Cost Accountant
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MICHAEL CERTINI
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SUMMARY
Progressive financial manager with proven leadership skills. An energetic and motivated manager with a leadership style built upon a foundation of effective communication, training and teamwork. Highlights of Expertise
Cost Analysis
Financial Analysis
Budget Preparation
Financial Models
Financial Statements
Financial Forecasts
Government Contracts
ERP Implementation
Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
Government Compliance
Strategic Planning
Business Case Analysis
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cost Accountant
BENTEC MEDICAL, Woodland, CA, May 2019 – January 2020 Medical Device Manufacturer
Managed a monthly physical inventory involving a work in progress review, physical count input into the pc/MRP ERP system and post count variance analysis.
Completed all plant work order transactions.
Post close, provided Excel charts for: inventory change, scrap, days sales in inventory, days payable outstanding and days sales outstanding.
Formalized the shop rate calculation and completed a mid-year cost roll-up.
Designed an obsolescence report and recorded a year end reserve.
Led a production work order process redesign effort to accommodate a more accurate work in progress valuation. This project involved presenting Visio process flow diagrams to the plant’s administrative staff as well as management in an effort to gain adoption. Upon project completion, picklists and kitting processes were adopted and better control over inventory issued to manufacturing was achieved. Lastly, standard operating procedures and work instructions were completed for the new processes.
Developed a product cost review project. This project encompassed designing a bill of material model separate and distinct from a research and development engineering financial model. Comparisons were then made between the two models and discrepancies resolved. Upon year end, 48 products representing approximately 75% of the prior year’s sales volume were reviewed and corrected within pc/MRP.
Created a training plan, developed training materials, a work order checklist and spreadsheet tools for a newly hired operations clerk. This successful interactive teaching effort allowed me to delegate this function. Cost Accountant (Contract Position)
CALIFORNIA HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, Foster City, CA, March 2019 – May 2019 Home Medical Equipment Distributor - 20M dollar company Senior Cost Accountant (Contract Position)
PENUMBRA, Alameda, CA, December 2017 – March 2018
Medical device manufacturer - 333M dollar company
Responsible for raw material, demo stock and finished goods inventory reserve adjustments for the Australian and European markets.
Responsible for the preparation of all inventory related balance sheet reconciliations and resulting input into the Blackline reconciliation portal.
Prepared monthly schedules and journal entries for the determination of intercompany profit elimination for demo, scrap, sales, purchases, inventory on hand, cost of goods sold and third party sales for Australian and European markets.
Prepared an inventory reserve roll-forward report for external auditors.
Designed a Microsoft Access database program to house in excess of 500K in records with associated Excel pivot table reporting for the monthly consolidated gross margin report. This effort reduced preparation time from 3 days to 1 day.
Senior Staff Accountant
TULARE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Tulare, CA – September 2014 – November 2017 Regional District Hospital – 267M dollar company
Controller
SIGNORELLO ESTATE, Napa, CA – December 2013 – January 2014 Winery Operation – 8M dollar company
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Senior Financial Analyst (Contract Position)
JOHNSON & JOHNSON - ALZA, INC. Vacaville, CA – September 2012 – May 2013 Pharmaceutical Manufacturer – Division of a 25B dollar company
Responsible for monthly raw materials, work in progress and finished goods reconciliations.
Completed monthly ALZA, and quarterly foreign affiliate, plant excess and obsolescence reserve reports.
Responsible for foreign affiliate inventory and month end transactions within SAP.
Completed intercompany sales transactions for a foreign affiliate and the resulting journal entry. Assembled periodic affiliate active pharmaceutical ingredient revaluation rebill, manufacturing yield, variance rebill, obsolescence disposition rebill and active pharmaceutical ingredient receipts.
Responsible for quarterly revaluation and manufacturing variance amortization journal entry.
Analyzed material disposition advice and discovered a 500K pharmaceutical ingredient cost understatement.
Discovered an excess and obsolescence reserve reporting error amounting to 436K and redesigned the spreadsheet report.
Cost Accountant
L3 COMMUNICATIONS - WESCAM, INC., Santa Rosa, CA – March 2011 – January 2012 Government subcontractor of national defense equipment – Division of a 15B dollar company
Completed a weekly cycle count audit report and assisted in the annual physical inventory.
Maintained an inventory growth forecast report and supporting pivot schedules.
Assisted in the development of a scrap policy and procedure.
Designed a net present value report for multi-million dollar cost analysis of government and non-government projects which included fixed price, cost plus fixed fee and time and material contracts.
Designed a project summary pivot report for reporting individual project costs and accumulated reserves. Senior Cost Accountant (Contract Position)
FORMFACTOR, INC., Livermore, CA – June 2010 – September 2010 International semiconductor probe card manufacturing firm – 135M dollar company
Designed Discoverer reports for scrap, estimated scrap, raw material, resource and overhead variances through a review of Oracle 11i technical manuals.
Advised the cost accounting department on Oracle infrastructure for the accounting of estimated and actual scrap. Plant Controller
BROOKS AUTOMATION, INC., Petaluma, CA – March 2006 – September 2009 International refrigeration manufacturing firm – 28M dollar company
Managed one cost accountant and two customer service representatives.
Completed periodic and year end cost rollups.
Compiled yearly plant departmental budget, capital budget, inventory plan, material cost down plan, labor, labor overhead and material overhead rate calculations.
Prepared monthly income statement and financial forecast for production and service profit centers.
Analyzed and presented monthly actual to forecast analysis report on account categories and departments.
Responsible for compliance with export regulations, tax regulations and company policy.
Monitored internal controls and prepared audit support for compliance with Sarbanes Oxley section 404.
Designed a business case analysis that involved eliminating sub-contractor repair services in favor of building an in-house repair service business. This yielded a savings to the company of .2M.
Designed two year business case analyses for the plant’s chief research and development effort that was instrumental in obtaining concept phase funding from corporate headquarters. Project was projected to cost 2.8M.
Created pivot tables and utilized Excel for ad hoc reporting. Senior Financial Analyst (Contract Position)
MEDTRONIC, INC., Santa Rosa, CA – January 2006 – March 2006 International medical device firm – 11B dollar company EDUCATION CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO, Fresno, CA Bachelor of Science – Accounting
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Excel Microsoft Access Microsoft Word Microsoft Outlook Microsoft PowerPoint Oracle SAP JD Edwards BPCS ASK Manman
QuickBooks Peachtree Solomon III MfgPro R&R Report Writer MTO Discoverer Hyperion-Pillar Crystal Report Writer Business Objects eCellar Microsoft SQL Server MedSeries4 Microsoft Great Plains QAD pc/MRP ADP TotalSource Microsoft Visual C++
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