Rebecca Busch Tusing
* *** * *** **** ( Syracuse, IN 46567 ( ********@*****.*** (
Accounting Manager with corporate accounting experience with strong skills
in budgeting and forecasting, supervision, financial statement preparation,
cost accounting in a manufacturing environment, and a Sarbanes Oxley
process developer and documentation champion.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Medtec Ambulance Corporation, Goshen, IN 02/2006 - Present
Accounting Manager / Cost Accountant
. Member of the Cost Reduction team to lead efforts by all department
and production to reduce cost in the company by $1.2M in the current
fiscal year.
. Develop part numbering protocol, control, and documentation necessary
to implement electronic purchase order entry and invoice processing to
facilitate standard costing, inventory transfers between plants, and
perpetual inventory in the warehouse.
. Review and prepare monthly financial statements, journal entries,
audit schedules, and management reporting including budget to actual
variance analysis, manufacturing variances including material and
labor variances, departmental expense reporting, and charts for labor
hours and concessions for a $60 million subsidiary of a publicly
traded company.
. Provide cost/profit margins by model to management to improve
production scheduling and sales.
. Direct, coordinate, streamline, and reconcile quarterly physical
inventory process for a multi-plant manufacturing company and
implement written procedures on the process of physical inventory.
. Review and audit bill of materials and develop actual costing for
product lines.
. Supervise month end close and complete year-end tax schedules for
outside auditors.
. Create yearly budgets and monthly forecast and bridge analysis.
. Develop capital expenditure analysis for proposed new products and
fixed asset additions.
. Champion of the Sarbanes Oxley program to ensure adequate controls are
operating within the plants and corporate office. Develop and perform
site visits and document findings. Document and flowchart processes
in company.
. SEC reporting requirements for Corporate including 10Q Supplemental
Reporting.
. Assisted in designing a warranty database and procedures to record,
track, and report claims to management and provide root analysis to
production.
. Reduced part sales aging by 50% in current year by tracking warranty
part returns and developing procedure for processing sales orders
electronically.
. Develop and implement procedures to streamline "vendor return parts
for credit" process.
Crowe Horwath, LLC, Elkhart, IN 09/2005 - 02/2006
Staff Accountant - Temporary Position
. Prepare corporate, partnership, and individual tax returns. Review
and compilation engagements.
. Fixed asset and depreciation maintenance for clients in various
software.
Creative Financial Staffing, South Bend, IN 03/2005 - 09/2005
Temporary Senior Staff Accountant
. Sarbanes Oxley 404 documentation and flow-charting for Medtec
Ambulance Corporation.
Ameri-Camp, LLC, Syracuse, IN (Company closed and out of business)
05/2004 - 03/2005
Controller
. Provide leadership for the accounting department including payroll,
human resources, accounts receivable, billing, transportation,
accounts payable, and general ledger for a $20M manufacturing company.
. Daily cash management and transfer of funds between banks.
. Review actual costing of raw material inventory, audit bills of
materials for cost accuracy, and prepare reporting of model gross
margin analysis.
. Prepare monthly financial statements and management reporting relating
to inventory, sales, general and administrative expenses, detailed
variance analysis by GL account number and P&L line item, and budget
to actual analysis.
. Develop and maintain financial procedures and controls.
. Prepare yearly budgets that include P&L, detailed expense statements,
balance sheet, and monthly forecast analysis.
. Financial review of all customer rebates and marketing programs to
assure the company targets are met or exceeded.
Actia Corporation, Elkhart, IN 02/2002 - 5/2004
Assistant Controller
. Manage credit and collections and accounts receivable for a $25
million company. Reduced part sales receivables by 50%.
. Review standard inventory costing - material BOM, scrap usage and
source, and labor routings, reconcile perpetual inventory at month-
end, analyze material variances and provided corrective action to
decrease variances and increase inventory accuracy.
. Prepare quarterly intragroup reconciliation and journal entries with
other foreign subsidiaries, including exchange rate calculations and
elimination journal entries.
. Prepare month end and year-end closings, audit work papers, general
ledger reconciliation, bank reconciliation, and financial statements.
Starcraft Corporation, Goshen, IN (Company closed and out of business)
09/1985 - 01/2002
Assistant Controller
. Progression of positions within the accounting department: Bankruptcy
trustee, assistant controller, manager of financial planning, division
assistant controller, general accounting manager, and accountant for a
$300 million, multi-plant manufacturing facility.
. Supervisory experience including accounts payable, payroll, accounts
receivable, fixed assets, general accounting, cost accounting,
transportation dispatch, and credit and collections.
. Reduce Accounts Receivable days outstanding from 90 to 45 days.
. Assist in month-end and year-end closings and the year-end audit.
. Review departmental expenses and prepare analysis against budget and
provided senior management with variance analysis and operations
feedback.
. Consolidate and prepare multi-division monthly and quarterly financial
statements.
. Review and develop divisional and corporate budgets.
. Manage physical inventory and inventory reconciliation for four
plants.
. Prepare sales analysis by product line, sales commissions, and
government census reports.
. Prepare sales and payroll taxes.
. Close down operations in all plants, sold assets, and prepared
bankruptcy filings.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Accounting Indiana University - Fort Wayne,
Indiana
Certified Public Accountant Licensed by State of Indiana
COMPUTER SKILLS
Software: Excel, Word, Access, SBT, Symix, BEST (fixed assets),
QuickBooks, Lawson, Hyperion, Visio