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Smithfield, Virginia, Us

Provide financial reports for plant operations management, and forecasting/budgeting with reporting, departmental spending analysis, plant variance and operating cost analysis, month-end close activities, and yield reporting. Review and maintain bill of materials and purchase prices. Supervise Plant Accounting Coordinators to ensure all the daily yield, AP invoices, payroll, inventory and labor reports are completed on time and accurately. Perform inventory control, and investigate and resolve the finished goods discrepancy. Provide ad hoc cost analysis. Assist operations manager to improve productivity and efficiency.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Performing monthly raw materials, finished goods inventory reconciliation; Preparing monthly account reconciliations, fixed assets roll forwards, and general journal entries; Preparing Gross Profit, Inventory historical trend, productivity analysis; Collecting data to analyze overhead costs for controlling expenditures; Comparing actual and budget cost, analyzing the variance; Performing month end closing of the General Ledger; Assisting operations management with cost improvement project; Performing CIP capitalization; Preparing ad hoc reporting and analysis as required.

Wilmington, Ohio, Us

Prepare weekly labor efficiency and productivity reports; Reviewed, analyzed, and maintained standard and actual costs; Prepared operational and financial performance analysis - rework analysis, scrap trend analysis, domestic and international gross margin analysis; Performed month end closing and variance analysis; Analyzed and updated bill of materials; Processed engineering requests ensuring the accuracy of revisions; Assisted with the budgeting Process.

Milan, Italy, It

Performed account reconciliation, analyzed daily accounting records, worked with IT staff to ensure the financial transactions properly reflect the business activities, and made necessary adjustments.

Cengage Learning, Inc. is an educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education and K-12, professional and library markets with operations in more than 20 global countries.Cost Accountant Reconciled inventories between the warehouses system and the ERP financial system for multiple locations. Prepared and distributed weekly inventory reconciliation reports. Verified daily receipts, adjustments, work orders, and cycle counts. Assisted in Bill of Materials. Participated in Month/Quarter/Year End close. Reconciled inventory at vendor locations. Implemented, maintained, and updated inventory reconciliation database.• Successfully implemented inventory reconciliation database for Brazil and EMEA (European, Middle East and Africa).• Identified a large inventory issue which affected more than 1000 ISBNs (International Standard Book Number). Determined the duplicate sale documents and worked with IT Department to correct.• Identified Sunday sale timing issue which affects the inventory reconciliation. Created a pending sale table connecting to the reconciliation database that removed the timing issue to improve the efficiency.

• Analyzed, developed, and documented inventory procedures that ensured the inventory value changed properly under Delphi perpetual inventory system as well as the general ledger.

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Information Systems

Bachelor’S Degree, Urban Planning, Department Of Architecture