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Fremont, California, Us

Responsible for all aspects of Finance and Accounting. Engaged in financial systems transformation, moved from QuickBooks to NetSuite. Tuning month end close, KPI's using BI, cash flow forecasting and improved basic financial reporting. As NetSuite administrator, lead production transformation by designing a NetSuite implementation for receiving, processing and shipping. Highly customized solution for a unique, non-standard process.Working with major shareholders and CEO, help refine strategy and management as we negotiate the growing pains of moving from a small company to a larger multi-site national player.

Snoqualmie, Washington, Us

Finance Director for Zetec, a mid-size manufacturing company producing non-destructive electronic test equipment in the US, Canada, Korea, France and China and selling into many countries world wide.. Specifically responsible for all finance activities and staff world wide. Manage all aspects of financial management and control including period close and consolidation, budgeting, extensive analytics, presentations, process improvement and daily costing/expense management.Very active with BI. Designed from scratch a suite of BI dashboards to facilitate management control of entity and cost center expenses, strategy and tactics task management and extensive work on manufacturing standards (standard costing) with insight into productivity and efficiency.

Financial Controller for Zetec, a mid-size manufacturing company producing electronic test equipment in the US, Canada, Korea, France and China. Manage all aspects of financial management and control including extensive analytics, presentations, process improvement and daily costing/expense management.Achievements:• Establish daily, monthly and annual rhythm of business. Integrate budget with strategy.• Develop new balance sheet modelling to improve working capital, asset velocity and inventory forecasting.• With senior leaders build a new sales incentive plan. Track and manage plan over worldwide sales territories.• Create a complete distributor channel analysis model with multiple price lists in multiple countries.• Build and administer a distributor incentive plan allowing for customer co-op and rebate sharing opportunities.• Successfully build, administer and consolidate complete budget with over 60 cost centers in multiple countries.• Redesigned cost center monthly reporting to improve manager accountability.• Design and implement a paperless accounting process. Improved flexibility, diminishing storage, faster processes.• Orchestrate a complete standard cost review of all inventory, supply chain, production and quality labor standards.• Overhaul fixed asset approval and tracking process. Work to clean up book / tax differences.• Partner with the business to develop their 3 year strategy plans.

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

Responsible for all aspects of technology deployment and maintenance for fifteen states in the northwest and midwest USA. As an integral part of the senior management team for the Northwest Division I contributed to the business alignment to strategy and specifically to operations management and process improvement. Daily management of a team of around thirty IT professionals who ranged from IT help desk technicians, senior network engineers, trainers, application developers and database admins to business support analysts. Through detailed financial analysis developed and maintained production and productivity performance over many business units and large off-shore production units. Highly active in deploying niche market technology solutions as well as large enterprise platforms such as CRM, MDM and fully interactive web portals. Very experienced at social media and e-commerce (financial transactions, purchasing of services and customer service orders).Also heavy involvement in company strategy facilitation. Facilitate and partake in various strategy sessions with senior management groups at corporate and divisional level in order to maximize the impact and effectiveness of strategy initiatives.

Zug, Ch

Established new SAP ERP system for financial operations. Achievements:• Lowered financial processing costs by implementing a centralized accounts payable operation. Reduced staff by eight employees and standardized AP operations increasing efficiency and accuracy. • Reduced financial close process from three weeks to three days with new SAP system. • Extensive financial and productivity analysis to support business improvement.

Zug, Ch

Managed 70 member accounting team. Maintained financial operations for company with $1.2 billion in monthly P&L. Achievements:• Managed staff to maintain normal monthly closes and financial operations while implementing a new SAP project. Seamlessly continued accounting operations while completing SAP transformation (one year). • Adopted new standard chart of accounts to standardize SAP operations with the parent company. Managed process for smooth and successful transition. • Updated manual T&E Excel expenses system with a company wide web based entry and tracking system. Simplified system allowing online manager approvals and spending report integration. Improved T&E accuracy and spending control.

Zug, Ch

• Developed annual budget process with balance sheet and cash flow modeling. Designed and instituted comprehensive financial statements allowing modeling for true variances effecting monthly performance. • Designed and implemented a fully integrated capex entry, tracking and reporting system streamlining operations and allowing accurate spending review and control. • Extensive analytics and modeling using complex Excel worksheets followed by PowerPoint slides for Board room presentations.

Master'S Degree, Electronic Engineering - Digital Signal Processing

B.Sc, Bachelor Of Science In Engineering

Mba, Finance, Marketing