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Maricopa, Arizona

Goodyear, Arizona

Capitalized on cost accounting expertise to maintain standard cost system within Oracle for the Goodyear plant, participating in monthly budgeting, account analysis and product costing.• Prepared analysis and forecasts of plant costs and efficiencies• Ad hoc reporting and report writing using Oracle and MicroStrategy export to Excel Pivot Tables, and Oracle GLWand.• Administered standard cost system in Oracle, helping to maintain costing records• Completed monthly journal entries and analysis with a strong basis in P&L accounting, GL month-end drill-down to journal level, closeout, and overhead allocation.• New product costing including formula creation for production and packaging inventory costs, standard and earned labor costs and labor and overhead allocation.• Created Oracle routing data for multiple ovens across multiple packaging machines; configuring processing and production labor costs.• Analyzed inventory discrepancies and made corrective adjustments. • Product Costing - used bill of material, routing and work center information to calculate the standard cost of an item.• Fixed asset Auditing, Warehouse and WIP inventory auditing, Storeroom Auditing and Executive Overview report writing for factory controller.• Manufacturing Accounting - calculated costs for labor, overhead, and material for each primary unit of the parent item using routing and work center information. • Assisted in preparing annual budget, monthly account analysis, and fixed asset auditing• Supported development of ongoing profit improvement program• Built Excel pivot table reports to provide financial analysis for capital expenditure proposals and performance measures.

Tempe, Az

Capitalized on cost accounting expertise to deliver maximized profitability; created & managed cost accounting systems. Multiplied profits for residential, industrial, and governmental solar projects, mastermind LEAN process planning, engineered streamlined operational procedures. Established metrics, trend analysis, directed executive-level overview for management. Assess opportunity ROI based on targeted financial and environmental cost analysis.• Cleared $1.5 million invoicing backlog, facilitated strict control of cash flow, managed vendor payables; successfully reigned in spending with tight budget control, maintained & increased lines of credit. • Created and maintained cost accounting management dashboard incorporating all critical sales, operational and financial metrics with weekly and monthly trend data and actual to goal variance analysis.• Created and analyzed inventory and labor costs of each component of residential, industrial and corporate solar installations with focus on individual and team profitability and roi.• Managed all sales tax returns, filed all required forms for 15 separate, individual companies in multiple states; minimizing tax liability with Transferable Renewable Energy Credit company to buy and sell “green credits”.

Us

* Served as a Management Advisor, Business Consultant and Cost Accountant troubleshooter for multiple $0 -$50 million revenue companies in 38 states concentrated on finding liabilities holding back client companies from experiencing break-through profitability. Using personal experience and business fundamentals to re-evaluate products, production lines, company divisions, and inventory costing and production labor analysis to demonstrate likely scenarios given a mixed set of variables.* Interacted with and used datasets from a variety of client in-house softwares including single network accounting systems to small ERP systems.* Increased profitability for small racing engine development company across several divisions by costing products from inventory invoices to finished goods; including developing computer modeling based on velocity of production. * Provided product costing and manufacturing accounting to save $4 million printing company from bankruptcy through managed productivity increases, proactive cash management, cost reductions and increased operational fiscal controls.* Provided cost accounting merger and acquisition support for Louisiana propane distribution company doubling their size in eight weeks; resulting in decreased human capital costs, minimized overhead and significant profit potential.* Created cost basis analysis, bid resource management algorithm for bidding government contracts for international geo-exchange company by identifying direct manufacturing costs, labor utilization and overhead optimization. Built a simple-to-operate, multiple level cost accounting worksheet tying all aspects of inventory, production, labor, indirect expenses, overhead and profit for bidding drilldown.