Keith Warnick Email & Phone Number

Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

Columbia, South Carolina

Working with bids and proposals for government contracts.

• Responsible for all aspects of production, including yield and productivity.
• Managed four direct reports and secondary for another one hundred thirty-three.
• Member of the global labor team. Responsible for cost savings ideals and brain storming at a global level.
• Ensure other production floor cost savings were implemented and on track for true savings.
• Set-up a vacation matrix spreadsheet to ensure proper coverage on the plant floor.
• Part of the management team that saved 440K in true savings.

Ridgeway, South Carolina

• Responsible for financial reporting of the Ridgeway plant including thepreparation of monthly reviews to upper management with discussion and analysis of results with detailed explanations of variances verses last.
• Responsible for maintaining and controlling annual physical inventories.
• Responsible for the annual budget and monthly forecast, working closely with corporate and plant management to develop.
• Handled the cost analysis for manufactured components at the plant.
• Set-up monthly financial review meetings with the leadership team to discuss prior month’s performance.
• Project manager for some smaller shop floor projects. Examples: Forklift project, Chiller project, HVAC maintenance contract.

Orangeburg, South Carolina

• Responsible for financial reporting of the Orangeburg plant including thepreparation of quarterly reviews to upper management with discussion and analysis of results with detailed explanations of variances verses last.
• Responsible for general ledger account reconciliation's and quarterly review with corporate controller.
• Responsible for maintaining and controlling monthly physical inventories.
• Responsible for the annual budget and quarterly forecast, working closely with sales and plant management to develop.
• Handled the cost analysis for every manufactured component at the plant. Maintain and controlled all changes to BOM and routings and ensured proper costing.
• Worked with a team on our set-up of time standards for production reporting and capacity reporting.

Columbia, South Carolina

• Responsible for financial reporting of the Columbia plant division including thepreparation of management discussion and analysis of results with detailed explanations of variances verses last period and compared to.
• Responsible for general ledger account reconciliation's and year-end financial audit with outside firm.
• Responsible for maintaining and reporting on the ABC cycle count program.
• Responsible for the annual budget and quarterly forecast, working closely with department heads and sales to develop.
• Handled the cost analysis and make buy decisions for every manufactured component at the plant. Maintain and controlled all changes to BOM and routings and ensured proper costing.
• Worked with a team on our annual standards roll and handled the justification of overhead rates by work center.

West Columbia, South Carolina

• Responsible for all cost analysis done on three different cook lines. This includes daily reporting ofproduction variances by SKU and broken down by raw meat, ingredients, packaging and labor vs. standard.
• Responsible for costing of all new products. Working closely with R&D, purchasing and production todetermine yield, through puts and selling price. This includes giving management a proforma P&L on eachnew product in.
• Responsible for monthly inventories - to include reconciliation and month-end close of inventory.
• On the implementation team of SAP accounting system schedule for the summer of 2003. Major assignments dealing with the implementation of the BOM for each product we currently produce.
• Responsible for inventory reconciliation's and year-end PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP inventory portion ofthe audit
• Responsible for basic hardware and software implementation and problem solving. Working closely withcorporate to ensure all computer needs are met in the office and on the plant floor.

Columbia, South Carolina

• Responsible for financial reporting of Tennessee Restaurant Equipment Sales division including thepreparation of management discussion and analysis of results with detailed explanations of variances verses last period.
• Responsible for financial reporting including general ledger, accounts receivable, inventory, fixed assets, accounts payable, payroll and tax compliance
• Responsible for the evaluation and implementation of an Elliot accounting system including G/L, A/R, A/P, inventory, report writer and Fixed Assets. The chart of accounts and financial report layouts were designed from.
• Responsible for general ledger account reconciliation's and year-end PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP financial audit
• Responsible for the training of a department of three including billing/accounts receivable and accounts payable/inventory control

Columbia, South Carolina

• Responsible for assisting with four mergers and acquisitions including due diligence, opening balance sheet valuation through closing balance sheets entries, assimilation of financials and operations to achieve.
• Responsible for assisting with the planning, coordinating and implementing the consolidated 2002 bank case and expected case revenue and expense budget, forecast by franchise by month, by division, 12 month balance.
• Responsible for financial reporting of holdings company and divisions including the preparation ofmanagement discussion and analysis of results with detailed explanations of variances verses last period and compared to.
• Responsible for the management of a department of three direct reports and four indirect divisional controller reports with responsibilities including formal external financials for banks including debt compliance.
• Responsible for general ledger account reconciliations and year-end PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP financial audit
• Responsible for re-engineering of cost accounting policies, procedures and cost of good manufacturedreporting system including the installation of a Simplex Time Card Swiping System

Columbia, South Carolina

• Responsible for accounting coordination of all contract billing
• Responsible for updating and maintaining all sales tax rates and codes using Vertex sales tax books
• Responsible for inventory research and reconciliation in excess of 5 million dollars
• Responsible for the recruiting and training of a department of two including billing/accounts receivable and accounts payable/inventory control

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting, 3.1

Associate'S Degree, Accounting, 3.0