****HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Results-oriented individual with experience in Product Cost Estimating with Proposals, Unit, and Standard Cost, creating various costing templates and analyzing models, and working with Program Management, Engineering, Purchasing, and Sales on design change notifications.

• Prepare annual budgets, involved with Inventory audits and numerous LEAN activities.

• Organized, able to prioritize and problem solve, able to communicate to all levels of management, able to work independently or as part of a team, prompt and reliable.

• Demonstrated track record of implementing new software systems to enhance proposals and championed the costing area for the implementation of a new MRP system.

• Technically proficient in Excel, Access, IQMS, JD Edwards, E2, MRP systems, and Proposal Software.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cost Accountant

Best Sanitizers Inc. Walton, Ky. Oct. 15- Feb. 23

$50 Million Soap/Liquid/Wipe Sanitizers, 100 employees

• Program Manager of the new ERP Implementation Team.

• Review the standard cost of manufactured parts and recommended changes.

• Daily go into the system Module (PIT) Physical Inventory Transactions and do a journal entry for Manually moved parts and Raw Material parts that were received and process all Work orders individually to see the variance per work order.

• Prepare Monthly Financial Reports to the parent company (Saraya Japan)

• Approval of all Non-Inventory purchases and track what is being bought.

• Help prepare new fiscal Labor, Variable O/H, and Fixed O/H rates also use the Earn Value Method.

Cost Accountant

Anderson Manufacturing, Hebron, Ky. Jan. 14 – Oct. 15

$36 Million Gun Manufacturer, 125 employees

• Review the standard cost of manufactured parts and recommended changes.

• Using the Internet order site to keep track of inventory sold and received in Packing Slips through the MRP system to update current inventory.

• Establish new Manufacturing Labor rate along with Indirect and Fixed Overhead rates.

• Controlled the Cycle Counting and updated the inventory sheet daily.

• Create numerous excel files to track trends of parts sold, Margin on each part sold, and enter the credit card sales into the MRP system daily.

• Was the lead on the 1st physical inventory they had and established procedures to be followed.

• Was lead on a Mock ATF audit for the location of serial numbers in the plant and reconciled all discrepancies from the Acquisition and Disposition Records software – 3 moth Process

• Worked with UPS Engineers to come in and help reorganize the order fulfillment area to help flow process and inventory parts location in areas where utilized

Cost Accounting / Estimator Oct. 03 – Jan. 14

Standex Electronics, Cincinnati, Ohio / ATC-Frost Magnetics, Oakville, ON.

$50 Million Transformer Manufacturer. 300 employees in 3 separate mfg. plants

• Generate product cost information for sales to quote a part price to customers.

• Set up, implement, and maintain the standard cost of material, labor, and overhead in the MRP system.

• Develop and implement cost change findings with engineering change notice control procedures.

• Prepare journal entries and analyze inventories for material/labor variance.

• Analyze labor/material variance between current and standard costs and resolve discrepancies.

• Develop yearly labor, overhead and material budget for the Canadian facility.

• Created various reports that have reduced time in responding to customers with price changes on current products and analyzing accounting reports by importing information from MRP to Excel

• Championed the costing area for the implementation of a new MRP system. (Fourth Shift)

• Involved with numerous LEAN team activities looking for Continuous Improvement Processes and doing time observations for process improvement and standard labor accuracy.

• Audit annual inventory with tag accuracy, data entry, and recount activity.

• Purchase production supply/engineering sample parts/machine shop supplies

Cost Analyst – Inventory Control

Performance Assembly Inc. – Natura World, Cambridge, On. Jun 03 – Oct 03

Office supply manufacturer – bedding manufacturer. 60 Employees

• Set up economic order quantities for all products to help reduce the inventory build-up of parts and to help track program schedules.

• Checked and changed all BOMs for accuracy to how the product is built.

• Created an analyzing tool to compare quotes from various vendors.

Cost Analyst (Program Controller)

GOODRICH Corporation - Landing Gear Division, Oakville, ON. Nov 01 – Nov. 02

$200 Million Division of Aerospace Landing Gear. 700 Employees

• Lead analyst on a $3 Million contract.

• Implemented Non-Recurring Cost (NRC) “actual to budget” tracking process along with an Estimate to Complete with Percent Complete data. This formed an Estimate to Complete cost that management compared to Sold Budget.

• Tracked standard cost for production material and labor.

• Helped set up a Program Visibility Board to quickly review program metrics.

• Set up Proposal/Pricing format for quick results to help reduce the change notes backlog and update the program profitability model with these changes.

• Involved with program BOM, setting escalation percentages for forward pricing, transferring manufacturing operations from site to site, and manufacturing hour tracking sheets.

• Assist with preparing the 2003 business plan and was involved in 3 inventories.

Cost Analyst

Xetron Corporation, Cincinnati Ohio Aug. 00 – Apr. 01

$40 Million military electronics & communications manufacturer. 275 employees

• Responsible for 10 active contracts.

• Implemented a new method for Bi-monthly program forecast that reduced input and reporting time.

• Prepared cost estimates from purchasing, engineering, quality, and mfg. engineering, program management, shipping/receiving, and other cost centers for business units using MPM.

• Helped in the preparation of business plan information.

• Tracked weekly hours/dollars and analyzed variances.

• Tracked all anticipated, in-house, or submitted proposal activity weekly.

Cost Analyst

KDI Precision Products, Cincinnati, Ohio Sep. 97 – Aug. 00

$47 Million privately owned military electronic fuzing manufacturer. 315 employees

• Responsible for 17 active contracts

• Prepared cost estimates from Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Mfg. Engineering, Program Management, Shipping/Receiving, and other cost centers for business units.

• Implemented new proposal software that reduced data entry by 50% and cut input errors by 20%, which gave the proposals a professional look.

• Created a unit cost profile “actual to budget” of all major programs using current and previous 2 jobs. This showed labor, overhead, material, G&A, and margin trends. This identified any problem areas and was used for future bidding comparisons.

• Created a new format for the upcoming year’s business plan linking spreadsheets together. This process allowed the headcount and cost to complete information to be brought together and reduced input time drastically.

• Worked with the production team to help improve and solve issues with the way actual costs were collected in the MRP system.

EDUCATION AND COMPUTER SKILLS

Bachelor of Arts in Accounting, Northern Kentucky University

Associates Degree in Managerial Accounting, Cincinnati Technical College

Software/Internal Systems – Excel, Access, ACCPAC, MYSYS 2000, Lotus, MS Word,

MS Projects, Windows, QuickBooks

Proposal Software – ProPricer and Micro-Frame Program Manager

Mainframe and MRP System – Fourth Shift, Quantum, Western Data Systems, CINCOM, E2, IQMS

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