Seeking a financial leadership position where my proven abilities and professional experience will contribute to the strategic advances an organization brings to the market place.
JOHN DURHAM, MBA
OBJECTIVE: Seeking a leadership position where my proven abilities and professional experience will contribute to the strategic advances an organization brings to the market place.
PROFILE: Accomplished in fiscal management, financial reporting and management leadership while driving business goals and objectives. Provides thought leadership and decision support with corporate strategy, process improvement, cost efficiency and benchmarking through innovation, proactive analysis and reporting.
EXPERIENCE:
2009 - Present: CONTROLLER – EAST REGION Kinetics Systems, Inc. Durham, NC
• Management team member- $300M commercial construction organization
• Responsible for daily financial operations, project analysis, budgeting, sales tax and OCIP/CCIP for parent company and subsidiary
• Designed, developed and implemented critically needed departmental specific applications by creating instant access and insight into financial information
• Created and installed various programs using MS Access and MS Excel to increase efficiency - saving $2000/month
• Investigated and applied appropriate regulations of state tax law - saving over $1M
• Responsible for all facets of Accounts Payable; Accounts Receivable and Finance
• Manage, supervise and motivate six direct reports
2002 -2009: CONTROLLER
Precision Walls, Inc. Raleigh, NC
• Executive management team member-$130M commercial construction company
• Manage all aspects of daily financial operations, strategic planning, taxes, business analysis, IT, insurance, bank relations, strategic planning, taxes and auditing.
• Improved monthly reporting cycle – reduced from 60 days to 15 days
• Implementation of ERP System – Timberline
• Managed P & L, auditing processes, and compliance with ten direct reports
• Designed and executed applications utilizing MS Access and Excel to reduce overhead and provide data management capabilities
• Saved $20K annually through direct reporting and analysis of OCIP/CCIP programs
• Constructed, produced and administered sub-contractor pay applications improving workplace effectiveness and reducing administrative time/cost
1999-2002: CONTROLLER
Image Twin.com Raleigh, NC
• Member of four person management team for start-up B2B dot com venture
• Responsible for all daily operations, financing activities, business analysis, strategic planning and cash flow control
• Responsible for business plan, contract negotiation financial activities, forecasting and strategic planning - savings of over $500k annually in operational expenditures
1998-1999: CONTROLLER
Trillium Industries Raleigh, NC
• Member of three person management team for start-up IT repair, technical support and distribution company
• Managed all aspects of accounting, HR policies and procedures, IS operations and planning, cash management, vendor management and negotiations
• Responsible for insurance management, banking relations, compliance audits, and budgeting - direct liaison to corporate attorney
• Designed, developed and implemented all financial, IS and HR policies, procedures and controls
• Constructed and installed all internal controls: operational reporting for management, accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash application and external reporting
1994-1998: CONTROLLER
Network Construction Services, Inc. Greensboro, NC
• Finance management for parent company as well as Southeastern subsidiary
• Managed all financial aspects of merger and acquisition projects
• Designed and produced merger analysis applications and business valuations
• Managed all financial activities of accounting, payroll, cash management, auditing, and computer network functions
• Converted ERP system including payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, job cost, and operations from Deltek to Timberline
• Improved monthly reporting cycle to three days from twenty-one day timeline
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
• Masters of Business Administration (Finance)
University of Cincinnati, OH
• Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance)
University of Kentucky, KY
• Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting)
University of Charleston, WV
Technology:
• 5 ERP Conversions: Timberline, Macola, Deltek, and Real World Accounting
• Developed hundreds of applications in Excel, Access, Visual Basic, SQL, ODBC, Crystal Reports, Intelligent Query (IQ), F9 and TS Report Writer
• Expert level with PC based programming
• Specialties include Microsoft Suite - Excel, Power Point, Access and Word
• Network Administrator - Novell 3.12 and 4.11
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