Rasoul Nowroozi

Irvine, California

SAP Finance

641-***-**** * adg4oh@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Accountant and Financial Analyst with 10+ years of experience in diverse industries. Excellent communication skills, focused, self-driven, detail-oriented, innovative, highly ethical, team player, leadership skills and adept at managing priorities and meeting deadlines. Highly skilled in project management of multiple engagements. Associate degree in Civil Engineering -Construction Management, B.S. in Customs Management, MBA - Finance, MBA - Accounting, CMA candidate.

Core Competencies

• Certified XBRL(USA ) • Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor • Financial Accounting• Financial Analysis • Financial Modeling • Financial Statements & Management reports • Accrual and Cash Basis Accounting• Cost Control Analysis • lowering cost of operations • Internal Auditing • Cash Management• Cash Forecasting • Cost and Revenue Analysis• Earned Value Management• Variance Analysis • Monthly Closing and Account Reconciliations • Budgeting •Analytical skills • Construction Management • Microsoft Office, Excel skills Pivot Tables• V-lookup • SAP• Oracle/NetSuite• QuickBooks • CPA-FAR• CPA-AUD • IFRS• FASB and US-GAAP • GAAS• Sarbanes-Oxley(SOX) • Incoterms • Letter of Credits• Purchasing • Logistics• Customs Tariffs (HS Codes);

Professional Experience

Senior Financial Analyst – Cardinal Health Inc - Columbus, USA – Feb, 2020 to Jul, 2020.

Notable Achievements:

Decreased distributor billback claim amounts by $1000,000 by investigating their transactional claims with our internal SAP records.

Responsibilities:

Investigating the finance operations and Billbacks transactional claims/variance reports including but not limited to agreements, customers, materials, acquisition and contract cost variances by using SAP, Pivot tables and V-lookups;

Internal auditing and reinvestigating the resub reports and reviewing the spreadsheets and remaining variances;

Providing professional cooperation with our external customer representatives and our internal finance teams including but not limited to our agreement team, master team and pricing team;

Following our internal guidelines and procedures for GPOs and local agreement issues and connection request;

Increasing our market share and cash flows by keeping our customers and distributors satisfied by connecting them to the higher Tier agreements regarding our LOC and GPO roster files whenever it was applicable.

Senior Accountant – Hexion Inc – Columbus, USA – May, 2019 to Dec, 2019

Notable Achievements:

Decreased overdue invoices from a pile of more than 7000 invoices and make them current according to terms of payments.

Responsibilities:

•Validating and posting vendor invoices including indirect, freight and raw material invoices, expense report reimbursements and credit memos in SAP by VIM / Vendor Invoice Management module;

•Conducting invoice authorization by using our offline contracts, guidelines and DOA for Non-PO invoices;

•Processing payments to vendors within SAP and coordinating bank payment releases with Business Partners (Cassport for our outbound freights) and doing internal audit control and reconciliations;

•Conducting PO exceptions process and Non -POs and coordinating resolution with the Procurement teams, PO buyers and site PO requester asking for coding and approval for miscellaneous surcharges or line items with more than 10 percent variance over PO lines;

•Conducting a periodic review of the invoices which were blocked for payment and facilitating their release according to agreed payment terms or reaching out to buyers for approval on down payment and prices and investigating suspected duplicate invoices and obsoleting and parking duplicated or those they were already paid by credit cards;

•Cooperating with our tax team and short pay invoices due to our tax guidelines for manufacturing equipment considering different tax codes for US and Canada;

•Replying to our vendors` inquiries and investigating their statements and gave them the last payment status or payment date and cooperating with our Treasury department to pay due invoices on time on our daily payment run and release them;

•Requesting our vendors to switch to our Electronic Invoice System and updating our vendor master files and encouraging them to provide us ACH or Wire Transfer details for timely payment;

•Participating in the Accounts Payable end-to-end process to ensure timely and accurate vendor payments in-line with agreed payment terms and within the agreed upon Service Level Agreement (SLA);

•Performing monthly review and reconciliation of down payments, deposits and account payable accounts.

