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• Responsible for all accounting functions and reporting including AP, AR, payroll, GL, fixed assets and costing.• Development of corporate accounting policies, reporting package to corporate investors and control procedures.• ERP implementation team to ensure accounting controls, develop KPI measurement tools and ensure inventory accuracy.

• Responsible for product cost analysis and development of cost models to respond to new and existing customer quotes to drive profitable business growth. • Develop quote calculations working with global costing team, sales teams and development engineering to ensure alignment with global calculation standards • Collaborate with sales, engineering, controlling, purchasing and manufacturing teams to drive efficient and profitable pricing models. • Partner with global engineering and purchasing teams to align manufacturing requirements and purchased material for customer needs. • Bridge functional gaps between engineering, design, costing and purchasing to support cost initiatives and build bottoms-up cost targets.

• Oversees., analyses and validates cost expenditures and reduction initiatives within Spartanburg plant• Review manufacturing process activities, record and validate data, makes recommendations about cost-efficient and financially feasible cost options.• Documents and authenticates changes in manufacturing process to determine effect on cost and revenue.• Investigates cost variances between standard and actual costs. Partners with manufacturing management to develop improvement strategies.• Integral in improving scrap process cutting five hours from process time weekly.

• Prepares and supports the daily, weekly, and monthly financial reports, monthly forecasts, annual operating plan and overall strategic planning including spending reviews.• Audits and supports internal control, SOX and ensures adherence to GAAP and resolves question with corporate financial management. • Completes all account reconciliations for general ledger accounts on a monthly basis.• Identifies cost reduction and profit improvement opportunities and makes appropriate recommendations for implementing plans with management.• Participate in physical inventory, investigating and explaining any book variance. This includes review of excess and obsolete review.• Audits bill of materials and routings for product cost accuracy including timely input of material and price code changes.• Oversees preparation of capital forecasts with local management and submits to corporate as required, including maintenance of fixed asset ledge

• Manage completion and analysis of all balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis• Ensure adequate warranty reserve and process• Manage accounts such as cash, prepaids, other assets, accruals and other liabilities and other monthly journal entries.• Prepare a variety of financial statements, reports and analysis, timely and accurately.• Liaise with internal business partners for internal reporting• Prepare audit schedules for external auditors as needed.• Continuously identify and develop solutions for process efficiency improvements to improve operations and productivity.• Escalate issues and recommendations to management as appropriate.• Other responsibilities as assigned based on business need.

• Primarily responsible for correcting, establishing, and maintaining costing practices, policies, and reporting for a 350,000 sq. ft. facility; a $100 Million investment that consolidated operations from Cincinnati & Minneapolis. • Established inventory processes for the start-up facility including count and reconciliation processes with data from multiple systems; performing manual auditing as needed to ensure financial integrity. • Ensure proper flow of transactions and posting to the G/L within antiquated systems, paying particular attention to reporting for GAAP standards from any Italian Corporate office records/systems.• Assisted with the final implementation of a new, complex ERP system requiring in-depth planning and communication with multiple departments including IT, Operations, and Purchasing. • Reduced labor hours and reporting times by identifying and implementing standard calculations when possible. • Improved cost allocation and work order processing by directing month-end close process for cost accounting.• Developed financial policies and internal controls for startup manufacturing operations.• Established accurate costing/estimating by effectively collaborated with Engineers and Plant Management and diligently reviewing Bills of Materials and assigning ~350 product codes. • Developed new SOPs by working with AP/AR Clerks, Purchasing Managers, and other plant accountants to close out the facility’s first fiscal year, 2017; building a reliable foundation going forward.

• Responsible for continuous improvement of accrual and reporting processes for all freight. • Reduced monthly accrual preparation time by 6 hours and increased reporting capability and accuracy.• Identified causes for hedging unncessary freight costs after attended a Kaizen event and applying techniques.• Caught and eliminated intercompany mark-ups by auditing and reclassing PPV in TPA account. • Built a standard costing system after collaborating with Engineers and reviewing cost outliers. • Supported Management’s ability to make decisions, reduce risk, and improve margins by providing thorough analysis of production drivers/manufacturing variances including work order and purchase price.• Improved operational planning with strong forecasting of plant cost center spending that included annual budget preparation and quarterly forecasts.• Directed reparation of annual standard cost updates requiring the review and costing of over 10,000 skus. • Reconciled in-transit inventories and various balance sheet accounts by communicating directly with suppliers, logistics/shipping vendors, and internal staff from our plant, warehouse, and distribution centers.• Increased reporting/costing accuracy by maintaining cycle count processes for over $20 Millionin inventory at Hubbell’s 7 plant and warehouse locations across the US, Canada, & Mexico.

• Primarily responsible for financial reporting of $54 Million annual budget to manufacturing facility managers including Plant Manager, Quality Managers, Plant Supervisors, Controller, and Engineers. • My tenure has included 3 promotions from Accountant to Cost Accountant to Finance Analyst. • Involved with SAP conversion, specifically establishing new SOPs, control procedures, closing procedures, cost analysis procedures, work papers and reporting.• Developed, transferred, utilized, and maintained all accounting data from Lotus 2 files into Excel formatting prior to SAP conversion to constitute the plant’s Cost Accounting system.• Prepared cost comparisons to plan and analyze variances, specifically improving variance accuracy by 75% for a shop floor of 250+ employees working 3 shifts.• Developed Annual Operating Plan including sales & expense management for production/revenue planning.• Assured proper allocation of charges and preparation of required financial reporting.• Determined the cost of various transactions affecting inventory and the proper recording thereof.• Reviewed, analyzed, and reported inventory levels of $20 Million; insuring controls were maintained.• Coordinated the internal review, valuation, and recording of the Annual Physical Inventory.• Participated on various internal projects, including general ledger and accounts payable systems upgrades, Y2K compliance, and participation in various shop floor Kaizen events.• Provided proper reporting/filing of multiple items including Property & Use Tax by accurately maintaining AR and G/L reconciliations resulting in proper reporting of property and use tax.

• Accurately maintained Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable function including cash receipts with daily deposits of up to $50,000 and month-end financial statements including account reconciliations.• Matched monthly sales department invoicing of $400,000+ with sales journal balance from 6 Sales People.• Reconciled $14 million in payables to sister company in Germany for raw materials and finished goods.• Investigated and reconciled 2 years worth of 15 fixed asset accounts totaling $13 million.• Involved in initial set up of Accounting Department during company expansion of manufacturing operation.