Administrative Assistant Accounts Payable

SHELLY M. ORMS

**** ***** ***** ****** ( Mogadore, Ohio 44260

330-***-**** ( *****@*****.**.***

SENIOR COST ACCOUNTANT / COST ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Financial professional with more than 15 years of experience driving cost

efficiency and savings in a manufacturing environment. Demonstrated

analytical strengths with a history of using data about profit margins and

variances to recommend corrective actions and process improvements. Proven

ability to drive reporting accuracy and provide decision support. Adept at

developing annual standards for labor, material, and overhead. Excellent

interpersonal skills including training, development, and supervision.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) ( Cost Accounting ( Variance Analysis (

Cycle Counts

Annual Operating Plan ( Physical Inventory & Auditing ( Standard Cost

System ( Technical Savvy

Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) ( Cost Reduction & Avoidance ( Root Cause

Analysis ( GAAP / GAAS

Automation ( Inventory Control ( Financial Systems ( Process Development &

Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SEALY, INC., Trinity, North Carolina & Medina, Ohio ( 1998-Present

$2B global mattress manufacturer.

Area Bill of Materials (BOM) Coordinator (2008-Present)

Maintain adherence to new and revised BOMs for 5 manufacturing plants.

Audit BOM and materials usage on site weekly to uncover any deviations from

established best practices. Recommend solutions to lower the incidence of

production variances, and report to management on potential options. Review

and approve or deny requests for inventory write-offs from each plant.

. Trimmed plant excess and obsolete inventory by $300,000 annually by

writing variances to specifications and winning approval to substitute

comparable products to reduce excess.

. Ensured adherence to specification audits by using expert knowledge of

production floor and system processes to create step-by-step procedures

and report templates for production floor and system processes.

Corporate Perpetual Inventory Coordinator (2005-2008)

Promoted to Corporate Cost Accounting to administer the new Perpetual

Inventory System across 17 national plants. Interfaced daily with Corporate

Finance, Plant Finance, Internal Control, and IT as liaison for

enhancements and procedure changes. Controlled, coordinated, reconciled,

and reported $10M in import warehouse inventory. Performed monthly audits,

and evaluated and analyzed root causes of production and financial

variances. Analyzed cycle count and PPV.

. Developed a compelling case to build a US-based production plant to

reduce the costs of maintaining and warehousing a heavily used imported

product.

. Introduced a process to analyze and average scrap factors from 16 plants

with 12 different commodities and 3,000 SKUs/plant on an annual basis.

. Improved payment quantity accuracy and control for unit-of-measure

conversion tables at each of the 17 plants in the region.

. Streamlined and automated the documentation, reporting, and reconciling

processes for month-end journal entries, in-transit accrual, vendor

receipts, and general ledger to ensure compliance with federal

regulations.

. Designed processes and controls to automate vendor invoice payments and

reduce manual Accounts Payable workload from 16 to 3 employees.

. Honored with an award for "Far Exceeding" performance levels.

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SEALY, INC (continued)

Senior Accounting Coordinator / Inventory Coordinator (2005)

Ensured accurate and timely records and controls for the new Perpetual

Inventory System. Identified and analyzed cycle count variances. Solicited

feedback on the new system, communicated requests for enhancement to IT

staff, and tested system improvements for user satisfaction.

. Named a key member of the Perpetual Inventory Rollout Team and helped

develop and deliver training for controllers, inventory coordinators,

material planners, plant managers, and accounts payable and production

employees in 17 plants.

. Created detailed documentation for the new Perpetual Inventory Procedures

Database.

Inventory Coordinator / BOM Coordinator (2002-2005)

Performed monthly updates and closing for cost and inventory programs.

Monitored and analyzed scrap trends to continuously improve efficiency and

reduce cost. Maintained BOMs and data rates. Drove compliance with SOXA

procedures.

. Identified the need for enterprise-wide system enhancements and persuaded

the Regional Vice President of Finance to support new inventory and

operating procedures to allow real-time tracking of raw material usage

and production flow in 17 plants nationwide.

. Avoided costs by finding untapped solutions within the company's existing

enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that proved instrumental to

enhancing inventory tracking.

BOM Coordinator / Assistant Material Planner (1998-2002)

Maintained manual raw material inventories and recommended timing and size

of purchases to maintain the lowest possible inventory. Coordinated orders

to avoid costly expedited shipping.

. Selected to participate in multiple continuous improvement initiatives

and Kaizen events, and played a key role in boosting productivity and

safety while trimming inventory.

. Earned a "Far Exceeds Performance" Award for excellent contributions to

workflow and safety.

ACE PRECISION INDUSTRIES, Akron, Ohio ( 1993-1998

$1.5M machine shop.

Administrative Assistant

Maintained invoicing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, tax

preparation, bill of material, inventory control, purchasing, and outside

labor using electronic accounting systems. Validated quotes against actual

production costs for pricing, packaging, and shipping. Developed machining

quotes from blueprints and processed customer orders. Created shop routers

and certifications for parts manufacturing and assembly.

. Developed a new employee manual, including creating all new

documentation.

. Transitioned the accounting system from a tedious, outsourced, manual

process to Peachtree accounting software.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

Minor in Computing & Information Technology

Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Peachtree, Quicken,

Access, Lawson, BAAN, Oracle, Hyperion, Java Programming

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