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Irving, Texas, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Controller for Vernon California, Charlotte North Carolina and Lawrence Massachusetts sites within the Engineered Products Organization (EPO) of Flowserve. Contributor to the Flowserve Global Transformation Office Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Pilot ERP 2.0 Record-to-Report initiatives. Provide OTC guidance to other EPO Latin American and North American sites. Implemented ASC606 Revenue Recognition. Provide support to other EPO sites for Percentage of Completion (POC) accounting resulting from ASC606 adoption. Collaborate with General Manager and operation’s leadership reviewing project health, profitability and application to POC. Achieved a SOX-Lite Audit for 2019 as one of only three Flowserve sites. In addition, external audit scope was significantly reduced in 2019 to a statistical audit. Supported integration of multiple ERP global AR and dispute management data into PowerBI tool.

Irving, Texas, Us

Lead both General and Cost Accounting groups for the Vernon and Charlotte sites. Focus on raising professionalism and accountability of team’s presence and contribution. Communicate clear priorities along with aligning Cost and General Accounting activities to leverage effort and meet key deliverables. Implement tools to increase visibility and controls and eliminate waste and delay (Early implementation of Appian Dispute Management System, BlackLine reconciliation tool and PwC Connect). Team Lead for the Vernon Working Capital in a Box initiatives.

Irving, Texas, Us

Manage general accounting and develop a highly skilled accounting team of six. Partner with Nuclear site General Manager identifying labor utilization and velocity increase opportunities. Provide daily feedback on sources or methods for closing any gaps between forecast and current month actual performance. Pursue full cycle cash flow opportunities from customer progress/advance billing to AR issue resolution and supplier term management. Work closely with Global Credit and Collections. Responsible for North America Pump Service Center shared service Accounts Payable and Fixed Asset Accounting function. Tools developed and system implementations include: gross margin reporting for Charlotte Nuclear site; Toyota Production System Heijunka work management system, Kaizen events and EPEC process; Corporate Sabrix Sales Tax system; Supplier MDM and supported design specifications for Cash Flow by Project.

Irving, Texas, Us

Manage cost accounting and received special recognition for best audit from PwC Partner. I re-engineered the cost accounting systems and transformed finance use of ERP. I developed a highly skilled senior accounting team of five to achieve established objectives. Continuously interacted with the business unit directors and vice president of $2B division concerning expected and actual operational financial performance. Manage all cost accounting functions for Vernon and Albuquerque plants. Spearheaded design and implementation of Financial Reporting System (FRS). Structured mid-month work into Waves, reducing close from 6 to 4 days. Created controls and validation of corporate financial reporting templates that were rolled out to all sites in the $4B Corporation. Led SOx and financial audit efforts for Cost Accounting and Inventory with 100% SOx pass rate. Developed OSMI calculation report. Perform POC Accounting for thirty projects totaling $200M revenue including compilation of actual costs used to recognize revenue, estimate-to-complete, and therefore management’s assertion of estimate-at-completion. Analyzed and calculated material and labor overhead rates.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

As CFO of a start-up, Barbara translates Pivot’s artisan commitment, organic, eco-friendly & social values into a healthy business model positioned for success.Pivot makes furniture you'll be happy your children grew up in and their children's children will be happy you kept it.

Mba Candidate

Cape Graduate