INHWAN YANG, CMA

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Northfield, IL 60093 acwfdg@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) - minded Certified Management Accountant with strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Experienced in cross-functional, analytical projects in dynamic team environments; strong oral and written communication skills. Highly developed skills and expertise in:

Process improvement and Lean Six Sigma

Financial planning and analysis

GAAP and SOX control

Capital Budgeting and inventory analysis

Profit planning and cost out projects

Standard costing and variance analysis

EXPERIENCE

KNOWLES ELECTRONICS Itasca, IL 2015 – Present

Cost Manager, Mobile Consumer Electronics

Global operations controller and key resource in planning, reporting, and operational analyses. Partner with cross-departmental leadership by providing accurate financial and analytical insights to drive improvement in cost, margins, and processes. Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure accurate forecast is compiled, tracked, and opportunities and risk are identified and actioned.

Lead and coordinate margin improvement and value creation initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams, refining metrics and identifying opportunities. Resulted in additional $2MM improvement versus original goals.

Developed actual costing tools to track and forecast profitability by model. Improved standard costing system by implementing activity-based costing and separating testing cost in overhead cost. Resulted in improved accuracy, visibility in model profitability and helped make sound business decision in pricing deals.

Drive obsolete inventory reduction initiatives, including tracking and identifying opportunities for alternative usage in newly launched programs and fire sales.

SYSMEX AMERICA Lincolnshire, IL 2014 – 2015

Manager of Cost Accounting, Hematology Diagnostics

Managed and responsible for cost and inventory accounting for plant, service, and distribution center. Provided financial and strategic analyses to support cross-functional group projects. Developed operations planning and budget processes with cost, financial analyses and forecast.

Partnering with service and supply-chain teams, drove inventory down by 10% and reduced product cost by 3% year-over-year through use of a new cost-tracking template.

As financial advisor to production-expansion project, provided analytical support and counsel to steering committee, leading to decision to use existing production facilities vs. building new ones. Recommendation was accepted by headquarter committee and project was successfully initiated on time.

As part of SAP upgrade, led systems design of costing module and updated master production data and reports, leading to improved variance analysis and reporting.

GENERAL ELECTRIC Chicago, IL 2010 – 2014

Senior Manager of Finance, Power Switching

Business partner to the plant management teams of multiple manufacturing sites. Provided value-added business analyses and reporting for operations teams and headquarters leadership, developing operations budgets, long-term plans, and forecasts. Managed cost-out initiatives via goal setting, performance tracking and variance analysis. Site leader for third-party audits and liaison to headquarters on special projects.

As financial guide to operations teams, supported improvement in variable-cost productivity of 1.7%, generating incremental cost savings of over $2 million in both 2011 and 2012 as compared $0.3 million in previous years.

In support of quality-check department, developed non-conformance return and rework procedures which helped Chicago plant achieve a 15% reduction in cost of quality on a year-over-year basis.

In planning and managing annual physical inventory, developed improved procedures which resulted in inventory adjustment of less than 1%, compared to 5% in previous year’s physical inventory.

Influenced strategic decisions on labor utilization by providing scenarios and sensitivity analyses. A resulting temporary site shutdown produced cost savings for the Company.

WYMAN-GORDON FORGINGS Houston, TX 2010

Cost Analyst, Energy Products

Served as primary financial resource to the pipe shop operations team and assisted in understanding manufacturing variances. Performed weekly revenue and expense analyses, projections, and reports.

COMPRESSOR PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL Stafford, TX 2008 – 2010

Cost Accountant, Oil and Gas

Analyzed and maintained standard costing systems and reviewed product costing data.

Based on review of standard costing systems, discovered miscalculations of overhead rates and produced inventory-value correction of nearly $100,000.

Teamed with process engineers on manufacturing-cell redesign and process improvement, generating 20% improvement in cycle time.

JTEKT AUTOMOTIVE NORTH AMERICA Ennis, TX / Roanoke, VA 2005 – 2008

Cost Accountant, Steering Systems

Planned and coordinated profitability improvement projects. Participated in cost planning projects for newly launched product lines, analyzing and setting target costs.

Developed cost-improvement plans which drove $240,000 in cost savings through parts localization and improved productivity.

Served as Finance representative on ERP implementation project team; Go-Live was achieved on time and with minimal errors.

EDUCATION

MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC USA

International Master of Business Administration

Major: International Business and Finance

CHEONGJU UNIVERSITY

Cheongju, SOUTH KOREA

Bachelor of Arts

Major: Chinese Language and Literature

SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS

IT SAP, JDE, Oracle, OBIEE, Hyperion Essbase, GL Wands, Business Objects XI

Language Japanese: Fluent; Korean: Fluent.

Certification Certified Management Accountant, Institute of Management Accountants.

Awards Recognized for improvement in cost of quality and physical inventory accuracy at GE. International MBA merit-based graduate assistantship award.

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