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Vancouver, Washington

Served as Team Lead in coordination of accounting matters with the Controller, other departments, plants, and Corporate offices. Reduced overall working capital by reducing unbilled shipments by 30% and lowering on hand inventory of production supplies.* Maintained general ledger accounts along with monthly account reconciliations, including preparing journal entries, reconciling the balance sheet, calculating inventory reserves, and analyzing variances.* Prepared and monthly closing financial information including profit and loss, income, balance sheet statements, and various other management reports that measure performance against key objectives and strategies.* Pulled ad hoc data, investigating incidents or trends, and proposed options for company improvement on manufacturing costs and expenses.* Prepared detailed annual budget for all plant departments, consolidated and presented to local and Corporate Management. * Prepared monthly forecasts, understanding the drivers in order to develop and speak to the monthly forecast submissions.* Maintained fixed asset inventory database including new additions, transfers, and disposals.* Performed the physical counting, tracking, and reporting of inventory, balancing sub-ledgers to general ledger.* Tracked permanent and contract labor expenses by department cost center and reported productivity results.* Monitored job by job detail, ensuring accuracy of BOM and labor costs.* Worked with Billing, AP, and AR teams to resolve questions or discrepancies as needed.

Collected and digitized all business unit customer contracts and amendments resulting in faster portability and inquiry response time. Wrote contract drafts to save Legal team time and improve contract turn time.* Maintained contract originals, masters, boiler plates, and distributed electronically as needed. * While working closely with Corporate Legal team: Created and managed customer contracts, including writing drafts and final language, administered contract amendments and contract event milestones. * Read through customers' proposed contract language and identify risks, discrepancies, and deviations from company standards. Communicated areas of concern with management, Legal, Sales, Finance, Tax, and Risk Management departments.* Provided projected revenue & cost economics to local and corporate management for proposals, contract renewals, and new projects/investments.

Managed the development of a job billing database for the company’s 3 largest customers (through collaboration with Sales, Pricing Team, Management, and IT) which is still being used today.* Performed in-depth, complex technical analysis to determine present and future financial performance.* Established and maintained comprehensive, functional, and user-friendly price schedules and associated billing programs used by the customers and billing departments. * Worked closely with plant Planning and Finance groups to create annual price forecasts for budgeting purposes.

Planned and developed automated self-service pricing programs (matrices) for CSR and customer use, freeing up time by lowering estimator transactions. Created flexible and automated job costing programs that increased estimator efficiency, reducing average turn times from 48 to 24 hours. * Developed and manage profitable price levels and pricing strategies to maximize Business Unit results in a competitive environment.* Introduced a data sharing process to improve team back-up and workload leveling.* Created flexible and automated financial models to run price and cost scenarios for both internal and external customers. Collaborated with manufacturing groups to optimize production plans. * Communicated with local and Corporate Management to maintain focus on economic goals. * Coordinated with other pricing groups in order to respond to cross-platform bids and production solutions.

Course Work In Accounting And Finance

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Coursework in Business & Finance.

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