• Manage month-end/year-end close and financial statement preparation. Analyze balance sheets, P&L, cash flows and budget variances.• Support corporate strategic planning efforts through forecasting and operational/capital budget development activities.• Manage physical inventory ($8 million combined value) and review for obsolescence, movement and valuation.• Establish and maintain credit/collection policies, review and manage banking and lending relationships.• Developed departmental reporting and established monthly reviews of spending vs. budget with department managers to drive cost reductions.• Streamlined the monthly close process resulting in overall department efficiency and significantly improving overall reporting accuracy.• Managed cost project to add labor and overhead to Bills of Materials to provide better insight into product line profitability.• Managed conversion to and implementation of a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), TriNet.• Managed implementation of Concur Expense/Travel, which streamlined the expense reporting processes and improved internal controls surrounding the expense report policy. • Managed conversion of merchant systems provider which provided annual savings of $150K.• Managed several other projects for Senior Leadership Team, as needed.

• Supervised a professional accounting department responsible for daily and monthly general ledger journal entries, bank reconciliations, physical inventory analysis, month end accruals, revenue and cost deferrals, general ledger account reconciliations and other related activities.• Managed month-end / year-end close to ensure accurate and timely dissemination of financial information.• Prepared complex financial statements, consolidations and elimination entries in accordance with GAAP and analyzed balance sheet, profit & loss, cash flow and budget variances. • Oversaw external audit process, provided all necessary worksheets / data and drafted financial statement preparation to minimize billable hours.• Project team leader for a general ledger account conversion project, which successfully converted a simple general ledger account structure to a more complex account / location / department structure.

• Developed integrated performance reporting system covering qualitative, operational and financial measures.• Developed operations key performance measures and reporting structure, providing in-depth visibility and analysis of key qualitative, operational and financial performance measures to all departments within Operations.• Coached and trained Operations Management to understand and utilize the developed key performance measures to drive quality, performance and financial improvements.• Implemented balanced scorecard process, including the coaching and training of Plant Management and Supervisors. • Audited and loaded all balanced scorecard process data into the balanced scorecard software to insure data integrity.• Implemented a Continuous Improvement Initiative and developed a weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting structure of the Initiative’s results for the Board of Directors and Senior Management.• Coached the Plant Managers and Department Managers with the weekly, monthly and quarterly analysis of operational and financial results.• Developed month-end operational and financial reporting package for Board of Directors and Senior Management, including commentary on key performance measures and expense items significantly over/under budget or previous year’s spending.• Converted detailed 5 year sales forecast into detailed manufacturing schedule to support capacity planning.• Identified and developed key Business Intelligence and Business Objects reports and dashboards for Senior Management.• Insured all operational information systems were utilized consistently to their full capabilities by Operations Management.

• Managed a professional cost accounting staff of 5 across multi-site manufacturing locations.• Periodically reviewed all manufactured and non-manufactured products to ensure product costing database is accurate.• Developed strong working relationship with Research and Development which facilitated costing for new product development.• Managed month-end and annual physical inventory and reviewed for obsolescence and movement. • Developed and maintained standard costs for all raw material, ingredients and supplies.• Prepared annual raw material, ingredients and supplies budget in coordination with Corporate Purchasing Manager.• Prepared annual budgets for all manufacturing facilities, including direct and indirect labor. • Developed audit process for cost savings capital expenditures to determine fulfillment of capital investments.• Developed product line profitability reports for all product lines.

• Provided in-depth costing and pricing analysis for all manufactured and non-manufactured products which Executive Management used to determine the Company’s pricing strategy.• Analyzed gross margin and developed a reporting structure for purchase price variance as well as volume and product mix variances.• Determined and analyzed cost drivers of cost plus formulas for raw materials and developed Company Hedge Policy of related commodity markets.• Prepared annual budget for raw materials, ingredients and supplies.• Prepared quarterly pricing forecast based on latest sales and cost projections and developed financial reporting structure for quarterly Board of Directors meeting.• Project team leader for Oracle Pricing Module implementation.

• Supervised a professional accounting department responsible for daily and monthly general ledger journal entries, bank reconciliations, physical inventory analysis, and other related activities.• Managed month-end / year-end close to ensure accurate and timely dissemination of financial information.• Prepared complex financial statements, consolidations and elimination entries in accordance with GAAP. • Analyzed balance sheets, P&L, cash flows and budget variances. Assisted Operations Management to resolve variances.• Oversaw external audit process, provided all necessary worksheets / data and drafted financial statement preparation to minimize billable hours.• Project team member for Ross iRenaissance ERP implementation.

• Performed external audits for Common Interest Realty Associations and Non-Profit Organizations and informed senior management of performance and findings.• Prepared financial statements, payroll, sales and property tax returns, and federal, state and local income tax returns.