Responsible for managing accounting department staff of 10 including GL, AP and costing for Farouk Systems in Houston and many other small related party companies as well.Responsible for European accounting handled from the US for our Netherlands company, Farouk Systems Europe. Coordinated set up of IC-DISC company, which saves the company shareholders millions of dollars in income tax yearly.Coordinated the set up of fiscal representation for Farouk Systems’ imports into the European Union.Responsible for development and analysis of consolidated financials according to US GAAP including foreign subsidiaries and variable interest entities.Coordinated implementation of SAP ECC for the FI/CO and SD modules including COPA along with continued process improvement configuration to benefit the company.Proposed and heavily involved in implementation of Spreadsheet Server allowing in house SAP reporting capabilities eliminating the need for costly consultants.Responsible for coordination of financial information for our annual audit and taxes including IC-DISC and DPAD credits, multi-state and international taxes.Responsible for coordinating configuration for VAT tax accounting and reporting process for Farouk Systems Europe.Developed numerous SAP queries through SQVI .

Responsible for supervision of general ledger and accounts payable staff.Responsible for coordination of annual audit and tax returns.Responsible for monthly financial reporting and analysis.Responsible for planning and supervision of the annual physical inventory.All duties of Cost Accounting Manager below.

Responsible for all budgeting including development of flex departmental budgets through both FRX and Microsoft Access.Prepare and hold meetings for annual and monthly analysis of variances to budget and prior periods.Developed numerous Hyperion reports and queries to pull necessary data from Sxe database.Responsible for inventory valuation and item costing including labor and overhead calculations.Audit and analyze variances for physical inventories.Prepare product line margin analysis.Prepare account reconciliations.

Assessed hardware/software needs for network related problems of various companies and implemented solutions.

Implemented and provided training for process improvements to their QAD database. Provided Progress programming and QAD support for several sites across the U.S. and Canada.

Coordinated Implementation of a quote/costing system to automatically generate quotes that could be transferred to sales orders and work orders. The system provided costing for all parts and generated item masters, bills of materials and routings.Provided consulting and implementation for all changes to the QAD database.Provided training and user support for the QAD database and all software packages.Performed all in house Progress programming for the QAD database.Assembled computers, installed all software, and connected them to the Novell network. Conducted troubleshooting and repair of all PC’s on the network.

Produced monthly financials for Houston location providing analysis of significant account changes.Provided monthly forecasts and annual budgets.Produced due diligence information requested for sale of Furon to Garlock.Led project for QAD conversion from a distributed database back to a single database in conjunction with sale of Furon to Garlock.Assisted with QAD conversion to centralized database in Ohio.All previous functions of Assistant Controller and Cost Accountant.

Supervisor of the accounting department and an industrial engineer who performed time studies and cycle counts.Project Leader for the implementation of Activity Based Costing.Performed reconciliations and analyses of monthly financials. Trained accounting department on month end procedures.Developed monthly financials for another Furon location during vacancy of Controller position.Set up procedures for handling consigned inventory through QAD.Provided QAD support and problem resolution including Progress report programming.

Implemented first standard cost system from scratch through data collection, bills and routings. Provided account reconciliation and analysis.Responsible for quarterly physical inventory including development of procedures and training. Provided QAD support and problem resolution including Progress queries needed.