Manager Accounting

J. Brady Waites

**** * *********** **, ****** Mountain, SC 29075

803-***-**** ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND OBJECTIVE

Seeking to join a finance team and utilize vast manufacturing experience especially in financial reporting and costing to deliver improved results.

EXPERIENCE

Controller, Greenville, South Carolina

CMC South Carolina Steel December 2009 – November 2016 and February 2005 – January 2007

Built a top notch Accounting Team after years of Controller turnover and staff morale issues.

Perfected the Job Cost System in order to implement Cost to Cost Accounting on long term construction contracts.

Leading improvements to our production and contract management systems which will enable a smoother transition to SAP

Improved internal controls to meet SOX compliance

Project Systems Team Lead, Dallas, Texas

CMC PIP January 2007 - December 2009

Leader on the Fab Team which was responsible for three Rebar Fab Rollouts of SAP – CMC Central Rebar, CMC Rebar East and CMC Coatings

Led the Project Team in the Design, Development and Testing of several major interfaces to the aSa and Soule legacy systems

Led the conversion of thousands of existing contracts into SAP from the two major legacy systems and the creation a costing model as they were imported into SAP

Manager of Administration, Cayce, South Carolina

CMC Steel South Carolina September 2002 - February 2005

Managed the Accounting, IT and Purchasing Functions at the mini-mill in Cayce with an emphasis on improving the Team even as we downsized the Departments during the downturn of 2003

Instrumental in the creation, negotiation and ultimate collection of a business interruption claim due to a new furnace failure that netted the company ~ $10.5 MM

Achieved significant reductions in property and sales/use taxes

J. Brady Waites

1476 R Stoudemayer Rd, Little Mountain, SC 29075

803-***-**** ***********@*****.***

Controller, Columbia, South Carolina SMI-Owen Steel Company November 1994 – March 2002

Managed the Accounting and IT departments for one of the largest structural steel fabricators in the US. Implemented Cost to Cost Accounting on all the large construction contracts and was instrumental in the litigation on the Aladdin Project that netted CMC a large favorable settlement against a third party default insurance carrier.

Corporate Controller, Asst. Controller, Cash Manager, Credit Mgr., Staff Accountant Columbia, South Carolina Owen Steel Company, Inc. July 1975 – November 1994

Nineteen years of progressive management experience in manufacturing, construction, financial reporting, multi-state tax management, contractor’s license and authority to do business maintenance, cash management, credit and collections and consolidation of the 12 Owen companies including one mini-mill, five structural fabrication plants, six rebar fabrication plants, two joist fabrication plants, one miscellaneous fabrication plant, one shredder operation, and one construction supply outlet.

EDUCATION

BS in Accounting, Clemson University, 1975

SOFTWARE UTILIZED

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Ross ERP, SAP ERP, HFM (Financial Reporting), BPC (Financial Reporting), Custom Legacy Systems for Production Control, Contract Management and Job Costs

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