Manager Sales

G. MITCHELL WARD MBA, CPA

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***** ** *** ****** * 405-***-**** C 405-***-****

Yukon, Oklahoma 73099 abnjxk@r.postjobfree.com

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Summary

Financial Executive / Controller who is result oriented with extensive hands on experience in all aspects of corporate

accounting, financial management, budgeting, cost controls and taxations issues. Strong background in diverse

industries and multi-facility businesses.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chief Financial Officer 2008 - Current

Oklahoma City Manufacturing Company – Design and manufacturing of machinery for reeling and coiling

of wire, cable, tubing, wire rope fiber optics, etc. Customers include manufacturers, utilities, communications,

governmental agencies, aerospace, and oil and gas companies both nationally and internationally.

• Supervise all day-to-day accounting functions including accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, fixed

assets, notes payable, accrual accounts, and prepare financial statements and bank covenants reports.

• Develop company static and flex budgets and forecasts. Provided follow up on variance from forecast.

• Responsible for insurance negotiations (health, dental, liability, property, and workers compensation).

• Advise owner on all financial manners both business and personal.

• Interface with company auditors, bankers, and attorneys.

• Currently working on providing job cost information including time and labor guidelines, and bill of material

costing.

• Interface with company consultant to improve compliance in areas of workman compensation and OSHA

regulations.

• Working closely with accountants and attorneys on all due diligence manners associated with May 2009 sale of

company.

• Teamed with director of operations to convert to purchasing companies ERP system.

Cooper Cameron Corporation 2003 –2008

Materials Manager - Cooper Cameron Corporation (July 06 – Jan 08) – Transferred to main OKC manufacturing

facility and worked directly for plant manager on special projects which pertain to operations and finance. Current

examples include:

• Master planning scheduling, i.e. supply and demand analysis on SAP MRP system.

• Reduction of inventory shortages at approximately 25 consignment locations scattered throughout the country.

• Supervision of interim bins (i.e. inaccurate plant transactions involving shipping and receiving, inventory

adjustments, quality nonconformance reports, returns to vendors, etc).

• Interim Operation Manager – Served as on site supervisor for approximately 75 employees at Moore

manufacturing facility.

Controller – Cooper Cameron Corporation - AOP Industries, Inc. (December 2003 – December 2005) – Manufacturing,

importing and distribution of a full line of valves including gate valves, ball valves, check valves, needles valves and

chokes. (Cameron purchased from Precision Castparts Corporation – December 2004)

• Supervised all day-to-day accounting functions including accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, fixed

assets, notes payable, payroll taxes, intercompany and accrual accounts. Preparation of monthly (2 days after

month end), quarterly, and annual financial statements for submission to division office in Houston.

• Prepared company annual budget, variances from budget and quarterly forecasts.

• Supervision of standard cost accounting system and reporting of variances to company operations management.

• Communicated with division office in Houston and prepared all monthly analytical reports including various

financial bridges, international sales, intercompany inventory, flex profit and loss, cash projections, inventory

ratios, A/P and A/R ratios, operating working capital, cash flow reporting, sales per employee, shipping

performance and scrap/rework.

• Supervised testing and compliance of controls relating to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

• Administration of all company benefits including health and dental insurance, vacations, 125K, and 401K

(trustee). Negotiate company medical insurance. (with AOP Industries before Cameron acquisition)

• Accounting for Romania sister company US operations.

• Led changeover from DOS based ERP system to SAP ERP system.

• Initiated many time savings ideas to simplify financial reporting through file linking, data mining, use of excel

pivot tables thereby substantially increasing available hands on time to spend with general manager, sales and

operations personnel to increase revenues, decrease expenses, and increase facility efficiency.

• Teamed with Six Sigma black belt to quantify inventory turns by product line, reduce on hand excess inventory,

increase inventory turns (from 1.6 to 3.0), and decrease stock outs of high selling inventory items.

• Teamed with sales and operations (through use of pivot tables and data mining) to increase revenues by identifying

sales trends either by part, by customer, by product line, by region, and reduce stock outs.

• Teamed with materials manager to improve forecasting through use of data mining and pivot tables, thereby

reducing excess on order quantities.

• Teamed with corporate safety personnel to substantially reduce lost days due to accidents by identifying types of

accidents, employees with recurring accident history, and top of mind awareness in facility.

• Teamed with operations personnel to change inventory from warehouse inventory type system (no bin locations)

to complete bin locator system.

Chief Financial Officer / Controller 1998- 2003

Pro-Fab Inc - Manufacturer of precision component parts and assemblies for the aerospace and defense industries;

fabrication of wellhead equipment for the oil industry.

• Supervised all day-to-day accounting functions including accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, fixed

assets, notes payable, payroll taxes, and other accrual accounts, and prepared financial statements.

• Developed company budgets and forecasts. Provided follow up on variance from forecast.

• Converted cost accounting system from a retail type system, to a fully interfacing absorption cost system.

• Successful conversion of financial and administrative portion to new Vantage ERP software.

• Responsible for all inventory and work in process valuation, testing and physical counting of all raw materials,

finished goods, and finished components.

• Responsible for insurance negotiations (health, dental, liability, property, and workers compensation) and

administration of company benefits (as trustee) including health, dental, 125K, and 401K.

• Interfaced with company auditors, bankers, and attorney.

• Advised general manager and owner on all financial manners.

Vice President / Controller 1986-1998

Magnum Foods / dba Little Caesars Pizza

• Managed all accounting department functions for up to seventy-five (75) Little Caesars restaurants including cash

accounts, accounts receivable, Inventory carrying amounts, lease maintenance and renewals, fixed assets, franchise

fee, franchise fee amortization, notes payable, line of credit, trade payables, payroll, taxes, royalties, and all other

accrual accounts.

• Served as member of the Board of Directors.

• Directed first EDI test nationally for direct interface from Little Caesar’s national food distribution facility to

franchisee general ledger for all weekly food invoices.

• Responsible for insurance negotiations (health, dental, liability, property, and Workers Compensation).

• Coordinated the conversion from Unix operating system to Windows Network.

• Developed weekly direct mail program from point-of-sale system.

• Developed hourly, daily, and weekly labor goal guidelines based on sales and average hourly wages.

• Interfaced with operation employees on problems with product costs (food, paper, and labor), telephone, electric

kilowatt-hours, cost controls in cleaning and operational supplies, Workers Compensation loss control, repair and

maintenance and advertising.

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Master of Business Administration –University of Central Oklahoma

Bachelor of Business Administration – University of Oklahoma

Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt Level 3 and 6 Sigma Champion

SKILLS

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Access (including use of ODBC drivers)

Progress Report Builder (Data Query from ERP Software)

SAP variants and layouts

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Public Accountant – (Passed all parts in one sitting)

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