Providing Sales with latest costing information in the form of quotations. Updating costing system. Examining all machines for accuracy in routings. Input, close and determine accuracy of work orders.

1. Manufacturing Analysis and Reporting • Provide weekly forecasting on COGS including standard cost, PPV, production order, and mfg. variances• Produce monthly executive summary report and plant metrics files• Prepare KPI reports for 4 manufacturing facilities• Report on inventory accuracy; review plants cycle count and physical inventory adjustments• Prepare inventory reconciliation for all plants/warehouses; report changes to inventory and report effects on the financial performance of the business• Provide plant and corporate management with financial data as it relates to savings initiatives as required• Prepare Internal Rate of Return for Capital expenditure requests2. Monthly, Quarterly & Annual closing activities:• Prepare monthly journal entries including Slow Moving, Obsolete, and Distressed Inventory• Track and review manufacturing spending. Propose reclassification entries or accruals as necessary• Perform quarterly inventory revaluation price test of inventory for all plants/warehouses• Prepare monthly currency exchange reconciliation• Reconcile cost of sales numbers• Liaise with internal/external auditors for quarterly and annual audits3. Product Cost Development and Analysis• Perform daily cost runs and validate accuracy of costs• Analyze process order variances and work with plants to correct any errors• Review purchase price variance accounts and work with plants to correct any errors• Perform annual cost roll for all products at each plant/warehouse for 130,000 SKU's• Provide product-level Gross Margin analysis4. Annual Budgeting: • Work directly with plant managers on annual budgets including assumptions, data validation, and variance analysis. • Aide controller in planning cost of sales components.• Prepare financial exhibits and variance schedules as required.• Calculate annual labor and overhead rates for all cost centers • Set-up plan and actual assessments with new year plan percentages5. Special Projects

Duties included monitoring and adjustment of overhead rates, standard / actual costing system that requires periodic (yearly) and daily when necessary rolling of standards, physical inventories, cycle counts, manufacturing variances, scrap rates, SAP implementation, period end close, adjusting and creating freight inbound rates on raw materials, communications with Engineering and Sales regarding product margin performance, monitoring. •Senior Cost Accountant / Financial Analyst for 6 Osborn International plants which includes Hamilton, Ohio, Richmond, Indiana, Nogales, Arizona, Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico and Santa Fe Springs, California.•Harmonization of costs throughout all manufacturing and warehousing plants. With a recent change in management the Sealeze plant in Richmond, Virginia has now been added to my roster. •Effectively instituted cycle count programs in each plant. •Developed a system for including freight incurred, duty and customs charges into SAP by vendor / material number.•Completely re-vamped overhead costs for each plant, department, and product line based on multiple cost pools. •Continually reviewing work order variances and notifying plant engineers of orders that are out of tolerance. •Working to track and control scrap both within BOM's and production. •Keep Production, Engineering, Procurement and Sales updated regarding costs and margins on a monthly and year-to-date basis.•Assisting in SAP implementation projects in Mexico City and Portugal. •Coordinate and lead yearly physical inventories at multiple locations (Inventories valued at +$10 million). •Development of detailed documentation (PowerPoint Presentations) of many procedures including product costing, inventory instructions, production order variance detail, and many others. •Assisting with month-end close. •Developed and implemented Inter-Company Pricing for all facilities.•Highly trusted decision maker.

Duties include inventory control which currently includes putting a wireless warehouse control system in place, cost accounting, developing income statements for each department, using lean manufacturing techniques to improve the flow from the warehouse to the assembly line, taking some of the month end close duties off of the Controller’s shoulders, implementation of a second ERP system (JobBoss) to compliment the initial Great Plains system.• Completed 2 full physical inventories• In the process of implementing a wireless warehouse control system, thus eliminating the need for manual entries of inventory changes• Brought the company’s Balance Sheet reconciliations up to date from their fiscal start of October.• Take on month end responsibilities from the Controller • Rearranging warehouse to take advantage of lean efficiencies• Leading the implementation of a wireless warehouse control system.• Strengthening costing structure for each product line in order to provide more understandable and exacting decision making information.• Budgeting and Forecasting• Developed monthly and YTD Income and or Cost and Expense statements for each department• Utilized my advanced MS Excel skills to assist and increase productivity of most other departments.

