Jeri Craig *** Beck Rd Williston, SC ***** acp21o@r.postjobfree.com 706-***-****

Significant financial analysis, cost, and accounting experience in manufacturing. Proficient communicator at all levels of management reporting variances, financial results, and opportunities for improvement.

Budgeting/Forecasting

Presentations

Financial Reporting

Project Tracking

Lean Manufacturing

Allocation Standards

Division/Standardization

Develop Financial Targets

Analysis Recommendation

Expense Control

Cost Accounting

Data Collection/Evaluation

Masonite International Corporation, Denmark, SC; 2013-Present

A $2.03B United States based company that designs, manufactures, and sells interior and exterior doors for residential new construction; the residential repair; renovation and remodeling; and the non-residential building construction markets worldwide.

Controller

Responsible for annual plan and budget, financial targets, financial review and reporting, weekly & quarterly forecasting, month end accounting activities. Maintain standard cost; inventory controls; and manage inventory counts. Analyze variances, approve purchase orders, weekly scorecard reviews, and manage project savings.

Developed physical inventory process & reduced physical inventory count by one day.

Developed and implemented standard work for production and reject reporting.

Implemented standard SOX compliance process for entire plant.

Navistar International Corporation, Blythewood, SC; 2011 – 2013

A $9.713B United States based holding company that owns the manufacturer of International brand commercial trucks, MaxxForce brand diesel engines, IC Bus, and is a private label designer and manufacturer of diesel engines.

Financial Analyst

Responsible for R&D project management, setting financial targets, financial planning, forecasting, and annual budget. Analyze variances, approve purchase orders, hold spending reviews with platform mangers and negotiate statements of work.

Implemented SAP Project Systems Module.

Implemented an accrual process.

Worked with programming consultants to design system specifications for reporting and operational needs.

Developed standards for internal audit.

Developed and implemented standard allocation methods, standard reporting, and standard processes.

Carlisle Tire and Wheel, Aiken, SC; 2010 – 2011

A $900m global manufacturer and importer of agriculture, ATV, golf, aviation, trailer, lawn and garden tires.

Financial Analyst

Responsible for annual plan and budget ($900m), Vice President reporting, setting financial targets, financial review, global inter-company transactions, and month end accounting activities. Analyze variances.

Developed month end closing process with established time lines.

Reduced closing period by 4 work days.

Implemented standard work for accounting team.

Developed and implemented standard budget process for administration departments.

Panduit Corporation, Cumming, GA; 2007 – 2010

An $800m global manufacturer of Unified Physical Infrastructure based solutions that give enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a

smarter, unified business foundation

Financial Analyst

Responsible for annual plan and budget ($800m), Analyzed variances related to sales, P&L, and manufacturing, etc. provide interpretation and recommendations based on analysis. ROIs and Capital Investments, Financial targets based on sales plan, set standard costs, managed projects, created performance measures such as KPM’s, Business Dashboard, Forecasting, and Project Tracking. This was a management level position.

Restructured a 32 department production floor into an 8 department operation with shared cost and developed efficient resource rates.

Led two Lean Manufacturing book studies, Creating a Lean Culture and Practical Lean Accounting, as well as Kaizen training to employees.

Led Kaizen events eliminating waste and improving process flow including multi-division inventory reduction of 30%.

Led a project for multi divisional standardized costing process resulting in development of process including resource rate set up and analysis.

Lean Manufacturing participant and driver.

Solo Cup Company, Augusta, GA; 2006-2007

A $1.6 billion company exclusively focused on the manufacture of single-use products used to serve food and beverages for the consumer/retail, foodservice and international markets.

Senior Production Planner

Responsible for planning production of production departments, 14 trophy machines, 2 printing presses; forecast plan, coordinate machine conversions and extruder process. Maintain inventory and packaging supply needs.

The elimination of a Cost Analyst position afforded me a new experience of Senior Production Planner with very little guidance. I embraced the challenge and kept the production floor moving and inventory levels up without falling short of customer demands.

Within a short amount of time production packaging supplies were being ordered using JIT methods and on hand inventories were reduced. An agreement was made with our main supplier to make deliveries twice a week instead of once a week.

Cost Analyst

Responsible for month end accounting and reporting functions, standard costing system, production and labor costs.

Improved and updated Bill of Material process and accuracy.

Worked to reduce a large variance that had been reported for many years involving resin and back flushing of production work orders. Analyzed accuracy of back flushing and corrected to reduce material variance. Analyzed method of measuring resin for accuracy to reduce material variance.

International Paper, Augusta, GA; 2001 – 2006

A $25.7 billion International manufacturing paper and packaging company.

Cost Accountant

Responsible for month end accounting and reporting functions, budget preparation; maintained KPMs and scorecard reporting; responsible for internal and external audit requirements including preparation of Sarbanes-Oxley Audits.

Member of the Mills Cost Savings Task Team and Strategic Planning Team.

Supported the inventory team in multiple inventory cycle counts both onsite and at offsite warehouses.

Analyzed machine variances due to down time, weighted paper rolls, bad material, broke, rewind, and other machine issues.

Worked with the Engineering team to maintain capital projects were within in budget. Also maintained a government bonded wetlands project.

Skills

Proficient knowledge and use of SAP and Oracle, Microsoft Project, Business Objects, Excel (including V-lookups and Pivot Tables), Power Point Presentations, Mainframe Applications, PPR Omega, Crystal, Word, Lotus,, Hyperion and a large variety of computer software.

Education

Brenau University, Gainesville, GA

Masters of Business Administration (MBA)

Major: Business / Leadership Development

May, 2009 3.5 GPA

Brenau University,

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

Major: Accounting / Business

May 2006 3.70 GPA

Member Phi Theta Kappa International Scholastic Society

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