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Hong (Alison) Gu, M.S.

Montvale, NJ***** 484-***-**** ************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/alison-hong-gu-b9685952/

Controller/Senior Manager/CFO

A highly capable &result-driven finance/accounting leader with over 20 years of experience in various areas (controlling, manufacturing, costing, supply chain, consolidating and FP&A). Areas of expertise include process optimization & standardization, policy/decision making, root cause analysis & problem solving, project initiatives/management, costsavings, internal control & risk management.

Core Qualifications

Strong analytical skills

Expertise in finance/ accounting, logistics& operation procedure improvement

Reports generation & analysis

Financial modeling, budgeting & forecasting

Variance & discrepancy analysis and solution

Problem identifier and solver

Strong verbal & written communication

Outstanding interpersonal skills

Sense of urgency and good time management

Excellent in MS Office (Excel, Access)

Familiar with SAP, Oracle &Hyperion

Professional Experience

Saint Gobain, Wayne, NJ June 2023 – Apr 2025

Site Controller

Corrected the prepaid tooling accounting treatment & defined clear rules/procedures going forward.

Identified the issues of the Capex process, set up and coordinated a Capex procedure among several key stakeholders.

Lead the progress of ICRF (Internal Control Reference Framework) &ITAC,guaranteed the on-time completion for 2023& 2024, which has not been done for several years in the past.

Completed 2024 budget and quarterly forecasts with very limited support.

Established SOPs for several key procedures, for both Controller & Sr Cost Accountant roles.

Conducted well-received basic finance training for engineers, operation & purchasing teams to improve the overall accuracy of the financials.

Developed and standardized a tracking system for all spendings associated with trials.

Praxair Surface Technologies (a Linde company), Orangeburg, NY August 2021 - May 2023

Senior Finance Manager (Global Controller&FP&A Leader)

In charge of the overall finance of 4 manufacturing plants in 3 continents.

Manage a global finance team of 10, consolidated, simplified, streamlined and optimized several monthly processes (such as sales reporting, sales forecasting, internal CM, etc.).

Proposed and executed a brand-new Ta reclaim accrual process, which not only helped the company to recognize reclaim benefit in a timely manner (~$5MM/year), but also facilitated the building of the Ta reclaim management system.

Lead monthly global closing, consolidation, forecast & analysis (price, volume, mix, Etc.)

Independently learned and completed the 2022 annual budget process. Successfully led the team completed 2023 annual budget.

Worked with several different projects with other business leaders/function teams: helped to develop new operational processes with flow charts, cost tracking &comparison; supported R&D projects with budgeting, tracking & analysis.

Analyzed and proposed new calculation of Fx impact on the sales.

Completed and reviewed several capital projects using a complex Capex model.

Improved IC inventory profit elimination process with more accurate data.

Documented several important procedures.

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Stryker, Mahwah, NJ January 2018 - August 2021

Senior Analyst, Finance

Played an important role in month end close and quarterly SEC reporting for Ortho group.

Responsible for cash reconciliations & cash management, provided guidance on challenging process of AP & AR tasks being transferred to Costa Rica.

In charge of Agency chargeback reporting and reconciliation (solved many outstanding issues when I first took over and maintained it in a clean & accurate status).

AnalyzedConcur (travel expense) report and reconciled between the actual invoices and system accruals.

Tracked, reported, reconciled credit memos which were caused by Return to Vendor transactions; Cleaned up over $3M of aged items.

Responsible for reporting, tracking & monitoring non-GAAP expenses.

Write up & improve SOPs for all the procedures I was responsible for.

Osem USA Inc, Englewood Cliffs, NJ January 2017 - September 2017

Junior Controller of Finance & Operations

Led a team of 4 (AR, AP & CS).

In charge of daily/monthly sales reporting (gross sales, NIV & NNS), being liaison among upper management, sales team and operation team.

Supported& facilitated monthly sales forecast and actual vs forecast variance analysis.

Created monthly and annual forecast templates&conducted detailed variance analysis for all major P&L items (from gross revenue to net profit).

Sorted out & reconciled health benefit account among the bank, 3P administrator & company’s internal records.

Helped AR to greatly reduce the past due invoices (both in $ and open documents).

Worked with the logistics team to improve inventory accuracy.

Documented many major procedures, worksheets, guidelines.

Nestle Waters North America, Breinigsville, PA June 2012 - September 2016

Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A) - Logistics/Supply Chain

Managed a team of 2.

Initiated inventory management/accounting procedure.

Responsible for annual budget, monthly forecast and variance analysis.

Built labor (both fixed and variable) forecast models with 97% accuracy.

Conducted transportation and warehousing analysis and recommended solution.

Initiated several new processes, which saved our region over $100,000/year.

Convatec, Skillman, NJ October 2011 - June 2012

Senior Financial Analyst (IC group)

Helped with IC sales elimination.

Facilitated with IC inventory profit elimination.

Additional Experience

Lutron Electronics Inc, Coopersburg, PA Senior Project Accountant - Mexico & China plant

Valley Youth House Inc., Allentown, PA Senior Accountant

Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, Shanghai, China Instructor

Education & Certificate

“DAT207x: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI” by Microsoft January 2020

Master of Science (MS), E-Commerce, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Master of Science (MS), Accounting, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Master of Science (MS), Finance. Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, Shanghai, China

Bachelor of Science (BS), Foreign Trade English, Jiangsu Institute of Technology (now Jiangsu University), Zhenjiang, China

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