JOHN J. AHERN

*** **** **** ****

Madison, CT ***43

203-***-****, aceh21@r.postjobfree.com

Skills & Expertise

JD Edwards Access Excel - Advanced Process Improvement Green

Belt Six Sigma

Percent Completion Accounting Construction Strategic & Project

Planning

UTC, Windsor, CT

2013-2013

Robert Half Management Resources (5

Months)

Financial Analyst

. Performed monthly closing with 3 person finance team for $114M division

of UTC.

. Improved closing efficiency by creating model journal entries for all

standard entries, JD Edwards.

. Reconciled percentage of completion accounts, identifying contracts with

revenue opportunities.

. Support engineering department by providing financial data, EAC review,

Header and WPI input.

3M-Cuno Inc, Meriden, CT

1986-2008

Plant Controller

(10 years)

. Microsoft Access based sales and distributor analyses to executive,

marketing, sales, and operations departments, including on time delivery

performance, product requirements, capacity planning, etc.

. Teamed with the plant GMs and compiled 3 year strategic plans,

incorporating yearly fiscal plan from departmental budget detail to

profit and loss statements.

. Monthly / quarterly forecasts, analyses, spending trends, manufacturing

and purchasing performance metrics, including commentary and corrective

actions to upper management.

. Led "Manufacturing Finished Goods Team" established Kanban system,

reduced inventory 33%, reduced direct labor 33%, and improved on time

performance. Reduced product scrap and lead time, improved customer

satisfaction allowing growth of the business.

. Teamed with engineering on product launches to reduce cost of products in

manufacturing.

. Chaired weekly sales and manufacturing performance meeting with product

line directors.

. Provided return on investment calculations for capital spending projects.

. Tracked facility's capital spending projects actual spending vs. plan.

. Teamed with IT staff and users for system conversion from JDE to

JDE/PeopleSoft's Enterprise One, audit system output.

. Conduct cost analyses to improve operations and profitability. Also

providing "What IF" scenarios for anticipated changing business

environment.

. Improved inventory transfer system, reconciliation and pricing,

multiple product lines, domestic and international locations.

. Compliance; Finance Department lead internal representative with outside

auditors for "Cost Accounting" and "Inventory Control", Sarbanes-Oxley.

. Plant fixed assets, depreciation and construction in progress journal

entries, fixed asset audits.

. Optimize systems including AAI's to improve system reporting and

operational controls.

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JOHN J. AHERN

414 Race Hill Road

Madison, CT 06443

203-***-****, aceh21@r.postjobfree.com

Sr. Budget & Cost Analyst (Cuno Inc, Meriden, CT)

(4 years)

Budget & Cost Analyst (Cuno Inc, Meriden, CT)

(3 years)

Financial and Operations Analyst (Cuno Inc, Meriden, CT)

(3 years)

.

. Teamed with manufacturing Directors for improved profitability in

multiple product lines.

. Worked in New Product launch teams to re-engineer processes to drive cost

out of new products.

. Teamed with Purchasing Mgrs provided purchase price variance commentary,

contract review, and vendor analyses.

. Complete yearly cost rolls, physical inventory, BOM, routing, and

overhead reviews.

. Month end closing journal entries and Financial Statements preparation.

. Monthly General Ledger and P&L account analysis.

. Expense report analysis and account coding.

. Annual, quarterly, monthly U.S. Budget and Forecast preparation and

analysis.

. International Budget and Forecast consolidations.

Systems and Accounts Receivable Mgr (Purwater Inc, Pomona, CA)

(1 year)

. Automated the financial collection efforts, freeing up manpower to

concentrate on high value accounts.

. Teamed with corporate accounting department to ensure accurate financial

data communicated to parent company.

Systems Manager (Purwater Inc, Pomona, CA)

(6 months)

. Replaced manual Accounting system with an automated computer system. This

included interviewing software vendors and installing Sales, AR, AP, and

GL modules.

. Teamed with Operations to ensure on time performance.

. Supported corporate internal audit to insure successful financial audit.

. Completed successful physical inventories and overall inventory control.

Software Packages and Education

Green Belt Six Sigma, JDE, People Soft, Microsoft Office (Access, Excel

( VLookup + Pivot ), Power Point, Word)

College

(1986)

SUNY Buffalo, NY

B.S. in Business Administration

Concentrations in Marketing and Computer Information Systems

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