james tackett
Email: *********@********.***
Address: **** ****** ** *** ***
City: Greer
State: SC
Zip: 29650
Country: USA
Phone: 864-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $75,000
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iJAMES J. TACKETT
*********@********.***
4001 Pelham rd Apt 444 864 - 361-6346
Greer SC 29650
SUMMARY
Accounting Management Professional with extensive experience in the manufacturing industry. Proven skills in cost accounting, inventory control, Access Report Writer and System Programming, Excel, PowerPoint and SAP400. Excellent supervisory and communication skills. Maintained $400M in forecasting and budgeting.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HUBBEL LIGHTING, INC 2004 a 2012
Sr. Financial Analyst
Responsible for financial forecasting and budgeting to corporate and inventory and cost control for four facilities (reported to two V.P.'s and the CFO.
Controlled four facilities in creating the budgets, total of 4,000 employees.
Implemented new computer network system of SAP and report writer.
Worked on SAP
Monitor and manage manufacturing variances for entire facility, which includes product, cost, and labor efficiencies. .Assisted in the SIOP process for managing inventory control with forecasting.
Assisted in all inventory control management & responsible for maintaining the correct inventory levels..
Responsible for $400M in sales analysis by product breakout and established the breakout by product family.
CLAYTON MARCUS, DIVISION OF LA-Z-BOY, Hickory, NC 2001 a 2003
Controller
Responsible for financial reporting and budgeting to corporate and inventory and cost control for two facilities (supervise twelve employees).
Reduced inventory from 3.7 million to 2.3 million items in nine months.
Developed and implemented new standard costing system on Visual Manufacturing.
Monitor and manage manufacturing variances for entire facility, which includes product, cost, and labor efficiencies.
Assisted in Six Sigma, reorganization of assembly and shipping areas.
Responsible for conducting annual Physical Inventory count, as well as the overall success of Inventory Control.
Implemented MRP.
BFGOODRICH - DELAVAN SPRAY TECHNOLOGIES, Monroe, NC 1997 a 2001
Plant Controller / Assistant Div. Controller
Responsible for financial reporting to corporate and manufacturing costing for three facilities (supervise seven employees).
Reduced inventory from 7.1 million to 4.8 million items in nine months.
Implemented new computer network system and new software package.
Implemented new standard costing system on Visual Manufacturing.
Manage manufacturing variances for entire facility, which includes product, cost, and labor efficiencies.
The facility was relocated and closed. I was asked to relocated and declined.
Implemented MRP.
Served on team to relocated facility to Monroe, NC from Tennessee with direct responsibility for closing down accounting functions and re-establishing policy and procedures at new location.
CURTISS WRIGHT FLIGHT SYSTEMS, Shelby, NC 1996-1997
Cost Accounting Manager/Financial Analyst
Maintained and supervised all cost functions (supervised three cost analysts) for a $47M facility.
Prepared contract quotes on new programs to Boeing including detail on 767 and 7370700 planes.
Established cost accounting structure and helped streamline the quote process.
Established cost structures on all parts in facility.
Prepared quarterly reviews to Corporate on all flight programs, which included variance analysis and margins made on each program.
Maintained machine load analysis for entire plant.
Monitoring and managed all variations on the shop floor, which consisted of labor, scrap, and machine variations.
Maintained and monitored shop floor cost standards on employee utilization.
Assisted in developing the annual budget for Corporate.
Developed and implemented a cycle counting procedure to be used on the shop floor, which eliminated Physical Inventory Counts.
Used J D Edwards software package.
Voted employee of the Quarter.
E-Z-GO TEXTRON, Augusta, GA 1993-1996
Internal Auditor
Track annual sales and cost for production items at 30 locations, which consisted of $400M in sales.
Assisted in preparing annual budget and prepared tax schedules.
Assisted in General Ledger maintenance.
Prepared month-end reports for Corporate a Cash flow, Profit/Loss and various Cost schedules.
Supervised branch audits at 30 locations.
Team facilitator training coordinator.
Responsible for monitoring the annual physical inventory count.
BAKER-HYDRO, INC. Augusta, GA 1988-1993
Assistant Controller
Prepared monthly financial statements for an $11M facility.
Generated all monthly reports on sales and commissions.
Assisted other departments with internal control procedures.
Performed and managed the collection of past due accounts.
Responsible for year-end physical inventory count.
Reported all year-end tax filings.
Supervised the general accounting department, which consisted of three accountants.
Responsible for Inventory Control and Cycle counting for entire facility.
EDUCATION
WINGATE UNIVERSITY, Matthews, NC
MBA Program (Graduate May 2001)
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY, Columbus, OH
BS, Accounting and Business Administration (Graduate May 1988)
Training
Six Sigma Training a Green Belt
Team Facilitator Training
Productivity Improvement Teams a Team Facilitator
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Currently attending Clemson and teaching