Kent Barley

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About Kent Barley

Financial professional with experience in areas related to management, payroll, billing, budgeting, finance, compliance/HR and accounting operations. Years of customer service experience with high-net worth individuals and explaining finance concepts to non-finance people. Experienced reconciling difficult accounts, structuring chart of accounts, maintaining the balance sheet, making JE's, responding to audits, and being responsible for speaking to the P&L. Experienced in making wire transfers and ACH payments with NACHA files and CSV. Oversight of all accounting operations for CALCAP Lending, LLC. Supervised Staff Accountants and approved their work. Experienced in capital budgeting and cash management. Assisted managing the cash in a $70MM fund, leveraging investor capital to create greater ROI's through investments in real estate and mortgage lending. Highly experienced in creating budgets, was responsible for creating and tracking annual budgets for 25 aircrafts (averaging around $2MM each in total annual expense and this was about 20% of Clay Lacy's fleet), as well as creating budgets in the mortgage lending business. Skilled at observing variances in budget-to-actual and speaking to those variances. Was responsible for creating all aspects of quarterly investor reporting in mortgage lending business. This involved detailed financial analysis in Excel, as well as creating professional PowerPoint decks for use in executive meetings.Experienced in Human Resources, compliance, and writing “how to” manuals for future employees. Have direct experience managing interstate corporate compliance with various government entities such as the Secretary of State, Division of Labor, and the payroll tax consequences associated with those legalities such as SITW and SUI rates. Skilled in calculating amortization rates, capital budgeting, internal rates of return and modified internal rates of return, bond, loan and stock evaluation, net present values, interest rates, CAPM, investment analysis, financial statement analysis, confidence intervals and statistics, variance calculations, and a strong understanding of investments and financial statements in general as well as the time value of money.Technically proficient in the use of high-level Excel abilities, such as pivot tables, V-look ups, multivariate conditional formulas. Have experience structuring complex excel reconciliations and budgets and structuring them so that future employees can follow along as well as fully automating many tasks. Proficient in Word and PowerPoint.