Quality Control Accounting

ROBERT PARKEN

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Grovetown, GA 30813

Cellular 706-***-****

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Summary Detail-oriented Cost Accounting Professional with

solid understanding of cost accounting theory,

utilizing a hands-on approach towards research of

variances. Advanced Excel, Advanced Access, SQL and

ERP proficiency. Able to work well with all levels of

employees from production line worker to President.

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Skills . Cost Accounting . Financial Reporting . Inventory

Control

. Standard Costs . Lean Accounting . Cost Studies

. Activity Based . Budget Preparation . Variance

Analysis

. Job Costing . Cost Analysis . Operational Budgets

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Computer Skills . MS Access . MS Excel . MS PowerPoint

. MS Word . MS Publisher . MS Outlook

. Lotus SmartSuite . Internet Explorer . Windows 7

. AS/400 . SQL . MAS90

. ReportSmith . CrystalReports . ADP

. JDEdwards . Compleo . QuickBooks

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Experience

2008 - Present Application Specialist

Consultant Grovetown, GA

2003 - 2008 Cost Accountant

Augusta Sportswear Augusta, GA

. Recommended to President to change method of

applying import overhead to products. Developed new

method that reduced the huge monthly variance.

. Monitored, analyzed and reported on inventory

valuation, production and freight costs of monthly

import shipments.

. Manipulation of voluminous data via advanced Excel,

V-Lookup, Pivot Tables, etc. Developed recommendations

to President, CFO and Controllers.

. Streamlined standard costing process by eliminating

duplicate transaction reports. Thus saving hundreds of

pages of paper, man-hours, and computer processing

time.

2001 - 2002 Plant Controller

Newmark International Estill,SC

. Identified waste in manufacturing process by

performing value stream costing, resulting in pilot

version of Lean Manufacturing.

1999 - 2001 Senior Cost Accountant

Albion Industries Newnan, GA

. Daily interfacing with sales engineers, production,

procurement and quality control on various project.

. Presented comprehensive report to management on

costs by work center, used in standard costing and

pricing decisions. This was done on quarterly basis.

Costs were updated to using new rates

. Created cost reports created by SQL report writer of

JDEdwards. Complied information in an Access database.

. Coordinated and evaluated quarterly inventory counts

and valuations.

1998 - 1999 Cost Analyst

Magna Lomason Carrollton, GA

. Daily interfacing with engineering, procurement,

production, and quality control on various projects.

. Designed, developed and implemented software module

to build production budget.

. Developed ideas for continuous process improvements.

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Education

BBA, Accounting

Augusta State University Augusta, GA

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Training . Microsoft Office Application Professional Program, Augusta

Technical College, Augusta, GA. Completed over 200

hours classroom training that include projects on

critical applications such as Excel, Access, or

PowerPoint to demonstrate knowledge and think through

skills by performing real-world tasks.

. Train-the-Trainer, CompTia

. ReportSmith, ADP

. Lean Accounting, AICPA

[pic]Certifications . Microsoft Office Specialist, Microsoft

Corporation. (Excel, Access, and PowerPoint) . Silver

Level, Georgia WorkReady

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