james gleason

president

About

36 years of experience in finance and accounting including compliance audit, software development, business management of our Japan operations, SOX controls and compliance, transfer pricing, foreign tax filings, forecasting, budgeting, and many years of experience globe-trotting. Specialties: International business management, contract negotiations, strategic M&A

Country

united states

City

verona

Industry

accounting

Skill

strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, sox, internal controls, kpi, accounting policy, profit improvement, international operations, contract negotiation, manage audit program, corporate tax planning, forecasting, budgeting, transfer pricing, software development, talent relations, month end close, monthly reporting, peoplesoft, great plains software, microsoft dynamics, excel, word, powerpoint, talent management, budgets, microsoft excel, microsoft word, management, auditing, financial analysis, finance, licensing, financial modeling, strategic financial planning, restructuring, sarbanes oxley act

Experience

vice president finance

united media

1988-2 - 2010-5 · 22 yrs 4 mos

vice-president finance

peanuts worldwide llc

2010-6 - 2012-7 · 2 yrs 2 mos

In June 2010, my division was sold by the E.W. Scripps Company to Iconix Brand Group. -Outsourced royalty audit program and managed that program directly with findings in excess of $1M in first year. -Reduced overall overhead in company by 50% between New York and Kentucky offices realizing savings of $6M. -Established strategic requirements for new contract and royalty database software (Dynamics AX). Supervised Project Manager and a team of temporary employees through data conversion and software change requests. Went live with software in February 2012 which was within one-year of the launch of the project. Anticipate headcount savings of two and royalty statement error detection of $100K+ annually. -Directly managed logistics of moving office of ten people out of Cincinnati and into Ft. Mitchell for savings of $200K annually in overhead.

senior financial analyst and audit manager

united features syndicate

1982-2 - 1988-1 · 6 yrs

Commuted between Cincinnati and New York offices as the lead analyst for United Media. -Established best practices for complex budgeting and forecasting involving worldwide sales (primarily in foreign currencies), expenses for New York, Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Cincinnati offices. -Significant contributor to increasing revenue by $30M+ over this time period by establishing a network of foreign agents throughout the world, acquisitions of new character properties, and establishing our offices in Amsterdam and Tokyo -Responsible for establishing an in-house royalty audit program that traveled to domestic and international licensee locations to perform royalty compliance audits where collected findings grew to $1M+ per year.