Henry E. Kinicki, Jr.
Parma, Ohio 44134
Cell: 216-***-**** Home:216-***-****
Email: aceq20@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
A Manager with broad, diverse, and thorough experience in
* Financial Management * Operations Management *
Budgeting & Forecasting
* Financial Analysis * Sales and Marketing * HR & IT
Administration
Hands-on professional with strong leadership skills committed to
excellence. Self-motivated and detail-oriented with insight, vision, and
passion for change and continuous improvement.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CONTROLLER - Bardons & Oliver - Solon, Ohio
May 2007 - March 2014
$20MM manufacturer of machine tools and contract machining of large
parts.
. One of leads in conversion to Epicor 9 ERP. Handling inventory
valuation, COS, overhead rates, part class, product groups. Develop
account mapping for transactions and setup for two business
reporting.
. Analyze job costs on machines. Develop reports on gross margin by
product group and contract customer.
. Reconcile inventory to general ledger and correct errors in posting
process.
. Brought warranty and scrap costs by product line to for front.
. Investigate, identify, and bring to management' attention the major
activity affecting the financial results.
. Oversee IT operations establishing help desk process to handle IT
problems.
. Create report writer reports used to generate monthly, quarterly, and
year to date financial statements. Included P&L, balance sheet, cash
flow, and convenant calculation.
Reports compare to budget that I created, or prior year results
. Changed from quarterly to monthly close, streamlining time table and
matching costs with revenue.
. Manage cash including line of credit, and short term
investments and change of banks.
. Ensure payroll, tax payments, tax reporting and year end W-2 and
1099 were completed timely.
. Generate year end support documentation to reconcile and review with
auditors.
. Process audits for workers comp, insurance, and bank. Learn and use
FAS software for asset accounting.
CONTROLLER - Metaldyne - Solon, Ohio PLANT CLOSED
March 2006 - May 2007
$7.5MM designer, and manufacturer of dies used in the aluminum casting
industry. Division of $2 billion Corp.
. Used JD Edwards, E2 labor reporting, Upstream, and Everest
financial reporting for financial statements.
Produced quarterly SEC support schedules and certification
statement.
. Analyze results and identify activity that affected the
outcome. Communicate results to corporate and plant
management to develop plans for changes and improvement.
. Analyze job cost details for completeness, margin, and variance.
Review production of standard parts.
Inform sister companies of job costs that affect them. Reconcile
inventory including WIP jobs.
. Member of group to develop and tailor SOX policies. Maintain
policies on corporate portal.
. Develop monthly forecast that included estimated labor,
absorbed hours, sales, and expenses.
Produce weekly and monthly flash estimate. Generate annual
departmental budget and forecast with general manager and present
to corporate. Includes internal, external sales, capital, and
headcount.
CONTROLLER - Austin-Hunt Corp. - Euclid, Ohio OWNER SOLD COMPANY
2002 - March 2006
$4MM fabricator and machining facility of various parts used in a
variety of industries.
. Establish procedures to improve accuracy and proper recording of
cost and to handle inter-company activity.
. Analyze cost of sales by product line to identify low margin
product.
Work with president, sales, and engineering to improve operations
and margins. Analyze overhead costs.
. Point out weakness in manufacturing facility. Involved with
refinancing.
. Create financial statements from Visual's report writer.
Create audit support and review with auditors.
. Process payroll, cash management, receivables, and vendor
payments.
. Assumed administrative functions to improve processes, productivity,
and reduced cost. Directed purchasing and expanded vendor base
resulting in lower costs, increased product availability, and
improved terms.
CONTROLLER - Hydracrete Pumping - Cleveland, Ohio BETTER OPPORTUNITY
2002 - 2003
$4MM concrete pumping business servicing various construction project
businesses.
. Evaluate the utilization and profitability of pumping units from
special developed reports.
. Analyzed billing and cost of sales for problems. Reviewed
result with president, operations manager, banker,
and CPA firm. This resulted in the development of new billing rates,
invoice guidelines, and job scheduling.
This change increased the average hourly sales rate by 15%
. Developed and implemented other operational procedures to
reduce cost by 5% without hurting sales.
Identified problem areas. Advised possible corrective actions.
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. Manage financial activity at Mfg. subsidiary. Establish changes
to improve accuracy and control of costs
while calculating break even. Worked with others to re-organization
division.
