Daniel Watson has over 20 years of experience in accounting and finance roles. He has extensive experience implementing and maintaining Oracle ERP systems, including leading major upgrade projects. His background includes positions at Amazon, Starbucks, and several other companies where he developed reports, created budgets, analyzed financial data, and supported the monthly close process. He has a Master's in Business Administration and is proficient in various Microsoft and Oracle technologies.

1. DANIEL T. WATSON
2616 5TH
AVENUE W, SEATTLE, WA 98119
(206) 282-9591 (home); (206) 330-6071 (mobile)
dannywatson@hotmail.com
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Amazon.com - Seattle, WA
ORACLE FUNCTIONAL ANALYST
July, 2008 to March, 2015
 Oracle applications supported:General Ledger (GL), System Administrator, User Management (UMX), Cash
Management (CE), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Inventory (INV). Workable knowledge of Accounts Payable
(AP). Oracle instance contained 53 organizations, 36 primary ledgers, 9 secondary ledgers, and 3 subsidiary ledgers.
 Integral team member on upgrade project from Oracle 11.5.10.2 to 12.1.3. Project timeline started in January, 2011
with delivery in August,2011. Also participated in upgrade from Oracle 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2 in August 2008.
 Worked a dual role of a project manager and functional analyst to provide solutions to complex and critical
processes within Oracle and its integration with third party applications and custombuilt systems.
 Worked with cross-functional teams to understand business processes,gatherbusiness requirements, and analyze
data.
 Provided expertise on Oracle application functionality. Identified gaps between business requirements and
application functionality.
 Created and maintained project documentation that detailed business requirements, functional designs,test cases,
and userguides. Provided project status updates,timelines, and cutover plans.
 Conducted unit testing and regression testing.Facilitated usertesting by providing test cases,userdocumentation,
and training.
 Created AIM documentation for business requirements (BR030), functional designs (MD050), application
configurations (BR100), and test scripts (TE040).
 Created chart of accounts (COA) and value sets.
 Created currencies.
 Created and maintained fiscal calendars.
 Created and maintained sub-ledger accounting (SLA) conventions.
 Created and maintained primary and secondary ledgers.
 Created and maintained operating units.
 Created and maintained responsibilities, menus, and request groups.
 Assigned systemprofiles to responsibilities and operating units.
 Created and maintained security rules. Assigned themto responsibilities.
 Created and maintained cross-validation rules.
 Created and maintained code combinations.
 Created and maintained COA mappings.
 Created and maintained consolidation mappings and consolidation mapping sets.
 Created and maintained allocations and formulas.
 Created recurring journal batches,journals, and journal lines.
 Created and maintained autoallocations,which are used to schedule multiple allocations.
 Created and maintained revaluations.
 Created and maintained reporting components,which included row sets,column sets,content sets,and row orders.
 Created and maintained financial reports.
 Created and maintained financial report sets.
 Created and maintained document sequencing.
 Created and maintained summary accounts.
 Created and maintained journal sources and categories.
 Created and maintained AutoPost criteria sets.
 Created and maintained AutoReverse criteria sets.
 Created and utilized SQL queries for ad hoc requests,data analysis, and issue resolution.
 Created and maintained Oracle Alerts for exception reporting. Configured Alerts to generate e-mail messages to
users detailing any errors or exceptions.
 Monitored monthly close activities, which included running queries on unposted journals,unreversed journals, and
interface tables.
 Investigated GL interface errors, journal posting errors, and journals posted to incorrect ledgers.
 Provided operational support for errors related to the GL and sub-ledger applications.

2. DANIEL T. WATSON
2616 5TH
AVENUE W, SEATTLE, WA 98119
(206) 282-9591 (home); (206) 330-6071 (mobile)
dannywatson@hotmail.com
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Starbucks Coffee Company - Seattle, WA
SENIOR BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST, ORACLE GENERAL LEDGER
June, 2006 to July, 2008
 Member of the group responsible for the overall maintenance of the general ledgers in two Oracle instances.The
group also serves as a liaison between the Information Technology and Accounting groups.
 Acted as the main point of contact for the Oracle general ledger. Identified, troubleshot,and tracked systemissues.
