Plant Controller
Current• Successfully led manufacturing and supporting sites to ensure accurate and timely preparation of financial reporting in accordance with GAAP.• Supported manufacturing with cost and variance analysis, identified trends and recommended corrective actions.• Professionally implemented weekly/monthly reporting on several operational metrics, as well as, actual versus budgeted results with variance analysis.• Carried partnership program with Operations team to monitor and evaluate productivity enhancement programs to drive cost savings organization-wide.• Discovered new opportunities to optimize business through analytics and financial modeling.• Oversaw general accounting functions, including month-end close activities, monthly financial statements, audit reports, and monthly account reconciliations.• Preserved plant assets by maintaining accurate balance sheets and timely reconciliation including physical observation of inventory and fixed assets.• Managed and performed product costing including manufacturing direct labor and overhead rates, standards revisions, gross margin analysis, inventory accounting and reconciliation for Manufacturing.• Handled annual budget process including labor and overhead requirements for both, budgeting and standard costing.• Developed and implemented inventory control and analysis procedures to help reduce raw material inventory on-hand, decrease risk of obsolescence and improve inventory turn. Initiatives resulted in $6 Million improvement in working capital. Managed quarterly and annual physical inventory.• Successfully created processes that improved internal controls, increased operational efficiency with Finance, as well as, drove manufacturing operations improvements.• Handled A/R and A/P to ensure accurate and timely processing invoice, collection, cash deposit and payment.• Assisted in capital expenditure proposal and tracking capital expenditure.
