Overview
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Education
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Summary
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Kevin Bulot

Ponchatoula,LA

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Vice President Accounting & Finance

Hospitality Works
09.2022 - 08.2024
  • Company Overview: Lighting Manufacturer
  • Completed ERP implementation and full utilization of dashboards & exception reporting
  • Created budgets with operations and developed tracking system to budgets
  • Implemented a cash management system that yielded an additional $30K per month in other rev
  • Developed and implemented monthly closing and reporting process resulting in 3 day close
  • Developed & implemented job costing and project management reporting system for operations
  • Closing process that was implemented also resulted in audit being completed on time & under budget
  • Lighting Manufacturer

Corporate Controller/Director Finance

NRTC Alabama Inc.
05.2020 - 09.2023
  • Company Overview: International Manufacturer, eCommerce & Automation
  • Implemented a new ERP system that provides for 5 unique divisions, did all the training and developed the policy, procedures and processes to make the company and system efficient
  • Developed, implemented and trained the processes to allow a 3-day close
  • Prepared budgets, financial reporting and monthly balance sheet recons
  • Work with division managers to understand their monthly results, develop WALK’s and do an updated Risk Adjusted rolling 3 month budgets
  • Performed purchase accounting for acquisitions
  • International Manufacturer, eCommerce & Automation

Controller

Boyd Corporation
03.2017 - 04.2020
  • Company Overview: Billion Dollar International Manufacturer
  • Close period, prepare financial statements, analyze and lead Ops Review
  • Lead accounting functions for plants, on site and in corporate office
  • Perform all balance sheet reconciliations and budget analysis
  • Provide operational reports that allow the plants to achieve monthly EBITDA goals
  • Work with plant managers and region manager to improve efficiency and profitability
  • Billion Dollar International Manufacturer

Controller

Bulk FR8, LLC
06.2015 - 02.2017
  • Company Overview: 3PL Chemical Suppliers
  • Perform monthly and annual closing and financial statement prep
  • Prepared general journal entries, payroll and job costing
  • Perform all balance sheet reconciliations and cash management
  • Responsible for cost analysis, financial analysis and taxes
  • 3PL Chemical Suppliers

Controller

BP Holdings, Inc
07.2010 - 06.2015
  • Company Overview: Asset based Logistics Company
  • Responsible financial statement prep and analysis
  • Develop and implement all accounting procedures and processes
  • Budgeting, job costing, WIP, performance evaluation, cash management, financial statements by job, department and consolidated
  • Asset based Logistics Company

Education

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, LA
09.1988 - 12.1992

MBA - Accounting/Finance

Keller Graduate School of Management
09.2015 - 12.2017

Skills

  • Forecasting
  • Budget administration
  • Performance metrics analysis
  • Critical thinking
  • Performance monitoring and evaluation
  • Financial management
  • Data analysis
  • Results-driven
  • Decision-making
  • Staff training
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • OKRs and kpis
  • Budget oversight
  • Team leadership
  • CRM software
  • Process improvement

Summary

Talented financial leader well-versed in accounting principles and regulations. Motivated to keep company financial operations compliant, accurate, and cost-effective. Ready to bring 15+ years of experience and take on challenging new role.

Accomplishments

  • Fixed the Finance and Accounting department along with the ERP system so the PE firm could sell after several failed attempts.
  • Developed and implemented financial statement reporting that was more efficient and provided more input to the decision making process.
  • Developed, implemented and trained job costing systems to provide live data to managers.
  • Replaced a customer who was 35% of revenue in 2 months.
  • Implemented a fully integrated ERP system from scratch in 3 months with no down time and became a showcase company for the ERP provider.
  • Developed and provided audit working papers that reduced the time and cost of audit by 70%.
  • Increased revenue and completed a turn-around during the recession.
  • Worked with operations and sales to turn around an adversarial relationship with accounting/finance to a partnership working toward the same goals.
  • Moved company to be an industry leader in technology and carbon footprint reduction.
  • Implemented daily cash management modules and forecast.
  • Reduced monthly closing cycle from 20 days to 2 days.
  • Implemented procedures to track and improve on-time delivery%.
  • Working with ERP provider using AI and ML to create a system that closes and audits itself every night.
  • Developed budgets and budget reporting process for 4 companies & 13 locations.
  • Led the acquisition and smooth transition of 3 companies with annual revenue of $50M each.
  • Developed a live daily tracking tool that allows plant manages to change the path of expenses to achieve budgeted EBITDA.

Software

Sage X3

Sage 100

Sage 300

Sage Intacct

SAP

Quickbooks

Office

Dynamics

Power BI

NetSuite

Timeline

Vice President Accounting & Finance

Hospitality Works
09.2022 - 08.2024

Corporate Controller/Director Finance

NRTC Alabama Inc.
05.2020 - 09.2023

Controller

Boyd Corporation
03.2017 - 04.2020

MBA - Accounting/Finance

Keller Graduate School of Management
09.2015 - 12.2017

Controller

Bulk FR8, LLC
06.2015 - 02.2017

Controller

BP Holdings, Inc
07.2010 - 06.2015

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Southeastern Louisiana University
09.1988 - 12.1992
Kevin Bulot