Accounts Payable Accounting

PROFILE:

Results driven, incisive Financial executive with a proven track record of

root cause problem analysis, developing action plans, and corrective action

across all functional areas. Multi-national multid-iscipline manufacturing

background with an emphasis on Chinese finance, manufacturing and tax.

Able to meet multiple deadlines concurrently and deliver timely and

accurate results. Excellent training skills for finance as well as inter-

departmental functions. Strong multidiscipline application selection,

implementation and utilization skill sets. Superior analytical and

communications skills, with excellent work ethic and drive to succeed.

EXPERIENCE:

April 2008 Casco Products Corporation, Bridgeport, CT and

Casco Automotive (Suzhou), Ltd.

Controller

Casco is an OEM manufacturer for the automotive industry with seven global

manufacturing sites, in the USA, Brazil, China, Canada, Germany, Italy, and

Tunisia, with a diverse product offering. Annual sales revenues $120

million. Casco is a subsidiary of Sequa Corporation with revenues of $2

billion.

. Primarily responsible for supporting the financial and material

planning functions of Casco's plant facility in Suzhou, China.

Directed training for the financial staff on corporate accounting

policies and identified accounting irregularities in the Chinese local

books.

. Successfully modified system configuration and deployed shop floor

procedures to change shop floor transaction processing from work order

kit/completion to the back flush method of transaction processing.

. Initiated and deployed inter-company transfer pricing policy that

satisfied US GAAP requirements.

. Initiated process for reconciling accounts, and adjusted erroneous

balances.

. Developed Finance procedures and trained finance personnel which

provided for more efficient transaction processing while creating

straightforward audit trails.

. Headed the effort to update system user procedures and also audited

system data for adherence to proscribed procedures.

. Re-implemented the companies ERP system, iScala from Epicor,

justified additional user seats, and was responsible for user

security, as well as upgrading software to the current release level.

. Responsible for and developed five year forecasts, annual budgets,

monthly forecasts, and KPI.

November 2005 - April 2008 Bredensteiner & Associates, CPA's, St.

Charles, MO

Chief Auditor and IT Manager

Planned, executed and prepared audits of Bredensteiner and Associates

clients, which comprise diverse accounting environments. Audit clients

included construction, commercial mechanical contractors and manufacturers,

non-profits, and funeral homes.

. Implemented and utilized automated software for the collection of

audit data and generation of financial statements. Supported firm's

network administration, software upgrades, backups and client

workstations.

. Recommended, supported, validated and prepared cost justification for

changing suppliers of the tax preparation software used by the firm.

The change resulted in increased throughput of tax returns for audit

and write-up clients.

January 2003 - November 2005 Casco Products Corp. Bridgeport, CT

Plant Controller

. Supervised accounts payable and accounts receivable functions and was

on site cost accountant for two US manufacturing plants, located in

Kentucky and Mississippi. Provided the leadership to correct

inventory, accounts payable, un-invoiced receipts, accounts

receivable, cash and inter-company accounting out of balances which

resulted in a significant accounting write-off. Assigned by the

president of the company to travel to all other Casco subsidiaries in

Canada, Brazil, Europe and Tunisia to provide leadership in accounting

issues. Examined the situation and provided root-cause problem

resolutions.

. Increased transaction throughput of accounts payable and accounts

receivable functions by using a team oriented approach to identifying

non-value added activities.

. Redesigned the Casco chart of accounts for migration to the QAD ERP

and set all system configuration settings.

. Instituted procedures for monthly account reconciliations for

inventory, accounts payable, accounts receivable and inter-company

balances.

. Improved the quality of cost accounting information by researching and

correcting erroneous parts in BOM's and routings.

. Initiated improved internal control procedures to control master file

input into the ERP system.

. Composed audit plan and passed parent companies SOX audit.

May 1997 - January 2003 The Support Group, Inc. - Austin,

TX

Manager Implementation and Training

The company is a third party solutions provider for the MANMAN and

Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS) ERP applications market. Client

contract engagements were from singles to over a year in duration.

. Project managed the implementation and upgrade of ERP systems and

train users to maximize applications.

. Developed and presented to client companies training programs, process

review programs and data cleansing programs.

. Delivered to client companies real-world solutions to their specific

problems and if contracted made the data base changes recommended.

. Installed new add-on applications and populated data from legacy

applications. Client companies represented a multitude of products

manufactured and accounting disciplines. . Have worked in various

manufacturing disciplines for short and long-term assignments.

. Well versed in all accounting, sales, and operations applications

functions and taught Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Master

Production Scheduling (MPS) concepts.

March 1988- May 1997 Alvey Systems, Inc. - St. Louis, MO

January 1995- May 1997 Director of ERP Applications

Responsible for planning and executing data migration, implementation, and

training of the MANMAN MRP II applications for White Systems, Inc.,

revenues of $50 million and Busse Brothers Inc. revenues $20 million from

legacy system after purchase by Alvey, Systems.

Supported user population 150 at Alvey and its subsidiaries with product

knowledge, re-engineering, and re-implementation services for the above-

mentioned applications.

. Established and directed the Internal Quality Audit program in support

of Alvey's ISO 9000 certification. Supervised twenty-five part time

internal quality auditors from a cross-section of the operating

functions of the company. Alvey was awarded ISO 9001 Certification in

May 1996.

. Recommended and justified the purchase of add on software products to

eliminate print and mail solution with faxed forms to suppliers and

customers.

. Recommended and justified the purchase of a software product which

eliminated all pre-printed forms and replaced those forms with laser

generated graphical forms on stock paper.

March 1988 - January 1995 Alvey Systems, Inc. - St. Louis, MO

Controller

Responsibilities included general accounting, cost accounting, payroll,

accounts receivable, fixed assets and accounts payable.

Supervised accounting staff of seven professionals, five clerical, and an

office services staff of four. Generated detailed monthly operating

statements for more than eighty departments and monthly financial

statements for corporate management. Cost accounting was in an engineered

to order projects cost environment, with percentage of completion revenue

recognition and progress billings.

. Justified and deployed migration from service bureau payroll

processing to in-house and also end user report writer for data

mining.

. Reduced monthly closing process by two working days.

. Reengineered the Accounting function and was able to absorb a 60 %

increase in revenues, while maintaining staff levels by making process

improvements and eliminating non-value added processes.

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, University

of Missouri-Columbia

CERTIFICATIONS: CPA - State of Missouri Licensed State of Missouri

MEMBERSHIPS: Financial Executives Networking Group, Missouri State

Society of CPA's

SKILLS: Proficient with Microsoft Office Products, Excel, Word and

Access, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Open Data Base

Connectivity (ODBC) tools, trained in six sigma

manufacturing improvement processes.

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