Adam Edward Cornelius, [retired] CPA

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• Facilitate continuity of learning for early childhood students by implementing lesson plans and maintaining established classroom routines.
• Foster a safe, inclusive, and positive learning environment while effectively managing classroom behavior and student needs.

• Provide strategic oversight and governance for a large Homeowners Association, including the administration of an on-site bar and restaurant facility.
• Manage behind-the-scenes administration of food and beverage operations, handling high-level logistics distinct from day-to-day general management.
• Oversee facility licensing and compliance, including successfully securing, managing, and renewing all necessary liquor licenses.
• Cultivate, negotiate, and maintain strategic relationships with suppliers, vendors, and beverage distributors to optimize inventory and operational efficiency.

• Help with classroom activities, including lesson preparation and group learning sessions.
• De-escalate tensions between children using age-appropriate conflict resolution techniques.
• Supervise indoor and outdoor play to ensure a safe and inclusive environment.
• Support lead teachers in managing daily transitions and classroom organization.

• Responsible for everything, administrative and programmatic.

• Responsible for everything, administrative and programmatic.

• Responsible for all financial reporting of five entities including 501(c)3, 501(c)6 and 527.
• Manage a team of three staff & senior accountants to complete monthly close and ad hoc reporting.
• Support program manager for state and federal reporting guidelines.
• Act as point of contact for entity audits including annual GAAP, Single Audit, DOL Monitoring Visits, Various State Inquiries and Donor Reviews.
• Support board operations and act as a liaison between GAAP audit team and executive committees.
• Assist in implementation of Netsuite ERP system by proactively engaging with internal IT and external consultants to improve internal and external financial reporting processes.
• Manage preparation of federal and state tax reporting for all organizational entities.
• Liaison for other departmental groups including but not limited to: Legal, Advocacy and Foundations.

• Oversees outside controllership services including budgeting, cash forecasting, bookkeeping and compiling monthly financial statements for over 15 properties across the bar and restaurant industry.
• Manage a team of five staff accountants and interns to review bookkeeping and payroll functions.
• Develops weekly, monthly and annual budgets and cash flow projections.
• Implements and improves reporting systems, payroll procedures and internal controls over cash.

• Conduct audits and reviews for small to midsize companies, 401k benefit plans, and non-for-profit organizations.
• Perform GAAP, GAAS and tax research for clients in the non-profit and for-profit sectors.
• Manage multiple assurance teams to complete audits and reviews within client and reporting deadlines.
• Lead presentation of audit report and finding to audit committees and ownership stakeholders.
• Prepare federal forms 1120, 1065, 990 and 1040 and accompanying state filings.

• Maintained the books and managed all general accounting duties for a sports management company focused on the mental preparation of high school athletes.

• Performed the initial coding for an AI-based application predicting parking availability in heavily congested areas across the city of Chicago.

• Managed special projects as assigned by the Comptroller of the University, including VAT audits and suspense account investigation and reconciliation.
• Enjoyed an exceptional workplace culture that emphasized a healthy work-life balance, demonstrating a much better understanding of how to work compared to overstressed American environments.

• Assisted in the meat and seafood department, frequently working the closing shift.
• Responsible for breaking down displays and putting away all meat and seafood at the end of the night (often returning home smelling like fish).

• Umpired Little League baseball games for the park district.
• Enforced game rules, communicated calls on the field, and managed the flow of the game to ensure a fair and safe environment for youth athletes.