Sales Accounting

STEVE R.BLASHKIW

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI. 49504

616-***-**** (Home)

616-***-**** (Cell)

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Career Summary: Highly talented professional individual in search of a

Financial Cost / Analyst Accounting position with a growing company that

encourages teamwork and will provide me the opportunity to use my

diversified background that I gained in diverse manufacturing industries.

EDUCATION

December 1971 Western Michigan University

B.B.A IN ACCOUNTING

1983 to Graduate Level Coursework, Western Michigan

University

1985 Advanced Accounting Theory and

Advanced Costing

1998 / 1999 CMA Review Course, Grand Valley State University

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Peachtree PC -based Accounting System

for Manufacturing, Fixed Asset Software (FAS), BNA, Platinum PC

Accounting, MAPICS AS 400 and IFM, Acc Pac Accounting, Goldmine, SAP,

Lotus 1-2-3, Crystal Reports, Trans4m Manufacturing and Accounting

Software, Ideas Financial Reporting Software.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WyzAnt.com, Grand Rapids, Mi,

August 2010 to Present Tutor (Intermediate Accounting,

Advanced NPV, IRR Modeling and Excel for Financial Modeling including

PivotTables, Vlookup and using Charts.

Frost ET (Division of Frost Inc), Walker, Mi

October 2009 to March 2010 Contract Accountant (Year-End

Assignment)

. Assisted the General Manger with year end Accounting activities; major

accomplishment involved becoming familiar and working independently

with Peachtree Accounting Software to perform A/P invoice processing,

date control and batching, A/R functions, daily billings, reviewed

past due accounts, prepared aging analysis, some collection inquiries,

posting weekly payroll into the G/L and prepared monthly accrual,

setting up recurring journals, generated financial statements,

identified key spending items that affected profitability and cash

flows and reconciled Balance Sheet accounts.

. Year-end inventory planning, counting, tag control and reconciled

physical inventory to general ledger.

Grand Rapids Controls, Rockford, Mi

February 2007 to October 2008 Cost Accountant/Analyst

. Developed profit plans by part number, gross margin, and detailed

spending levels for SG&A

. Developed China Profit Study utilizing various foreign currency rates

(RMB) and developed gross margin and profit analysis by part number.

. Identified annual cost changes for material, freight, labor and burden

elements.

. Journalized weekly payroll and month end accrual, some collections

activities and aging analysis.

. Prepared monthly financial analysis comparing actual versus plan,

updated scorecard and metrics.

. Analyzing monthly inventory activity; material receipts, labor

reporting and efficiency variances, cost of sales transactions, scrap

reporting, cycle count adjustments, purchase price variances,

manufacturing spending variances and routing variances.

Contract Consulting Position, (K-Force Professional Staffing, G.R.,

Mi)

May, 2006 to February 2007 Contract Cost / Budget Consultant

. Consulting assignments (Grand Rapids Controls)

. Worked closely with General Manager and management team to aid their

comprehension of cost data; review cost systems and development of

profit plans; developed assumptions, manning tables by department,

labor rates by labor classifications, expanded general ledger

accounts, cost allocations of indirect cost centers, burden

development, determining appropriate rule of applying burden,

identified that some of the burden was attributed to material costs,

developed labor and fringes analysis, updated plant burden rates for

approximately 100 work centers, generated monthly Gross Margin report

by customer and part number and identified LCM issues.

. Revised financial statements to reflect activity for 3 major product

lines.

. Implemented absorption standard costing for financial reporting,

inventory valuation and quoting.

. Developed profit plans by part number, gross margin, and detailed

spending levels for SG&A.

. Other Consulting assignments (Dematic Corporation) consisted of budget

development for Marketing and Selling divisions, reconciling budgets

in SAP to the original budget prepared in a Excel workbook, complied

6+6 (6 months actual +6 months forecast) for FY06, developed FY07

budgets based on previous year spending and applied economic

assumptions for appropriate expense account.

Kamp's Pallets Walker, MI

May 2005 to September 2005 ASSISTANT TO CONTROLLER

. Managed A/R receivable functions and collection activities for all

five divisions.

. Assisted in general ledger applications, account analysis, accruals

and monthly sales tax returns.

. Identified some of the scrap was used in the processing of mulch (a by-

product of pallet scrap).

The Home Loan Center, Grand Rapids, MI

March 2003 to April 2005 SENIOR MORTGAGE BANKER

Suspa, Inc. Grand Rapids, MI

February 1991 to March 2003 CONTROLLER

Financial Reporting, Costing and Process Improvements

. Responsible for the integrity of the financial statements, established

product line statements, developed detailed participative budgeting

techniques.

. Established and maintained an absorption standard cost system and

enhanced with ABC costing.

. Extensive foreign currency experience for foreign purchases,

determined financial impact on profitability as well as the impact on

inventory.

. Developed a formal monthly financial package that identified company

overall performance and contributions from the product lines, detailed

plant and support spending levels.

. Identified change in profit arising from sales mix from product lines,

pricing conditions, comparison to budgets and previous comparable

periods.

. Eliminated annual physical inventories by implementation of a cycle

count inventory system and reducing the inventory cycle counts

adjustments to an acceptable level.

. Automated commission reporting for sales reps, developed sub-

systems to meet reporting requirements.

. Automated labor efficiency, developed scrap reporting system that was

based on reason codes.

. Asset management skills; reduced the number of days in the collection

process by 30 days and

worked closely with materials management to reduce inventory by

$6,000,000.

. Established cash lock box system to enable timely receipts, manage

cash float and eliminated handling of in-coming mail and preparing

internal daily bank deposit slips.

. Implemented on-line banking that monitored all cash activity by

monitoring cash receipts from lock box system (collections) and

planned weekly disbursements from the Payable module.

. Hands-on experience with securing financing options, modified line of

credit and new lines were established for new asset acquisitions.

. Implemented time and attendance systems for plant employees interfaced

with payroll system, worked closely with a small group of personnel to

develop rules prior to implementation date, maintained security codes,

and identified reporting needs.

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