Plant Controller And Cost Accountant Resume
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SUMMARY:
- Finance and accounting business partner for Confidential, with 11 years total experience
- Ability to independently compile, research and perform in - depth analysis in a global manufacturing environment
- Capacity to prepare and analyze key performance indicators, management reports, budgets, and financial planning
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience presenting and explaining financial data and analysis to various stakeholders
- Ability to work with a wide variety of stakeholders to meet project goals
- Dedicated to improving processes to increase effectiveness and efficiency
- Ability to facilitate team environment to effectively utilize available resources in problem-solving
- Knowledgeable of GAAP and other industry standards relating to accounting policies and procedures
- Experience using financial systems (Oracle)
- Solid PC skills, including Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), SQL Management Studio, ADP Payroll, and AS400
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Plant Controller and Cost Accountant
- Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts on a monthly basis including posting monthly journal entries, completing reconciliations, providing variance analysis and investigating discrepancies
- Develop, train, and coach finance and IT personnel to enhance personal, professional, and business goals and opportunities within the company
- Prepare and maintain product standard costing
- Collaborate with Operations and Research and Development teams to ensure product material, labor, and overhead costs reflect production operations
- Collaborate with plant management to develop annual budget and forecasts
- Prepare monthly reports of results complete with variance analysis and commentary to plant management and corporate finance
- Perform Capital Project and Fixed Asset Management
- Validate savings for continuous improvement projects
- Perform operational reporting (production, value add, scrap, and labor and material variances)
- Maintain SOX financial matrices and perform SOX auditing
- Coordinate and support internal and external auditors of plant accounts
- Manage electronic Accounts Payable system (ECM)
- Prepare and submit sales tax and Property Tax Declaration
- Develop SQL queries to retrieve, compare and report operational data for SQDC daily management walk-through and Environmental reporting
- Develop data diagram to illustrate interfaces between ERP and production SQL Servers for Corporate IT to assess and develop plans to mitigate risks associated with software and hardware
- Evaluate plant accounting and internal control systems, review of corporate policies, purchasing authorities, etc. to ensure alignment with SOX
Staff Accountant
- Generated monthly plan and outlook numbers by product line and business unit
- Reported new product sales by business unit to senior and plant management
- Prepared month-end journal entries
- Determined and posted monthly accruals
- Reconciled clearing account
- Calculated and uploaded statistical data into Hyperion Financial Management application
- Generated month-end reports
Payroll Administrator
- Produce timely and accurate processing of payroll for 500 unionized, hourly employees
- Monitored Time and Attendance System and resolved exceptions
- Automated manual review of Time and Attendance system. Compiled employee attendance reports by department
- Processed and generated reports for Weekly Factory Payroll
- Processed manual checks
- Processed and generated reports for Semi-monthly Salary Payroll
- Processed Bonus, supplemental, and out of-sequence payrolls
- Processed and prepared executive summary for Monthly Factory Incentive Payroll
- Reported daily sales and orders by product line & business unit to senior and plant management
- Respond to all employee inquiries regarding payroll and taxes
- Trained supervisors on payroll processing requirements for ADP and SAP