Developed recommendations and coordinated resolution with the Information Technology group to keep the Oracle
general ledger operational.
 Acted as a subject matter expert on cross-functionalteams to provide recommendations on new initiatives or
projects.
 Analyzed current processes and made recommendations for automation, improvement, or simplification.
 Developed consolidation rules within Oracle Financial Consolidation Hub to systematically produce elimination and
minority interest calculations as part of a major upgrade in Oracle systems used by Starbucks.
 Developed analyst calculations and reports within Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting.
 Rebuilt the consolidated reporting package by reorganizing the current business segments into external reporting
segments used by the Financial Reporting group.
 Created a reporting package to detail international results by region, by country,and by business segment.
 Created a reporting package to detail G&A departments.
 Developed column sets used to compare actual results to budget, forecast,and prior year data.
 Developed a column set that includes a 6-month trend with quarter-to-date and year-to-date data.
 Developed column sets for a rolling 12-month trend and a rolling 4-quarter trend.
 Developed row sets used to produce consolidated,retail, non-retail, manufacturing and distribution, and G&A
reports.
 Rebuilt the row set used by the retail segment for internal management reporting to detail controllable and non-
controllable expenses.
 Developed content sets used to produce detailed business segment reporting in line with the business unit and
department hierarchy parents.
 Created summary accounts to improve the speed of reporting and mass allocations.
SENIOR G/L ACCOUNTANT
December, 2003 to June, 2006
 Created new flex field values for the company, business unit,department, and account segments .
 Created a parent-child hierarchy for each flex field segment. Developed an audit method to ensure each segment
value rolled up correctly in the hierarchy.
 Defined and maintained security rules to restrict the use of segment values by specific Oracle responsibilities.
 Defined and maintained cross-validation rules to eliminate the creation of incorrect account code combinations.
 Maintained mapping tables used to translate data feeds from an AS/400 inventory system.
 Created and maintained sets of books.
 Maintained fiscal calendars. Opened and closed fiscal periods.
 Defined suspense accountsused to handle errors with sub-ledger transfers to the general ledger.
 Defined intercompany accounts used to systematically balance multi-company entries within a set of books.
 Prepared the company’s monthly consolidated financial reporting package used by accounting,finance, and
executive management to review the consolidated and the business segment financial results.
 Developed a reconciliation process to validate that the entire trial balance tied to the consolidated reports and that
the consolidated reports tied to the business segment reports.
 Conducted a high-level variance analysis of actual results to budget and forecast data. Worked with the respective
accounting groups on variance explanations and communicated them with the distribution of the monthly
consolidated financial reporting package.
 Facilitated the fiscal period close by monitoring the general ledger, posting journal entries, importing journal entries
from sub-ledgers,developing mass allocations and recurring entries, and translating foreign currency data.
 Developed queries for accounting groups in formats representative of the consolidated financial reporting package
so groups could analyze their respective activity.
 Led meetings with the accounting groups to review each group’s status on their fiscal close responsibilities.

3. DANIEL T. WATSON
2616 5TH
AVENUE W, SEATTLE, WA 98119
(206) 282-9591 (home); (206) 330-6071 (mobile)
dannywatson@hotmail.com
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Seattle Coffee Company - Seattle, WA
MANAGER OF FINANCIAL REPORTING
May, 2001 to December, 2003
 Coordinated the fiscal period close process to include journal entry preparation, accrual methodology, account
analysis, and accounting control procedures.
 Reviewed all journal entry processing for accuracy and for compliance with company policies and Generally
Accepted Accounting Principles.
 Conducted detailed analysis to ensure accuracy of all general ledger accounts.
 Prepared 50-page financial reporting package detailing the consolidated and business segment financial results,key
performance indicators, and customer sales activity.
 Prepared comparative sales data for the retail business segment by conducting the year-over-year analysis of average
ticket and transaction count data.
 Supported executive team and business segments in analyzing financial results and assisted themin understanding
the manner in which transactions impacted their respective areas.
 Developed a reporting systemin Access used to create a weekly sales report by business segment.
Kforce.com - Seattle, WA
CONTRACTOR - FINANCIAL ANALYST
March, 2001 to May, 2001
Client: Seattle Coffee Company, Finance Department
 Prepared reports detailing the consolidated and business segment financial results.
