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Tokyo, Jp

Managed team of 3 accountants, along with quarterly audits, cash forecasting, financial reporting to Japanese parent company, and overseeing all month-end activities.Acted as head of Human Resource department after loss of previous VP of HR. Led open enrollment, payroll, employee onboarding, and terminations, as well as other duties.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Began position as Assistant Controller for Minnetonka Brewing subsidiary, took over as Controller for OSI Batteries and real estate holdings subsidiaries after departure of previous Controller in February.Managed team of 3 accountants, finished SOPs for their positions along with continuing and troubleshooting implementation of NetSuite ERP platform.Maintained A/R, A/P, all bookkeeping, and financial reporting for brewing and real estate subsidiaries. Maintained all cash management, as well as managerial and financial reporting for battery subsidiary.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Brought many efficiencies to reporting during my time at Bellisio Foods. With my main responsibility being the reporting package, I had time to create communication lines between the accounting team and purchasing, manufacturing, marketing, and sales to condition the best possible messaging of results to the board. Reduced the time required to prepare the package from two weeks to five days within a year of preparing the roughly 100-page report. Also brought more visibility to purchase price variance to assist the purchasing team with accountability.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Developed evolving KPI and TMOS reporting to support the needs of the plant and corporate management.Created bids for new products, working very closely with plant management to estimate costs accurately and conservatively.Assisted Controller in SAP implementation; worked with consultants to achieve accurate item and recipe migration.Used SAP and various item record systems to manage item setup and maintenance from a cost accounting perspective.Produced and entered journal entries for month-end process; assisted Senior Accountant and Controller with financial review.Managed Construction-in-Progress account, as well as fixed asset disposal and project completions.Represented finance team in daily production meeting and created ad hoc reporting as necessary to support the plant.Coded invoices and administered approval structure for accounts payable system.Managed documentation process and record retrieval for internal and external audit teams.Assisted Treehouse Corporate with closure of Minneapolis plant after sale of the division.Achievements:Flourished in dynamic management environment during my time at Treehouse Foods. Working with virtually every department brought a profound understanding of the food production process and management thereof. Many new efficiencies were brought to reporting and financial processes, and many existing processes were made more accurate to better represent results. This greatly contributed to management’s ability to make informed decisions to make the plant run smoothly and cost-effectively. Because of these cost-cutting and efficiency reporting efforts, we spent the first 6 months of 2019 as the #1 plant in the company (with 45 plants) in terms of Index to AOP.

Created new real-time reporting and improved existing reports by working closely with President of the company.Worked directly with controller to confirm all labor and material costs were apportioned to the correct jobs, as well as allocated correctly on the income statement and balance sheet.Created and reconciled all transactions for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.Developed reporting of direct labor and gross margins, leading to far more accurate budgeting and projections. Achievements: Formed the ability of the business to accurately extract direct labor and inter-periodical inventory purchases. This led to the ability to have near-perfect identification of fixed expenses and gross margins for monthly reporting as well as significantly more accurate profit projections.

Zumbrota, Minnesota, Us

Ensured proper accounting accuracy of inventory transactions.Assisted with projecting value of strategic inventory purchases.Reconciled landed cost with freight invoices.Reconciled credit card merchant payments with sales orders. Achievements: August 2015 Employee of the Month for cutting time of reconciliation of over 120,000 monthly credit card transactions in half.

Roseville, Mn, Us

Ensured proper timing of vendor payments – whether by check, ACH or wire transfer.Maintained ledger entry and timing for expenses within the NetSuite framework.Partnered with senior and staff accountants to ensure timely closing of monthly and yearly books.Assisted outside auditors with their examination of Northern Brewer’s financial information.Worked closely with Receiving and Purchasing departments to make certain of proper receipt of inventory and its correct effect on the general ledger.Ensured proper approval of expenses and capital expenditures. Achievements: Developed from the ground-up the Standard Operating Procedure for Accounts Payable and inventory cost reconciliation for the recently-merged companies.

-Contract Position-Prepared individual returns for the 2012 tax season.-Partnered with senior accountants to assure accurate timing of electronic filing and returning of information to clients.

Plymouth, Mn, Us

-Contract Position-Was trained by the outgoing shipping manager in order to train the incoming shipping manager.-Assisted in their transition from Quickbooks to NetSuite.-Ensured transactions were properly recorded in both their new and old systems.

Maple Grove, Mn, Us

-Prepared taxes for individual clients: federal and MN returns, federal extension forms.-Worked with senior accountants to assemble financial statements for small clients, as well as their corporate returns and extensions.

-Assembled orders to be shipped that day, organized new stock.-Updated inventory records daily, assisted with cyclical inventory counts.-Gathered certifications for various products.

Bachelor'S Of Accounting, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting