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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name , CPAEMAIL AVAILABLE, PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEController, Operations, Auditing, Supply Chain, Quality, Planning, Employee Engagement and Leadership, ManufacturingLExtensive experience in finance and accounting, manufacturing environments, day-to-day accounting operations, preparing and producing financial results, including financial analysis and reporting. Accomplished and highly skilled cost-oriented accounting manager with extensive years of hands on experience including reporting earnings, revenue recognition strategy, standard and absorption costing, process improvement, strategic budgeting, reporting, account reconciliations, staff leadership, internal and external audits, and tax support. Proven ability to impact corporate performance by producing timely and insightful results and projections through skillful orchestration of fiscal management and team leadership. Keen ability to influence processes integral to company growth driving operational excellence and achievement of objectives. Expertise in financial sub-ledger transactions, reporting, analysis, operational management, forecasting, cost control, item cost, and consolidation of transactional activity. Provide strategic value by leveraging current financial administration trends and regulatory guidelines to shape solutions and approaches. ERP engagements including Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards supporting day to day operations, month end reporting, GL accounting, and system configuration.Highlights10+ years Corporate Manufacturing, Accounting, Reporting, Consolidations, Technical Accounting Implement and support global GL account reconciliations, Intercompany, and Treasury cash management banking transactions, Procure to Pay, Supply Chain, Costing, and multiple reporting platforms5+ years ERP Project Management implementation, design, support, and training10+ years manufacturing organization engagements of inventory and cost development Acquisition and Merger engagements providing accounting and process documentationERP GL, AP, AR, FA, PTP, OTC, RTR, CRM, EDI Implementations and HFM reporting, SOX, GAAP Drive accountability for project initiatives, own and limit initiative risk mitigationEngagement and exposure to Capital Markets, Treasury, and cash forecasting Cross functional ERP Project Management leadership balancing Finance, Logistics, and IT EDI requirements10+ years internal and external audit experience supporting preliminary and post year PBCs Oracle, SAP FICO, Hyperion (HFM), Essbase Excel, Microsoft Dynamics 365, ADP, ERP, EDI, Agile and JIRA experience. Year end cutoff testing, preparation, and prsentationGAAP Compliance, Revenue Recognition, ASC 606, Monthly Blackline Reconciliation engagement Extensive Excel spreadsheet models to support monthly closings, Treasury, Cash Flow, and account roll forwards, Workday engagements to improve processes and reportingGeneral Ledger Accounting and Closing Journal Activities, including AR. AP, FA, roll-forwards Preparation of US GAAP consolidated financial statements for commercial purposes for private and public entitiesEngaged with a global ERP Oracle EBS, CPQ, Cloud development team implementing solutions Engage with technical and functional resources and departmental management teams providing ERP implementation, supportGlobal functional project management initiatives to deliver solutions for multiple operational activities Evaluation of new technology and software product offering for sustainable improvementAccomplishments and CollaborationDesigned and implemented international business processes in an Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics, ERP environment. Key contributor to a deliverables project through cross functional teams in Finance, IT, Procurement, Manufacturing, and global cost solutions. Contributions to develop General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Receivable, and account reconciliation solutions. Collaboration with Treasury to meet global banking operation requirements. Global Supply Chain Project to analyze Procure to Pay process, supplier certification, and analysis and cost reduction effort regarding global freight expenditures.Finance Management Business Partner Bi-monthly collaboration with CFO, CIO, and Senior Management staff to review business performance metric reporting, strategic opportunities, and monthly financial results.Grew a team for complex projects, project schedules, developing costing procedures, reporting manufacturing variances, engaged with GL JE activities, AP and AR continuous improvement, training, and corrective action.Responsible for understanding and oversight of financial project management and improved methodologies. Increase cost-effectiveness through leading cross functional infrastructure development including payables and receivables. Developed Procure to Pay (PTP) process implementation solutions through collaboration with Procurement, Logistics and Payables to improve and increase cost effective supply chain solutions. Implement an improved material accounting PO receipt to payment process.ExperienceEmployment Engagements Charlotte, North CarolinaKJ Consulting and Advisory Part time Sep 2023 - CurrentTreasurer, HOA, Meridale, Charlotte, NCReconciliation reviews, daily business operation internal control review, closing process documentationIndependent personal tax service, review, and preparationContributions to year-end financial review, audit, and financial investmentInterested in researching new Accounting, Finance, and Project Management opportunities.HOA Spring Summer Treasury engagementVaco LLC, Staffing AgencyImperial Tobacco Group,, LLC, remote oontract Feb 2023 Oct 2023Financial Analyst Global IntercompanySAP platform Intercompany Manufacturing account reconciliation 100 % remote project for review of multiple prior years and multiple legal entities.Prepare treasury cash flow statements from initial primary banking institution to new banking institution and prepare balance sheet reconciliations using pivot table and V-Lookup applicationsProduce prior and current year adjusting journal entries. Implement process improvements and support monthly closingsAddress Treasury cash flow transactions, fundings between individual international legal entities recording product invoicing and management fees.Engage with company accounting policies and procedures addressing process improvement opportunitiesEvaluate banking practices and financial transactions impacting balance sheet reportingForbo Siegling, LLC - onsite contract Oct 2022 Jan 2023Interim Controller Interim short-term year-end contract, CharlotteSAP platform 90% on site - Project Based bank reconciliation year end contract position to true up and complete bank reconciliations for 2022Review and document Treasury operations related to a bank transition from a 2022 global banking institution transition to a west coast bank.Hybrid assignment - Documentation and bank reconciliation were required for 2022 to support a banking transition and 2023 closing activitiesObjective required the completion of two banking institutions and validation and reporting of banking feesChemring Sensors & Electronic Systems, Charlotte onsite contract June 2022 Sep 2022Business Consultant, Accounting ManagerCustomer was the government. Chemring manufactured products for the US defense government supplying devices and equipment. Reporting required collection of internal project reported technical and direct labor hours for billing and invoicing.Microsoft Dynamics 365 Financial environment 50% remote - Hybrid assignment as Accounting and Project Management role to introduce effective processes to meet monthly close activities in a 445 close scheduling environment.Grew a team in a hybrid roll as Accountant and Agile Project Manager to engage with AP vendor invoice and payment activities and AR Revenue recognition practice and outstanding receivablesExtensive collection of weekly labor project labor hours for government online invoice contract billings and project accounting. Intercompany administration fees with European affiliate.Aggressive financial closing process and subledger compliance practices. Engaged with Order to Cash (OTC) business process improvements. Extensive (Blackline) reconciliation practices.Electrolux Major Appliances North America, Charlotte - hybrid contract June 2021 Apr 2022Financial Analyst, Accounting Manager, SAP platform - Preparation of US GAAP consolidated financial statements for commercial purposes and Hyperion reporting.Operating on the finance and controlling module in SAP ERP FICO.Giant manufacturer of domestic and commercial appliances servicing large home building projects and the two leading suppliers of productLowes and Home Depot Remote assignment 50% - Financial analysis and technical accounting support for Group Staff functions.The FICO module provided the ability to manage the financial data Internal controls for closing routine process and other documented accounting processes including Blackline reconciliations. Introduction to Ariba and Tableau. Maintenance of accounting process design and control procedure documentation and adherence to contractual obligations with multimillion dollar customers Creation, review, and approval of journal entries. Responsible for primary and secondary reconciliations in Blackline.Perform and reviewed GL account reconciliations including intercompany.Engaging directly with internal and external auditors contributing to the completion of preliminary and post year audit requirements.Essbase reporting - responsible for producing, reviewing and reconciling financial statements, revenue and costing.Consulting, Advisory, and Remote Job Engagements, Relocated to Charlotte 