Neil M.

Experience

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  N5 Solutions

  Fractal CFO/ Controller

  Jul 2018 - Present

  N5 Solutions; Provides virtual bookkeeping, AP, AR, Payroll, Tax, and CFO Services to start up companies including Technology, Healthcare, Construction, Real Estate and Government Contractors. Business owners rely on N5 Solutions to provide the top-level analysis and accounting services that allow them to concentrate on growing their businesses Specialties: Intercompany reconciliation, Bank Reconciliation, Advance Excel Knowledge, Inventory Management, Forecasting, Budgeting, Financial Reporting, GAAP, IFRS, Cash Management, Balance Sheet Reconciliation, Year-end Audit, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Tax Preparation and Small Business Tax

  • Develop and implement comprehensive financial plans and budgets for government contracts, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance with government regulation.
  • Conduct detailed cost analyses, including direct and indirect costs, labor rates, material costs, and overhead expenses, ensuring compliance with cost accounting standards (CAS) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
  • Establish and maintain strong internal controls to safeguard assets, prevent fraud, and ensure compliance with government regulations.
  • Develop and implement strategies to optimize cash flow, including managing accounts payable and receivable, vendor negotiations, and financial forecasting.
  • Perform financial analysis, including profitability analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and return on investment to support strategic decision making by senior management.
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  Zeni

  Fractal CFO / Controller

  Apr 2022 - Feb 2024

  Unlock real-time financial insights and a full-service finance team with Zeni's intelligent bookkeeping, accounting, and CFO services. Zeni is the world's first finance operations platform for startups.

  • Work directly with founders and startup teams to understand their business and financial models
  • Manage a customer portfolio of SaaS and Tech Startups by taking ownership of customer revenue growth and profitability.
  • Utilize Zeni’s platform and technology to drive automation of customer processes and integration of financials applications.
  • Help Guide customers in collecting and using data to optimize the Zeni AI reporting platform.
  • Educate founders on U.S. GAAP accounting, financial statements, and financial metrics for their industry.
  • Train and mentor accounting managers, senior accountants, and staff to complete daily, monthly, and annual accounting and reporting processes.
  • Helped increase Zeni revenue by assisting customers in scaling their business and supporting additional Zeni services.
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  Kellen

  Corporate Controller

  May 2021 - May 2022

  Kellen stands as a global leader in providing management and services to professional and trade organizations. We empower Board leaders by offering operational frameworks and strategic guidance to better serve their organization's mission and vision. As a dedicated professional services company, we offer solutions to organizations, such as association management, public affairs, marketing, meeting management, education, and strategic communication. Leveraging our expertise across diverse industries including healthcare, food and beverage, buildings and materials, and technology, as well as our global perspective with a presence in North America and Europe, we collaborate with over 100 organizations to help achieve their goals. Understanding the importance of a strong and effective Board of Directors, we offer customized management solutions that address the unique needs of each organization we partner with. Kellen is headquartered in Washington, D.C. with additional offices in Chicago, Beijing and Brussels.

  • organizations with finance, technology, marketing, conferences and social events .
  • Prepare monthly financial reporting for multiple nonprofit association on a monthly basis with
  • proper commentary for board of directors.
  • Provide variance analysis of actual figures versus budget, forecast, and previous year.
  • Oversees client accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate
  • GAAP standards and regulatory requirements using NetSuite software.
  • Maintain internal controls and safeguard for receipt of revenues, costs, and program budgets and
  • actual expenditures to prevent inaccuracies in financial statements.
  • Work with outside auditors/CPA firms to prepare reviews, audits, and tax returns.
  • Assist account directors with board presentations and present financials to board of directors.
  • Ensure costs and revenues are properly classified between restricted and non-restricted funds.
  • Tie out the total revenue from association management software ties out to the Netsuite on a
  • monthly basis.
  • Make recommendations for continuous improvement to clients; processes and collaborate with
  • client team to determine priorities for programs and services to optimize revenue generation.
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  MicroTech

  Director of Finance

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  MicroTech is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Information Technology (IT) Integrator and Service Provider offering Visual Communications, Telecom & Cloud, Technology Integration, and Product Solutions. Along with these proven capabilities, MicroTech provides an extensive array of innovative solutions to both private and public sectors, managing over a quarter of a million tech users daily. As a prime contractor with more than 100 federal projects and over 25 procurement vehicles, MicroTech offers access to more than a million technology products and services across the U.S. government. Headquartered just outside our nation’s capital in Vienna, VA, MicroTech’s area of operation extends throughout the U.S. and internationally.

