Jim Buisson

Experience

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  Rippe & Kingston

  Oct 1988 - Dec 1992

  Billing Systems Installer

  • Responsible for managing conversions, training staff and instillation of billing system for law firms.

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  Enquirer Media

  Jan 1993 - Aug 2013

  • Responsible for financial compliance for all advertising billing for Gannett Ohio.• Insured accurate reporting of advertising revenue for financials and commission calculations.• Managed rate cards and custom billing rate programs.• Designed and implemented self contained Excel pricing program for sales reps use in the field on their laptops which represented $439,000 in revenue in first year.• Redesigned order entry system to new production system in Columbus with no negative impact to customers or financials.• Reviewed proposed rate offerings, programed billing system with approved billing changes; production changes and reporting changes. Show less • Responsible for overseeing financial compliance for all advertising billing for Gannett Ohio and insured accurate reporting.• Worked with the Enquirer and Gannett corporate IT departments as the beta site on the most significant upgrade of the billing system in 5 years. Proactively identified issues and suggested solutions. Helped facilitate the integration of several major software programs. • Worked with Gannett corporate to develop a new billing system structure to accommodate a Yahoo partnership online sales program, subsequently used at all other Gannett sites. • Worked on implementing the online customer order entry system. Show less • Managed rate cards and custom billing rate programs.• Designed and implemented centralized electronic library for rate programmers and data entry to reference.• Received Employee of the Quarter for incorporating 27 community press papers into the billing system.• Responsible for projecting and consolidating revenue budget information. • Identified opportunities for increased revenue through advertising contract evaluation. Aided in contract negotiations increasing revenue by over $500,000 per year while controlling expenses associated with these revenue increases. Show less

  • Senior Financial Analyst

    Jun 2011 - Aug 2013

  • Advertising System Manager

    Jul 2009 - Jul 2011

  • Advertising Analyst Manager/Senior Financial Analyst

    Jul 2005 - Jul 2009

  • Advertising Financial Analyst

    Sept 2000 - Jun 2005

  • Accounting Manager

    Mar 1999 - Sept 2000

  • Manager of Financial Analysis

    Jan 1996 - Mar 1999

  • Senior Financial Analyst

    Jan 1993 - Dec 1995
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  Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK

  Aug 2013 - Jun 2019

  Senior Financial Solutions Analyst

  • Responsible for daily balancing between order entry and billing systems, followed up and resolved issues, minimized impact to customers while maintaining financial data integrity.• Developed a revenue analysis report that tracked revenue by site/salesperson/product that guided the successful implementation of new online products across all Gannett news sites. • Reinforced training with personnel to use new feature updates in order entry software, run balancing programs and closing programs and provided ongoing guidance.• Supported transition to new single order entry and billing system for 86 internet and newspaper sites from individual site order entry and billing systems.• Developed single daily balancing program between systems so processing for all 86 sites could be performed within half hour for all sites.• Serve on elite team of experts tasked with resolving complex time critical issues. Preserved over $500,000 of revenue per year.• Developed, coordinated and implemented monthly closing process for all sites. Examined data and troubleshoot systems to ensure financial information accuracy in a timely manner.• Recommended and tested software customization and modification to improve process automation and ensure financial information consistency and accuracy.• Handled audit compliance for software systems Show less