Christopher Haught Email & Phone Number

Leavittsburg, OH, US

Warren, Ohio

Consolidation of monthly sales results including variance explanations versus forecast, budget, and period over period. Preparation of price and commodity recovery variances. Calculation of weekly sales flash/estimate by product line. Preparing variance explanations of revenue results versus forecast. Collection and consolidation of monthly sales forecast.

Warren, Ohio

• Prepared pre-close revenue and operating income flashes. Consolidated all North American entities during the monthly 5 day close process. Calculated foreign exchange and commodity variances versus forecast, budget, and.
• Member of the North America regional team during the implementation of Hyperion as the accounting and management reporting tool for actual results.
• Member of the North America team during the implementation of Oracle Enterprise Financial Planning & Budgeting as the forecasting and budgeting tool.
• Elimination of redundant data entry through the use of data pulls from Hyperion in various Excel reports using Smartview.
• Creation of Access databases to eliminate manual forecast calculations.

• Responsible for leading two day close process including preparation of monthly reporting package. Calculating and analyzing domestic and international sales. Budget and forecast responsibility for multiple cost centers.
• Automated 95% of the commission process through the use of Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) reports.
• Assisted in divisional consolidation of customer masters to insure single customer face for Accounts Receivable/Credit departments.
• Established measurable key performance indicators(KPIs) for local accounting staff. Develop staff to work both independently and as a team.
• Updated facilities standard margin reporting in order to separate labor and material variances from standard margin transactions.
• Implemented separate and distinctive standard margin reporting for each manufacturing segment of the business.

• Accounting and finance consulting for smaller companies. Company revenue ranged from $500,000 to $7,000,000.
• Fiscal period closing, budgeting, and financial statement preparation for multiple corporations. Basic payroll and tax preparation.
• Implemented budget process that allowed for allocation of overhead expenses across all current projects.
• Introduced use of project specific overhead budgets to generate gross margin standards which were used in bidding and later evaluating performance of each project.

• General Accountant within a manufacturing facility responsible for monthly closing entries, accruals, and variance analysis for all manufacturing cost centers. Participated in Sarbanes Oxley testing and auditing.
• Substantially decreased amount of time needed to prepare and complete plant accruals while increasing their accuracy during the month-end close process. This was done through the use of reports created using Document.
• The more efficient close process created addition time to analyze month-end results during actual closing process instead of the following week.

• Responsible for monthly analysis of product margins, inventory reserves, actual to budget variances, and sales and bookings performance. Assisted in the development of internal quality procedures relative to.
• Created a detailed Gross Margin analysis, reporting gross margin results by product code within division. The report trended results while outlining driving causes for both positive and negative margin variances.
• Created inventory reserve and excess inventory reports used to trend and analyze inventory levels.
• Significantly expanded use of reports created through Sheetmate software to eliminate the need for paper reports and manual data entry.

• Verified, allocated, and posted business transactions, sales reports, and journal entries. Managed accounts receivable and payables. Coordinated monthly billing with job progression and forecasted related cash flows..
• Created Company specific project reports that were used for project billing, budgeting, and monitoring of project progression.
• Implemented weekly status meetings in order to monitor and forecast project progression.
• Developed and communicated financial performance goals with ownership, outside accounting firm, and bonding company.
• This resulted in bonding rates being increased from $0.00 to $1,000,000.

Personal Financial Planner.

• Assisted in monthly closing, prepared and review various account analysis. Prepared monthly performance reports for all warehouse locations. Responsible for A/R aging reports and monthly sales analysis. Coordinated.
• Introduced the use of data tables and mainframe system downloads with various lookup and logic formulas in Excel to eliminate manual data entry.
• Automated Corporate Budget Report, Management Performance Reports, and Sales Commission Reports.

Bsba, Accounting And Finance

Mba, Accounting