Controller, Cost Accounting & ERP Lead

Alfred H. "Fred" Everson, III 512-***-**** cell • *********@*******.*** • LinkedIn Profile

Controller, Cost Accountant, and ERP Systems Expert

Cost Accounting • ERP Implementation • Financial Controls • Operations Integration

Controller and cost accounting specialist with 35+ years across manufacturers and service firms from M to over B in annual sales. Led a M accounts receivable clean-up initiative that recovered over 65% of outstanding balances, and reduced spare parts inventory by over 25% while sustaining fill rates above 90%. Deep experience implementing and optimizing ERP systems, leading financial reporting and forecasting cycles, and building the cost accounting infrastructure that manufacturing operations depend on. Known for solving ERP gaps through procedural workarounds, financial analysis, and cash flow management without expensive software changes.

Expertise

Financial Leadership: Controller Function Management – Financial Reporting & Analysis – Budget Development, Forecasting & Variance Analysis – Month-End & Year-End Close – Audit Readiness

Cost Accounting: Standard & Full-Absorption Costing – UNICAP / IRS Inventory Rules – LIFO Valuation – ETC / EAC Reporting – Overhead Allocation Modeling – Job Order Costing – Process Costing – Project Costing

ERP & Systems: ERP Selection & Implementation – Systems Integration & Design – Procedural Workaround Engineering – User Training & Documentation – Cross-Functional Systems Leadership

Operations & Supply Chain: Production & Capacity Planning – Inventory Management & Audits – Purchasing & Vendor Relations – Bills of Material (BOM) Design – MRP / Demand Planning

Compliance & Controls: Internal Controls Design – GAAP Compliance – Cash Flow Management – Sales & Property Tax Reporting – Process Improvement

Human Capital & Administration: HR Administration & Benefits – Payroll Oversight – Staff Recruitment & Development – Cross-Training Programs – Multi-Departmental Supervision

Executive Career Progression

Memstar USA – Conroe, TX 2023 – 2025

Accounting & Purchasing Manager

•Brought the general ledger, journal entries, and financial statements into GAAP compliance after identifying material errors in existing procedures, establishing a clean, repeatable close process from scratch.

•Tightened purchasing controls for an operation with no formal procurement process, redesigning forms, filing systems, and procedures to create an accurate, searchable, audit-ready purchasing function.

•Processed 125 vendor invoices per month through QuickBooks with zero coding errors, keeping vendor accounts current and supporting a clean close each period.

•Migrated the company from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online Advanced (beta platform) with no data loss, completing the transition in 1 month.

The Ever-Ink Company – Austin/Porter, TX 2007 – 2023

Self-Employed Accounting and Systems Consultant

•Turned around a $2M accounts receivable (A/R) problem for a manufacturing client, recovering over 65% of outstanding balances and restoring the client’s cash flow position.

•Set up complete accounting operations for 4 clients from scratch, including books, budgets, internal controls, pricing models, quarterly reports, and GAAP-compliant financial statements.

•Handled month-end and year-end close for 2 clients each year, preparing full account reconciliation packages that went into audit without revision.

•Eliminated client exposure to late-filing penalties by managing all Commerce Department reports, property tax returns, and sales tax filings on schedule across client portfolios spanning 3 states.

•Guided 2 ERP evaluation, selection, and training engagements, matching each client to the right system for their size and operational complexity.

•Identified inefficiencies in client paperwork flows and sales territories, making process improvement recommendations that tightened controls and reduced operational risk.

•Designed forms and wrote illustrated procedure documentation for clients, leaving behind workflows that held up long after the engagement ended.

Waste Conversion Technologies, Inc. / A-1 Disposal Services, Inc. / A-1 Earth Products, LLC – Milford, CT 2006 – 2007

Controller

•Gave leadership their first real-time view of cash flow and operational performance by building new financial reporting and performance measurement reports across 3 key metrics.

•Rebuilt the chart of accounts and developed GAAP-compliant financial statements in QuickBooks, replacing a reporting structure that had been producing unreliable period results.

•Cut HR overhead and reduced payroll-related employee questions by building ADP reports and pay stub enhancements that made personal and vacation hour balances transparent.

•Cut insurance costs without reducing coverage by evaluating and restructuring carrier selections across business interruption, liability, workers’ compensation, and employee benefit lines.

•Documented systems and procedures and cross-trained staff on EnCore, building organizational resilience in a small office where any single departure could disrupt operations.

•Ran all non-sales office functions, including HR, payroll, and IT, as the sole administrative leader for a three-entity organization under unified management.

Prime Resources – Bridgeport, CT 2000 – 2006

Controller

•Took ownership of the 2003 ERP conversion, leading workstreams personally, including Bills of Material (BOM), standard costing, customer master, general ledger (G/L), item master, system coding, screen access by functional area, vendor master, procedures, and user training.

•Cut bank fees in half by implementing PC-based wire transfer procedures while supervising accounts payable (A/P), and reduced order-handling costs on small orders by developing credit card payment procedures while supervising accounts receivable (A/R).

•Protected revenue integrity and eliminated compensation disputes by designing and executing commission and royalty calculation processes for sales reps/partners, ensuring timely, accurate payouts aligned with contractual terms.

•Built out the company’s financial reporting capability using FRx, producing financial statements, forecasting models, and financial analysis reports that gave management a consistent view of performance.

•Developed standard costs, department budgets, overhead allocations, and variance analysis, giving operations and finance a full-absorption cost model they could actually use.

•Supported the Logotech acquisition in 2004, handling financial due diligence, flagging integration risks, and building the post-acquisition accounting framework that brought the combined entity onto a single reporting structure.

•Rewrote the pricing and discount programs in the ERP system from scratch, working across Finance, IS, Marketing, and Sales to fix accuracy problems and give the business better margin visibility.

•Served as primary contact with outside auditors and kept inventory valuation clean through annual and cycle physical audits and standard cost roll-ups.

Carten Controls, Inc., a Subsidiary of Fujikin, Inc., Cheshire, CT 1999 – 2000

Interim Controller

•Corrected 150 bills of material and routings in Macola that had been producing unreliable standard costs, restoring cost model integrity from the ground up.

•Kept financial operations running without interruption through an interim engagement, handling financial statement preparation and overseeing A/P, A/R, and the outsourced IT vendor relationships.

•Trained the accounting staff on correct practices and revised the Macola configuration, reducing their reliance on outside support within the first few weeks.

•Gave management their first structured view of budget performance by building 10 monthly G/L budget performance reports, a function the company had never had before.

•Documented 6 key operational and accounting procedures with illustrated step-by-step guides, giving the team a reference they could use without calling for help.

Arburg, Inc., a Subsidiary of Arburg GmbH – Newington, CT 1993 – 1999

Production Control / Supply Chain Manager

•Replaced a rented warehouse at half the monthly cost per square foot, and then redesigned the layout to cut material handling time per machine shipment by over 50%.

•Trimmed spare parts inventory by over 25% without letting the fill rate drop below 90%.

•Worked with German headquarters in 1997 to design a supplemental BOM system that made aftermarket option kits easier to sell worldwide across 25 countries and markets, also using the project to strengthen MRP / demand planning capabilities.

•Trained 3 spare parts sales staff on product specs and corrected bills of material with help from the assembly team, putting an end to chronic misquotes.

•Implemented standard costing, purchase price variance (PPV) tracking, and automated spare parts pricing, giving the company its first formal cost management framework and real visibility into margins.

The Ever-Ink Company – Meriden, CT 1992 – 1993

Self-Employed Accounting and Systems Consultant

•Delivered core accounting and compliance services across 5clients, including internal controls design, systems design, budgets, LIFO and Uniform Capitalization (UNICAP) calculations, HR manual updates, financial statement preparation, FOCUS programming, and sales and property tax filings.

Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. – Simsbury, CT 1989 – 1992

Cost Accounting Supervisor

•Used FOCUS programming to find and fix systemic errors in computer-generated reports across 4 operating units, eliminating 2 staff positions without any drop in output.

•Performed LIFO inventory calculations for 4 business units each year, consistently producing valuations that went to the external auditors without revision.

•Wrote and executed the company’s first UNICAP (uniform capitalization of inventory under IRS rules) procedures across 4 business units, a capability the organization had never had, and earned a performance bonus for the work.

Education

University of Connecticut, Bachelor of Science, Accounting

Technical Proficiencies

ERP / MRP Systems: QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Macola, Made 2 Manage (M2M), Oracle Financials, Microsoft Dynamics GP, AS/400 BPCS, NCR IMCS II, EnCore

Reporting & Analytics: Management Reporter, AS/400 QUERY, FOCUS Programming

Payroll & HR Platforms: ADP Payroll, PayChex

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