Controller / Cost Accountant for HDPE plants at Thomas & Betts•Periodic cost rolls, review and recommending cost changes•Month end close for each facility and corporate•Started lean processing at one plant that ranked machines by efficiencies then ran the most product through based on their ranking which resulted in the reduction of scrap rates from 11% YTD in March to 7% YTD by August.•Margin review meetings•Cost forecasting / Variance analysis•Corporate assessments for all plants•Coming up to speed very quickly on SAP which included the manipulation of the system itself to more streamline the assessment process. •Hand chosen to convert 13,000 BOM's in SAP to AS400 (KBM) system•Budgeting for each facility as well a corporate•Monthly plant operation performance letters•Training all plant controllers for their extended roles in the use of SAPMajor Accomplishments: Promoted from Cost Accountant/Controller for one plant with some corporate responsibilities to Cost Accountant /Controller for 4 manufacturing facilities, one distribution center and additional corporate responsibilities; Hand chosen to complete 4-person team that converted the BOM’s and Routers for 13,000 SKU’s from SAP to AS400 (KBM); Became a “go-to” person to solve SAP questions.

Duties included monitoring and adjustment of overhead rates, standard / actual costing system that required periodic rolling of standards, perpetual sales and margin forecasting, month end close and financial statement preparation, cycle counting, tax preparation assistance, annual budget preparation. Developed the “Margin Meeting” that served as an autopsy for completed projects during the month that compared proposed costs versus actual costs. •Monitor purchased and manufactured parts in order to improve manufacturing costs which required interaction with all aspects of the company (procurement, contacts, manufacturing, engineering, shipping and executive management) to ensure the most accurate and predictable long and short-term financial outlooks for the company•Standard / Actual costing system requiring periodic rolling of standards•Monitoring and adjustment of overhead rates•Monthly and yearly sales and margin forecasting done on a continual basis•Implemented several ideas to convert data coming out of the ERP system into a format that Excel could query. Saved time and provided real-time results.•Implemented cost saving measures with Purchasing by making sure that all relevant parties in the company were involved in the decision making process.•Implemented cost savings measures to ensure all customer shipping costs were accounted for and properly charged.•Margin analysis and margin analysis meetings (monthly)•Keeping management in "real time" with regards to changing revenue and marginal outlooks•Month end close •Financial statement preparation at month end close.•Continual cost monitoring on all product lines particularly the ones with poor margins and making recommendations for improvement.•Tax preparation assistance•Cycle Counting Program•Yearly budget preparation•7-years experience working in an HP-3000 environment•Invoicing•New product financial evaluation with suggestions•Process Improvement

Business Analyst 1998-2000• Developed and maintained corporate financial models for Fossil Production department budgets in excess of $1 billion annually• Performed budgeting, cost analysis, forecasting and ad hoc reporting• Learned and applied new cost accounting structures that were instituted (Oracle & Brio)• Scope of responsibilities quickly expanded to budgeting and cost variance analysis for non-regulated portion of the company• Provided upper management timely costing data and forecasts enabling well informed decisions to be made regarding future projects.Plant Analyst 1988-1998 • Developed and maintained budgets, cost variances and expense forecasts for Avon Lake and Lakeshore power plants• Found an avenue to dispose of flyash that cut hundreds of thousands of dollars from the annual budget• Compiled and analyzed various electric generation based statistics.• Reduced budgets through alternative means (introducing non-electric revenues into the mix) in order to meet 5-year plan targets• Gathered costs and statistics that initiated implementation of aggressive preventative maintenance programs eventually leading to record availability and generation performances by the largest mega-watt unit in the fleet• Utilized budget to actual forecasting skills resulting in variances that were consistently within 2% of budget• Director of the Plant United Way fund raising campaignCoal Yard Operator / Payroll Administrator 1978-1988