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Cost Accounting Manager/ Controller
You will be interested to know that you have found someone with over 15 years of financial management and problem solving experience, mostly with small and mid sized manufacturing companies. My proven accounting expertise managing and performing general and cost accounting functions could pay huge dividends for your company. Please view my resume for an extensive overview of my experience and abilities.
Controller
About Me
Industry: |
Accounting & Finance |
|---|---|
Occupation: |
Controller |
Highlights: |
Eagle Scout |
Education level: |
Master |
Will Relocate: |
Yes |
Location: |
Rochester, NY |
Work Experiences
8/2007 - 2/2009
ESAB Cutting & Welding Products
Manager
- · Facilitated month-end closing activities on BPCS version 6.0 software, including journal entries, reconciliations of general ledger cost accounts and supporting schedules, and other duties as necessary.
· Performed monthly analysis of manufacturing costs and reported results to facility management (i.e, variances from cost standards, production pounds summary, labor hours by process, labor and fringe costs, indirect department costs).
· Reviewed detail and provided feedback to engineering department on all new capital expenditure requests prior to being sent to corporate.
· Participated in preparation of annual budgets for Ashtabula facility.
· Planned, oversaw, and reconciled annual physical inventory.
5/2006 - 6/2007
Novis Marine
Manager
- · Performed cash management functions, including gathering data and preparing cash activity and cash flow forecast reports using Excel software for a “cash challenged” sailboat manufacturer.
· Improved relations with several vendors and upgraded payment terms from COD to open account status.
· Implemented accounting procedures to improve efficiency of current accounting staff of 3.
· Coordinated efforts to record transactions from the beginning of the calendar year effecting accounts payable (vendor invoices, manual checks) and accounts receivable (customer billing, cash receipts).
· Revised prior fiscal year-end and current fiscal year’s monthly financial statements due to material errors discovered during internal audit.
5/2005 - 4/2006
ATC Lighting & Plastics
Manager
- · Managed and coordinated daily financial activities for accounting staff of 5 (that included a cost accountant, staff accountant, accounts payable clerk, accounts receivable clerk and collection specialist) for a headlight manufacturer.
· Prepared and reviewed month-end and year-end financial statements and reports for all divisions.
· Coordinated and oversaw clean-up efforts of accounts receivable subsidiaries for 3 divisions and coordinated credit analysis for new and existing customers.
· Coordinated and oversaw year-end physical inventory activities.
· Prepared quotations of new and existing part numbers and updated Prologic computer software with revised unit sell prices and corresponding unit costs.
· Reviewed and researched standard price variances and coordinated revision of standard costs.
· Corresponded with Certified Public Accountants pertaining to normal business activities and provided general ledger account supporting schedules for year-end audit.
8/2002 - 5/2005
Unemployed/ Short-term Work Assignments
Individual Contributor
- Unemployed; short-term cost and general accounting work assignments.
5/2001 - 8/2002
PCC Airfoils
Individual Contributor
- · Prepared weekly/monthly material variance reports for all raw material inventories and outside operations for a turbine blade manufacturer.
· Maintained perpetual alloy inventory; analyzed and improved accuracy of weekly usage reporting.
· Identified and analyzed material variances from standard cost system; provided variance details and explanations of these variances to the general manager.
· Researched, reported and significantly reduced unexplainable alloy variances between perpetual alloy inventory and physical count by 25%.
· Reconciled all raw material inventory accounts with supporting detail and investigated discrepancies.
4/1998 - 5/2001
Coe Manufacturing Company
Manager
- · Prepared monthly and semi-annually cash flow forecasts.
· Managed cash management operations including analysis of actual daily, weekly and monthly cash inflows and outflows, as well as reviewed and approved vendor invoices prior to disbursement.
· Oversaw preparation of shipping documents for international shipments including those orders under a letter of credit for a major machinery manufacturer.
· Reviewed terms of customers’ contracts and coordinated commercial invoicing of ‘per diem’ charges and related travel expenses by field service consultants and engineers.
· Maintained financial records of capital purchases and dispositions on FA-1000 fixed asset software.
8/1997 - 4/1998
Unemployed; Short-term Work Assignments
Individual Contributor
- Unemployed; short-term cost accounting work assignments.
10/1996 - 8/1997
Bob Johnson Chevrolet
Manager
- · Managed and coordinated daily activities for accounting staff of 4.
· Coordinated efforts to research and correct all ‘accounting schedules’ that contained erroneous postings dating back 4 years.
· Implemented new collection procedures that improved inflow of cash from body shop customers by over 50%.
· Created new accounting schedules on ADP 8800 mainframe computer to better track general ledger accounts and to better serve accounting staff.
9/1987 - 10/1996
