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Nataly Kirkland
Kirkland
Consulting, LLC
Destin , Florida 32541-2525
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Nataly Kirkland
309 Highway 98 East, Suite 3
Phone: (205) 966-9876
Email: Nataly.Kirkland@KirklandConsulting.com
Profile
Highly motivated consultant with two graduate degrees and 30 years of
experience in IT consulting, financial consulting, financial management, and
public accounting. Achievement oriented
self starter who excels in situations demanding rapid analysis, integration of
new concepts, vision, and strong leadership.
Creative and resourceful problem solver able to meet difficult
objectives within stringent time frames.
My experience with
Lawson spans more than 10 years of designing and implementing the Lawson
financial suite for companies and non profit organizations in many different
industries. Module experience and tasks
performed include:
General Ledger (G/L), Flexible Budgeting (FB), Currency
(CU), Multi Ledger (ML)
- Effectively
designing company structures and attributes matrixes for both single and
multiple company entities in a myriad of situations. These criteria included designing for
critical elements to meet internal and external financial, legal, taxing,
processing, currency, and reporting requirements
- Resourcefully
creating charts of accounts for the most efficient financial and
operational reporting.
- Properly
configuring inter-company, inter-zone, and currency relationships to
ensure cost effective processing with minimal user intervention.
- Setting
up currency relations, tables, and currency codes to enable processing
between US entities and non US (including Canadian) entities.
- Performing
data conversions and interfaces to load historical G/L information,
company structures, charts of accounts, budgets, allocations, and mapping
tables. This included:
- Formulating
strategies to determine how much data would be extracted and for what
periods.
- Extracting
information from non-Lawson accounting systems and formatting the data
into Lawson compatible formats.
- Loading
conversion files and running conversion programs.
- Designing
spreadsheet templates for large journal entries, cutting invoice entry
time by 50%
Project and Activity Accounting (AC), Billing and
Revenue Recognition (BR), Grant Management (GM)
- Analyzing
and recommending the best use of Project and Activity Accounting to meet
reporting needs that cannot be met using only General Ledger.
- Configuring
Activity Groups and Activity Structures to efficiently meet these
reporting needs and to efficiently bill Activities.
- Designing
Activity control parameters to ensure Activity data integrity and
facilitate efficient reconciliation of Activity information to G/L.
- Organizing
and setting up allocations to ensure cost effective postings of allocation
entries into both Activities and General Ledger.
- Formatting
and loading conversion files for Activity structures, budgets, and mapping
tables.
- Designing
and setting up Activity Billing and Revenue Recognition to collect and
properly bill grant and other costs accumulated for billable Activities. Billing methods used were cost plus and
milestone billing/revenue.
- Organizing
and effectively coordinating the configuration of Grant Management to
effectively meet grant reporting and auditing requirements for both state
and federal grants.
Nataly
Kirkland (205)
966-9876
Accounts Payable (A/P), Cash Ledger (CB)
- Creating
vendor groupings and vendor class designs to ensure efficient processing
of invoices and checks.
- Interfacing
various third party laser printing packages with A/P to create proper
check designs and ensure appropriate controls over checks.
- Creating
interface specifications to import bank data for automated check
reconciliation.
- Performing
data conversions for vendors, invoices, and checks. This includes:
- Formulating
conversion strategies to determine which vendors would be converted,
i.e., creating strategies for “scrubbing” the vendor file.
- Loading
the vendor file.
- Defining
methods for converting historical vendor and invoice data.
- Formatting,
extracting, and loading bank check data for automatic reconciliation.
- Designing
spreadsheet up-load templates for large invoices that cut entry of large
entries by 50%.
Invoice Matching (MA)
- Designing
set up parameters to ensure efficient Invoice Matching processing,
including Match Pools, Match Rule Groups, Tolerances, and other parameters
- Creating
month end processes to ensure that all invoices are processed properly and
proper accruals are made for Purchase Orders that have been received but
not been matched to an invoice.
- Designing
messaging and other procedures so that any matching discrepancies are
resolved quickly.
Asset Management (AM), Lease Management (LM)
- Designing
and setting up asset calendars, books, types, account groups, accounting
unit groups, locations, and divisions to ensure proper tax treatment and
interface to General Ledger.
- Extracting
asset information from non-Lawson systems, configuring the information for
Lawson asset load files, and loading the conversion data into the Asset
Management tables.
- Designing
and configuring Lease Management Executory Cost Codes, Lease Types, and
Authority Codes
- Setting
up and processing leases, including FAS 13 designations and interfacing
invoices to A/P.
- Uploading
Lease, Payment Schedule, and Leased Asset information.
Accounts
Receivable (A/R)
- Creating
collection and invoicing processes for efficient receivables processing.
- Converting
and configuring A/R customers and system parameters to properly reflect
collection and payment posting requirements
- Designing
functional interface specifications for interface of A/R data from
non-Lawson systems into Lawson A/R and G/L.
- Converting
A/R invoice and history data from non Lawson systems into Lawson A/R.
In addition to implementation and design, I
have extensive experience as a Lawson
Project Manager, including:
- Creating and utilizing project
management tools to effectively and efficiently manage Lawson
implementation and upgrade projects for health care, not for profit, and
other entities. This included:
- Constructing plans in MS Project to
manage resources and budgets.
- Updating plans for changes in project
timing and task progress and generating weekly reports to highlight
progress and problem areas.
- Building budget monitoring tools to
ensure that project resources were used according to budgeted hours and
dollars.
Nataly Kirkland (205)
966-9876
- Producing effective status reporting
tools and meeting formats that enabled problems to be quickly identified
and addressed to keep projects on track.
- Periodically performing system reviews
to ensure “best practices” were designed into business processes.
- Effectively managed projects that
included the Lawson Financial, HR/Payroll, and Procurement suites,
completing them on time and within budget.
- Successfully directed accounting and
reporting departments as a controller and CFO, including streamlining
operations, decreasing period closing days, decreasing A/R days
outstanding, obtaining new financing, and creating effective employee development
and retention policies.
Education
and Certification
- BS, University
of Alabama, magna cum laude.
- MBA, Finance,
Vanderbilt University.
- MS, Information
Engineering and Management, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
- Certified
Public Accountant.
- Certified
Management Accountant.
- Certified in
Lawson Software Financial Suite.
Professional
Experience Summary
- Lawson
Financials consultant, 1998 – present.
- Corporate
Controller, InterCall, audio and video teleconferencing services, 1997 -
1998.
- Independent
Accountant, accounting management and systems, 1996.
- Chief
Financial Officer, Pinson Valley Millworks, residential home product
manufacturer and distributor, 1991 - 1995.
- Controller,
Prime Time Video, retail video rental chain, 1991.
- Controller
and Divisional VP, Econocom, international provider of computer services,
1988 – 1990.
- Auditor and
consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (“PWC”), international accounting firm,
1986 - 1988.
- Internal
auditor, Regions Bank, regional bank, 1982 - 1984.
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