Jeff Harbin Email & Phone Number

Naples, Florida, Us

Managing the Cost Accounting and Fixed Asset teams in support of the global Operations, Inventory and Logistics groups. Responsible for analyzing and communicating relevant information and proposing methodologies to company management to help optimize the company’s costs of goods sold, and to ensure the proper valuation of accounting standard costs, inventories and fixed assets for purchased and manufactured products worldwide. • Filled a newly created global leadership position within Arthrex to develop and implement new processes and procedures to efficiently and effectively manage the cost control systems• Lead the activities related to development and organization of the company's costs system; involving analysis of the real cost of the products and their respective contribution margins• SAP ERP implementation lead for FTM and DTS (ensured a smooth and accurate conversion from legacy system as well as ensured functionality requirements were met not only for conversion but for future optimized state)• Worked cross-functionally to reduce the duration of the month-end close process (cut in half) • Developed, standardized and implemented:o a standardized method to analyze make vs. buy opportunities o definitions, measurements and reporting of cost improvement initiativeso Fixed Asset policy and manual o a standardized process to analyze workorder and purchase order variances to help understand the impact to the company’s P&L as well as future standard costso departmental financials and partnered with the various cost center “owners” to ensure they understood the financial impact of their group’s transactions as well as their controllable impact• Reengineered the budgeting and forecasting methodologies used to establish Direct Labor, Direct Machine and Factory Overhead rates to ensure the development of standard costs that reflect financial reality

Electrolux is a 110 billion SEK company employing over 61,000 employees and is a global leader in home appliances and appliances for professional use, selling more than 40 million products to customers in 150 markets annually. Memphis – a low volume, high complexity plant focused on high-end household and professional cooking products • Built operations finance team for new manufacturing facility startup • JD Edwards system implementation validation and functionality reengineering• Implemented new standard costing functionality for improved accuracy and traceability• Process standardization and optimization across the cooking product line• Served as partner to Plant Managers and provided support across Operations leadership to drive the organization to align with key initiatives for the cooking product line and Electrolux as a whole • Improved financial controls through integrity and exception reporting in inventory, payroll, cost, and spending systems • Revised Balance Sheet reconciliation process to insure financial statement accuracy and drive corrective actions as a result of review processes • Improved BOM accuracy on coil steel usage to increase accuracy of product cost and perpetual inventory • Implemented a new process to capture, track and report true root cause of Accts Payable issues that negatively impacted the plant’s operations • Participated in cross functional project team to map, extract and standardize general ledger, purchasing and inventory data from eight different JDE / Mapics ERP and general ledger instances to allow for automated financial and operations reporting. (led validation and testing phase of the project)• Established month-end closing process for the new Built-In Cooking factory• Acted as support for the Lowes channel team in off-site strategic sales planning sessions• Participated on Kronos enterprise wide implementation team and Electrolux Finance Engagement Committee

Memphis, Tn, Us

Managed a team of two analysts in support of the Operations Group which accounts for $145M of COS and OCOS annually. Accountable for all accounting and finance functions for the Operations group including: Budgeting and Forecasting, Product Costing, Gross Margin Analysis, Inter-Company Eliminations, Inventory Reserves, Variance Analysis, Inventory and COS general ledger activities and reconciliations. Key Accomplishments:• Implemented efficiency savings within the department that resulted in recurring annual savings of 800 hours. • Developed and implemented tools to accurately track and report Cost Improvement Programs that resulted in significant reductions in product costs, improved leverage and cash flow.• Managed and improved the budgeting process and implemented a forecasting process for the various components of COS and OCOS.• Managed the global product costing process and implemented efficiencies that resulted in 300 hours of annual savings as well as accurate and consistent product costs that reflect financial reality.• Managed and improved the global gross margin reconciliation, analysis and reporting by streamlining the data collection, consolidation and automation of reporting tools to provide management with on-demand reporting.• Effectively improved reporting of scrap, WIP and complex manufacturing variances, leverage and efficiency which directly resulted in significant cost improvements by making the data visible and actionable.• Core team member for the development of SOX internal controls for a new international subsidiary.• Participated and completed Wright Medical’s Six Sigma Black Belt training and certification.• Team member for ERP software conversion and MES implementation.• Utilized computer power user status to make data mining more efficient and effect for analyzing and reconciling copious and complex transactions as well as innovative query/report writing (Excel, Access, ODBC connections, etc)

Memphis, Tn, Us

Memphis, Tn, Us

Greenville, South Carolina, Us

Mba

Bba, Accounting