Serve as key financial resource in cross-functional engineering team.• Collaborated with leadership, constructing annual operating plan of $44M using historical data and new corporate guidance as well as headcount forecast.• Negotiated annually with Defense Contractors Management Agency for hourly activity rate approval for 170 employees and 10 executives, ensuring operations costs (debits) and time charges (credits) are equal to zero at year end.• Created, forecasted, and… Show more Serve as key financial resource in cross-functional engineering team.• Collaborated with leadership, constructing annual operating plan of $44M using historical data and new corporate guidance as well as headcount forecast.• Negotiated annually with Defense Contractors Management Agency for hourly activity rate approval for 170 employees and 10 executives, ensuring operations costs (debits) and time charges (credits) are equal to zero at year end.• Created, forecasted, and controlled $25M of internal research projects and $22M of engineering software tools, monitoring monthly spend, investigating variances, and assessing risks and opportunities.• Presented monthly to executive leadership showing current performance along with recommendations and forecast of financial position at year end, resulting in key decisions and implement changes.• Headed former Rockwell Collins with financial integration of supported engineering department after acquisition in November 2018 by collaborating with new finance team and sharing of best practices to determine what method to implement.• Managed capital assets of $25M, including annual budget of $1.5M for new purchases, conducting inventory on each asset every 4 years, ascertaining impairment, and disposing of assets not in use to ensure accurate financial statements. Show less

Partnered with management and board to evaluate and assess financial and business practices, focusing on accuracy and compliance with federal regulations and laws. Identified financial risk and offered recommendations for improvement. Presented findings to leadership in form of reports and presentations.• Conducted 12 audits of financial and departmental operations, including business continuity, buffer stock inventory, employee performance reviews, sales recognition, warranty valuation… Show more Partnered with management and board to evaluate and assess financial and business practices, focusing on accuracy and compliance with federal regulations and laws. Identified financial risk and offered recommendations for improvement. Presented findings to leadership in form of reports and presentations.• Conducted 12 audits of financial and departmental operations, including business continuity, buffer stock inventory, employee performance reviews, sales recognition, warranty valuation, security contractors, and capital leases, discovering 3 issues as not being compliant with policies and procedures that may be a risk to company.• Completed audit workpapers by documenting findings of tests and process walk throughs.• Cooperated with external auditors with access to databases and reports to allow evaluation and examination of workpapers, ensuring accuracy / completeness and resulting in satisfactory status of financial statements. Show less

Managed journal entries and verified proper general ledger coding. Reconciled transactions of Collins Printed Circuits’ database with SAP to align entries with generally accepted accounting principles. Completed monthly closing entries to meet deadlines set by management.• Prepared 30 - 40 journal entries per day, including international locations and converting foreign currency as well as scanning proper approvals into database as supporting documentation, ensuring transfer of costs into… Show more Managed journal entries and verified proper general ledger coding. Reconciled transactions of Collins Printed Circuits’ database with SAP to align entries with generally accepted accounting principles. Completed monthly closing entries to meet deadlines set by management.• Prepared 30 - 40 journal entries per day, including international locations and converting foreign currency as well as scanning proper approvals into database as supporting documentation, ensuring transfer of costs into proper accounts or projects.• Integrated 50 - 100 transactions per day for Collins Printed Circuits (internal business unit) and analyzed accuracy of sales recognition, customer code, and profit margin, confirming correct financial position.• Executed monthly close activities, including $70M operations material related overhead journal entry, Collins Printed Circuits sales and revenue reconciliation, and capital assets under construction journal entries, maintaining compliance with policy and accounting laws. Show less

Evaluated new parts by confirming standard cost, profit center, and other information are in SAP correctly. Analyzed staffing reports by comparing actual results to forecast. Assisted senior analysts with product portfolio and presentations. Maintained work in progress inventory and reporting.• Reduced product portfolio work in progress inventory by 5 percent in 1 year by identifying parts with incorrect buffer stock in material master database.• Examined staffing reports with focus on… Show more Evaluated new parts by confirming standard cost, profit center, and other information are in SAP correctly. Analyzed staffing reports by comparing actual results to forecast. Assisted senior analysts with product portfolio and presentations. Maintained work in progress inventory and reporting.• Reduced product portfolio work in progress inventory by 5 percent in 1 year by identifying parts with incorrect buffer stock in material master database.• Examined staffing reports with focus on overtime, vacation, illness, and other non-working hours for 4 locations in Iowa and calculated transfer rate of personnel tracking to annual plan, identifying trends and presenting findings to leadership in timely manner. Resulted in changes and improvements in efficiency. Show less