JOHN KURATOR
**** ****** *** ***** ****, Illinois 60403
779-***-**** **********@*****.***
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