2020 -2021Accounting Consultant Engagements, Chicago, IllinoisThermamax, Inc, Controlling Plant, Business Manager, onsite Feb 2018 Mar 2019SAP platform - Maintain company financial policies and develop new procedures to help meet and exceed corporate goals and meet monthly close responsibilitiesResponsibility for converting a US domestic German buyout and value added domestic manufacturing to greater domestic manufacturing purchasing machinery and equipment. Implement costing of productsLeading the accounting department to streamline SAP AP invoicing, payment processing, AR collections, customer invoicing procedure and sales reporting. Develop costs and COGS reportingCollaborate with financial personnel and cross functional departments to deliver month end SAP monthly close and inventory reporting.Accounting Manager, Business Manager at LifeWatch Inc. Healthcare Industry, Dec 2016 Jan 2018Microsoft Dynamics NAV 365 platform Healthcare manufacturing operation. Daily operations, Excel based monthly close, Consolidation, support activities for procure to pay business applications.Member of Finance team to support and grow a MS-Dynamics finance team, accounting, operational activities, Procure to Pay (PTP) process improvement, and customer billing management and revenue recognition.Collaborated with department members to prepare monthly closing roll forward schedules. Jet Express for Excel to produce financial reporting. Engage in Microsoft Dynamics daily and closing processes and procedures.Project management lead to identify internal control risks and introduce process improvements to mitigate those risks.Engagement and experience with customer service operations to resolve primary and secondary insurance billing practices, collection, past due analysis, internal revenue recognition practices and ASC606 complianceBusiness Consultant at NW Memorial Hospital, Oct 2016 Dec 2016Worked with management to implement/improve global intercompany financial reporting. Excel based consolidations. JD Edwards experience with day to day operations, month end closing practices and process improvements.Controller at AG&E, Inc., onsite contract Dec 2015 Dec 2016Oracle Cloud EBS environment - Day to day operations, strategic planning, and monthly close, general ledger journal entries, accounts payable and receivable, account reconciliations, cost of goods sold, payroll, and reportingFinancial Consolidation and Reporting Manager at Optimas Solutions, June 2015 Dec 2015 onsite contractStart-up acquisition -Manufacturing environment - Functional and technical design specifications to produce global balance sheets and cash flowEssbase reporting - responsible for producing, reviewing and reconciling financial statements, revenue and costing.Panduit Corp. 1995 - 2015Senior Accounting Manager and Project Manager, Business Manager and, Jun 2011 April 2015Oracle global platform - Utilized Oracle EBS, Oracle Cloud financial systems to address processes requiring implementation improvements for compliance, (audit) testing, maintain Hyperion IS product line reporting, providing manufacturing variance result, and prepare operational support for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, fixed asset conversion, manufacturing process costing and analysis. Collaboration with Treasury to meet global banking operation requirements.Hands on architecture, design, development, testing, and implementation, and support of software and ERP platforms. Lead and assist in analysis and evaluation of new technology and software product offering for sustainable improvementLead a team of associates from Global Supply Chain and Logistics to research opportunities for freight cost reductions. Thorough analysis of operations, reviewed freight approval practices, and identified business opportunities and process improvement resulting in a reduction of annual spend and establish sustainability. Hyperion and Business Objects Financial reporting and manufacturing variance analysis. EDI implementations for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.Communicated with key finance users globally on a weekly basis for improved reporting to executive management. Engaged with a global distribution development team focused on delivering solutions for multiple product offerings and systems.Designed, built, implemented, and deployed a customer Configure to Order Oracle CPQ Cloud (Big Machines) on-line customer commerce and contracts. Designed, implemented and supported hardware and software sales processes in an EBS environmentgenerating quotes, cost data, MSRP pricing, recognizing revenue and margin analysis real time. Lead absorption material cost flow accounting providing weekly and monthly variance reporting.Accountable for achievement of enhanced Accounts Payable process so that supplier invoices can be imported electronically (EDI). Reduced manual invoicing resulted in significant time saving and increasing accuracy of