I am eager to establish a long-term association with an organization where I can engender by my performance,integrity and professionalism, the realization and furtherance of the organization's mission. I am a strong advocate of the customer relationships business model as it ultimatley fosters a greater degree of commitment and ultimately achievement of organizational goals.

COMPANY	POSITION HELD	DATES WORKED
City of Lake Worth	Manager	2/2007 - 9/2009
Benada Aluminum of Florida	Contractor / Freelance	10/2006 - 1/2007
Fraser Fontain & Kong	Manager	6/2002 - 9/2006

Highlights:

City of Lake Worth Utilities - reviewed the system for cash receipts (over $80m) identified weakness in internal control (segregation of duties) and documented written procedures to correct internal control deficiency as well as improve efficiency and effectiveness. I was also responsible for overseeing the implementation of a lock box to further enhance efficiency and effectiveness over cash receipts. City of Lake Worth Utilities - investigated and compiled report on the factors responsible for an unprecedented level of write offs by the Utility Company. The report included the corrective measures which needed to be implemented to guarantee proper authorization and approval for the write off of unpaid utility bills. The implementation of these procedures resulted in a reduction of over 30% in the amount of receivable being sent to the City’s collection agency monthly. Benada Aluminum :I was recruited to assist the organization in processing payroll internally versus continuing with ADP HR & Payroll Services. Benada Aluminum of Florida is a manufacturing company which has been in business for over fifty years. In mid October 2006 the organization purchased a new accounting package (TRAVERSE). A major selling point of this new software was it ability to track production costs and generate the cost of manufacturing each item produce as well as enabling the addition of percentage mark up which would calculate the selling price and generate an invoice to customers based on that price. The software also incorporated a payroll module which facilitated electronic transmission from the company timecard system to the payroll module. My task was to use the DEMO program as a training tool to add each employee to the payroll module and update the Chart of Accounts to enable the assigning of each employee payroll costs to the correct cost centre. I completed the project (including the parallel run) one week ahead of schedule and the company was able to “GO LIVE” on January 1, 2007. FFK Limited celebrated its thirty fifth (35th) anniversary in 2007 and is the third largest insurance broker in Jamaica. Prior to my joining the company’s Executive Management Team as Controller in June 2002 the company sustained losses to the point where its retained earnings was negative. One of my mandates as the company’s new Financial Controller was to put the organization back on a profitable path. To this end I reviewed the financial reports of the top ten companies in the industry over a period of five years and used ratio analysis to identify those factors which contributed to the profitability of the companies which were the profit leaders in the industry. This study was used as the basis for making recommendations to FFK board of directors, the adoption of these recommendations resulted in significant improvements in the company’s profit performance. After reviewing its profit performance for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006; the company declared a profit share to be paid to employees totaling over one million dollar. Guardsman Limited is the flagship company for the Guardsman Group of companies which is the largest security company in the Caribbean. I joined the company in 1993 as a Chief Accountant and by November 1995 was promoted to Financial Controller. In 1993 the company employed over 1200 security guards who were paid biweekly and over 150 executive, supervisory and administrative staff who were paid monthly by issuing checks. The company’s external auditors expressed concerned over the protracted delays in reconciling bank accounts and its potential for concealing fraud. Within my first 12 months all bank reconciliations were brought up to date and reconciliations were completed no later than the 15th of each succeeding month. In the process of reconciling these accounts, a major fraud was uncovered and the fraud quad called in. After being promoted to the position of Controller I initiated discussions which resulted in over 1600 security guards as well as all other employees being paid via direct deposit. I also did financial analysis of companies within the Guardsman Group of companies which resulted in the merger of two of the companies resulting in significant improvement in profitability for the group as a whole.

Companies I like:

Florida Power & Light, UPS, Walmart, Wlgreen, Village of Wellington, Palm Beach County, Nova University, Florida Atlantic University

Development and implementation of internal controls, budget preparation and budget forecasts, variance analysis, preparation of financial statements, management of accounts receivable and accounts payable, cash management, investment accounting, month- end close, analytical reviews, preparation of fixed assets and other audit schedules, general ledger account reconciliation, bank reconcilement, management of long-term debt, Fund Accounting - large enterprise funds (Electric, water, sewer, sanitation, storm water); fiduciary funds (pension trust); special revenue funds (grants, component units) and Business Process improvements.