Manager Sales

Brian Madej

** *** ***** **., *********, New York 14086

Home: 716-***-****

Cell phone: 716-***-****

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OBJECTIVE: Seeking a position that utilizes my knowledge, skills and

abilities. A results oriented, decisive individual with proven success

through strategic thinking, attention to detail and problem solving.

The ability to work well as a team leader, or member, in order to

achieve direct and indirect goals and initiatives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2001 to Present - Thomson Industries (Formerly API) Amherst NY -

Senior Cost Accountant

. Direct reporting responsibility to the Controller located in

Amherst NY, and indirect responsibility to Operations Managers.

. Responsible for all Cost Accounting functions related to the

reporting entities located in Amherst NY and St. Kitts in the

West Indies.

. Duties include maintaining the Std. Cost structure in the

Thomson ERP system (Syteline) by performing monthly cost updates

and coordinating the annual standard cost roll. Facilitator for

the daily Cycle count program and responsible for directing the

annual physical inventory at all locations.

o A member of a multi-department team that reduced the on

hand Inventory in Amherst NY by $1.1 million dollars in a

12 month period.

o Enhanced the Std. Cost structure by instituting a Bill of

Material review process with Engineering and Operations

departments. Partnered with the Engineering department to

generate an electronic Engineering Change Order (ECO)

notification process to further reduce BOM errors in the

Cost structure.

. Responsible for generating Std. cost information for new

business quotes as required by Product Line managers. The

quoting process requires coordinating information from

Operations, Purchasing and Engineering in the manufacturing

facilities.

. Performing weekly analysis of Scrap, Material usage and Purchase

Price Variance for all locations.

. Performing all General Ledger entries related to Payroll,

Tooling, Sales/Cost of Sales, Inventory, Manufacturing Variances

and Excess Obsolete Inventory for the Monthly, Quarterly and

Year end accounting periods.

. Responsible for monthly Account reconciliations related to Cost

accounting activities in both manufacturing facilities.

. Cost Accounting contact for internal Sarbanes-Oxley audit

activities.

o Member of an internal audit team that performed Sarbanes-

Oxley testing at other Thomson locations..

. Generate weekly wire transfers for Incoming/Outgoing Freight

bills processed through an outside vendor.

. Generate monthly wire transfers for International vendors and

any other wire requests as needed.

. Responsible for reviewing and approving weekly Accounts Payable

check runs and associated Debit memos with vendors.

. Daily reporting of Shipments, Backlog and Inter-Company sales

into Hyperion, the financial reporting software for all of

Thomson.

. Backup support for daily posting of shipments for both

manufacturing facilities.

. Educated in the Toyota Production System (TPS) concept of "Lean

Manufacturing" as presented by Thomson. Attended many Kaizen

events in Amherst NY and other Thomson locations. These kaizen

events encompassed Assembly and Machine Shop environments as

well as support areas such as Purchasing, Accounting and Human

resources.

. Finance team representative for the re-location of the Planetary

gearbox business from Ronkonkoma Long Island to Amherst New

York. This transition required migrating information from the

legacy system, SAP, to the Amherst ERP system Syteline.

1996 - 2001: Motorola Inc - Elma, New York - Cost Accountant

. Direct responsibility of Cost accounting activities for Sensor and

Autobody production lines.

. Responsible for maintaining Std Costs in the Oracle ERP system, and

performing the annual Std. Cost roll.

. Responsible for reviewing an approving Engineering Change Notices, and

Stock disbursements prior to them being processed in the Oracle

system.

. Generated a weekly Profit and Loss Flash report for Product line

mangers and the facility Controller. This flash report was used weekly

and as a forecasting tool on a as needed basis.

. Responsible for tracking Capital spending projects and maintaining the

Fixed asset system.

. Leader of the Motorola Standards of Internal Control team for Elma NY

- This was a self audit team that performed annual audits and worked

in conjunction with the external Auditors.

. Finance representative for the Integrated Business System (IBS)

Project. Since the Motorola ERP system was not compliant for the Year

2000 this team reviewed potential new ERP systems. Once the decision

was made to use Oracle, this team then became the implementation team.

The team converted and tested the new system prior to launch, and then

became instructors for all users in the facility. The team in Elma

also helped test and launch Oracle in Motorola facilities in England

and France in 2001.

1993 - 1996: Elf Atochem - Tonawanda, New York - Plant Accountant

. Direct report to Plant Manager and Controller in Philadelphia

PA.

. Manager of a staff that included an AP associate and Payroll clerk

. Responsible for all General accounting and Cost accounting activities

for the Plant.

. Managed capital projects with engineering staff and processed all

Fixed asset activity

. Prepared Quarterly forecasts and the annual budget for the plant and

R&D departments.

. Directed the annual plant physical inventory and cycle count process.

. Member of the team that transitioned the plant to SAP R3 as the new

ERP system.

. Local representative for Corporate project to reduce month end close

from 4 days to 2 days.

1989 - 1993: Elf Atochem - Tonawanda, New York - Accountant

. Prepared and processed all weekly and monthly journal entries.

. Prepared weekly Inventory reconciliations for the Controller

. Prepared weekly input of Payroll activity for the Plant and R&D

departments.

1988 - 1989: CAO - Head Start Program - Buffalo, NY - Accountant

. Direct report to Head Start Program Manager

. Processed all Payroll and Accounts payable activity for the program.

. Worked with Program Manager to prepare annual budget and funding

request.

1987 - 1988: Brock, Schecter and Polakoff CPA's - Buffalo, NY - Accountant

. Prepared Personal tax returns for clients of the firm.

. Worked with Senior Staff members in the preparation of corporate tax

returns.

. Performed bookkeeping duties for smaller clients.

. Performed audit work for clients in Buffalo and Rochester NY

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:

1983 - 1987 - Runner's Roost - Buffalo, New York - Salesman

. Responsible for opening or closing the store.

. Worked with store owner in ordering process for the store.

. Responsible for training new employees

EDUCATION:

. BS in Accounting from Canisius College, Buffalo, New York 1987

. Graduate of Kenmore West Senior High School 1983

SOCIAL AFFILIATIONS:

. Lancaster - Depew Sertoma

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