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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Tacoma, Washington

Led Dept. of 4 & Worked Closely with Plant Management to Improve Accounting Procedures, Product Costing, Process Improvements, and Internal Controls. • Oversaw transition of KML from a small privately owned company to a division of an international corporation.• Established internal controls that were missing as a private company.• Improved processes in Sales Order creation, Inventory, Accounting and Price Quoting.• Reduced process times in month end closing, sales reporting and production reporting.• Developed sophisticated Quote Tool in Excel to assist Sales force in on the fly pricing.• Guided plant management to make better business decisions by providing relevant and timely information, including creation of many new reports using BI Tools and Excel.• Improved accuracy of forecasting and speed and accuracy of reporting.

Irvine, Ca

Led department of 5 plus the oversight of 4 controllers. Worked with plant management, intercompany, process improvements and the addition of 4 distribution centers.• Oversaw $10 million renovation and relocation to new facility, stayed within 1% of budget, & delivered on time• Established Shared Service Centers for AR, Expenses, & IT that reduced headcount in A/R from 7 to 3, & Concur Expense Reporting processing time by 75%• Reduced report generation time from 2 hours to 15 minutes on several daily reports & month-end closings from 5 days to 4• Reduced inventory reserve 15% (250K) through weekly meetings/presentations explaining business analytics• Improved timekeeping for job costing & match to payroll that reduced variances in job costs by 35% to 5% in 4 months• Created monthly balanced scorecard presentations and managed month end close, forecasting, budgeting, payroll, shared services, sales analysis, variance analysis, and business analytics • Named Controller of the Year in the Business Unit Americas – nominated for Controller of the Year worldwide• Admitted to Global Business Analytics Group, an exclusive group of controllers who are given global mandates to analyze commercial or operational issues

Long Beach, Ca

Led department of 3 and worked closely with plant management and other controllers to improve accounting procedures, product costing systems, and the accuracy of reporting for decision making purposes• Analyzed existing contracts & was able to complete a Capital Recovery Savings of $2M by receiving CTS credits• Improved speed and accuracy of month-end closing and reporting from 10 days to 7 days• Responsible for month-end close, forecasting, product costing, inventory, fixed assets, and variance analysis

La Palma, Ca

Led a department of 5 in working with plant management to provide better reporting, month-end close, forecasting, budgeting, job costing, inventory, analysis, and SOX compliance• Implemented Hagen Data Collection and Job Costing System.• Reduced month end closing from 12 days to 7days• Prepared and presented monthly financial and annual budget presentations to division management

Santa Ana, Ca

Progressive growth from Plant Accountant to Division Controller. Managed 2 plants and a department of 12 in 2 locations; including month-end close, forecasting, budgeting, contingency planning, job costing, inventory, analysis, fixed assets, taxes, revenue recognition, consolidations, due diligence, presentations, team-building, & payroll. • Developed strategies to improve efficiencies in accounting and production. Reduced month-end closing from 12 days to 5 days through the consolidation of many functions• Implemented job costing system. Analysis of job costing helped reveal areas that needed improvement • Involved in planning, implementation, and due diligence of 5 mergers• Prepared and presented budgets and financial presentations to corporate parent and potential buyers• Negotiated a savings of $137K in a bankruptcy settlement, avoiding $237K in payments• Negotiated a settlement on Sales Tax in audit that waived a $26K+ penalty, & Property Tax savings of $75K• Obtained Enterprise Zone Manufacturing credits of $80K, & a $15-25K credit on Utility User Tax Caps over several years• Reduced collections from $1.2M to $20K• Worked with production to determine root cause of production and quality issues. Fixing this increased productivity by 10% and reduced quality issues by 40%.

Masters, Accounting

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Business Administration And Management, General