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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Dallas, Texas, United States

Plano, Texas

Plano, Texas

Fort Worth, TX

• Oversee all, budgeting, forecasting, month-end close, financial reporting, procurement, storeroom, payroll, and TTB compliance processes for brewery with ~$145M annual operating budget (~$500M annual spend when.
• Strong focus on driving continuous improvement initiatives
• Finance lead on Asset Care strategy committee
• Led brewery to cost savings commitment target of $4M in 2012
• Identified weakness in cash deposit process that resulted in cost savings of ~$400k and a cash recovery of $1.6M
• Implemented improved stale inventory review process that led to spare parts inventory reductions of over $100K year-over-year for 2012 and 2013

Fort Worth, TX

• Responsible for managing and developing a workforce of six salaried personnel
• Lead and direct annual budgeting effort in excess of $145M pertaining to production output in excess of 8M barrels
• Instrumental in the development and implementation of a co-product revenue reporting tool utilized company-wide to track revenue performance
• Accurately track brewery scorecard and performance metrics
• Created and conducted valuable financial policy training for all salaried personnel
• Conducted annual 3-year planning discussions to ensure plans are in place to support enterprise savings objectives

Fort Worth, TX

• Provide financial analysis, budgetary, and forecasting support for brewery with annual output exceeding 8 million barrels.
• Very strong emphasis of financial forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis
• Experience in financially supporting the following departments within the brewery: Brewing, Packaging, Maintenance, Quality Services, Distribution, and Utilities
• Created labor efficiency model that helped attain greater forecast accuracy and more efficient labor management
• Developed financial forecast models for a monthly labor budget in excess of $1.7 million dollars and monthly maintenance expenses in excess of $400,000. Model has allowed month-end forecasting to be within +/-$10K of.
• Created and implemented maintenance cost forecasting model and spending plan to involve front-line leadership in weekly and monthly forecasting process. Dramatically improved accuracy of weekly forecast and budget.

Arlington, TX

• Manage all accounting, finance, purchasing, shipping, HR, and Customer Service for a paint manufacturing plant with annual production in excess of 6 million pounds and 65 employees.
• Monitored actual expenses on P&L vs. budget, providing upper-level management with support/explanations for variances outside of the norm and also made necessary entries to correct errors identified
• Oversaw annual budgeting process for site and compiled monthly forecasts in relation to established budget
• Accountable for entire FCA addition/retirement process for site. Including the preparation of proposals, obtaining approvals for projects prior to spending, monitoring actual spending vs. approval limits, ensuring.
• Identified over $30,000 in cost savings within first year by identifying errors made in the site’s monthly employee incentive plan
• Participated in Six Sigma project that was validated to save over $200,000 in 2006 by greatly reducing production line down time and scrap yield

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Supervised 11 internal auditors conducting detailed financial and operational audits of more than 500 retail paint stores located throughout the southeastern United States.
• Conducted detailed financial analyses of reports such as P&L, Trial Balance and Inventory Trend Report
• Recruited, interviewed (more than 100 candidates per year) and hired Field Auditors
• Recommended improvements in company operations to ensure proper controls were in place to avoid identified risksField Auditor, Little Rock, Arkansas (March 2003 – September 2004)Conducted detailed, risk-based audits.
• Selected to train new field auditors after only seven months in the position
• Analyzed and investigated financial data, including GL entries, in order to optimize store profitability and verify the accuracy of financial reporting

Master'S Of Professional Accounting

Bs, Finance

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi fraternity

Bachelor'S Degree, Corporate Finance