Armando Barrios

About Armando Barrios

Accounting and Finance Professional with 15+ experience in accounting closings, budgets, AP, AR, inventories, cash management, banking relationships, covenants, loan management, fixed assets, general ledger and consolidations in the food, beverage, restaurant, liquor, food processing, retail, agriculture, logistics and distribution industries.Accounting | Finance ProfessionalEmail: a••••••••@live.comProven ability to build strong accounting and finance teams and enable the teams to meet deadlines and field requests from external and internal sources. Excellent at developing, adjusting and realigning processes, procedures and internal controls to operate more efficiently and effectively. Excel at making improvements to facilitate flow of information.CORE COMPETENCIES:Accounting CloseTeam LeadershipAnalytical AbilitiesBudgeting and ForecastingStrategic PlanningGrooming and Developing StaffReconciliationsFinancial, Investments Initiatives and Promotions AnalysisImplementing and changing procedures for effectiveness and efficiencyACCOMPLISHMENTS:•Facing high turnover, reorganized, reassigned, hired and eliminated positions reducing turnover, increasing employee retention, improving morale and building strong finance and accounting teams to respond to inquiries from internal and external sources.•Reduced the monthly close from 15 to 7 days using automation and reorganizing staff and tasks.•Developed complex models, restructured staff and implemented a secure central database to streamline the previously burdensome payroll recording process.•Implemented procedures to extract data and provide timely weekly labor reports to Operations to reduce labor inefficiencies.•Designed the method to determine weekly COGS and to monitor, resolve and report discrepancies to Operations in a timely manner.•Opened a Packinghouse and a Processing Plant in Mexico via planning, directing and implementing internal controls, accounting software, policies and procedures to conform to US GAAP and local taxes and regulations.•Conceived and developed a sales-profitability graph that significantly helped Marketing and Operations determine what items to promote, change price or eliminate.•Created quantity usage reports to determine the main cost drivers and designed vendor price comparison reports to help negotiate contracts.•Developed a complex business analysis technique to determine the isolated impact on profit of price, mix, and product cost.

Experience

1. Controller

   Miguel\'s Restaurants

   Nov 2021 — Present

   In charge of the Accounting duties for 22 restaurant locations, commissary and corporate office.• Provide consolidated financial statements.• Coordinate project to implement accounting system software upgrade.

Education

• University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting and Finance