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San Diego, Ca, Us

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Review Sales and Margin with operations and leadership to identify cost savings and appropriate pricing for upcoming LTA. Review balance sheets and P&L reports for month-end close.Review cost records to ensure accuracy of labor hours and materials, including review of payroll hours and dollars against work order reports.Complete weekly cash flow projections. Manage collections of AR and weekly payments to vendors.Complete annual budget and quarterly forecasts.Provide financial results review monthly with key executives.Work with quality to review RMA’s monthly and issue credits as needed.Collaborate with purchasing to identify key vendors for monitoring costs and possible savings.

▪ Working with current CFO to merge Quickbooks balance sheets and financial statements of recent acquisition into current company GL structure.▪ Completing balance sheet account reconciliations for 2022 and 2023 for both entities.▪ Assisting with implementation of using Bill.com and new payroll software ▪ Supervising A/P and A/R specialists

Austin, Texas, Us

Led a team of 6 accountants to perform corporate month-end close and analysis, including payroll and finance/operating leases. Reduced close calendar from 10 days to 4 days. Worked with Controller to complete year-end audit within assigned timeline. Reduce audit cost from prior year by 15%. Managed treasury by overseeing three US, one Mexican, and five Canadian bank accounts, approved payments to vendors, and managed users.Administered credit card platform and supported creation of T&E spending reports to increase manager visibility. Collaborated with tax, indirect procurement, and FP&A to support company initiatives to reduce costs. Supported sales and operations by using corporate accounting team to provide reports and tools to track spend and customer rebates.

St. Charles, Il, Us

Responsible for month-end close for site including all journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations. Work with customer service and A/R collections to collect on past due balances and disputed invoices. Supervise AP and AR staff. File Sales and Use tax and Excise tax. Collaborate with quality to address customer issues and issue RMA credits.

Birmingham , Gb

Update new items costs and routing changes in ERP system.Perform monthly inventory closing and related journal entries.Investigate PPV and absorption issues as they arise.Track earned hours and investigate variances.Lead yearly inventory count with warehouse manager.Review negative margin items to verify costs are correct by checking bill of materials and routings. Work with sales to recommend pricing changes or collaborate with engineering to correct any costing issues.Met with General Manager and Operation Manager throughout the month to review analysis of current month results to drive operational decisions. Upload monthly financial results into Cognos for consolidation with parent company.

Birmingham , Gb

Led initiative to complete full audit of all assets to update balance sheet to proper valuation. Last audit done 3 years earlier. Prepared and processed monthly journal entries in Oracle related to fixed assets, benefits, and payroll from ADP. Reconcile balance sheet accounts and perform monthly review of all accounts.Recorded transactions and balanced inter-company accounts. Confirmed monthly balances.Worked with HR to properly classify all employees for headcount and GL mapping purposes.

Woodridge, Il, Us

Responsible for fixed assets for 4 plants. This includes tracking expenditures for new assets and capitalizing them as well as yearly capital expenditure budgets.Improve budget process with sales and operations to reduce operating expenses by 12%.Lead initiative to properly tag all assets and complete full audit of all assets to update balance sheet to proper valuation. Perform monthly P&L analysis of outside services expenditures. Responsible for monthly cash reconciliation, commission reconciliation, property and real estate tax reconciliation, and prepaid insurance.Review other cost of goods sold adjustments monthly and explain large adjustements. File yearly business licenses and property tax forms.

Oak Brook, Il, Us

Reduced operating expense by 10% using analysis of fleet MPG and assist with incentive program to reduce costs by $500,000 for the year.Worked with Mobilecomm group to reduce inventory shrinkage by 20%Prepared and processed monthly journal entries in Infinium. Reconciled balance sheet accounts.Prepared monthly financial package for 8 company locations. Prepared yearly budgets.

Implemented movement of AR collections to shared services for better efficiency.Reduced out of code expense by 25% using analysis of inventory movement and customer sales.Partnered with sales to reduce costs, maximize profitability and increase sales on all various-sized accounts.Assisted Operations and Sales with yearly budget process.Prepared and processed monthly journal entries. Applied cash receipts in AS400. Reconciled bank statements.Reconciled balance sheet accounts.Assisted Accounting Manager with performing monthly P&L analysis.Filed Sales and Use tax as well as City of Chicago, Cook County, and State of Illinois beer taxes.

Lead implementation of new Onbase account payable invoice program including train new users.Prepared and processed monthly journal entries in Lawson. Applied cash receipts. Reconciled bank statements.Reconciled balance sheet accounts .Tracked capital expenditures and assist with closing out projects.Processed AP invoices in Onbase and Lawson. Filed Sales & Use tax and Federal Excise Tax monthly.Assisted Accounting Manager with performing monthly P&L analysis and yearly budgets.Supervised two Junior Accountants.

Processed monthly journal entries for warehouse.Prepared weekly cost per unit and daily volume reports. Identify variances to budget. Analyzed monthly revenue, volume, and expenses to prepare quarterly forecast and annual budgets.Processed purchase order requests in SAP. Approved and coded all invoices for corresponding purchase orders.Reconciled monthly credit card charges as well as monitor daily spending. Verified purchases following established SOP.Prepared monthly A/R invoices.

Reviewed and analyzed SG&A expenses for marketing department.Assisted with monthly forecast and annual budget.Wrote purchase orders and track expenses for capital expenditures in SAP.

Engaged in strategic planning with operations and sales to increase profit margins by 5%.Developed sales incentive program to increase revenue by 15% and earnings by 8% Performed analysis of monthly results and present to management.Prepared monthly journal entries and accrual calculations in Lawson.Prepared balance sheet account reconciliations.Collaborated with sales to prepare yearly bottoms-up budget and quarterly forecasts. Identified accrual calculation error which increased earnings by 5%.Supervised Financial Analyst who assisted with multiple projects.

Bonn, De

Worked with General Manager on month-end close and profitability reports.Supervised two office assistants.Provided human resources support to two sites with approximately 100 people per site.Assisted General Manager with preparing budgets each year.

Master’S Degree, Finance, General

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting And Finance

Associates, Associates In Business

High School Diploma