 Prepared journal entries and reconciled general ledger accounts.
Accounting Partners - Seattle, WA
CONTRACTOR - FINANCIAL ANALYST
November, 2000 to March, 2001
Client: ZymoGenetics, Inc., Finance Department
 Developed a budget systemin Excel for 28 departments based on headcount and departmental data.
 Developed a balance sheet, consolidated and departmental P&L reports, and a statement of cash flows.
 Developed variance reports comparing actual, budget,and prior year data.
Accountemps - Seattle, WA
CONTRACTOR - FINANCIAL ANALYST
September, 2000 to November, 2000
Client: New Century Media, The Ackerley Group, Finance Department
 Developed a budget systemin Excel for 7 divisions and 42 departments.
 Developed consolidated and divisional P&L reports.
April, 2000 to September, 2000
Client: Amazon.com, Inc., Financial Planning and Analysis Department
 Developed business segment reports,including monthly trend and variance reports,through financial modeling of
the customer service, distribution center, G&A, marketing and business development,site development, and
technology divisions.
 Developed reports representing the sub-category detail for the Consumer Electronics, Home Improvement,
Marketplace, and Toys business units.
November, 1999 to April, 2000
Client: Various short-termassignments
 Prepared bank and general ledger account reconciliations.
 Prepared supporting schedules detailing bank loan activity.

4. DANIEL T. WATSON
2616 5TH
AVENUE W, SEATTLE, WA 98119
(206) 282-9591 (home); (206) 330-6071 (mobile)
dannywatson@hotmail.com
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Wagner Forest Management, Ltd. - Lyme, NH
A land management company representing the investment interests of 45 client companies and partnerships.
DATABASE ANALYST
June, 1998 to June, 1999
 Designed and maintained Access databases; drafted training documentation.
 Created and modified queries to collect and verify sales, direct expense, cash receipt, and accounts receivable data.
 Created database forms and queries to facilitate retrieving, updating, appending,and deleting data.
 Created database forms and reports for data presentation.
 Wrote database modules in Visual Basic to retrieve data, perform calculations, and transfer data to SQL databases.
FINANCIAL ANALYST
September, 1997 to June, 1998
 Prepared monthly and quarterly financial statements for 12 clients.
 Prepared journal entries and bank reconciliations; reconciled general ledger accounts.
Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH
CONSULTANT
January, 1997 to September, 1997
 Conducted interviews with professors and staff on the cost accounting procedures related to research grants.
 Edited a 40-page document comprising the Cost Accounting Standards Board Disclosure Statement for Educational
Institutions required by the Office of Management and Budget of the U.S. government.
 Drafted documentation standardizing the cost accounting policies of the College and trained professors and staff on
the policies to ensure consistent application of costs across departments.
Nestlé Clinical Nutrition, Inc. - Deerfield, IL
A company servicing the hospital, home care, and nursing home markets for Nestlé Corporation; established from the dissolution of
Clintec Nutrition Company.
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
October, 1996 to January, 1997
 Responsible for the reporting and analysis of regional and territorial sales activity by product line, customer, and
salesperson.
 Involved in the monthly close process, prepared journal entries, and reconciled general ledger accounts.
Clintec Nutrition Company - Deerfield, IL
A joint venture between Baxter International and Nestlé Corporation servicing the hospital, home care, and nursing home markets; the
partners dissolved the joint venture in October, 1996.
SENIOR SALES REPORTING ANALYST
January, 1994 to October, 1996
 Responsible for the detailed reporting and analysis of sales and gross profit results.
 Prepared a daily sales report; developed a LAN-based distribution method for the daily sales report.
 Involved in the monthly close process,prepared journal entries, and reconciled general ledger accounts.
E D U C A T I O N
Master of Business Administration,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. May 1993. Concentration: Finance.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Syracuse University. May 1986. Major: Accounting.
C O M P U T E R S K I L L S
Oracle Financial Applications 12.1.3, 11.5.10.2, 11.5.9; TOAD; SQL Developer; Hyperion Essbase; DataLoad; Lawson; Dynamics
GP; Microsoft Access,Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Visual Basic, and Word.