Cost Accountant/Analyst

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Summary

A seasoned Cost Accountant with more than 25 years of cost experience developing effective cost systems, by identifying major cost drivers for improved forecasting, reporting, and analysis for cost savings at each employment opportunity, while exceeding their monthly increasing reporting expectations.

Employment

Hauck Manufacturing Company, Lebanon, PA April 2001-Present

Cost Accountant

SAP FI/CO Monthly closings; G/L entries; variance analysis; forecasts; PPV; CGS; excess/obsolete

New Product and Special Product quoting; Provide Make vs Outsource analyses; Returns; Credits

Multiple overhead rates and work center cost allocation; Annual and Monthly Standard Cost rolls

SAP Sales Order Costing implementation for concise product line profitability reporting

Work with Operations to identify, forecast, and quantify a 5% year over year lean improvement.

Manage Annual Physical Inventory, analysis, and daily cycle count. Develop ad-hoc SAP queries.

Maxima Technologies, Lancaster, PA July 2000 to April 2001

Senior Cost Accountant

Cost System development and reporting for the Lancaster, PA, EL Paso, TX, and Juarez, Mexico

Budgets; forecasts; G/L; variance analysis; quoting; ECN/new product development cost analysis

Managed the Annual Physical Inventory process at all locations

Post Precision Castings, Strausstown, PA June 1989 to July 2000

Accountant / Manager of Information Systems

In the new position, developed the total Standard Cost System and reporting.

Assessed, procured, and installed all the hardware and software AS/400 computer needs and personal computers; Created AS/400 queries for the majority of the mainstream plant wide reporting

Designed; installed; trained personnel on custom real time shop floor Data Collection System which led to more efficient scheduling, increased productivity, and effective product cost analysis.

Supervised the AS/400 program conversion forY2K, and initiated the company’s first web-site

Musser’s Potato Chips, Inc., Mountville, PA April 1988 to June 1989

Cost Accountant

In this newly created position, developed all product cost yields for Budgeting, Inventory and Cost of Sales reporting analysis. EOM G/L entries; Managed Physical Inventories at several plants

Cleaver-Brooks, Lebanon, PA 1980 to April 1988

Accounting Department Supervisor (for Greenville, MS branch)

In this newly created position, supervised the Accounting Department of two employees

Education

University Center of Harrisburg, PA Major: Business Administration

GPA: 3.1

Accumulated 40 College Credits-Main Courses: Financial/Managerial Accounting; Cost Accounting; Micro/Macro Economics; Business Law I & II; Industrial Labor Relations; Principles of Management;

Special Training

SAP Certs for Cost Management, Product Cost Controlling, Actual Costing; ISO Certs for ISO 9001:2008 and 14001/18001 Auditor; Microsoft Office; SAP and AS/400 Query

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