Ann Burnett
Senior Manager at Pue, Chick, Leibowitz & Blezard, LLC- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Pue, Chick, Leibowitz & Blezard, LLC
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United States
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Accounting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Manager
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Jan 2019 - Present
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Corning Incorporated
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United States
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Glass, Ceramics and Concrete Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Plant Controller
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Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
• Lead member of Finance and Human Resource Integration team. Successfully integrated finance reporting, budgeting, income and sales tax, payroll, benefits, risk management, and HR processes into a Fortune 500 Company. • Prepare yearly and five-year budgets with input from plant managers and sales team. Present the budgets and underlying assumptions to corporate finance and management. • Analyze monthly financials statements for three divisions. Review results and budget deviations with division managers. Consolidate and communicate results to corporate finance team. Monthly close accomplished within four business day. • Interview, hire, supervise and manage workflow for accounting personnel. • Initiate SOX Compliance systems throughout divisions and business cycles. • Prepare/review the divisional attestations for Corporate quarterly and annual reports.
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Stran Technologies
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Financial Officer
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Jun 2013 - Dec 2016
• Successfully took a privately-owned company to a position allowing for a sale to a publicly traded company under a tight time frame. • Key member of management team responsible for launching and managing additional business division. • Responsible for selection and testing of accounting software for new division. • Analyze Nexus issues as business expanded. Coordinate registrations and filings of required sales, property and income taxes in applicable jurisdictions. • Research impact of Prevailing Wage and Davis Bacon requirements on new contracts. Communicated findings to accounting and management team to develop processes for compliance. • Negotiate contracts, including Master Service Agreements, business and group insurance coverage. • Prepare annual informational returns for qualified plans. • Remediate legacy issues with pension plan to bring plan into compliance. • Manage eligibility rosters for company benefit programs. • Initiate and implement a change to the company’s payroll service resulting in an automated timekeeping system, employee self-service portal and 360-degree data exchange with retirement plan platform. • Automate manual processes to take advantage of software capabilities. • Implement Accounts Receivable follow-up procedures to improve collections and customer service.
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Accountant
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Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
• Preparing income/informational returns for individuals, businesses, estates & trusts • Quality control of financial statements and recommendation of changes in formatting and disclosures • Preparing income/informational returns for individuals, businesses, estates & trusts • Quality control of financial statements and recommendation of changes in formatting and disclosures
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Manager
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2006 - Nov 2012
• Reviewing engagements to assure they meet quality control standards • Managing workflow for junior staff members • Researching tax issues • Compilations and reviews of financial statements, forecasts & projections • Audits of pension plans • Computer consulting-QuickBooks installation, training and troubleshooting • Representing clients during audits by tax authorities • Hiring, training, reviewing & managing staff • Business consulting related to succession planning, budgeting, projections, cash flow issues, staffing and internal controls
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Senior
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1992 - 1996
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Member
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1986 - 1992
• Developing and implementing a system of policies & procedures to track due dates, workflow, personnel management, firm billing & collections • Establishing time budgets for client engagements, managing due dates and staffing of engagements • Publishing in-house newsletter • Developing and implementing a system of policies & procedures to track due dates, workflow, personnel management, firm billing & collections • Establishing time budgets for client engagements, managing due dates and staffing of engagements • Publishing in-house newsletter
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Education
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Central Connecticut State University
BS, Accounting