Karin Eckman Email & Phone Number

Poughkeepsie, Ny

Fixed Assets, depreciation, capital budgets, analysis.

Did a two year chair of finance at my church.

Pearl River, Ny

Responsible for maintaining over 25K asset records valued at over B$1.Complied with company policy and procedures while performing retirements, transfers, updates and addition transactions within the SAP finance system.Reconcile all fixed asset accounts on both the trial balance and SAP fixed asset module.Supervised staff and improve employee morale and work satisfaction.Analyze status, spending and scope of all capital projects thru monthly meetings with engineering.Recognized for efforts as key partner with site engineering to ensure compliance.Compute and adjust NYS Sales Tax on Pearl River purchases based on knowledge of tax laws.Calculate figures to submit government report MA1000 (Manufacturers Annual Survey)Served as Office Safety Committee Chair from March 2008 to October 2011 composed of 20 representatives from site through Target Zero and Safe Start programs.Compile capital spending reports to site and corporate management.Interaction with corporate and third party audit teams for capital and NYS sales tax.

Pearl Rive, Ny

Develop agendas and minutes for quarterly safety meetings attended by 20 representatives from all office areas in plant. Attend safety council meetings to promote committee needs and bring council desires back to committee. Establish committee charter, goals and accomplishes reported to council and further above to site leadership team and eventually to OSHA.

Assigned all asset tags and collected verification sheets.Audited all projects to ensure accuracy by engineering on budget limits and scope of proposed project. Maintained and reconciled retainage of 10% for major projects until final verification by project manager. Performed a yearly existence test on all assets to verify their correct cost center, location and status.Compiled Return on Investment (ROI) spreadsheets for any project that claims a savings. Implemented process to find errors on purchase orders in SAP prior to incorrect charges applied to capital projects which saved 4 hours of

Reconciled inventory raw material and supplies on trial balance monthly. Changed costs of materials by submitting journal sheets to data input team.Handled write off any material losses.

Held various jobs within the accounts payable department, working hard to advance and gain knowledge.Major participant on team to create and implement an A/P input system to record all invoices electronically.Verified all vendor checks for accuracy of payment information, status and amount.

Bachelor, Business; Accounting

Courses included: Statistics, Cost Accounting, Economics, Intermediate Accounting, and Business Law

High School, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Regents Math, Art