LISA E. KELLETT

• Finance Manager for a $575M government contract providing life support services for our client with cost plus and fixed price elements.

• Works directly with the Project Manager and project Contracting Officer on monthly financial reporting, estimates to complete, project modifications and all other financial projects relevant to the contract.

• Perform extensive review of all monthly labor and material costs relative to budgets and forecast. Analyze trend reports to ensure all costs have been captured in their appropriate functional areas and explain any changes and effects they may have going forward.

• Prepare and maintain our local national payroll and tax payments to local government. Prepare year-end reports for payments of employee PIT taxes and yearly Corporate registrations.

• Responsible for all cash (approx $1M) maintained countrywide at various locations. Maintain close contact with cash custodians to ensure the integrity of the cash funds are appropriately administered and back up is being kept in accordance to our corporate disclosure statements. Ensure all reporting from the down-range locations are both timely and accurate.

• Perform currency conversions and currency purchases to ensure the highest efficiency in spending (FX trades).

• Prepare for and support internal and external audits. Answer audit questions and remediation for all finance locations in Iraq.

• Assist with property audits of US Government materials. Verify purchased materials have been used or are currently on site.

• Manage the accounting operations of an international government contractor in the various accounting functions/departments for our Kuwait, Dubai and Baghdad operations.

• Perform soft audits for the various overseas offices in their locations.

• Create the monthly closing reports for our two major contracts in the Middle East and do a critical analysis of the budget to actual cost performance. Ensure reporting from the reporting divisions are both timely and accurate.

• Prepare the monthly invoicing package to the government.

• Perform currency conversions and currency purchases to ensure the highest efficiency in spending (FX trades).

• Managed the accounting staff of an international government contractor in the various accounting functions/departments.

• Directly responsible for managing our overseas cash which includes 35 individual cash accounts including two major international bank accounts in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The accounting staffs at our overseas locations are direct reports as well.

• Perform the monthly closing functions for financial statement preparations and perform monthly project status reviews with management to include budget variance analysis. Instrumental in establishing a “rolling close” to set a business rhythm that ensured deadlines were met and information available to the senior management.

• Maintain monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts and work closely with Ernst and Young auditors for our yearly external audit. Throughout the year, work closely with our internal audit team to assure that the year-end external audit is a success by adhering to GAAP and Sarbanes Oxley as well as other governmental reporting requirements.

• Managed the accounting and OS&D departments of the distribution center. This included maintaining the day-to-day operations of these departments, delegating projects and tracking their progress. This required extensive communication and coordination with other managers from various business segments.

• Maintained daily analysis of the operation’s productivity through evaluation of cost/benefit of labor dollar, productivity percentages by department, making pro-active suggestions regarding financial policies and guidelines for improvement and other business metrics used for decision making by upper management.

• Provided a weekly analysis of our facility’s business and financial standings to the Corporate Office for comparison with other distribution centers nationwide. Reviewed the company-wide comparisons to analyze where our facility fell in the comparisons and what it would take to improve.

• Provide a monthly in-depth analysis of all expenses to include budget variance analysis, an analysis of rankings within the company and why, as well as projections of where we will end the fiscal year.

• Responsible for payroll, HR issues within our facility as a liaison to our Corporate HR Department and work closely with the DC Manager for continual productivity improvement.