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Responsible for fraud investigations and audits of corporate,division, plant and subsidiary operations at U.S. andinternational manufacturing, sales and administrative operationsin England, France, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Usedcomputer-assisted tests of financial, operational, sales,administrative and data processing systems. Audit schedulerequired 30% travel. Audit areas included flooring, ceiling,insulation, and furniture products manufacturing. Treasury,Investments, and Foreign Exchange, Foreign Debt Swaps andForeign Currency Exchange Hedge Strategies were alsoaudited.Responsible for training and supervising assistant staff auditcrews of up to four professionals.

Responsible for management and training of a staff of nineprofessionals.Responsible for company and subsidiaries budgets, budgetperformance reporting and financial and costs varianceanalysis.Responsible for cost accounting for inventories, costs of goodssold, production, warehousing, and distribution facilities,product costs analysis, product standard costing of tens ofthousands of raw material, work-in-process, and finished goodsproducts and product prototypes for U.S., Mexico, andCaribbean manufacturing operations.Responsible for implementing all Cost Accounting - relatedportions of the company’s SAP system. Became veryexperienced in SAP Cost Accounting business systemimplementation. SAP is one of the foremost integratedbusiness systems in the world. Upon becoming CostAccounting Director, was responsible for finding andcorrecting a computer system costing flaw that wasoverstating finished goods inventory valuations by hundreds ofthousands of dollars. Performed cost system analysis andpersonnel interviews to find and correct this major inventoryvaluation problem.Information Systems – Extensive use of main frame andpersonal computers for product costing, variances, productiondata, and standard product costs build-up.Extensive training and experience in implementing SAP CostAccounting business system implementation. The CostAccounting modules are highly important, integral parts of theSAP manufacturing, inventory, inventory warehousing,shipping and sales functions.

Responsible for fraud investigations, financial and operationalaudits of domestic and international operations. Responsible foraudits of textile manufacturing, warehousing, and salesoperations as well as all company administrative functions.Audit schedule required 7 % travel in the U.S. and Canada.

Responsible for fraud investigations and audits of corporate,division, plant and subsidiary operations at U.S. andinternational manufacturing, sales and administrative operationsin England, France, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Usedcomputer-assisted tests of financial, operational, sales,administrative and data processing systems. Audit schedulerequired 30% travel. Audit areas included flooring, ceiling,insulation, and furniture products manufacturing. Treasury,Investments, and Foreign Exchange, Foreign Debt Swaps andForeign Currency Exchange Hedge Strategies were alsoaudited.Responsible for training and supervising assistant staff auditcrews of up to four professionals.

Responsible for plant/production annual budgets, product costestimates, cost and expense variance analysis, monthly costs andvariances analysis reports to plant management, weekly costsreview meetings with product department management andproduction/inventory accounting.Information Systems: Extensive use of computers, main frameterminals, and personal computers for product costs, variances,production data and standard product build-up.Trained and very experienced in Lotus 123 and Basic Software.Experienced in writing advanced Lotus 123 macros.