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Joshua Diodato

Objective

To obtain a financial position with a well established company, where I can use my experience and skills to motivate, develop, and lead employees to achieve their upmost potential. Create other opportunities within a company through hard work, education, and duration. Become a vital employee to future developments, enhancing growth throughout the company.

Experience

Mar 2015 – Present

Faurecia Interior Systems

Auburn Hills, MI

Financial Controller

NAO Division

-Report directly to North American Division Controller and CFO.

-Controller for Profit Center P&L/ BS; consisting primarily of labor cost, overhead and allocation of cost to Customer Business Units and Plants

-Work with HR to manage R&D headcount, SG&A headcount, Indirect Labor headcount to maintain steady fixed cost and its allocation for Profit Center (171 Full Year Avg.)

-Work directly with cost center directors and managers to confirm any new assumptions verse budget and management of cost

-Responsible for month-end closing; journal entries, reporting, forecast

-Work directly with all controllers that make up the NAO division to understand any deviations/ improvements; 12 plants and 4 customer business units

-Responsible for communication to all plant and customer business unit controllers for strategic deadlines communicated by headquarters in France.

-Responsible for consolidated reports for NAO division performance for operations and R&D with bridge analysis for monthly, semester (S1 & S2), full year deviations

-Assist Division Controller and CFO with analysis on any risk and opportunities within P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash

-Responsible for creation of 2016 Budget with OI of $5M full year

May 2013 – Mar 2015

Faurecia Interior Systems

Auburn Hills, MI

Financial Controller

German Customer Division

-Responsible for controlling cost, and allocation of cost associated with cost centers underneath German Customer Division’s profit center

- Analyze P&L, regularly communicate with lead accountants to confirm cost impacts, reclassification of misplaced cost, assist in managing cost to be below budgeted and forecast benchmark

- Analyze all German Customer Division’s engineering program gross cost consisting of 14 programs, roughly $800K monthly (labor, travel, testing, etc…).

-Prepare weekly gross cost projection/forecast to Program Managers and Director of Finance, analysis and bridge of deviations for actual results versus budget and forecast

- Responsible for the management of two profit centers resource loading, 75 employees that make up 10 different functional cost centers under German Customer Division and Central Division, this is an allocation of resource hours/cost

- Responsible for new employee profile creation in SAP to absorb labor cost, manage employees SAP account and train/assist when needed, develop spreadsheets to assist if errors arise in SAP, responsible for set deadline closing of labor cost and communication to lead R&D controller

- Financial reporting; includes reporting monthly forecast (P&L, Cash), monthly actual results (P&L, Balance Sheet, SGA), initial budget and budget update in Essbase Systems.

- Responsible for creation of 2015 cost center budget to determine expenses and rates per cost center, creation of activity rate build to allow absorption of cost for German Customer Division

- Train and develop employees in various responsibilities; including cost analysis, cost management driven from P&L.

- Responsible for extraction and preparation of weekly and months-end cash reports

- Additional responsibilities include; journal entries, accruals, report preparation, report preparation with Smart View, sales orders, communication with international controllers, invoice/ work order management, month end closing for German Customer Division

Feb 2011-Dec 2011

Rondo Investments

Detroit, MI

Property Manager/Office Manager

-Assisted Management on 250 houses, work with and schedule contractors to complete various tasks on remodel construction and maintenance, responsible for managing jobs for inspection purposes, created and implemented new maintenance policies

-Full management responsibility on personal rentals (20+ homes), created and processed work orders, dealt with tenants directly, onsite and off

-Responsible for showing and renting homes, dealing with tenants directly, lease agreements, applications, rent collections

March 2009 - Feb 2011

Manny’s Landscaping

Birmingham, MI

Project Manager/Crew leader

-Design landscapes, responsible for selling and maintaining accounts for summer, fall and winter months, dealt with clients directly

-Maintained and managed employees, help create and manage schedule

-Payroll

Education

September 2015 – Pres.

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

Masters of Business Administration

-Current Student

June 2013 – Sept 2014

Walsh College

Troy, MI

Study of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance

-Bachelor’s Degree obtained

-Magna Cum Laude, 3.81 GPA

-Major GPA, 3.96

-Walsh College Achievements

Jan. 2011 – June 2013

Oakland Community College

Auburn Hills, MI

Study of Business Administration

-Graduated with high honors, Summa Cum Laude (3.85 and above)

-Associates Degree in Business Administration

-Maintained GPA higher than 3.9, finished every semester on Deans List

-Invitation to Phi Theta Kappa (International Honor Society of the Two-Year College)

Additional Skills

-Advanced in Microsoft Excel

-Proficient in Microsoft Office (including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

-Oracle Reporting Systems

-SAP

-Excellent written and verbal communication

-Proficient in Smart View

-Self - starter and driven for continuous improvement

-Team player with extreme work ethic

-Training others in both one-on-one and in group settings

-Excellent multi-tasking and decision-making skills

lInterested in relocating anywhere in the continental United Statesl

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