Provided and facilitated management of accounting department, as well as budgeting, forecasting, financial statements, and monthly and yearly financial presentations to company president and management team. Oversaw and fostered cost-reduction projects, streamlining processes, contract review, fixed-asset purchase justification (financial payback), and corporate tax packages. Managed yearly internal audit and led approval of invoices, journal entries, and monthly and yearly account reconciliations. Served as business partner and advisor to company president. Enacted bar coding system for all inventory parts. Developed and implemented college internship program in coordination with local university to recruit top talent.• Implemented electronic workflow system (electronic approvals and document storage) for accounts-payable invoices, credit memos, AFEs, journal entries, and account reconciliations. Eliminated paper signature approvals, as well as all cumbersome document filing, storage, and retention.• Promoted and implemented Concur electronic expense report approval process, as well as ERP system, to standardize and streamline processes while improving inventory accuracy.• Planned and later implemented electronic gun and bar code physical inventory system, reducing time to take physical inventories from 1.5 days to 0.5 days.• Simplified various processes, using 80/20 processes.• Analyzed and justified various outsourcings of subassemblies, dramatically improving production capacity and going from producing 43 trailers per three shifts to producing 53 trailers per day on one shift.

Facilitated management of accounting and administrative departments, as well as overseeing budgeting, forecasting, financial statements, and monthly and yearly financial presentations to CFO and company president and quarterly board presentations. Managed bank line, oversaw bank relationship, managed and reported on bank covenants, and led cost- reduction projects, streamlining processes, and acquisition analysis and integration. Guided contract review, fixed-asset purchase justification (financial payback), and corporate tax packages. Managed yearly external audit and fostered approval of invoices journal entries, and monthly and yearly account reconciliations. Acted as business partner and advisor to CFO and company president.• Centralized multiple administrative departments (located across company) into one corporate while also computerizing process of obtaining land leases, licenses, and permits, saving $1 million in annual benefits while dramatically improving accuracy.• Led centralization of A/P into one corporate office, utilizing electronic workflow, approval, and document storage, and retention. Achieved $300,000 in estimated savings for salaries and benefits.• Established intern program by partnering with local university, producing pool of top-notice interns.

Oversaw five manufacturing sites (two-thirds of company). Monitored internal controls, oversaw budgeting, managed accountants and IT personnel at all facilities, completed financial presentations to company president and CFO at management meetings, and completed yearly external audit.