Cost Accountant – Honda R&D – Raymond, USA – June, 2018 to April, 2019

Responsibilities:

•Responsible for monthly budget reports for divisions and monitoring and adjusting their indirect costs;

•Monitoring budget revision support for divisions by comparing Press Released(PR) budgets Vs Actuals and preparing landing forecast (LF) budgets which include remaining budgets and actuals;

•Providing leadership support for cost burden rule between Ohio office and parent office in Japan by sending reports and RFQs via SharePoint and lotus tools;

•Monitoring the RFQ and POs and coordinating with division windows on payments.

Senior Accountant – Jacobi Carbons – Columbus, USA – March, 2018 to June, 2018

Notable Achievements:

•Decreased overdue invoices for AR accounts by $1200,000 by following up with clients and found solutions to release the parked invoices, some parked for taxes or freight fees and surcharges;

•Decreased days sales outstanding by 10 and reached from 55 days to 45 days.

Responsibilities:

•Preparing and recording asset, liability, revenue, cost of goods sold and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information in Oracle/NetSuite;

•Maintaining balances accounts and balance sheet accounts reconciliations including bank reconciliation by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies with adjusted journal entries;

•Maintaining general ledger by transferring inter-company accounts, preparing a trial balance, reconciling entries;

•Assisting in cost accounting, adjusting the landed cost and Global Trade (miscellaneous) Accounts payable (AP):

Handling import & export invoices received from Kuehne Nagel-our forwarder- calculating the port cost, ocean

freight and customs duties upon receiving the invoices and comparing with our PO which resulting processing

Invoices or parking the invoices due to substantial variances;

•Summarizing financial status by collecting information and preparing the balance sheet and profit and loss;

•Assisting with customer credit evaluation via getting reports from our business partners agencies like Experian or by intuitive opinions of Finance Director and Sales Managers;

•Handling Accounts Receivable, including and communicating with customers and sales managers on our past due accounts and open invoices heading to make most of our AR current;

•Cash management by handling cash application, wire transfer, Lockbox and ACH on a daily basis;

•Assisting the bi-weekly check run and making sure all vendors and expenses reimbursement is paid correctly;

•Monitoring our capital lease and depreciation table and making adjusted journal entries.

Accountant - Vanguard Resource Group, Inc.- Fairfield, USA - October, 2016 to January,2017

Responsibilities:

• Preparing bi-weekly payroll calculations for local non-profit clients including FICA, FIT, SIT and Medicare Tax;

• Preparing quarterly payroll tax reports, Federal Form 941, state income tax, withholding reporting and SUTA;

Consultant of Trade Financing Services-TPO-Tehran, Iran – October, 2008 to August, 2016

Responsibilities:

•Monitoring General Ledger (GL) posting, journal entries (booking), monthly closing and bank reconciliation;

•Managing budgeting and forecasting process for a manufacturing segment;

•Handling the month-end process to analyze actual results that include financial statement line items and expense detail versus budgets, plans and forecasts, explain variances;

•Preparing financial statement and balance sheet flux analysis and assist in the audit process auditors;

•Corporate liquidity forecasting, treasury and cash flow management:

- Cooperating with operational units and project centers for updates of the liquidity/cash forecast;

•Analyzed journal entries and account reconciliations to ensure accuracy and timeliness;

•Prepared periodic (monthly, weekly) variance analysis explaining actual results and variances.

Procurement Specialist - Daimler AG Agent (Govah co.) - Tehran, Iran - September, 2004 to September, 2005

Notable Achievement:

Decreased cost by $170,000 by reducing customs requirements by 3 days.

Responsibilities:

•Analyzing MRP requisition worksheets and negotiating with vendors to improve pricing and delivery;

•Directing work relationship with vendors, shippers and customs brokers to ensure timely shipment of our orders.

Education

MBA –Accounting- Maharishi International University – Fairfield, IA, USA (2016-2017).

MBA –Financial Management-Alghadir Higher Educational Institute-Tabriz,Iran –September 2006 to March2009

B.S. Customs Affairs - University of Economic Sciences - Tehran, Iran - September 2000 to June 2004.

Associate degree in Civil Engineering-Construction Management- BHRC, Tehran, Iran- Feb 2011 to Feb 2013.

LANGUAGES

English, Persian (Farsi), French (Basic), Arabic (Basic)

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