Joe Scheidecker Email & Phone Number

West Fargo, Nd, Us

Hankinson, North Dakota

• Direct day-to-day operations of accounting team including staff accountant, grain accountant and accounts payable/admin roles• Responsible for timely, accurate completion of monthly financial statements and supporting financial documents• Collaborate with accounting managers at other company-owned locations to ensure consistency and efficiency of processes.• Oversee, review, and approve annual budgets for all departments• Conduct monthly budget reviews with all department managers, including variance analysis as well as provide commentary and projections for board review• Oversee annual financial audit. Work directly with outside auditors to ensure timely completion.• Meet regularly with corporate management team including COO to increase cross-department collaboration• Oversee daily cash management procedures, managing revolver facility with bank and ensuring cash goals are met. Work directly with CFO to ensure accurate cash forecasting and analyze potential future positions in a rapidly changing market-driven environment.• Manage Prophix (CPM Software), including leading the implementation project, to provide the company with best-of-class budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and modeling tools• Facilitated accounting intern partnership with NDSU• Regularly assess current SOPs and make recommendations for improvement• Develop staff by managing performance, setting goals, providing ongoing training, and maintaining strong employee relationships

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Manage and oversee completion of month end close activities, including consolidation and intercompany eliminations. Prepare and distribute consolidated monthly and quarterly financial statements.• Research and prepare department expense variance analysis reports, work with managers on corrective actions• Analyze KPI trends, all areas of revenue, direct costs, and indirect expenses to provide recommendations for decision making purposes supporting continual improvement and company objectives• Provide strategic support to management via analyses, benchmarking, comparisons, presentations and other projects• Work with other departmental delegates to evaluate and implement departmental and cross-functional processes, driving operational efficiencies and performance improvement • Assist and support the annual budgeting and planning process. Prepare short and long-term scenario models and quarterly reforecasts.• Manage product development audit process with Product Management team, to improve product and customer level results and performance• Manage scorecard program including development, updates, revisions and maintenance of all company, department, product and customer scorecards• Review and manage balance sheet account reconciliations• Manage the annual financial and bank collateral audits; coordinating with external auditors and internal teams • Manage EDI system, including implementation, maintenance, updates and customer testing. Oversee all daily EDI activities.• Lead internal quality team, and work with external consultants to conduct regular audits of the Quality Management System, in accordance with ISO 9001:2015. • Manage Prophix (CPM Software) including implementation and maintenance, to provide the company with best-of-class budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and modeling tools

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Supervised the timely and accurate completion of month end closing activities, including performing assigned closing routines and reconciling subsidiary ledgers and account details to the general ledger. Analyzed and prepared documentation and related journal entries.• Created, reviewed and distributed monthly and quarterly financial reports• Analyzed actual indirect expenses versus budget and identified areas of exception and cost saving opportunities. Worked with department managers to get respective items on budget.• Analyzed product line performance and customer profitability• Developed, maintained and reported on KPI’s • Coordinated annual external audits• Analyzed and measured variables that may affect current and future performance on growth• Interfaced with Product Managers and Sales team to help improve product and customer results• Completed audits of all new products in accordance with company guidelines• Analyzed and audited all areas of sales, product costs, distribution and SG&A expenses to identify opportunities for improvement, cost saving and more efficient methods• Worked with external consultants to conduct diplomatic internal audits of employees and procedures to ensure compliance with work instructions, quality system procedures and customer requirements

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Maintained inventory accounting and analysis• Completed account reconciliations and analysis• Ensured accurate product costs and other data recorded in system• Calculated and recorded adjustments and reserve requirements• Assisted with forecasting cash requirements, specifically as it relates to inventory purchases• Designed and enforced companywide records retention policies

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for timely and effective completions of all accounts payable activity• Managed company-wide expense tracking and accounting• Performed all sales and use tax accounting, including collections, filings and payments• Managed all fixed asset accounting

Fargo, North Dakota Area

• Assisted with weekly payroll processing for 1,100+ employees• Processed monthly fixed asset allocations and depreciation recording• Assisted Accounts Payable department as needed