Kathi Baker Email & Phone Number

156 Castle Pines Ln, Statesville Nc 28625

205 Enterprise Way, Mocksville Nc 27028

Trinity, North Carolina

Cost Accounting Manager

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Combined work ethic, leadership, and perseverance to maintain the highest quality work throughout the 24- month notification period of company relocation; adapted to ever changing business focus of three different Business Unit Controllers within four years.• Identified need and reduced processing time of Annual Standard Cost Update from 13 weeks to four weeks; facilitated weekly meetings of 7 Global Accounting Managers, gained management approval, reviewed processes, and maximized SAP while increasing accuracy.• Led Accounting Team to develop cross-functional quoting process; increasing accuracy, reducing new product quoting time from 28 to 14 days. Created Dashboard for real time management updates.• Promoted based on proven adaptability for change driven organization as well as reputation for bringing diverse groups together to meet common goals.• Maximized SAP long-term planning capabilities to plan production and raw material spend for seven global locations; increasing accuracy while reducing budgeting process by 120 hours annually.

Williamsburg, Kentucky

• Hired, trained, and coached two Staff Accountants with open-mindedness and objectivity to promotion.• Led SAP Implementation Project Team, facilitated by temporarily re-locating for 6 months; project included blue printing, testing, implementing and training SAP Manufacturing System for the Cost, Production, and Material/Warehouse Modules of SAP.• Division Projects:o Initiated improvements in the SAP Scrap Report, Production Order System, and Physical Inventory.o Trained, mentored, and empowered 5 Accounting Staff for startup facilities in Costa Rica and China.o Provided Executive Summary of Cost Rica facility inventory control analysis.• Created trusted systematic method of collecting assumptions, statistics, costs, efficiencies and data to calculate $31M annual budget and created monthly comparison to actual.• Led implementation of JSOX in three U.S. locations to meet government compliance.• Chosen to participate in six-month Leadership Development Program, Team Program of Women’s Unlimited, Inc., in Orlando, FL.• Identified root cause and reduced material usage variance from 32% to 1% in two years in collaboration with Celebrant Consulting Group.

Williamsburg, Kentucky

• Facilitated the costing of new materials and ensuring the standard costs were accurate before updating.• Assisted the accounting manager in the bi-annual operating budgets.• Responsible for month end closing, scrap analysis, and preparing month end management reports.• Assisted in writing business process flows for the shop floor, including physical inventory controls.• Responsible for fixed asset capitalizations, spending & inventory.Highlighted Accomplishments:• Led as team member of the SAP implementation project, and temporarily re-located the last 6 months to facilitate in completing the project. o The project included blue printing, testing, implementing and training SAP manufacturing system for the cost, production, and material/warehouse modules of SAP.• Division Projects:o Initiated improvements in the SAP scrap report, production order system, and physical inventory.o Accounting trainer for FSIPs startup facilities in Costa Rica and China.o Inventory control analysis for the Costa Rica facility.o Mentor for accounting management for Costa Rica and China.• Created systematic method of collecting assumptions, statistics, costs, efficiencies and data to calculate annual budgets. Annual budgets of $31 million.• Created monthly metrics to track actual information compared to budget/forecast information.• JSOX Compliance Representative for the facility.• Participated in the Team Program of Women’s Unlimited, Inc. • Worked with Celerant Consulting Group to determine the root cause of Material Usage Variance.o Unexplained material usage went from 32% to 1% in 2 years.