Christopher Eads

Experience

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  Chick-fil-A

  Nov 2004 - Aug 2009

  Manager

  Directed operations of a satellite restaurant located in Cedar Fair’s Kings Dominion, a major nearby theme park. Primary experience includes:•Management – Monitored and analyzed sales, food and paper costs, and labor cost and productivity as part of the overall profit and loss statements. Maintained relations with third party management•Operations – Managed and scheduled team members and managers, ordered and accounted for inventory and maintained inventory controls, monitored cash control policies, and implemented quality control processes.•Performance – Exceeded labor productivity goals while maintaining costs at suitable levels. Facilitated a record sales year in spite of a decrease in overall visitors to the theme park.•Vision – Inspired corporate vision for outstanding product and service quality in an unconventional setting.Supported the reorganization of a restaurant in a local mall after ownership change. Developed operational procedures and trained new personnel in an effort to increase or maintain profit. Show less

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  Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech

  Sept 2008 - May 2010

  Circulation Manager

  •Tasked with Collegiate Times newspaper circulation management.•Developed quantitative tracking tools and analyzed these tools to optimally allocate newspaper distributions to maximize readership and minimize waste.•Managed and maintained newspaper displays and advised on placement of new displays.

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  PwC

  Aug 2010 - Dec 2013

  Senior Associate / Consultant

  Provides accounting and financial management consulting services to clients across the Federal government. Primary experience includes:•Audit Readiness – Evaluating accounting policies and procedures, testing accounting recognition and internal controls, and recommending solutions to remediate findings.•Audit Remediation – Executing gap analysis between accounting policies and accounting standards, developed compliant policies and procedures, and assisting policy transition by designing implementation plans and training materials.•Internal Controls – Assessing, documenting, and testing internal controls over financial reporting.•Financial Metric Reporting - Designing and maintaining financial reports detailing capital project and funding tracking, resource workload distribution, and other ad hoc metrics requested by oversight bodies such as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Congress.•Transaction/Payment Testing – Designing transactional procedures to assess the validity of disbursement transactions, testing samples of disbursement transactions and extrapolating results over the population to determine compliance with established guidance.•Consulting Skills – Focusing on gap analysis, process improvement and standardization, policy and standard operating procedures development, and risk and quality control. Show less

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  Capital One

  Jan 2014 - now

  Responsible for the following:- Reviewing products and transactions to ensure accurate coding at source system and verify them against contract documents (analyze and identify the appropriate data coding)- Performing quarterly verification process- Performing testing and evaluation of reported balances and other information (based on transaction nature and underlying contractual information)- Concluding and reporting on noted errors, and recommendations developed, with appropriate action plans and owners- Ensuring appropriate closure of action plans developed in response to previous reported findings- Establishing and maintaining strong working relationships across businesses and other control groups (i.e., risk management, compliance, legal, etc.)- Working closely with business and information technology colleagues across lines of business as issues emerge and reporting them timely to management and other stakeholders;- Partnering with the lines of business regarding Risk and Control Self Assessments (RCSAs)- Developing recommendations to strengthen internal controls and improve operational efficiency, where appropriate- Staying current with evolving industry and regulatory changes- Coordinate training efforts by assisting to prepare educational and training materials Show less Responsible for the following:- Reviewing products and transactions to ensure accurate coding at source system and verify them against contract documents (analyze and identify the appropriate data coding)- Performing quarterly verification process- Performing testing and evaluation of reported balances and other information (based on transaction nature and underlying contractual information)- Concluding and reporting on noted errors, and recommendations developed, with appropriate action plans and owners- Ensuring appropriate closure of action plans developed in response to previous reported findings- Establishing and maintaining strong working relationships across businesses and other control groups (i.e., risk management, compliance, legal, etc.)- Working closely with business and information technology colleagues across lines of business as issues emerge and reporting them timely to management and other stakeholders;- Partnering with the lines of business regarding Risk and Control Self Assessments (RCSAs)- Developing recommendations to strengthen internal controls and improve operational efficiency, where appropriate- Staying current with evolving industry and regulatory changes- Coordinate training efforts by assisting to prepare educational and training materials Show less Responsible for preparing weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reporting for the various regulatory agencies as well as general ledger information and source system reports from loan, deposit, treasury and other systems are used to prepare the regulatory reports. Participates in corporate initiatives and projects impacting regulatory reporting such as bank system platform conversions. Also participates in regulatory initiatives such as assessing new rules and regulations, interpreting and implementing regulatory guidance and interacting with associates company-wide to facilitate the reporting process. Show less

  • Director

    Feb 2025 - now

  • Senior Manager

    Aug 2021 - Jan 2025

  • Manager

    Aug 2017 - Jul 2021

  • Principal Accounting Specialist

    Aug 2015 - Jul 2017

  • Senior Accounting Specialist

    Jan 2014 - Jul 2015