Spring portion of manufacturing at the  Kansas City,
Ksplant.  It was a time of change, automation of the manufacturing process, and upgrading
software to SAP.  This is where I fell in  love with accounting and helping the manufacturing
team understand how it worked for them or against them.  During my time at Colgate, I was
involved in the cost  of unions, strikes, complete downsizing of administrative roles, different
general managers of the facility, and working  with New York on monthly reports and annual
budgets.  Other projects included the creation of the Cost Accounting system and  processes
with the  CPA firm hired to  implement the software.  My counter-part and I flew up to NY 
each week to work  on this and  then flew back each  Thursday to work on our regular jobs.  Once  SAP was  up and  running  for Colgate,  I was  transferred  to Hill's  Pet Nutrition  in 
Topeka, KS  as  the Cost Accounting Manager to implement SAP.         02/1985   to   01/1989     Accounting Manager    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Speaco Foods was a manufacturing facility (multi-state) that made vinegar, juices, hot  sauce and 
mustard.  It was a family owned business that I worked at all my summers during high school
and college.  I worked in the manufacturing plants until I graduated college.  Once I graduated
college,  I worked in the accounting department.  I started in Accounts Payable, then
receivables and then inventory control.  My role in the accounting was  to implement new
software,  train others, and  get the inventory  and cost accounting systems up and running.  Before I left Speaco Foods, I became the Accounting Manager.          Education     1985     Bachelor of Science  :   Business Administration    University of the Ozarks   －   City  ,   State  ,   USA    Business Administration Affiliations
Main Street Rogers        Skills    Account reconciliations, accounting, accountant, Accounting Manager, accounts payable, accounts receivable, administrative, artist, Art, automation, Bank reconciliations, bookkeeping, bookkeeper, Budget analysis & preparation, budgets, Business Development, business plan, closing, Strong communication skills, Cost Accounting, CPA, Creative Problem Solving, fast, financial, financial reporting, General ledger accounting, inventory, inventory control, managerial, manufacturing process, manufacturing
processes, problem solving, processes, QuickBooks, retail, sales, SAP, Strategic planning, tax, time management, upgrading   