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South Cherry Street, Wallingford, CT

• Manages the cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and reporting activities at the Wallingford site for Allnex, a $1.5 billion worldwide specialty chemical manufacturing company.
• Develop all components of unit standard costs including material & overhead, machine hours, etc.
• Manage the capital expenditure system as well as review, approve and analyze capital spending.
• Develop $28 million fixed cost and 30k metric ton production volume budget.
• Responsible for all plant accounting, close process, account reconciliations and internal controls.
• Analyze manufacturing cost variances including PPV, usage and variable conversion variances.

100 Oakview Dr., Trumbull, CT 06611

• Managed Inventory & Asset Accounting department including a staff of five reports. Provided accounting support & guidance to a nationwide distribution network. General accounting, FP&A and SOX compliance experience..
• Developed new accounting & process procedures to facilitate special projects & business changes.
• Developed methodologies for retrieving information from ERP for inventory by supplier reporting.
• Successfully assumed increased departmental responsibilities while reducing staff from 7 to 5.
• Identified & corrected gross inaccuracies in inventory accounts resulting from ERP implementation.
• Developed & implemented procedures to maintain future accuracy of inventory accounts.

• Managed the budgeting, strategic planning, reporting and analysis activities for a $300 million global consumer brand business with worldwide subsidiaries, JV’s and manufacturing facilities.Accomplishments
• Assisted in divestiture of three manufacturing plants and a product line. Provided management with an analysis of the potential gain from the disposal of these assets and tracked actual gain.
• Managed disposition of above assets and discovered an oversight that resulted in the company billing and recovering $800,000 from the purchaser.
• Managed the transitional services agreement and billing in the post-divestiture period.
• Prepared SKU profitability analysis that resulted in a reduction of SKU’s and lower inventory.
• Recommended a change in product mix on international shipments to affiliates that was implemented and resulted in annual savings of over $50,000.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Finance

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, 3.85

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma - National Honor Society for MBA's