  • Prepared financial statements, project statements, and all other financial related statements, quarterly, and annual basis to CEO and CFO.
  • Provided working relationship with bank representatives to insure company is compliance with bank
  • covenants and prepared monthly borrowing base calculations for line of credit.
  • Point of contact with external CPA firms for year-end audit and all tax related projects and to ensure
  • company is compliant with local, state, and federal tax filing requirements.
  • Work with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable to control and better manage proper cash flow by paying vendors only after we received money from money from the Government.
  • Work closely Human Resources with 401k audit, payroll, insurance, and any financial related projects.
  • Managed and mentored a finance staff of four and to ensure they are following company policies and
  • procedures.
  • Managed the general ledger using Microsoft Navision and ensure financial books are in compliant with FAR standards.
  • Work with the DCAA for yearly audits for indirect rate verification and ensure the company can recover additional revenue from government.
  • Managed IT consultants for varies major Microsoft Navision upgrade projects including Sharepoint
  • intergration.
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  MAXIMUS

  Sr. FP&A Manager

  Sep 2015 - Dec 2016

  We’re moving people forward by providing transformative technology services, digitally enabled customer experiences, and clinical health services that change lives. Our employees share an authentic desire to make vital services available to the public and support the missions of our customers.

  • Supports the division president and VP of Finance with monthly financial reports and analysis.
  • Manage, serve, and oversea as a point of contact for all financial processes including billing, accruals, vendor invoices, and bank recs.
  • Create and manage yearly budgets and variance analysis as well as quarterly forecasts.
  • Provide guidance and support to all the project managers in the division with proposals, amendment changes, and any other accounting treatment questions.
  • Help support projects are following proper accounting policies and procedures and insure we are complaint with internal and external auditors.
  • Review and understand all state contracts to minimize any risk for any penalties.
  • Consolidated and review companywide monthly accruals totaling $30 million a month.
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  Ascom

  Finance Manager, Americas

  Feb 2011 - Aug 2015

  Our vision is a world where the right information moves people forward. Our mission is to put the right information in the right hands at the right time so that people can make the best possible decisions. We are a global provider of communication and collaboration solutions for the acute care, long-term care and enterprise sectors. Our solutions are based on intelligent integrations with software and hardware that are open source and compatible with third party solutions. Every single second, our systems generate large amounts of data, which we then turn into useful and actionable information. This helps us to bring data to life for people in the toughest operational environments, ensuring smooth, complete, and efficient workflows. Ascom is headquartered in Baar (Switzerland), has operating businesses in 19 countries and employs around 1,400 people worldwide. Ascom registered shares (ASCN) are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich.

  • System administrator and implementer of Adaptive Planning Budgeting tool.
  • Project leader in implementing a business intelligent tool (ZAAP BI). Plan, test, and work closely with a project programmer to insure accurate data.
  • Lead Americas finance team with the month-end financial close, creating journal entries, executing on the affiliate payment process, and reconcile P&L variances to budget and prior year.
  • Analyze, interpret and communicate operating results to provide information and guidance to management.
  • Reconcile global intercompany receivable and payable using TM5 treasury management system.
  • Work with project managers to review allocated hours and expenses to customer projects using Microsoft Dynamics AX project module.
  • Provided Project budget VS actual variance analysis to management.
  • Data mine valuable information into useful reports for management to make important decisions.
  • Prepare weekly cash management reports and advise accounts payable with cash disbursement.
  • Prepare and manage monthly cash forecast.
  • Supervise the yearly financial statement audits.
  • Supervise an accounting staff of three including billing, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.
  • Prepare and manage yearly budget by working with all the cost center managers.
  • Maintain the company’s system of accounts and keep books and records on all company transaction, inventories, and assets in accordance with IFRS using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.
  • Assist KPMG with tax compliance with all federal, state, and local cooperate, payroll, and other applicable taxes.
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  Aggregate Industries

  Accounting Manager

  Apr 2009 - Oct 2010

  #BuildingProgress for people and the planet. 🌎 Across America, our Holcim US teams build sustainable communities. We are creators, builders and innovators. We are proud to build progress together with greener cities, smarter infrastructure, improved living standards, and so much more. Holcim US offers an unparalleled range of innovative building materials and construction services that have been the foundation for projects across the globe. At the forefront of our building solutions is a dedication to becoming a net zero company with a focus on a nature positive future with smarter designs and systems. By bridging the world's infrastructure gap, we can build progress toward a world where everyone thrives within their communities. #FollowUsForward

