JOHN KURATOR

**** ****** *** ***** ****, Illinois 60403

779-***-**** ac5ejh@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkurator

Controller/Operations Finance Specialist

High level corporate and department specific experience in P&L, budgeting and identifying area of profitability and risk.Work with capital expenditure to show rate of return on investment to corporate. Responsible for expense and profitability for the vertical.

Extensive global and domestic inventory management experience with the largest manufacturer of telecommunication cable in the world, Andrew Corp /Commscope with control over 50% of the telecommunication market. Field of expertise is in variable length coaxial cable and microwave transmission lines. Solid floor to book, book to floor physical inventory experience as well as costing experience with bills of materials, material planning and sale and shipping.

Cost Accounting International Business Strategic Planning Team Leadership / Motivation Process Improvement

Technical Support Business Development Sales Cycle Management Green Belt

Inventory Management Budgetting Cost Reduction Lean Manufacturing Kanban

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Controller Computer Test Design Inc. 3900 Branden Road Joliet IL 60436 July 2017 – March 2018

Establish monthly budget and accruals for all monthly material and supply usage in addition to Capital Expenditure Allowances, vacation, personal time, bonuses and monthly incentive programs. Approved and authorized all facility expenses, including garbage, recycling, freight, repair and facility expense accounts. Evaluated labor hours to revenue generated using a three tier model that compare actual to plan to model for headcount and profitability.Prepared daily profit and loss statement, ran all reports to account for revenue and expenses, review contract for pricing for service labor agreements. Maintained data base with all revenue generating processes and matched them to weekly invoicing to customer. Month end defer any missed revenue to be picked up in the next month.

Review Oracle expense for parts, accessories and packaging issued to production as compared to BOM’s for component production and scanned into the OLP data base . Did month end closing and manual entries to move expenses and revenue to the responsible facility. Advised Branch Manager on financials and any special project that was needed.

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Created KPI’s for expenses, revenue,and invoicing for Set top boxes, accessories, modems and packaging

Identify risks and rewards per contract

Developed budget of facility and approved all expenses

Approved all expenses and Capital Expenditure Allowances

Staff Accountant Anderson Accounting a Business and Tax Consulting Firm February 2017 –March 2018

Specializing in S Corporation, Partnerships and their accounting and tax position.

Review revenue, allowances, expenses and generate K-1’s, reconcile Federal balance sheets with book and Profit and Loss with taxable income. Utilize quickbooks online link to reconcile entries to ledgers, evaluate book depreciation to depreciation on return and verify classification of assets, liabilities, loans to shareholders loans from shareholders, shareholders equity and retained earnings.We specialize in restaurant and grocerie store with special supply chain and inventory needs and numerous employees.

Auditor Supply Chain Services International at Caterpillar Joliet June 2016- July 2017

Audit machined gear pumps to verify they meet blue print dimensions for pocket depth, bore, counter bore, flatness, parallelism, perpendicularity, and all geometric tolerances. Disposition material at material review board, determine rework and scrap. Allocate scrap to cause departments and return to vendors parts that are non-conforming and being return for a credit.

Encountered issues with chain of custody for vendor scrap, parts were disappearing and not being returned to

vendor for credit. Created a vendor hold area and quarantined parts until they could be returned to vendor and

charged for labor hours.

Established chain of custody for vendor parts to be return

Established area and tag system to control and insure credit for non-conforming parts

Senior Inventory Control Coordinator COMMSCOPE/ANDREW CORP June 1986 - June 2012

Facilitated optimal inventory accuracy at all phases of the manufacturing process. Controlled and managed all inventory and warehouse managed parts through cycle counting using ABC indicators. Established processes to insure floor to book inventory and book to floor inventory accuracy this provides physical and system controls, Tracked material usage for standard costs. Analyzed manufacturing processes for scrap that caused variances in material usage, reconciled backflushed material to actual usage in SAP. Traced, corrected and transacted half held locations into finished goods inventory. Maintained cycle count records and inventory audits to maintain SOX 404 compliance. Made inventory adjustments and write-offs for raw materials and finished goods to provide accurate data for planning, operations, sales and shipping. Also conducted these activities at Goa, India facility and trained staff.

Identify risks and rewards for alternate machine utilization

Implemented 100% physical inventory, and cycle count by ABC indicator

Improved inventory accuracy from 85% to 98%

Scrap reduction by 50%

Increased production by 10%

Reduce reels in the yard by a third

Maintained 98% inventory accuracy for 5 years and were certified to eliminate physical inventory

Trained manager, planners, supervisors and inventory control in theories of constraints

Implemented my procedures domestically and internationally for inventory control

Created demand for short lengths at our India facility

Offered discounts for existing cable to create inventory turns.

Eliminated the use of sum batches to increase accuracy

Worked with unfavorable variances to determine actual cost

Created alternate BOM’s to identify actual cost of retro-fitting machines

Part of Executive Steering Committee, Compensation committee, and Safety Committee

Implemented 5s and Lean Manufacturing techniques

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting

Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois

COMPUTER SKILLS AND LANGUAGES

Microsoft Office Suite, SAP, Blockworks, Oracle, Hyperion Smartview

Other Job Skills

H&R BLOCK Minooka, Illinois 11/2015 to 04//2016

The nation’s most well-known tax preparation service.

Manager, Tax Specialist

Drive profit and loss and handle marketing, managing of tax professionals, customer complaints and all IRS and bank audit compliance. Increase new client growth and promote financial instrument to protect clients.

Achievements:

Faced a situation of low new client growth in the district. Partnered with local businesses to give tax talks and coupons for new clients while promoting their business to H&R clients. This generated 50 new leads with a 40 percent conversion rate

AFFILIATIONS

ICPA

APICS

National Insurance Producer

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