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SummaryI am a results oriented financial professional and CPA with over 20 years successful accounting industry experience. I am loyal, focused, and a hands-on leader and team player open to new challenges. CORE COMPETENCIES include: •Utilizing the highest level of integrity insuring compliance to GAAP, internal controls and policies.•Collaborative partnering to organize, identify issues and abilities design solutions and implement plans.•Focused team leader driving accomplishment of objectives.METHODS: -Using creativity and financial concepts essential to successful budgeting, planning, financial analysis, cost reduction, project management, and overall administration leadership.-Strong communication skills essential to developing professional relationships throughout management. -Ability to translate strategic plans into operational executionAccomplishments:• Reworked and installed an internal control self-assessment system across five facilities resulting in standardized internal audit activities to insure compliance.• Established best practice collections process resulting in a 75% reduction in the percent of client AR balances over 60 days past due.• Created a working capital management plan for key balance sheet items resulting in a 36% reduction in accounts receivable.• Directed revision of plant standard cost, accounting for plant restructure to cellular manufacturing.• Key contributor to management process to convert pay system from incentive while maintaining employee earnings and reducing inventory and floor space by 30%.• Created and implemented methods and reporting to support scrap reduction of 30% in three years.• Implemented a process to measure plant labor productivity. Instituted composite measurement and communication metrics to track corrective actions and goal status increasing production throughput and improved employee productivity by 20%.Specialties: SpecialtiesCPA, financial reporting, manufacturing accounting and reporting. Budgeting, Planning, Internal Controls, Target Cost Reduction, Team Building, Project Management, Financial Analysis, GL, Account Reconciliation, process re-engineering, Administration Leadership.