JOHN J. AHERN
Madison, CT ***43
203-***-****, aceh21@r.postjobfree.com
Skills & Expertise
JD Edwards Access Excel - Advanced Process Improvement Green
Belt Six Sigma
Percent Completion Accounting Construction Strategic & Project
Planning
UTC, Windsor, CT
2013-2013
Robert Half Management Resources (5
Months)
Financial Analyst
. Performed monthly closing with 3 person finance team for $114M division
of UTC.
. Improved closing efficiency by creating model journal entries for all
standard entries, JD Edwards.
. Reconciled percentage of completion accounts, identifying contracts with
revenue opportunities.
. Support engineering department by providing financial data, EAC review,
Header and WPI input.
3M-Cuno Inc, Meriden, CT
1986-2008
Plant Controller
(10 years)
. Microsoft Access based sales and distributor analyses to executive,
marketing, sales, and operations departments, including on time delivery
performance, product requirements, capacity planning, etc.
. Teamed with the plant GMs and compiled 3 year strategic plans,
incorporating yearly fiscal plan from departmental budget detail to
profit and loss statements.
. Monthly / quarterly forecasts, analyses, spending trends, manufacturing
and purchasing performance metrics, including commentary and corrective
actions to upper management.
. Led "Manufacturing Finished Goods Team" established Kanban system,
reduced inventory 33%, reduced direct labor 33%, and improved on time
performance. Reduced product scrap and lead time, improved customer
satisfaction allowing growth of the business.
. Teamed with engineering on product launches to reduce cost of products in
manufacturing.
. Chaired weekly sales and manufacturing performance meeting with product
line directors.
. Provided return on investment calculations for capital spending projects.
. Tracked facility's capital spending projects actual spending vs. plan.
. Teamed with IT staff and users for system conversion from JDE to
JDE/PeopleSoft's Enterprise One, audit system output.
. Conduct cost analyses to improve operations and profitability. Also
providing "What IF" scenarios for anticipated changing business
environment.
. Improved inventory transfer system, reconciliation and pricing,
multiple product lines, domestic and international locations.
. Compliance; Finance Department lead internal representative with outside
auditors for "Cost Accounting" and "Inventory Control", Sarbanes-Oxley.
. Plant fixed assets, depreciation and construction in progress journal
entries, fixed asset audits.
. Optimize systems including AAI's to improve system reporting and
operational controls.
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JOHN J. AHERN
414 Race Hill Road
Madison, CT 06443
203-***-****, aceh21@r.postjobfree.com
Sr. Budget & Cost Analyst (Cuno Inc, Meriden, CT)
(4 years)
Budget & Cost Analyst (Cuno Inc, Meriden, CT)
(3 years)
Financial and Operations Analyst (Cuno Inc, Meriden, CT)
(3 years)
.
. Teamed with manufacturing Directors for improved profitability in
multiple product lines.
. Worked in New Product launch teams to re-engineer processes to drive cost
out of new products.
. Teamed with Purchasing Mgrs provided purchase price variance commentary,
contract review, and vendor analyses.
. Complete yearly cost rolls, physical inventory, BOM, routing, and
overhead reviews.
. Month end closing journal entries and Financial Statements preparation.
. Monthly General Ledger and P&L account analysis.
. Expense report analysis and account coding.
. Annual, quarterly, monthly U.S. Budget and Forecast preparation and
analysis.
. International Budget and Forecast consolidations.
Systems and Accounts Receivable Mgr (Purwater Inc, Pomona, CA)
(1 year)
. Automated the financial collection efforts, freeing up manpower to
concentrate on high value accounts.
. Teamed with corporate accounting department to ensure accurate financial
data communicated to parent company.
Systems Manager (Purwater Inc, Pomona, CA)
(6 months)
. Replaced manual Accounting system with an automated computer system. This
included interviewing software vendors and installing Sales, AR, AP, and
GL modules.
. Teamed with Operations to ensure on time performance.
. Supported corporate internal audit to insure successful financial audit.
. Completed successful physical inventories and overall inventory control.
Software Packages and Education
Green Belt Six Sigma, JDE, People Soft, Microsoft Office (Access, Excel
( VLookup + Pivot ), Power Point, Word)
College
(1986)
SUNY Buffalo, NY
B.S. in Business Administration
Concentrations in Marketing and Computer Information Systems