Jim Makar

About Jim Makar

A Certified Public Accountant with nearly 20 years of financial accounting experience…

Experience

1. Vice President of Financial Planning Analysis

   Leaf Home

   Jan 2020 — Present

   Builder and head of a fundamentally sound FP & A function. Business partner to leaders for all analytics and strategic financial planning objectives. Leader of a team of finance professionals delivering value-added capability and enhanced support to business leaders. • Instill financial acumen with business leaders including process and cadence of strategic and annual planning, reporting and decision making • Lead Leaf Home’s Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process and modeling of Leaf Home’s 5-year strategic forecasting process • Oversee and validate Leaf Home’s monthly reporting and analysis deliverables • Support the CFO & segment presidents in key initiatives to prepare the Leaf Home to meet strategic goals and objectives • Lead the build out of data and analytics capabilities and dashboards to disseminate data with support from the product and tech teams • Participate in strategic planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing data analytics initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future analytics projects • Facilitate cross-functional initiatives in the enterprise to build strategic partnerships and carry out enterprise-wide analytics services for the Leaf Home • Responsible for developing and implementing best practices and standards in process, design, architecture, and operations of data analytics and data visualization delivery • Finance sponsor of ERP/CRM implementation • Perform technical accounting reviews to produce a fundamentally sound and accurate annual financial statements

Education

• Bowling Green State University

  Masters, Accounting and Information Systems

• Bowling Green State University

  Bachelors, Business Administration - Accounting

Skills

• Gaap
• Internal Audit
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Us Gaap
• U.s. Sec Filings
• Budgets
• U.s. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Gaap)
• Finance
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Gaap)
• Accounting
• Cpa
• Budgeting
• Financial Accounting
• Auditing
• Manufacturing
• Tax
• Financial Analysis
• Internal Controls
• Sec Filings
• Management
• Financial Reporting