Mireya Chaverry Email & Phone Number

El Paso, Texas

• Responsible for coordinating the costing and maintenance of inventory items of all Helen of Troy Divisions. System: Oracle.
• Foreign currency inventories revaluation.
• Global overhead rates and expense allocations of all business units.
• Freight and duty analysis and reconciliation (expense vs. absorption).
• Main contact with all warehouses to ensure accuracy of intercompany transactions and implementations.
• Month-end close (reconciliation of inventory transactions between inter-companies, profit in inventory, accruals)

El Paso, Texas Area

• Labor and Overhead analysis to ensure correct absorption. System: Blue Cherry
• Inventory adjustments monitoring and coordination with all six retail stores as well as manufacturing plant.
• Purchase price variance analysis and coordination of changes to cost.
• Monthly inventory roll forward and reconciliation between perpetual and General Ledger records.
• Periodic audits to Bill of Materials costing.
• Generation and analysis of various metrics such as inventory turns, material usage variances, cycle counts.

El Paso, Texas Area

• Financial Consultant
• Month end financials generation and analysis.
• Southwest Region President's financials generation for monthly Operating Reviews.
• Preparation and posting of monthly accruals.
• Preparation of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliation and certification.
• Monthly Incentive Compensation balances sign off.

• Corporate Cost and Inventory Supervisor
• Costing and maintenance of inventory items of all Helen of Troy Divisions.
• Annual update of Overhead rates of inventory items of all HOT Divisions.
• Freight analysis and reconciliation.
• Main contact with all Warehouses to ensure inventory transactions and results are accurate and procedures are followed.
• Monthly Inter-company sales reconciliation - discrepancies resolution.

• Performed the monthly closing process along with the achievement of internal and Corporate financial reporting deadlines.
• Provided analytical support and variance explanations to Management.
• Assisted with the annual budget preparation and monthly forecasts.
• Contributed to maintaining the inventory accuracy by participating in Inventory Obsolescence review teams and monitoring regular inventory transactions, as well as coordinating the logistics of the semi-annual physical.
• As assigned, represented Finance on New Product Development teams and provided all financial analysis required for Management approval.
• Developed material returns process that resulted in immediate cost savings of $35K.

• Information Business Systems Project Leader
• Led Information Technology projects for Centralized Finance and Human Resources departments.
• Supported Information Business Systems’ (IBS) owners with projects definition, administration and control.
• Coordinated the implementation of the IBS processes and methodologies.
• Interpreted Finance and Human Resources customers’ needs to the Information Systems Technical Development teams.
• Monitored and coordinated services received from a contracted Services Supplier.Cost Accounting Supervisor