Responsibilities include managing cost and inventory accuracy, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and reporting, gross margin analysis, month-/quarter-/year-end reporting, and supervision of accounts payable and payroll.• Design and implement processes to allocate and assign overhead costs and improve product costing accuracy.• Develop coding, queries, and templates to monitor and improve inventory transaction accuracy.• Participate in various lean events resulting in MRO savings, increased production efficiencies, rework cost savings.• Create inventory reconciliation process, reducing book-to-perpetual variance to less than 0.02%.• Provide ERP system and Microsoft Excel support to accounting and all other functional areas.

Responsible for financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting of the largest customer at a manufacturing facility organized in the matrix business model. Responsibilities included revenue forecasting, sales projections and margin goals; monthly P&L recap; quarterly re-pricing of parts and assemblies based on volumes, cost changes, and contractual agreements; management of obsolete/inactive/excess and customer-owned inventories; and leading a cross-functional team assigned to the customer.• Earned Six Sigma Green Belt.• Managed impact of BOM and labor changes through approval/denial of engineering and manufacturing change orders• In cooperation with global team, implemented transition of manufacturing segment to off-shore location.

Responsible for period close reporting and accruals; accounting for capital projects; budgeting; productivity and variance analysis and reporting; and managing A/P and payroll functions for the Kids Division, with locations in three states. Also performed human resource functions, such as attendance tracking, unemployment, performance evaluations, and benefits administration. • Designed and implemented productivity and payroll tracking systems.• Trained associates at other locations, improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Reported to Division Controller and Plant Manager; analyzed costs and variances; maintained fixed asset records; supervised production clerks; monitored and reported capital projects; performed month-end reporting and journal entries.

Managed accounting department staff (12) and day-to-day operations of payables, receivables and collections. Also analyzed new customer credit-worthiness, assigned credit limits, mediated and settled vendor disputes and reconciled records to ensure accurate reporting.