- Achieved cost savings exceeding $20,000 to date through stringent control of production supplies and elimination of department overtime.- Devised in month sales reports showing up to date variances to budget and forecast in both dollars and meters; serves as an initial project to new in month full reporting.- Engaged functional managers in understanding department costs and setting goals through comprehensive department reporting.

Consultation with businesses, evaluating new opportunities and inviting inquiries.

- Core team leader – JD Edwards E1 implementation for H. Paulin- Forecasted net working capital and cash flow for parent company to aid in planning process

- Strengthened reporting accountability and team engagement in a limited timeframe, devising and implementing policies and procedures to tighten obligatory fiscal compliance.- Elevated the company’s ability to analyze and track inventory, designing an MS Excel-based workbook to provide a summary analysis of inventory stock located throughout the plant.- Acquired clarity into quarantined inventory stock and a greater understanding of production waste, eliminating investigation time at… Show more - Strengthened reporting accountability and team engagement in a limited timeframe, devising and implementing policies and procedures to tighten obligatory fiscal compliance.- Elevated the company’s ability to analyze and track inventory, designing an MS Excel-based workbook to provide a summary analysis of inventory stock located throughout the plant.- Acquired clarity into quarantined inventory stock and a greater understanding of production waste, eliminating investigation time at month-end and reducing errors.- Devised an update forecast model comparing dollar amount with percentile of sales for a mid-month forecasting tool utilizing data from the ERP system.- Boosted total sales and standard cost accuracy highlighting fixed and non-related costs for senior management perusal.- Streamlined the generation of month-end from 3.5 days to 2.5 days, completing journal entries as the month unfolded. Show less

- Acknowledged for tenacity walking the plant floor and engaging in business beyond finance, interacting with cross-functional personnel to understand operational and finance issues, providing expert opinion where needed.- Realigned SOX protocol and compliance after a recent violation, banishing the potential loss of a 10% bonus for all plant associates.- Drafted and enforced new policies and procedures reassigning duties of the staff, generating a clean SOX compliance in 2011.-… Show more - Acknowledged for tenacity walking the plant floor and engaging in business beyond finance, interacting with cross-functional personnel to understand operational and finance issues, providing expert opinion where needed.- Realigned SOX protocol and compliance after a recent violation, banishing the potential loss of a 10% bonus for all plant associates.- Drafted and enforced new policies and procedures reassigning duties of the staff, generating a clean SOX compliance in 2011.- Uncovered excessive costs on trailers used for storage and high fuel surcharge increases.- Disposed of unnecessary trailers saving $18,000 and renegotiated the forthcoming fuel up-charge from 40% to 20%, saving a further $32,000 per annum.- Utilized the ERP system to develop a product absorption tracking mechanism to identify daily positions to minimize actual labour spend, detecting inefficiencies on each shift.- Designed an improved staff scheduling module to maximize the use of labour.- Embraced the corporate mandate to initiate continuous improvement of monthly and yearly forecasting.- Collaborated with a peer to design a new reporting process capturing additional and detailed elements encompassing foreign exchange and resin pass throughs for customers and suppliers, uplifting forecasting accuracy to within 5% of actual results.- Combated pressure from the corporate office as the top performing plant in Canada to improve results to offset issues in other manufacturing plants.- Partnered with the finance team and department managers to redraw month-end processes, reducing completion time from 4 to 2 days, generating a 95% accuracy with a final EBITDA.- Further identified a labour issue stemming from a previous incumbents’ budget, yielding an absorption shortfall of $60,000 per annum.- Coached and mentored a team member faced with potential termination, reinvigorating the employees’ engagement, transitioning into the best team performer ready to accept additional assignments. Show less

- Influential in validating and identifying production and procurement costs valued at $3.5 million forming a cross-functional committee to evaluate all facets of the business and bring forward cost saving contributions. - Pinpointed numerous areas for cost extraction including switching from plastic wrap to marine wrap for dry core reactors and discovering significant labour savings by outsourcing crate and skid manufacturer. - Obtained deep knowledge of production, manufacturing… Show more - Influential in validating and identifying production and procurement costs valued at $3.5 million forming a cross-functional committee to evaluate all facets of the business and bring forward cost saving contributions. - Pinpointed numerous areas for cost extraction including switching from plastic wrap to marine wrap for dry core reactors and discovering significant labour savings by outsourcing crate and skid manufacturer. - Obtained deep knowledge of production, manufacturing and procurement to position finance as a true business partner.- Met the parent company, Siemens, mandate to create internal control policies prior to SOX implementation. - Aligned with external auditors to understand the impact including job costing, inventory transfers and journal entry protocol. - Authored a new internal control system boosting accountability and improving annual audit reports.- Reshaped and bolstered the shop order standard costing and sales contribution margin reports, creating new Excel reports and data stemming from the EMIS MRP system. - Interacted with IT and senior operations leaders to harvest data and redefine the presentation of a mass of information to customize ordering and summarize monthly orders back to the P&L.- Improved obsolete inventory tracking and valuation, building a program in MS Excel to identify monthly changes to obsolete inventory, highlight non-moving items and provide multiple data points, reducing inventory on hand by $200,000 with a potential $2 million additional reduction. Show less

- Rapidly promoted making significant contributions to business operations, initiating numerous projects to reinforce finance as an integral component of business operations.- Initiated standard costing for the full 60 style product offering, generating an additional $300,000 in 6 months working alongside production staff to understand manufacturing processes to standardize multiple product offerings.- Volunteered to lead the door assembly team through a potential integration of lean… Show more - Rapidly promoted making significant contributions to business operations, initiating numerous projects to reinforce finance as an integral component of business operations.- Initiated standard costing for the full 60 style product offering, generating an additional $300,000 in 6 months working alongside production staff to understand manufacturing processes to standardize multiple product offerings.- Volunteered to lead the door assembly team through a potential integration of lean manufacturing into the business, facilitated by a leading Japanese Kaizen consulting company.- Gained comprehensive knowledge of Kaizen methodology pushing for implementation across the operation prior to a management decision to halt the initiative.- Navigated through multiple challenges in calculating labour costs and logistics infrastructure as the company embarked on an international production expansion to Mexico.- Conducted a detailed synopsis of the financial effect encompassing labour and Mexican government legislated benefits combined with logistical aspects of empty supplier trucks used in one direction.- Prepared and presented a compelling report to the KOHLER Board of Directors, the parent company, outlining all implications for the project generating questionable profitability, aiding in forcing a decision to terminate the project and build in Toronto and North Carolina.- Pivotal in mapping cost centres required for the MM/PP and FI/CO modules for the forthcoming SAP implementation.- Assigned cost allocations to products based on drivers and structured the cost centres prior to successful testing.- Chosen to implement the KOHLER production activity collection application to capture employee time and attendance data.- Setup a testing of the system for a group of employees providing successful capture of the required information. Show less

- Teamed with paving road crews to acquire knowledge on their work and challenges including reasons for delays affecting cost variances and estimation variations.- Developed and implemented procedures to streamline period-end reporting in JDEdwards, generating the benchmark for analysis, later adopted into a new employee training package.

- Composed policies and procedures for purchasing documentation with an emphasis on reducing touch points across the business, maximizing data retrieval, receiving applause from the auditor for increased asset protection.