To provide the financial and organizational leadership that will lead to successful financial results.
Mark F. Wolk.
Gulfport, MS
Experience
Controller November 2008 to Present
ThysseenKrupp Steel USA
Responsible for accounting of a greenfield project worth three billion dollars. Duties include accounting and cost controls of the project and creating the SAP ERP system, which the plant will use when the project is operational.
Controller - Gulf Coast Division September 2004 to November 2008
WG Yates and Sons Construction Co- General Contractor(Entertainment, Infrastructure, Residential, and Government markets)
Prepare financial statements, forecast, and budget for the division.
Managed a staff of 33 people that provide the general accounting (AR, AP, Payroll, and Subcontracting) services for the division and all job site accounting.
Review projects for cost control (Viewpoint) and monitor per budget.
Develop, improve and make recommendations on accounting/operational policy and procedures for the division.
Keep Joint Venture accounting for a number of Yates JV’s.
Work with the project managers, project executives, and general manager of the division on special projects needed to analyze specific jobs and /or the division as a whole. Prepare required reports for bonding agencies, federal agencies and insurance companies.
Experience with US federal government jobs.
Vice President of Finance and General Manager of Liberty Lumber Company, LLC
Lanier Edwards and Companies October 2002 to September 2004
Forestry Products and Real Estate
Improve internal controls and upgrade the financial reporting process.
Negotiate, implement, and maintain equipment leases and performance bonds.
Monitor and forecast compliance with bank facility covenants.
Maintain relationship with banking institutions and provide necessary support to banks on the various real estate transactions and working capital needs. Advise on tax consequences of the real estate and timber transactions. Oversee all accounting operations including cost accounting. General Manager for a $15 million sawmill facility.
Achievements
Promoted to General Manager of Liberty Lumber Company, LLC
Startup manufacturing operations made profitable in first year
Secured $30 million loan and $5.5 million loan
Corporate Controller
Magnatrax Corporation, Eufaula, Alabama June 2000 to April 2002
Manufacturer of Steel Buildings
Public reporting of the Canadian and US operations.
Developed and implemented a comprehensive standardized reporting package used by the divisions for use in operations reviews and internal financial reporting.
Coordinate, consolidate, review, and analyze operating budgets, operating forecasts, and five-year strategic planning process.
Supervise corporate accounting staff.
Coordinate with outside auditors the year-end audit and quarterly reviews and address any issues, which arise at the divisional levels.
Achievement:
Integration of a $500 million acquisition into the existing accounting structure while cutting the closing process from three weeks to one week without the help of a consolidation system.
Controller
Foster Wheeler Corporation, NJ September 1996 to June 2000
Manufacturing and Construction (Energy and Power Markets)
Prepare, review, and analyze internal management summaries and SEC filings.
Review contracts and proposals that were going out for bid.
Responsible for cash management and budgeting process for the division.
Cost Control review of all jobs associated with the division.
Achievement:
Part of a management team that brought net income from a 1 million dollar loss to a seven million dollar profit.
Given full financial responsibility of two manufacturing plants after one year into the job.
Promoted to Corporate Accounting Manager
Hoechst Celanese Corporation, NJ February 1988 to September 1996
Manufacturer of Plastics, Fibers, Chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals
Prepare, review, and analyze internal management summaries, SEC filings, and German financial statements.
Responsible for integrity of the corporate general ledger and fixed asset system while management the six staff accountants.
Project controller for $20 million implementation effort to rebuild essential chemical equipment for a Hoechst’s major product line while continuing corporate accounting functions.
Supervised the maintaining and reconciling of the pension, fringe, and benefit areas. This area included preparation of annual financial statements, development of fringe benefits accounting, and being the liaison for the company with external auditors and pension administrators.
Served as corporate accounting information systems liaison, duties included reengineering of the general ledger and financial reporting.
Achievements:
Part of a team that redesigned the company’s consolidated reporting system. The successful project redesigned a consolidation system (Hyperion) for a $13 billion company with 7 operating units and over 150 product lines.
Lead a team that changed the process on how information fed into the corporate general ledger while still proving monthly close support. Saved corporate accounting staff 2 days in closing process.
Promoted to Senior Tax Analyst/Tax Accountant
Research major tax issues for federal, international, state and local areas, which included planning techniques used to minimize taxation in various tax areas.
Supervised the preparation of the international, federal, partnership, state and local returns.
Administered current software package used for company’s consolidated federal and state returns.
Achievements:
Implemented new tax software (Corptax) using client server technology for all tax returns done by tax department, which total over 5,000 returns. The length of time saved by the change amounted to a full year of man-hour savings.
Tax Supervisor
AT&T (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) 1986 to February 1988
Responsible for the consolidated federal tax return.
Rated # 1 in the federal tax group.
Accountant promoted to Senior Tax Accountant
Research Cottrell, Inc. (Bedminster, New Jersey) 1982 to 1985
Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction of Pollution Control Products
Prepared consolidated federal and state returns and tax models for state estimated returns for sales and use, income and franchise taxes.
Prepared consolidated financial statements.
Reconciled the general ledger and supervised A/R and A/P functions.
Strong exposure to project cost systems.
General Accountant
Mennen Company (Morristown, New Jersey) 1980 to 1982
Manufacturer of Consumer Goods
Prepared consolidated financial statements.
Reconciliation and analysis of general ledger and bank statements.
Supervised internal audit of warehouse inventory and accounts receivable.
Assisted with preparation of budgets and forecasts.
Strong exposure to standard cost systems and LIFO inventory.
Education
University of Scranton- BS in Accounting
Seton Hall University- Masters
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