Ralph J. Williams

Experience

• 

  General Tire & Rubber

  Apr 1974 - Nov 1991

  Various Job Position

  Senior Corporate Accountant Level III •Supervised orderly financial transfer of inventory, cash, and retention schedules of thirteen General Tire Retail Stores located in six states, which were sold to tire dealers.•Reconciled monthly intercompany accounts with seven manufacturing plants with accounts totaling over $850 million.•Posted 70 monthly journal entries directly to general ledger systems and reconciled assets and liabilities accounts to general ledger.•Approved all account codes on company purchased orders up to $100,000 on corporate disbursement checks.•Was responsible for reconciling employee cash advances and tracing delinquent accounts over 120 days.Operating Supervisor for Retail Stores•Provided financial supervision of company-owned retail outlet and their sales territories in six sales zones (10 to 13 stores per zone). Traveled extensively to individual locations throughout the continental United States and Puerto Rico.•Trained office and sales personnel on the IBM terminal to process daily sales and payments from customers, to pay bills to prepare weekly payroll, and to make adjustments to physical inventory count sheets.•Analyzed monthly financial statement for each store from home office computer. Trained store manager to interpret financial statement and source of information.•Audited store inventories, conducted store operational reviews, and ensured the manger made timely correction of deficiencies uncovered by company auditors.Office Manager Retail Stores, Decatur, IL•Assigned to a problem commercial and retail outlet to ensure financial documentation and procedures flowed smoothly. •Processed daily transactions, paid bills, processed weekly payroll, conducted and reconciled physical monthly inventories. Show less

• 

  DC Venture/Karma Records

  Apr 1992 - Oct 1993

  Accountant

  • Managed accounting functions for ten retail stores. • Developed template for entering monthly store sales on Lotus spreadsheet. • Imported monthly journal entries from Lotus to general ledger.• Maintained chart of accounts on MCBA Classic software general ledger system. • Analyzed and reconciled general ledger accounts monthly.• Entered accounts payable daily.• Reconciled monthly bank statements for holding company and retail stores.• Prepared and reviewed monthly financial statements.• Supervised quarterly physical inventory at retail stores’ premises.• Reported weekly payroll using ADP. Show less

• 

  Tokeim

  Nov 1993 - Sept 2003

  Manger of Consolidation

  • As administrator maintained the Cartesis/Comshare financial package that accumulates monthly data from 80 domestic and foreign subsidiaries (13 consolidation groups).• Transition accounting data from the Commander FDC to Cartesis. Create schedules in the financial software to report income statement, balance sheet, operation summary, cash flow, investments in subsidiaries, and numerous reference and miscellaneous journal entries.•Approved account codes on all disbursements, prepared general ledger entries, and maintained 3,000 reference, reclassification, and recurring journal entries used in monthly consolidation.•Reconciled all intercompany accounts, reconcile retained earnings, currency reserves, and generate internal reports. •Maintained currency exchange rates for our fiscal year from the Wall Street Journal. •Gathered documentation for Securities and Exchange Commission filing for 10-K and 10-Q. •Worked with corporate and external auditors on quarterly and year end audits.•Implemented the financial software package, Commander FDC as well as being the administrator for the software and all updates.•Managed accounting transactions and reporting for two major acquisitions in 1996 and 1998. Tokheim grew from 13 subsidiaries to 80 with the acquisitions. •Worked with 40 controllers and corporate accountants in Europe and Africa training them in software utilization and converting their general ledger to GAAP reporting.•Developed 50 financial ad hoc analysis templates to facilitate monthly consolidation process and reporting. Show less

• 

  Wal Mart

  Aug 2004 - Sept 2005

  Sale Person in Meat Department
• 

  Dean Foods

  Oct 2005 - Aug 2007

  Accountant

  Plant/Staff Accountant• Approved account code on disbursements and salesmen weekly expenses reports.• Prepared general ledger entries for month ending closing.• Reconciled inter-company accounts and various general ledger accounts.• Entered new cost for product produce into manufacturing data base.• Reported weekly sales.• Issued monthly rebate checks to milk customers.• Monthly true up of the data warehouse report to the Timberline data base.

• 

  Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries

  Dec 2008 - now

  Office Manager