Responsibilities included accounting function, liason with attorneys, developers and owners. Coordinated company efforts to become non-signatory ... placated union members ... enabled company to subcontract with specialties not signatory to a union contract ... resulted in lowering costs and improving competitive posture in market place. Streamlined change order function to correct developer charges for non-contracted work. Won cooperation of project managers and superintendents to implement more efficient daily logging ... negotiated change order requests in company's favor ... received payments ranging from $hundreds to $thousands for each change that was previously lost. Automated manual accounting system speed-up billing process ... prepared financial statements "in-house" ... increased accuracy and efficiency of job cost costing, billing and overall general accounting procedures.