FINANCE MANAGER / ASSISTANT CONTROLLER with an MBA and 15 years' experience

in Manufacturing focused on financial and material management, staff

supervision, mentor, coach and develop talent, budgeting, capital approval,

forecasting, tax form preparation, cost accounting, payroll, accounts

payable & receivable, cash & credit card management and thoroughly familiar

with GAAP. Team player with demonstrated record of initiative and

resourcefulness

Experience 6/2003 - Present Nestl Purina PetCare

1/2008 - Present Travel 75%

Davenport, IA/St. Louis, MO

SAP Super User LGO for Finance and Costing

Support inventory loads and cutover validations from many systems

to SAP

Maintain support for users during and after hyper-care to extend to

running transactions, analysis of results, designing reports, audit

report assistance

Hands on trainer for Controller & Accounting on completing PEC,

Budget, Implementation, Material Life Cycle, Reconciliation and

Standard costing on SAP

Assist with evaluation and implementation of improvements

Perform system testing and review of upgrades

Prepare training materials as they relate to Accounting and provide

better understanding of transactions and financial implications

Production Training Coordinator for Factory roll-outs

Document new procedures/policies necessary to ensure policies and

standards on the new system

6/2003 - Present

Davenport, IA

Manager of Financial Accounting / Assistant Controller

Analyze accounts and prepare financial statements on a monthly

basis

Financial audits as necessary, weekly, monthly, quarterly and

annually

Responsible for the preparation of accurate financial reports and

support

Business partner in developing budget working with each department

manager to analyze and prepare an achievable and accurate budget

Analyze financial information, make recommendations, collect

information and prepare reports.

Work with Operations Management to review weekly & monthly

production reports and results.

Review, report, approve and analyze capital spending

Insure adherence to corporate, government, local guidelines and

GAAP

Provide financial support for plant division management; reviews,

analyze recap,

forecast, and develop new measurements

Verify compliance to procedures with company guidelines

Audit and approve request for payments, payroll, journal entries

and G/L activity

Analyze, establish, review accounting procedures/policies

Develop, research, communicate, and implement new procedures

Prepare and coordinate end of month closing of books

Analyze and report Year to date results

Assist as dictated from business needs; research, audit, report,

evaluate,

and communicate information

Continued -

Direct, counsel, mentor, manage, and educate employees while

fostering a team

environment, cross-functional, and ownership development within

group

Develop, monitor, perform employee reviews and training needs

Provide financial support for operations management and daily

information

2001 - 2003 Pella Entry Systems Division Clear

Lake, IA

Cost Management / Continuous Improvement Specialist

Member of the Vice President of Operations staff

Manage exempt employees

Complete managerial, divisional & corporate reporting

Participate/request/lead continuous improvement teams using

Toyota's proven Kaizan process

Continuous Improvement teams made Quality, Safety and Cost Savings

in areas such as; logistics, line speed/layout, man

hours/ergonomics, new products and supplier agreements including

some vendor managed consignment

The cost savings made by the Kaizan teams improved margins in some

cases from a negative position to low teens within the allotted

time from event

Prepare and present at results, execution, and planning meetings

Prepare/present to operational metrics for COO

Assist and approve all capital acquisition requests

Forecast & budget materials, labor, overhead, cost reductions, and

inflation/deflation

Assist managers in forecast and budgeting for operation's business

unit budgets

Work with marketing and sales on new products as well as forecasts,

from costing to

operation capabilities

Co-owner of operations production plan

Train incoming Managers & Engineers on Accounting Policies and

Procedures

Work with product teams, managers, and the leadership team for

continuous

improvement, simply any employee willing to work on improvement

Prepare and review quarterly standard costing for all products

Lead product excess and obsolescence team

Assist in defining and implementing new metrics to better manage

the process

Report monthly on a range of operational metrics and results for

operational

budgets as well as account variances for material, labor, and

related overhead

expenses incurred

Prepare a monthly journal entries and reconciliation's

Define, gather, research, and analyze operation metrics and

variance

Participate in annual planning and business review

Additional Experience -

2002 Season H & R Block Tax Preparer

Mason City, IA

2000 - 2001 Kaydon Corporation Accounting Manager

Hampton, IA

1998 - 2000 IMI Cornelius Senior Cost Accountant

Mason City, IA

1996 - 1998 United States Gypsum Cost

Accountant Sperry, IA

Education 2005 St. Ambrose University Davenport, IA

Masters in Business Administration

Student Senator for MBA class

1996 St. Ambrose University Davenport, IA

BA, in Accounting, Minor in Business Administration

1996 - 2008 Various continuing educational courses.

Covering areas such as: computers, skill building courses

for managers, quality, behaviors and team building. Some

courses lasted 8 hrs others were semester long

Volunteer

Work Board of Directors and Treasurer - APQC

JA teacher - assignment 8th grade enterprise in action

JA bowling

JA job shadow

Donate blood regularly

American Heart Association's Heart Walk

United Way day of giving

Girl Scouts 3rd & 4th graders

Association Picnic & Garage Sale

Technical Computer Skills: Fifteen courses including three advanced

Skills Excel Seminars, AS400, Query and Access.

Applications Experience: SAP, Windows, Word, Excel,

Access, Visio, Oracle, Quick Books, Quicken, ELKE, Prism,

Mainframe, Prism, WinLD, Kronos, Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes,

Impromptu, Lotus, Metafile, Acrobat, Paradox, JD Edwards,

Fas, ADP, Intranet SharePoint site and Internet.

*Award (certificate and bonus) given for work with SAP -

12/06

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