Jane R. Peterson Email & Phone Number

Greenfield, Indiana, United States

Disabled

New Castle, Indiana

Responsible for all financial functions for manufacturing plant with sales over $150M annually, including financial statement preparation, quarterly and annual audit preparation, management reports, and payable/receivable accounts. Managed plant accounting activities and internal controls. Established processes and monitored activity to ensure all financial objectives were met. Compiled and prepared data for monthly forecast for current year, annual profit, and five-year plan.• Reported and maintained inventory accuracy through quarterly review of inventory risk and evaluating appropriate reserves. • Identified and corrected discrepancies by participating in audits for multiple auditing agencies and implementing process improvements.• Directed month end close process and the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, explaining variances and meeting tight time constraints.• Improved controls and accuracy of accounting records, eliminating audit issues.• Managed plant Accounting Department utilizing both on site and remote location direct reports, as well as shared services Corporate associates.• Partnered with each Plant Section Manager to establish their annual department budget, accomplishing required budgetary reductions.

Pendleton, In

Served as member of team of Accountants and Analysts engaged in all aspects of PC&L accounting and finance. Shared responsibility for ensuring senior leadership was provided with accurate, well-analyzed and control-compliant balance sheet, income statement and sub-account information and records. • Participated in monthly GL closings, reconciliations, and forecasting for long-range planning leading to improved budget variance results.• Identified and corrected discrepancies by participating in audits for multiple auditing agencies and implementing process improvements. • Managed Global CAPEX program and redesigned global capital acquisition process. Educated international company community on new, much improved capital process and procedures, which impressed critical Original Equipment Automotive Industry TS auditors and SOX auditors, resulting in controls compliance.• Renovated and improved CAPEX approval process and increased percentage of project approvals from 50% to 100% by performing intense scrutiny on cost savings, risk assessment, return on investment as well as improving documentation.• Performed full maintenance of several business units’ fixed asset systems (FAS), making major corrections, retiring assets, adding missing assets and performing physical audit of assets in plant location.• Acted as subject matter expert, assisting SAP FAS integration team to convert accounting software from QAD and SAGE FAS to Borg Warner’s SAP.• Spent 6 months with dual responsibility as Standard Costing Analyst and 6 months with sole responsibility researching, analyzing and maintaining standard costs for parts globally in QAD. o Assisted in preparing documentation for standard work procedures and best practices for standard costing and trained newly hired replacement, ensuring smooth transition.

Morristown, Indiana

Maintained responsibility for all facets of Refinery Plant accounting. Prepared information necessary for senior management to interpret financial statements and have assurance that general ledger was balanced and reflected accurate information. Supervised all accounting clerks involved in accounts payable; soybean and soybean oil commodity purchasing; meal and hull and freight accrual invoicing; quality claims; receiving and outgoing shipments of all commodities. • Analyzed and reconciled all GL accounts for accuracy for month-end close, meeting tight time constraints for 3-day close, including all accounts being reconciled and tied out. Prepared all journal entries and income and balance sheet statements. Compared actual and forecasted expectations with extremely close variances. • Developed inventory control system for flowing oil commodity in collaboration with engineers, plant managers and employees, delivering ability to measure each commodity of oil within 2 pounds daily variance as compared to being hundreds of thousands of pounds variance prior to change.• Assisted in training new accountants and ensured that all direct reports had been cross-trained in order to contribute support in all areas of accounting department, resulting in: o Improvement in employee motivation, morale and job satisfaction.o Every direct report being able to keep position with one achieving promotion after change in accounting department management and relocation from decentralized department to centralized HQ location.

Performed all accounting functions, including financial statement preparation and analysis, GL journal entries; A/P; A/R; invoicing; federal and state payroll; sales and use tax filings; account analysis and reconciliations; monthly closings; creation of depreciation schedules; collection of delinquent accounts; and administration of employee benefits.• Established accounting books and maintained records for 2 new, related corporations as well as 2 new divisions. Merged 3 corporations into 1 with 2 divisions successfully for sale to outside company, producing excellent financial returns to owner. • Served as primary contact and inside sales person for majority of customers, assisting the generation of approximately $2M in sales annually. • Negotiated contracts with insurance companies, benefit providers, and telephone companies, reducing company expenses and saving company thousands of dollars annually by searching out cost-effective providers.

Various

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Double Major-Finance & Banking, Accounting Minor, 3.96/4.00

Summa Cum Laude

Associate Of General Studies (Ags), Associate Of Arts (Aa), Accounting