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Professional SummaryHighly accomplished and motivated individual with an extensive financial background that includes cost accounting, general accounting, finance, and project management. An individual who has advanced analytical skills, and a proven track record of using these skills to identify and implement process improvements that led to increased revenue or decreased operating costs for several organizations. Seeking project based or contractual employment opportunities, will also consider alternative basis of employment.Technical SkillsAdvanced understanding of SAP modules pertaining to General Ledger, Perpetual Inventory System, Sales and Distribution, Logistics, A/R, A/P, Cost Runs, Customer Sales Rebates, Vendor Purchases Rebates, PCA, and generating queries for ad-hoc report. As well as associated data warehousing applications such as BW, Teradata, Vistex, and Blackline. Previous experience includes Oracle, PeopleSoft, and running IBM reports and queries. Excellent Excel skills. Financial and Accounting SkillsAdvanced knowledge and experience in cost accountingAdvanced knowledge and experience in general accounting.Extensive forensic accounting experience.Managed Grainger’s revenue recognition policies and guidelines.Advanced knowledge of revenue projections and forecasting.SOX controls – Evaluation, ownership, review and approval. Strong knowledge and experience of the consolidated close process.Strong knowledge and experience with accounting for intercompany activity and setting transfer pricing.Extensive experience Identifying and implementing operational and financial process improvements that added to organization’s bottom line.Extensive experience working with inventory systems, including FIFO, LIFO, standard cost, and perpetual.Extensive experience using trend analysis and other analytical techniques to analyze the activity of accounts with massive data.