Gary Hoag Email & Phone Number

Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York Area

I have been actively participating with the ABCPNG, New Horizons and the August Group networking organizations.These groups have provided me with the opportunity to create new relationships with members and their colleagues. We have shared strategies and information to better prepare ourselves and improve our interpersonal skills and techniques. I have also taken advantage of several informative workshops with the Rochester Works Career Center.

This position reported to the VP of Finance and was responsible for maintaining and providing accurate and timely cost information, general financial analysis and Item Master control.> Established a successful implementation of a cycle count procedure (99.8% accuracy) which eliminated the need for an annual physical inventory.> Selected to represent the Finance department in a successful Made-2-Manage ERP implementation.> Coordinated a successful transfer of inventories involved with the consolidation of the Milford, MA facility to Fairport, NY.> Maintained accurate standard costs in Made-2-Manage. Prepared and performed the annual standard cost revaluation.> Participated as a member of the internal ISO audit team by effectively conducting annual audits of engineering, manufacturing, materials and receiving inspection.> Coordinated gathering and analyzing the weekly Cash Call information which entailed the accurate reporting of shippable sales orders and identifying risk on a monthly and quarterly basis.> Responsible for leading a successful transfer of inventories and open customer sales orders as part of the business relocation from Fairport, NY to Fremont, CA.

Rochester, New York Area

This position reported to the Assistant Controller and was responsible for maintaining and providing accurate and timely cost information to senior management.> Supported and maintained the Cost Accounting module in the Glovia ERP system.> Established guidelines for developing and maintaining more accurate standard costs.> Represented finance with a successful implementation of a Cycle Count procedure, which ultimately eliminated the need for the annual Physical Inventory.> Responsible for assisting with the daily Billing and Cash Application functions and reconciling the AR aging report to the General Ledger.> Coordinated and implemented a successful United Way Fund Drive for 2002.

Rochester, New York Area

This position was responsible for supervising 3 direct labor assemblers, coordinating lead times and maintaining on time delivery. The team leader interacted with both the sales management team and the production inventory control group to ensure delivery compliance. The operations analyst participated and reported on critical cost saving projects.> Maintained 95% on time delivery of reducer assemblies.> Responsible for the transfer of inventories involved with the consolidation of the Virginia manufacturing facility to Rochester $4.0M.> Participated as a member of a Strategic Procurement Team, which was responsible for delivering $3.2M cost savings for fiscal year 2000.> Provided and communicated financial information to the manufacturing communities.> Completed cost studies, ie. make versus buy, work flow studies and monitored and reported on labor absorption and efficiencies.

This position was responsible for directing the cost team, consisting of 3 people. The manager was accountable for providing accurate and meaningful cost data, and to ensure records were maintained to meet acceptable accounting standards.> Responsible for the coordination and costing of annual physical inventories of approximately $16.0M at six locations throughout the country.> Developed flexible manufacturing budgets, which were driven by applied labor hours.> Represented the Finance Department with a successful BaaN ERP implementation, Cost Module.> Provided capital spending analysis and support.> Successful, transfer of inventory to support a product group move from Toronto, Canada to Rochester, New York.> Maintained month-end journal entries, reconciliation’s, accruals, and variance analysis. > Responsible for the annual revaluation of standard costs. Identified the most appropriate material cost and calculated the budgeted standard labor and overhead rates.

Responsible for accumulating manufactured cost data to determine actual product costs, overhead costs, variances and inventory costing.> Responsible for costing and revaluation of annual physical inventory.> Represented Finance with a successful Cullinet MRP implementation, Cost Module.> Built an actual job cost system for Cullinet MRP cost module.> Coordinated and prepared spreadsheets to report month end inventory, manufacturing variances and product line profitability.> Analyzed actual job costs versus the estimates and reported significant deviations to management.