  • Managed a five day month end close schedule within three day time frame to insure financial reports were accurate.
  • Implemented new inventory evaluation system to help better maintain inventory levels.
  • Developed reports using Essbase that are requested by controller, chief financial officer, and operations such as sales analysis, financial ratio analysis, and expense analysis.
  • Created monthly financial package for shareholders.
  • Overseen all balances of reclamation, restoration, royalty payments, and other balance sheet accounts using J. D. Edwards software.
  • Developed yearly budgets and monthly forecasts models to help create an accurate forecast predication.
  • Managed monthly closing process by entering journal entries, creating/modifying spreadsheets, divisional job cost analysis
  • Insured my region is following company’s accounting reporting polices and procedures by creating implementing checks and balances.
  • Reviewed bi-weekly payroll for proper general ledger coding and overtime analysis using pivot tables.
  • Traveled monthly to the region to review forecast, budget, and financial statements with operations.
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  The Stavola Companies

  Divisional Assistant Controller

  May 2005 - Apr 2009

  In 1948, the sons of Joseph and Carmela Stavola founded their first company, Stavola Contracting. The Stavola Companies remain a fully family-owned group of businesses consisting of four major divisions: Construction Materials, Asphalt, Recycling, Contracting, and Real Estate. It has expanded to an operation consisting of three stone quarries, eleven asphalt plants, three Class B recycling centers, and multiple sand mining operations. Currently, annual production of construction materials exceeds 6 million tons. The Stavola Companies have modernized, expanded, and increased production and services to accommodate the ever-developing and diversified needs within the industry. As an industry leader, Stavola maintains a commitment to quality products and workmanship. The company supplies general contractors as well as private and public clientele including utility, municipal, state, county, and federal agencies. Stavola Contracting Company received its first extensive state contracts in 1960 on Route 36 and the Garden State Parkway, followed by federal projects on Route 287 and the NJ Turnpike. Since then, it has evolved to include a full range of services including earthwork, utility installation, and milling and paving. Stavola Contracting maintains a high standard of excellence with highly-skilled crews and full service estimating and engineering. The Real Estate division was founded in 1955 followed by the purchase of their first property, a parcel of oceanfront land located in Sea Bright, NJ. The property, now known as Edgewater Beach Club, remains a company-owned and managed property. Stavola holdings have expanded through new investment, development, and redevelopment of properties and partnerships. Holdings include shopping centers, office complexes, restaurants, and residential developments. Stavola has attracted major national retail tenants such as Wegmans, Whole Foods, Walgreens, and Verizon Wireless, in addition to many small local businesses.

  • Assisted managing the month end close.
  • Help implemented new accounting software and created financial templates and other accounting reports.
  • Worked directly with the Controller, CFO, and CEO preparing reports that are requested such as sales analysis, financial ratio analysis, and expense analysis.
  • Assisted overseeing all accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll processing and general ledger and other transactional activities.
  • Prepared all monthly bank reconciliations.
  • Filed quarterly New Jersey 927, Federal 940, and Federal 941 forms.
  • Provide support to the year-end audit review for external audit staff.
  • Prepared yearly W-2s and 1099s for the company
  • Analysis and interpretation of statistical and accounting information in order to appraise operating results in terms of profitability, performance against budget and prior year, and other matters bearing on the fiscal soundness and operating effectiveness of the organization.
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  Masco Corporation

  Inventory Accountant

  Aug 2004 - Apr 2005

  Masco Corporation is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of branded home improvement and building products. Our products enhance the way consumers all over the world experience and enjoy their living spaces. Our portfolio of industry-leading brands includes Behr® paint; Delta® and Hansgrohe® faucets, bath and shower fixtures; Kichler® decorative and outdoor lighting and HotSpring® spas, to name a few. At Masco, we believe in better living possibilities—for our homes, our environment and our community. Across our businesses and geographies, we seek out these possibilities to grow ourselves, enhance our consumers’ lives, create returns for our shareholders and improve the world around us. We believe a strong, supportive presence in the communities where we live, work and do business is vital. We partner with organizations that are as driven as we are to support the growth of our communities, encourage and enable equity and provide safe, affordable housing for all families. Plumbing: Axor, BrassCraft®, Bristan®, Brizo®, Caldera®Spas, Delta®, Endless Pools®, Hansgrohe®, HotSpring®, Newport Brass®, Peerless®, Mercury Plastics LLC Decorative Architectural: Behr® , KILZ®, Liberty® Hardware, Kichler Lighting For more information about Masco Corporation, visit masco.com.

  • Responsible for the control, analysis, accounting, reporting of inventory, and the analyst of all inventory including external and inter-branch transactions.
  • Prepared reconciliations of major balance sheet accounts including Account deferral, material expenses, accrued expenses, and field supply expenses using Hyperion.
  • Monitored inventory levels and worked with branch personnel and suppliers to address stock levels, improve metrics, reduce inventory obsolescence, and managing the return process.
  • Assisted in the reconciliation of the physical inventory adjustment process for warehouses to include the proper booking of inventory adjustments for accurate closing.
  • Performed End of the month/quarterly reports.
  • Maintained policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.