invoice data efficiency and use of dashboards to measure progress and success. Increased iProcurement capability by assigning supplier attribute assignments for accurate GL account. Identified and introduced Procure to Pay (PTP) process improvements.Assistant Corporate Controller, Project Management, Business Manager 2008 2011Grew teams for Corp Accounting and staff (3), accounts payable supervisor/associates (8), and ADP Payroll (3). Managed accounting and accounts payable payment process. Lead a Shared Service Center to assume AP, AR, JE, transactional activities, including reconciliations. Engaged with tax department to provide data to support the filing of Form 10-Q, Form 10-K, Form 8-K, Form 11-K, Investor Presentations. Engaged with international intercompany transactions and International Transfer Pricing (ITP).Directed month-end closing process, accruals, journals, financial statements, accounting reconciliation review, and cost of goods sold reporting. Engaged with day-to-day transactional activities and KPI reporting.Updated and implemented necessary business practices and accounting policies, including multiple process improvement solutions for a global account reconciliation process. Global reporting, financial statements and treasury and cash management reporting and forecasting. Continued manufacturing emphasis to improve manufacturing reporting, and utilized Order to Cash (OTC) business capabilities to enhance, improve, and standardize standard costing practicesBuilt, managed, and trained a remote financial international shared service center in Mexico requiring execution of the transfer of global payable, receivable, procurement, and accounting entries, and account reconciliations in a centralized location.Senior Business Cost Manager, Accounting Manager, Project Manager, Jan 2004 Dec 2008Manager, supervisor and grew a team for a global EBS costing group (4) and indirect report (5). Generated policy to create standard costs, ensure competency, development, evaluation, manufacturing variance reporting, and encouraged innovation and improvement.Generated inventory valuations and International Transfer Pricing (ITPs) for tax compliance. Developed standard costing development procedure. Responsibility to lead, engage, and implement continued plant operation activities producing dashboards to provide key metrics. Functional lead for Order to Cash (OTC) design, development, and implement an absorpstionaccounting (DTB) solutions including manufacturing variance reporting, direct and indirect labor allocations. Enhanced product line revenue recognitionreporting for effective revenue recognition sales reporting. Implemented best of class product line reporting and associated cost reporting on a domestic and global platform.Business Analyst, Accounting, 2004 2007Focus Integration Project Engaged with designing, building, testing, implementing, deploying, and supporting complex business processes in consulting-supportedmanufacturing/inventory/costing and order management, Order to Cash, (OTC), global roll out, for 10 manufacturing locations and 18 warehouses. Requirements included conversion and cleansing of data, implement a revenue recognition procedure, produced inventory transfer, computed standard costs, value inventories, report global cost of goods sold,manufacturing variances, and operational reports. Demand to Build, (DTB). Converted global company from standard cost accounting to absorption accounting. Engaged withthe oversight of 30,000 SKUs.Created foundation for reporting financial accounting transactions in Order Management (Order to Cash) and Inventory related to invoicing and cost of goods sold, respectively. Enhanced product line and country revenue reporting.Finance Manager, Accounting, Project Manager, Divisional Plant Controller, 1995 2004Accounting Manager and EBS ERP Project Manager, lead a team of 10 consultants to develop testing, define accounting transactions and deliver a process improvement driven conversion, including the creation of a new chart of accounts. Modules introduced were GL, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash flow, and fixed assets. Developed documentation of work instructions for reporting, analysis, and new processes to be delivered to finance staff, including an international rollout.Accounts Receivable global implementation 2002 2004 (EMEA, Asia Pac, and North America) managed 15 cross-functional people to apply and reconcile cash receipts. Implemented a receivable and revenue recognition process.Division Controller 5 years - Manufacturing standard cost accounting, item costs, analysis, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, material planning, and inventory control. Engaged with domestic intercompany practices with (5) divisional locations.Education and CertificationWestern Illinois University, Bachelor of Science: Accounting and FinanceCertified Public AccountantGreen Belt CertificationPMP |
