Controller

ROGER MCVEY

**** ****** **** • Houston, Texas ***57

*****.*****@*****.*** • 832-***-****

SUCCESSFUL CONTROLLER/OPERATIONS PROFESSIONAL

PROFILE: Entrepreneur/Accountant that brings more than 15 years of expertise in manufacturing both at the Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial levels.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: Leverage more than 15 years of executive/general management and accounting success and expertise into a challenging position as the Manager of Cost Accounting for a Progressive, Houston-based manufacturing firm. Core competencies include:

• SAP Literate

• Financial Analysis

• Forecasting • Cash Management

• Logistics + Scheduling

• Cost Reductions • Microsoft Office Proficiency

• Regulatory Compliance

• Efficiency Improvements

CAREER EXPERIENCE

INDIGO INC. Santiago, Chile, 2004 – March 2008

Controller

Indigo Inc. a service company working with property developers to reduce their cost and labor liabilities.

• Negotiated contracts with property developer to low their cost and liabilities. Resulting in cost saving of $50,000 for developers on 320 unit development.

• Supervised 20 employees.

• Responsible for P&L and account reconciliations.

• Responsible for all government reports.

JEZLAINE LTD/SUNSTONE INC., Chicago, Illinois, 1984-2004

Controller/ Vice President

Managed a production floor for 300 employees, acted as a trouble-shooter and production manager to meet huge business challenge to revamp production line and develop costing system.

When Jezlaine Ltd was sold to Sunstone I was transferred with the company to Chicago where I worked for two years to consolidate the products and processes. I managed the warehouse and WIP inventory.

• Controlled Inventory of over $30,000,000

• Integration of two product lines and production processes.

• Maintained standard costing system including BOM and Labor routers

• Developed inventory control and cycle counting procedures. Provided analysis of obsolete inventory and developed coordinated effort between sales, design, and production to reduce obsolescence. These actions resulted in over $500,000 in inventory savings.

• Analysis of labor, material and labor variances.

• Daily meetings with the production floor to coordinate production and reduce cost

• Developed inventory cycle count program.

• Developed a costing matrix that allowed for the identification of cost at the design stage instead of after production resulting in savings of $150,000 the first year and a continued saving of 5% of gross purchases.

• Controlled finished goods inventory of $2,000,000 increasing inventory turns and reducing shrinkage.

• Developed labor routers and BOM to track and analyze labor and material cost.

• Saved $200,000 annually by coordinating sales forecasts with actual sales holding sales force responsible to forecast variances.

• Tracked product cycles to anticipate and react to product cycle trends. Reduced obsolete inventory by 50% resulting in $300,000 in direct savings and freeing up factory capacity.

• Worked with production floor increase efficiency and reduce finished inventory.

• Improved the competitiveness of the company by shifting focus from a manufacturer to a marketing and design company resulting in maintaining of our design and customer service advantages while increasing profits by moving production offshore.

GTE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1979-1984

Senior Cost Accountant

GTE produced telephone transmission equipment and fiber optic products with plants in Albuquerque, El Paso and Chicago. I was responsible for setting labor standards and tracking labor and material usage and price variances.

• Worked with production departments to set labor standards

• Tracked labor and material variances and reported results to management

• Developed system for the tracking and accounting for gold metal scrap.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Accounting

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

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