Manager, Accounting / Controller
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
• Worked as Controller for contract packing operations• Led Kaizen event to reduce annual budgeting time by 25%.• Led efforts to not replace departing employees to lower costs and improve profitability. • Led continuous improvement to reduce monthly closing activities by two days.• Devised new methodology, consolidating all domestic plant variances by product family resulting in reduced effort at a critical time during closing advancing status by critical four hours.• Trained co-packing facilities on SAP production entry, invoicing, material movement, inventory control, enabling turnkey operation for contract packager.• Completed new fiscal year standards for Europe after Switzerland plant closed with minimal overtime for staff.• Trained European colleagues on standard costing and co-packing.• Team member on project to implement and map new chart of accounts from manufacturing system to new financial reporting system increasing efficiency of SAP conversion.