Controller/Accounting Manager
Resume:
Winston Reed
Lewisburg, TN ****1
Professional Experience
Accountant with manufacturing background in cost and general accounting. Payroll Professional with multi-state experience in union and non-union environment
Areas of Practice
Cost Accounting, General Accounting, Payroll Manager, Plant Controller,
Staff Accountant, Payroll Taxes, Budgeting, Cash Forecast
Industry Lines
Manufacturing, Tier 2 Automotive, Payroll Service, Internet Training, Injection Molding, Non-Profit
Computer Applications
FAS Fixed Asset Accounting System, AS400, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Windows, Excel, QuickBooks.
Blackbaud
EXPERIENCE
Financial Accounting Consultant - Robert Half / Accountemps – SPS
Contract Positions with Nissan, Easter Seals, Trane, AlMedia
Nissan North America – Payroll Department – Second Assignment
• Funded weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, and Executive Payrolls
• Prepared and recorded payroll entries to general ledger
• Reconciled payroll accounts and explained variances
• Prepared and accrued month end journal entries
Easter Seals – Accounting Manager
• Prepared, entered, and posted month end journal entries
• Reconciled general ledger accounts
• Reconciled bank accounts
• Prepared year end audit work papers for auditors
Trane – Staff Accountant
• Prepared, entered, and posted month end journal entries
• Reconciled general ledger accounts
• Prepared work papers for filing Sales and Use Tax Return
Nissan North America – Payroll Tax Accountant
• Audit federal and state payroll tax notices and resolve issues
• Verify state unemployment tax rates and update tables and worksheets
• Prepared workman’s compensation reports for various states
• Process check requests to pay workman’s compensation premiums
• Reconcile unclaimed property bank account
AImedia
• Audit of manufacturing costs and make adjusting entries as needed
• Calculation of manufacturing cost of sales
• Recording of revenues and cost of sales by journal entry
• Preparation of monthly estimated profit and loss statements
PureSafety – Staff Accountant
• Accounts payable, cash receipts
• Payroll on a semi-monthly basis including commissions calculation
• Creating and posting monthly journal entries to the general ledger
• Departmental budget versus actual comparison
• Seamless payroll system transition from ADP to PaySystems
Winston Reed
National Pen Corporation – Manufacturing Cost Accountant
o Inventory transfer to the general ledger on a weekly basis
o Weekly and monthly reports detailing production costs, scrap analysis, budget versus actual
o Monthly journal entries recording cost of sales, labor and overhead absorption, and manufacturing variances
o Tag control and internal inventory audit on a quarterly basis
o Quarterly question and answer session as part of the companies manufacturing team leader program
Del-Met Corporation – Cost Accountant/Plant Controller
o Monthly income projections on a weekly basis to Plant manager and Corporate management
o Analysis of quoted costs to actual costs of manufactured products
o Monthly journal entries and closing of books.
o Monthly inventory reconciliation,
o Inter-company account analysis
o Preparation of annual budget
o Maintenance of bills of material
Bank of America – Saturn Payroll Manager
o Supervised six person payroll department
o Responsible for accurate payment of approximately 9000 employees on a semi-monthly basis
o Audited payroll
o Approved gross to net calculation
o Reviewed journal entries to record payroll to general ledger
o Reconciled escrow account for payroll loan deductions
o Created download spreadsheet to facilitate escrow account reconciliation
o Developed procedures for collection of monies from team members who left Saturn
o Served on team development committee an helped organize team development workshop
o Conducted job evaluations for payroll department team members
Cosmolab – Cost Accountant
• Conducted time studies to establish and verify manufacturing costs for products and process in the cosmetic pencil industry
• Maintained bills of material for existing and new products
• Established new manufactured rates for measuring production efficiency
Eraser Products – Corporate Accountant/Purchasing Agent
• Conducted monthly closings and prepared financial statements
• Purchased raw material for manufacture of rubber and plastic erasers
• Updated computer system through purchase of new equipment and operating system
• Developed computerized worksheets for month end close
• Analyzed the first and second half of 2004 commercial data contained in two incompatible systems.
Empire Berol, Hughes Parker, State of Tennessee – Temporary Positions
o Cost accounting audits
o Monthly inventory
o Expenditure auditing and approval
Faber-Castell – General Accounting Manager, Cost Accountant
o Supervised twelve people in the areas of payroll, accounts payable, general accounting
o Prepared monthly journal entries
o Published financial statements
o Reconciled bank accounts
o Conducted annual inventory
o Audited and verified two weekly, two semi-monthly, and one monthly payroll
o Supervised preparation and filing of various state and depositing of federal payroll taxes
o Promoted to General Accounting Manager from Cost Accountant
o Prepared cost estimates
o Maintained bills of material and routings for current and new products
o Analyzed variances
Education – Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Lipscomb University
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