Michelle Louis

Works with large auxilary departments to analyze and plan their spending to budget. Month end closing entries. Support the Director of Business Operations and VP of Student Affairs in presenting the financial results of our division

Works with department directors to plan and manage the budget process and make budget recommendations for assigned departments in Student Affairs. Meet quarterly with department heads for financial monitoring and reporting. Ensures fiscal integrity of assigned budgets and procedures by performing periodic audits.

• Team Leader o Responsible for working with customers to understand their financials for their franchised stores. o Responsible for the final review of a store’s financials before releasing to the customer. o Responsible for problem solving complex issues and questions for our Accounting team. o Responsible for Quarterly review of financial statements to ensure they are accurate and proactively reviewing them with customers. o Responsible for working with Customer Service on proper communication of the customer’s financial results and inquiries they have on their results.

• Controller o Top finance member leading small company financial reporting o Responsible for billing completed construction jobs to the customer. o Responsible for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable for the entire company. o Responsible for the monthly, quarterly and annual close for the company and creating the financial statements for the owners to manage the business. o Responsible for accurately assigning costs to the job to ensure profitability is met. o Responsible for the cash management of the organization

o Responsible for the management of three individuals responsible for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger accounting, and Payroll. o Responsible for recruiting and developing talented individuals for AP, AR, and Payroll. o Responsible for setting machine standards annually. o Responsible for producing business unit financial statements and advising the team on financial and business decisions. o Responsible for accurate and timely reporting of actual results, projections, budgets and strategic plans to the division and the corporation. o Key financial advisor for the Battle Creek Plant. o Responsible for developing the monthly forecast and bridges to explain variances to budget and prior year. o Responsible for Weekly projections for sales and EBITDA to corporate.

o Responsible for the management of twenty-five individuals responsible for Accounts Receivable, including Credit, Collections and Cash Application. o Supported three divisions of Stryker with over $2B in annual revenue. o Responsible for working with sales leadership to determine new customer credit limits, extended terms, pre-payment discounts and other items to increase sales and protect the financial well-being of Stryker. o Responsible for projecting cash flow, DSO, and bad debt monthly. o Responsible for driving the team to meet our goals and objectives on a monthly and yearly basis. o Responsible for recruiting and developing talented individuals for the Accounts Receivable team. o Responsible for streamlining and improving the processes across the divisions of Stryker. o Achieved budget DSO for 12 straight months in 2013-2014 and set five record collections months in 2014.

o Responsible for the management of twelve individuals responsible for Accounts Receivable, HFM reporting, Inter-company, Sales Tax, and Payroll. o Responsible for recruiting and developing talented individuals for the Accounts Receivable and HFM teams. o Responsible for maintaining the bonus system for the division, including working with executives, department managers, and employees on assigning and approving objectives and payments.

o Responsible for providing financial support and leadership to the Furniture & Stretchers business unit. o Responsible for improving the financial acumen of the team and providing timely and accurate projections. o Responsible for producing business unit financial statements and advising the team on financial and business decisions. o Helped develop New Product Financial Analysis for Marketing. o Under my financial leadership, the furniture team earned $1.7M on a budget of $-1.3M for 2007. o Responsible for separating Maternity and Furniture P&L’s to show the profitability of Furniture, in which many executives believed, could not be done.

Responsible for the entire finacial function at the Marshall Tech Center. Created budget annually and projections monthly. Produced monthly financial statements. Produced Semi-Monthly payroll.

Responsible for the entire finance function. Produced monthly financial statements. Managed A/P and A/R. Supervised the payroll function. created budget and projections.