• Performs Monthly Financial Close duties.• Manages Cost of Goods Sold, Inventory functions and production flow.• Monitors all plant activities and ensures compliance to allcorporate standards including J-SOX controls.• Manages analysis of cost structure and reviews with Engineering &Product Development.

• Optimize remanufactured product pricing strategy based on market demand, product life cycle, competitor pricing, seasonality, cost, price elasticity, supply and new product development.• Created 985k row dB to report transaction COGS from various vendors and production facilities to $$$ sales for over 200,000 customers ranging from consumers to mass merchants.• Provide product performance attributes to corporate executives for vendor management regarding cost, market share, and product cannibalization for wholesale and retail customers.• Forecast sales and profit margins for over $300mm annually to qualify next year budgets.

• Accounting, operational management and auditing for $490 mm division• Work closely with plant managers to report daily/weekly/monthly metrics to increase efficiency for labor and volume production yields• Provide due diligence and budgeting guidance with variance analysis for ad-hoc projects

• Assist Sales and GM Strategy based on Cost Accounting, Work Order Variance, Waste Mgmt

• Prepared Fiscal Year End Financial statements 3 days after starting with less than 2 days training with software I had not used before• Various reporting, analysis and audit for $260mm division manufacturer to improve Work Order Variance, Cost Savings, Sales and Use Tax, Property Tax, and Non-conformance Evaluation

Three exemplary contract clients include Mahan Construction, Virtue IT, and Peer Group Consulting with statements from each in the reference section.• GAAP financial statement preparation via account reconciliation, budgeting, forecasting, asset management, audit, and cost / expense reduction with cash flow improvement

Earned Master's Degree in Accounting and Financial Management

• Managed cost and prices for 65,000 skus in over 1,000 stores with different configurations for various price zones by competitive proximity and regional locations including Canada• Presented financial and operational impact of price optimization activity to the highest levels of executive management on a regular basis• Worked as business liaison between finance and IT, operations, merchants, vendors, private owners, data processing, etc.• SOX Control Owner that facilitated weekly executive financial review and authorized all price/cost changes based on analysis before, during, and after company acquisition

• Averaged 12-15% annual GM increase with accurate forecasting, budgeting and allocation as a result of financial analysis for the seasonal portion of the division• Built models used to plan, track and evaluate $1Billion in annual sales for the company’s entire seasonal product performance• Trained and assisted in planning with all unit managers and counterparts

• Provided reporting for Retail Client Division with quality assurance

• Managed $220mm annual sales division that maintained turn rate and increased sales by over $20 million while enhancing divisional forecasting and system productivity

• Managed equipment inventory from order origination to customer delivery.