John Vares

Interim Controller

Las Colinas & Irving, North Dallas

22+ years of experience

Consulting

  • 22 Years of Accounting Experience

    with progressive experience leading financial, accounting, and operations teams for domestic and international companies.

  • Professional Partner to C-Suite Executives

    providing sound financial and operations counsel to inform decision-making.

  • Experienced Assisting In Year-End Audits

    by providing explanations and schedules for audit questions.

Roles

  • Full responsibility of the general ledger month-end close and presentation of the balance sheet and income statement results and analysis to the CFO.

  • Assisted in the internal and external financial and tax audit and examination process, including assisting with the preparation of the audited financial statements, footnotes, and supplemental information.

  • Prepared and managed cash flow statements and forecasts.

  • Assessed, established, and maintained internal controls and document procedures, validated and balance monthly, multiple accounting-related systems,

  • Assisted in supervision of accounts payable staff and AP transactions.

  • Assisted in the internal and external financial and tax audit and examination process, including assisting with the preparation of the audited financial statements, footnotes, and supplemental information, fixed assets recording and tracking, assessed, established, and maintained internal controls and document procedures.

  • Assisted in supervision of accounts payable staff and AP transactions, reconciled sub-ledger to general ledger account balances, responsible for banking transactions, including application of online banking for vendor disbursements.

  • Researched, analyzed, monitored, prepared and audited financial reports.

  • Assisted in Year End Audit by providing explanations and schedules for audit questions,   coordinate monthly close reviews of financial statements with facility Administrators and Regional Vice President.

  • Responsible for GRIR tracking and reporting to upper Management, prepared month Accounts Payable accrual for all global locations, participated in monthly global close meetings to discuss and clear up close items.

  • Finance Metrics tracking the Accounts Payable processes, utilized SAP reports for statistical analysis, provided timely and accurate data for upper management analysis.

Achievements

  • Completed month-end close for ten facilities which included all journal entries and reclasses.

  • Maintained and updated a large and complex spreadsheet-based process for tracking and calculating accounting entries for various stock-based compensation plans based on FAS123R guidelines.
  • Standardized all balance sheet reconciliations, bank reconciliations, and capital draw schedules.

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