FICO team business liaison responsible for delivery of requirements in S4/HANA implementation for Inventory Accounting, Product Costing and Inter company processes.

Business Liaison for Finance working as a FT member of an IT Scrum team; Facilitated requirements gathering, refinement and testing on a project by project basis. Advised scrum team on financial requirements and implications. Finance team business / user advocate.

Operations Analysis for the Aluminum Machining and Material Handling groupsWeekly performance reportingProject spending analysis and reportingProduct Costing LeadCapital project analysis

• Developed training materials, delivered training classes, coordinated UAT, and assessed organizational readiness for the RTR/Costing segment of a major SAP implementation/release (P&A and GM) • Consulted with business partners, quickly understood business requirements, and led three enhancement waves (test design, UAT, regression, hypercare) to improve AR functionality after go-live. • Provided incident handling and problem resolution for SAP material ledger and product costing

• Responsible for total team of 27+ professional and clerical members including A/R, Credit, Deductions, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Travel & Expense, Cost Accounting, Month End Close, Capital Planning and Execution, Budgeting / Forecasting. • Provided thought leadership and championed technology solutions and shared services concepts that improved business processes through increased capacity, improved timeliness and reliability of information for decision making. • Experience with utilizing technology to improve processes such as:  > T&E (Concur; Oversight) > cash application and deductions processing (High Radius) > budgeting and forecasting (BPC)* Led the AR team during a large scale IT Transformational roadmap from manual cash application and deductions to complete automation. Days to close a deduction case reduced from 20 days to 7 days; trade spend reporting became more timely and reliable; provided the foundation for trade promotion analysis.* Improved T&E process efficiency and effectiveness. Coached team through business case development and influenced key leaders to implement Concur Expense and Oversight business applications. Project was on time, under budget and achieved 70% mobile adoption the first year. Gained buy-in to re-write existing travel and expense policies.• Provided thought leadership and gained buy-in for a formal Source-to-Pay process and Invoice Automation technology assessment (SAP/Ariba).• Partnered with business leaders to create awareness and endorsement of cost savings impact to the bottom line through the development of a supply chain productivity program.

• Coached and directed a growing team of cost accountants and analysts for 7 different facilities/areas. Continually evaluated team structure and roles to support a growing network with changing needs.• Led the team during SAP go-live and stabilization. Provided guidance and reconfigured design of product costing and cost object controlling modules to enhance variance reporting; recreated missing standard reporting at go-live.• Led and continuously improved the annual budgeting and standard costing process. We focused on doing something different every year that brought more standardization, efficiencies and insights to the process.• Managed and advised on costing methodology and cost accounting processes/reporting for the organization. Significantly improved the reliability of product cost data by leading a re-engineering of overhead cost accounting practices. • Developed a LIFO inventory program which saved millions in tax expenses.

Responsible for advising leadership teams for two manufacturing locations on manufacturing costs, providing decision support and developing financial acumen. Also served as the Financial Advisor for the RTE (ready to eat) business unit where I provided financial analysis and decision support for new products, customer segments and platforms. Led the development of the annual financial plan.

HUI is an area leader in sheet metal fabrication and specialized in lean manufacturing in a low volume highly specialized job shop.Expanded my financial and product costing competencies by implementing "Lean Accounting" concepts such as visual AR dashboards, weekly spending dashboards, and throughput per labor hour analysis by product and job.

Held positions of increasing responsibility including internal audit, cost analysis, cost leadership, finance SAP process design and implementation, and business unit financial reporting.Configured the SAP product costing and cost object controlling modules of SAP for the domestic core business units and all manufacturing locations. This included process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing and make-to-order environments. Played a lead role in multiple successful go-lives, stabilizations periods and post-go live evaluations. Required knowledge in the intregration to other business modules such as material master, profitability analysis, production planning, and sales and distribution.