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Plymouth, Michigan, Us

Plymouth, Michigan, Us

Responsible for all cost accounting activities for 5 major programs and 30 minor.•Created Sales and Cost of Sales for Annual Plan and monthly outlooks.•Developed standards annually and for new programs.•Performed monthly duties including journal entries and balance sheet recons.

Plymouth, Michigan, Us

Lead the finance team for automotive seating plant with $140M+ in annual revenue.•Direct the plant financial activities for accounting, costing, capital spending, fixed assets, budget/forecast, expense control and reporting. •Maintain internal control environment aligned to the company Business Operating System and SOX requirements.•Provide oversight of capital project spending for the site and preparation of fixed asset updates.

New Albany, Ohio, Us

Provided accounting and reporting support for 2 businesses.• Maintained standard cost including development of annual standards.• Prepared month end journal entries, account reconciliations, and monthly reporting.• Tracked capital project spending for the site and prepared fixed asset updates.• Documented processes and developed reporting for monthly results.

Hanover, Maryland, Us

Irving, Tx, Us

Responsible for Cost of Sales forecasting and reporting for Personal Care business unit. Also responsible for reporting Working Capital for the Consumer and KCP sectors.

Irving, Tx, Us

Provided reporting and oversight of outsourcing partner for diaper plants.•Co-led cross functional team to develop automated cost of manufacture reports for Personal Care Mills that reduced time to generate information by 2 days.•Co-led training for annual standard costing overhead process that educated staff to perform successfully.•On-boarded 3 new team members who assimilated well into the organization and achieved peak performance.

Irving, Tx, Us

Supported standard costing and cost of manufacture reporting for Nonwovens sector.•Appointed as the Key trainer for outsourcing partner for Nonwovens sector and transitioned accounting work successfully.•Led testing that eliminated base machine costing process.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

•Generated “what-if” scenarios for LIFO inventory for CFO and determined if physical hedges of inventory were financially beneficial.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

•Provided accounting related to SOX compliance for $600M LIFO Inventory pool.•Managed, evaluated, and allocated Cost of Goods that resulted in accurate product costs.•Received a Chairman and CEO Award for LIFO SOX documentation and compliance.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Supervised Accounts Payable, Hourly Payroll, and Capital Projects.•Financial representative for implementation of Procurement / Stores system MP5.•Coordinated and reconciled stores physical inventory for MP5.

Morgantown, Pennsylvania, Us

•Worked with software developer to create standard cost system functionality within the existing shop floor program.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting