John Harnois - Fractional CFO, Odyssey Financial

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Work Background

Odyssey Financial & Accounting Solutions, LLCFractional CFO

Jan. 2024Boston, Massachusetts, United States• Fractional CFO providing expertise and support to help businesses overcome challenges, increase profits and reach its goals. • Provide daily bookkeeping, reporting, reconciliation, and payroll management • Team lead of reconciliation, audit and clean-up projects of client businesses. • Provide financial forecasts, projections, cash flow management, and process improvements for clients.

Vivo ArchitectureFinancial Controller

Aug. 2022 - Oct. 2023Boston, Massachusetts, United States• Spearheaded the ERP conversion from QuickBooks to Ajera (Deltek) for an architecture firm in the life sciences space • Learned the previous bookkeeping procedures while simultaneously being introduced to new ERP to perform financial and operational conversion • After successful conversion, produced all financial activity and some operational undertaking to ensure company moved forward • Created between 50-70 monthly client invoices consisting of labor, consultants and reimbursable expenses • Created weekly and monthly financial reporting for the Partners to ensure company progress

The Hampshire HouseSenior Accountant

Sep. 2021 - Apr. 2022• Sr. Accountant for a hospitality group with $10 million in annual revenue • Created daily sales reports for Cheers, 75 Chestnut and 75 on Liberty Wharf, retail gallery and function services • Produced weekly reports for 7 Day Average Sales, meals tax and cash flow analysis • Updated AP weekly and produced check run • Oversaw cash accountant

Gibson Sotheby's International RealtyFinance Manager

Jan. 2021 - Sep. 2021Boston, Massachusetts, United States• Finance Manager for a Boston real estate company with over $3 billion in annual real estate sales through their 24 MA office locations • Produced daily finances with the Chief Accounting Officer reporting to the Chairman and CEO • Reconciled bank statements and franchise fees weekly • Created daily reports for projected closings and cash balances while creating the weekly cash flow analysis for the company • Prepared financial statements for the CAO • Oversaw the accounting function for the 6 Cape Cod offices

Clover Food LabAccounting Manager

Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2020Boston• Accounting Manager for a restaurant group that owned and operated 15 restaurants • Completed assisting in the 5-month conversion of accounting duties to a third party • Took over a majority of daily duties for the Director of Finance when departed Clover • Oversaw the daily accounting for restaurant group with 13 locations in the Boston area • Closed out monthly reporting to ensure accuracy for the owner and Board of Directors • Completed weekly reporting through various data mining extracted from multiple reporting platforms such as Square, Stripe, Metabase, MarginEdge, and Clover POS • Created complex pivot tables and V-Lookups to report sales, receivables, meals tax, discounts and refunds • Performed monthly reconciliation for chart of accounts • Provided secondary support to the GMs to keep licensing and permitting current

Independent Accounting ContractorIndependent Accounting Contractor

Jan. 2009 - Jan. 2019United States• Worked several accounting contract jobs in industries such as E-Commerce, Entertainment, Nonprofit, and Real Estate with a majority in start-ups in Massachusetts, Florida, Washington, and California • Built up the accounting department for many small businesses by creating the books through their sales, expenses and bank reconciliation from inception • Audited accounts which has led to embezzlement discovery • Hired specifically for forensic accounting duties which has produced conviction in the court of law • Processed payroll and set up company payroll through ADP, Paychex and QuickBooks • Hired and trained accounting staff

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