Rachel J. L. Cahall

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Highly skilled Accounting professional who has a Six Sigma Green belt with a background in using team buy in and creativity to improve business processes that increase productivity and reduce costs. Saved $300,000 annually through labor efficiency project. Saved $420,000 in working capital annually by reducing raw material inventory. Reduced Accounts Receivable by 35%. Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to make well thought out decisions. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Over ten years of experience supervising a staff of up to five employees.

Core Competencies:

•Expert Level MS Excel •BS Reconciliations •Lean Manufacturing

•Cost/Variance Analysis •Budgeting •Database Administration

•Audit Experience •Month end analysis •System Implementation

•Annual Forecasting •Greenbelt Six Sigma •SQL

Azek/TimberTech Wilmington, OH 2019-Current

Senior Cost Accountant (managed staff of two)

• Created SOP and processes for month end accounting functions, cycle count and inventory

• Created an asset process working with multiple departments and project managers

• Improved process for Capitalized PPV reducing time and steps

• Audited assets, found over 300k in assets that had been disposed of but still on asset list

IMI Precision Engineering Brookville, OH 2015-2019

Cost Accountant

• Improved Balance Sheet Reconciliations reducing time and increasing clarity

• Created process to reduce daily work orders for review daily from 300 to 20

• Created strategy to reduce inventory lead planning team that reduced inventory from 2.9 to 2.3 million in cost

• Acted as Project Manager for VAVE, over 150k of savings

• Created and documented SOPs for cost accounting and month end process

• Created annual standard rates for direct, indirect, variable and fixed overheads and forecasted absorption

Huhtamaki, Inc Franklin Ohio 937-***-**** 2004-2015

Business Analyst/Cost Analyst and Mainsaver Database Administrator

• Weekly analysis of cycle counted inventory, current raw material on hand, standard production variance and labor variance.

• Presenting findings to management, including any variance from budgeted amounts.

• Weekly analyzing current expenses and variances from budgeted amounts in all departments.

• Analyzing monthly spending trends and forecasting end of month results. Analyze shop (work) orders actual consummation compared to standard production cost.

• Managed projects to improve the process of sample runs, and new business.

• Tracking spending on CEP capital projects and reporting to key management on progress and current and forecasted expenses.

Education and Credentials: Bachelor's degree with a major in Small Business Management, Commerce at Miami University. Graduated 2019 December Cum Laude Honors with Distinction. Graduated from Miami University, Oxford OH with an Associate Degree in Business Software. Cum Laude with Honors with Distinction GPA 3.67 Member of the Honor Society and Phi Theta Kappa

Notable Projects include:

o Project Leader CI raw material forecast: Led a group of five employees in a CI project designed to increase our efficiency in forecasting raw material needs and reducing working capital. Analyzed current usage and found historical trends in the data to formulate a logical target of on hand raw materials. This project has saved us over $400,000 a year, by reducing our paperboard on hand, decreasing freight costs and outside warehousing costs. Decreased our paperboard on hand from fifty to twenty three days on hand, freeing up space in warehouse and working capital.

o Accounts Receivable Reduction: Reduced accounts receivable collection days by 35% at Ample Industries.

o Rate Based/ELS Project Leader: Worked with several Project Managers from other locations and our internal management team to create one, two and four week rate based run scenarios for our three pound tray family. Created a comparison analysis on economic lot size that was used to more accurately price our finished goods and for our budget forecasting. After it was presented at our annual controller meeting it was requested by other folded carton locations for their internal use and was deemed the best demonstrated practice for analyzing economic lot size. Replicated workbook for other North American facilities.

o Aged/Slow moving inventory tool: Created a multi query tool that combined the previous four quarters of inventory along with their opening balances, to analyze the inventory turnover and isolate obsolete inventory. Formulated fields to flag new items, under one year. Used accounting information to track cost associated with product used disposal costs. Re-created tool for our New Vienna and Batavia locations. Several employees had tried to create this tool over several years and all failed.

o Champion for Morale Boosters: Championed the company’s initiative to increase employee morale. After initial meeting with employees created two separate committees, one for the company newsletter and the other as a donation committee, both of which I was voted in as the head. Our donation committee gave to dozens of organizations, while staying within our strict budget. Championed an initiative to bring E-learning to our office staff under Ample Industries.

o SMS Administrator: In charge of implementing our customized computer based ERP system for tracking inventory, including BOM’s. Instituted SOPs for every role and task used in the system, from creating BOM’s to cycle counting inventory. Wrote all reports and queries used to maintain database accuracy including, cycle counts and recall documentation. Helped create and maintain a multi-table database using SQL. Created reports using Crystal Report Writer. After completion of the project our inventory accuracy was improved by 65% and ensured compliance of AIB, SILICOR and Subway audits. Able to reduce monthly inventory to annual with cycle count program.

Pfizer, Inc. Franklin, OH 2001-2004

Worked in the Lab and became experienced with ISO 9000 record keeping.

Notable Projects at Pfizer include:

o Validation Project Manager: Ran multiple Software Validation projects for the accounting department, including customized accounting software, 4th shift. Trained on MS Project and project management theories, including Gantt charts, Six Thinking Hats, Lean Manufacturing, SIPOC, fishbone diagrams, RACI, DMAIC process, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen

o Accounts Payable: Worked in Accounts Payable in every part of the accounting cycle, including month end audits, receiving payments, creating invoices.

Software Experience:

JD Edwards, SQL, Expert MS Access, Expert AS/400, MySQL, Tableau, SPSS, ADP, Paycor, Paychex, Peachtree, Expert Level MS Excel, Expert MS PowerPoint, Java, MS Project, SMS ERP, MiniTab, Mainsaver, Crystal Report Writer, Cognos, Sybase, BPCS, InfoMaker, MS Visio, ETQ, WordPress, Web design, Mattec

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