. Ensure the monthly close of three companies was coordinated,
including inter-company transactions.
. Reduced the CPA's involvement by 50% through streamlining.
Improved collections. Initiated refinancing.
CONTROLLER - Kirkwood Cleveland Commutator Div., Cleveland, OH PLANT
CLOSED 1999 - 2001
$25MM, ISO certified manufacturer of motor components. Emphasis on
standard costs, and variances.
. Developed forecast and departmental budgets with department
managers. Generate financial statements.
. Compared actual expenses to budget and reviewed with department
managers for plans of improvement.
. Analyzed margins by product lines. Reviewed results with plant
and corporate managers.
Generated reports analyzing margin by product lines including the
cost of scrap, processes, and rework.
. Improved standard costs by calculating new overhead rates with
accurate expense base, projected level of activity,
and allocation of indirect departments based on support to product
lines.
. Updated material, labor, and overhead rates used in the
standard cost system.
. Reviewed valuation and accuracy of inventory reports. Improved
timeliness of job closings with production.
. Implemented variance analysis reports and measurements to analyze and
control overhead cost.
Established departmental key measures with monthly reports to monitor
performance.
Reduced monthly close cycle by 50% and reduced year-end audit
with CPA firm by 25% by streamlining.
. Implemented Symix/Syteline ERP System conversion concentrating on
cost of sales and inventory.
. Controlled four physical inventories resulting in improved
accuracy and reduced adjustments.
CONTROLLER - American Handling, Centrum Ind. Cleveland, OH MGT CHANGE
1997 - 1999
$16MM material handling systems company Member of the executive
staff participating in the development and implementation of plans
to improve sales, costs, and procedures for.
. Designed and issued monthly, quarterly, and year to date
consolidated financial statements.
. Analyzed actual cost of completed projects and provided feedback
to upper management.
. Streamlined the costing cycle by 25% by changing inventory and
cost of sales reporting procedure.
. Established percentage of completion activity with CPA auditor
approval.
. Manage all Human Resource matters including the processing of
401K pension documents.
CONTROLLER - Ajax Manufacturing, Park-Ohio Ind. Euclid, OH
1991 - 1997
$16MM forge press mfg. Member of the management group involved in the
development of business plans, strategies, and implementation of changes.
Managed all office and administrative activities.
. Computed percentage of completion Sales and cost of Sales.
Review job costs.
. Developed pricing calculations and reviewed the terms and
conditions of all quotes.
. Analyzed cost of sales and variance in labor, material, and
overhead.
. Lead member of the team responsible for Symix ERP system
conversion.
. Develop budget and issued forecast and compared it to actual
results and department expense
statements from Real World report writer. Generated consolidated
financial statements.
. Managed cash for two companies, including payroll and commercial
accounts.
. Supervised A/R, A/P, payroll, cost, and purchasing. Handled
salary HR matters.
Temporary Assignment Park Avenue Castings & American Greetings
1989 - 1991
TREASURER/OPERATIONS MGR. - Morco, Inc. Sub. of Park-Ohio Ind. - Bedford
Hts., OH 1980 - 1989
$4MM machining company. Overall responsibility for all operations,
establish/meeting shipping schedules/forecasts. Supervised accounting,
administrative, purchasing, sales, and office functions.
. Led negotiating team on three UAW contracts. Eliminated antagonistic
union management relationship.
. Developed gain share program that generated a benefit equal to $.61
per hour for all hours worked.
Generated a 10% reduction in the processing time by initiating and
directing the conversion to Real World. Managed operation changes
that generated a 60% return on investment.
Initiated changes that resulted in a 25 % reduction of labor content
of cost of sales.
. Updated standard cost records. Calculated LIFO inventory balance and
adjustments.
. Generated annual capital requirements and the capital request forms.
Handled asset accounting.
. Reviewed year-end audit support details with internal and external
auditors.
. Established system to quote government jobs, which yielded a
prime government contract.
. Calculated retirement benefits for salary and hourly employees.
EDUCATION
BS Business Administration: Accounting - John Carroll University
Experience: Epicor, Symix, JD Edwards, Great Plains, Solomon, First
Choice, Data Point, Excel, Word, Lotus, Quick Books, Fox Pro SBT,
Visual. Trained on Power Point and Access. Notary State of Ohio.