Manager Customer Service

Brooks R. Robinson, CPA, MBA, MSCS

**** *.*. *** **, Blue Springs, MO 64014

Home Email: **************@*****.*** Cell: 816-***-****

Professional Summary

I am a senior financial manager with exceptional technical skills, specializing in the extraction and analysis of a variety of financial and manufacturing data, and conversion into usable information.

Skills and Proficiencies

GAAP Reporting

Microsoft Office

Process Reengineering & Automation

Government Contracts

Financial Project Management

Project Management

Data Analysis

System Implementation

I.T. System Administration

Computer Programming

Employment

LMI Aerospace/Valent Aerostructures Kansas City, Missouri

Valent Aerostructures is a Tier 2 supplier of machined aerospace parts and major assemblies with 8 locations across Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Their largest customers include Boeing, GKN Aerospace, Gulfstream, Lockheed Martin, and Spirit Aerosystems; providing them $140M in revenue. They were acquired by LMI Aerospace is December of 2012. LMI Aerospace is a supplier of structural assemblies, kits and components, and a provider of design engineering services to the commercial, business and regional, and defense aerospace markets with annual revenues of $400M+.

Assembly Center of Excellence Controller December 2014-October 2015

* While maintaining responsibility for the accounting requirements with the Valent group of companies, added oversight of two additional LMI assembly facilities.

* Integrated reporting across multiple financial reporting systems for weekly and monthly updates of financial and manufacturing data.

Valent Aerostructures Controller December 2013-December 2014

* Responsible for all accounting functions with the Valent Aerostructures division of LMI. This includes all AP, AR, GL, Sarbanes Oxley, Financial Analysis and other corporate requirements.

* Developed a multi-company detailed budget model. This model allowed for reorganization of manufacturing facilities and the impact of shifting work from one location to another.

* Worked closely with senior LMI Accounting and Management to bridge the gap in understanding and integrating the Valent group of companies into the larger LMI Aerostructures group.

Valent Aerostructures Director of Accounting and IT August 2010-December 2013

* Implemented and streamlined financial analysis and reporting systems including financial statement preparation, detailed cost of goods sold analysis, intercompany margin identification and elimination.

* Implemented Global Shop ERP system at 5 locations.

* Implemented various ERP operational improvements including advanced forecasting & scheduling for kanban style customer demand, consignment/vendor owned inventory systems invoicing and inventory management, and hardware back flushing.

* Created various models and reporting systems for sales reporting by customer and platform, budgeting, etc.

Alliant Techsystems Inc. Independence, Missouri

Alliant Techsystems (ATK) operates the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. This is a Government Owned-Corporate Operated plant that produces all the small caliber ammunition for the U.S. armed forces. Post 9-11 ATK was asked to ramp up production from 300 Million rounds per year to over 1.2 Billion rounds per year. To accomplish this task, they were funded with $300 Million is various contracts. The revenue from this facility is in the $1.0 Billion range.

PROJECT ACCOUNTING MANAGER March 2009-August 2010

* Financial Management/Oversight of all Non-Production Programs, including Modernization, Green Ammunition development and production, Production Based Support, Facilities, and Capital Expenditures.

MODERNIZATION IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER March 2008-March 2009

* Work with various levels of ARDEC and PM-MAS Management for project oversight.

* Supervision of 8 project engineers and 5 project areas.

MODERNIZATION FINANCE MANAGER March 2007-March 2008

* Focused Cost Management, Analysis and Reporting on a $242 Million dollar Army funded Modernization program.

* Integral part of the development of our Earned Value Management (EVM) reporting system methodology.

PROJECT ACCOUNTING MANAGER June 2005-March 2007

* Management of Proposal and Accounting Staff

* Financial Management/Oversight of $35M Army funded Capacity Expansion program, $40M Facilities Contract, $5M of other projects, $5M Annually of Capital Expenditure Projects, and $1M Annually of Internal Research & Development Projects.

* Responsible for $40M Annually of Bid and Proposals.

* Streamlined reporting of our Budget Versus Actual (BVA) system, reducing reporting time from 8+ hours down to 15 minutes.

* Analysis of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Department of Defense Supplement for FAR (DFARS) as applied to Cost Type and Fixed Price Contracts.

* Developed and internal reporting system for Project Managers to more efficiently identify their budget and spending.

Chance Rides Manufacturing, Inc. Wichita, Kansas

Chance Rides Manufacturing is North America’s largest amusement ride manufacturer with revenues from $20 Million to $30 Million. Their core competence has been developing high-draw rides for the portable amusement industry. Their focus lately has changed to more of a park market.

ACCOUNTING MANAGER/CONTROLLER March 2001-June 2005

* Management of Accounting Staff (A/P, A/R, HR, IT, General Accounting).

* Responsible for all financial statement preparation and presentation.

* Retained responsibility for management of the ERP systems.

* Developed multi-level actual costing system which provides insight into material and labor content of end specific products and providing a variance analysis.

ERP SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR May 1999-March 2001

* Due to unavoidable Y2K issues with our previous ERP system, managed and performed the complete implementation of our Fourth Shift ERP system, allowing the continuation of efficient manufacturing operations.

* Managed the implementation of payroll/labor data collection system resulting in the elimination of manual keying errors and providing real time labor updates to the ERP system.

* Developed a data collection and reporting system to facilitate the annual physical inventory using bar coded tags to rapidly enter physical counts of inventory into a database, making possible real time analysis of the inventory counts and allowing rapid selection of areas for recount.

* Created numerous external reports focusing on various aspects of financial and manufacturing operations including cash planning, stock room operations, shop floor reporting, customer service, and purchasing.

* Integral member of financial tasks team, essentially a think tank to solve problems on a company wide basis. The team was responsible for reengineering and simplifying business processes.

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT November 1997-May 1999

* Created a multi-company, multi-product manufacturing budget model that provided more accurate forecasts of inventory levels and cash position.

* Streamlined the financial reporting process by integrating Access and Excel with an ERP data source, eliminating manual entry of account balances and automatically generating financial statements that were more readable and less prone to reporting errors due to account omission.

* Responsible for budgeting, financial statements, forecasting, general ledger, international financial statement consolidation, and various taxes

Certifications

CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT

Kansas Certificate #9351

University Education

Wichita State University

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Degree Conferred: May 2004

Wichita State University

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Degree Conferred: December 1996

Wichita State University

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Majors: Finance; Real Estate & Land Use Economics, Minor: Accounting

Degree Conferred: December 1994

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