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position: cost accountant reports to: president the companywith double-digit annual growth rate since our founding in 1998, we are continuing to expand our dynamic team. as a contract manufacturer for in-vitro diagnostics, we make sure great products get made. the natech learning organization develops collaborative problem solvers who help our customers launch and scale new medical devices. the opportunitythis is an opportunity to take our accounting systems to the next level and manage the integration with our publicly listed parent stratec se. position responsibilities essential functionsrun general ledger accounts bookkeeping including monthly closing according to local gaap and ifrsus gaapmaintenance of cost and profit centers, standard costing, and project-based costing in our erp system iqms by dassault. overseeing subsystems relevant for month end closing e.g. semi-annual physical inventory management.manage staff responsible for accounting data entry and motivate various non-reporting functions to do their part.monitoring cost variance in concert with production and engineering teams.prepare annual budgets together with director of finance and leadership team members and project budgets with project managers.minimum qualifications skillsbachelor's degree in accounting.5 years of corporate accounting experience at a manufacturing firm according to international financial reporting standards (ifrs) or us gaapfluency with cost & profit center accounting methods in a manufacturing environment.deep understanding of manufacturing erp systems and proficiency with microsoft office.highly desirablemasters degree in business administration (mba) and or cpa.ability to write sql queries and create crystal reports.physical requirementsprolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times. we are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, gender, national origin, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity characteristics or expression, familial status, citizenship status, marital status, disability, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, height, weight or any other legally protected status, in any employment decisions, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, compensation, training, apprenticeship, promotion, demotion, transfer, layoff, termination, and any other term and condition of employment. all employment-related decisions are based solely on relevant criteria, including training, experience, education, qualifications, abilities, and suitability.

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<<summary12+ years of machine learning/data science experience with a proven track record of developing and implementing large scale algorithms that have significantly impacted business revenues and user experience. 10+ years of experience applying r, python, sas and sql for algorithm development, data modeling, statistical learnings and data visualization. ranked a top 1% competitor on kaggle (worlds largest community of data scientist with over 300k members) hands-on experience applying several ml/statistical algorithms to real-world problems: neural networks, gradient boosted trees, random forest, clustering, generalized linear models, simulation models and gaussian mixture models strong experience building end-to-end machine learning platform using java and big data technologies (cassandra, spark and hive). excellent skills at programming in java/oop highlightsr neural networksjava gradient boosted treespython random forestnosql, cassandra generalized linear modelsspark, hive, pig optimizationsql, cql gaussian mixture models experience 04/2017tocurrentsenior data scientistfactset research systems inc.– ,conceptualized, architected and implemented a deep learning model to accurately predict demand for nvidia's products. algorithm applies deep neural networks along with several real time social feeds, econometric indicators, product momentum to forecast demand. 06/2014to 04/2016data science leadbristol myers squibb– ,developed and owned the core machine learning feature of the product, a patent-pending behavioral analytics engine for predicting cross-cloud application security threats.architected and implemented the machine learning platform from the ground up in java, cassandra, hive and spark.analytic platform monitors multiple cloud applications (aws, salesforce, box etc.) and predicts security threats and breaches.implemented the end-to-end platform for performing user behavior analytics using unsupervised machine learning.designed and implemented algorithms for real-time decisioning implemented process to capture 500+ behavioral profile features implemented several high iv features for ml algorithm consumption: (maximum geo-distance between users login/day, fast geolocation hopping etc.) owned the feature end-to-end and worked directly with co-founder/cto to drive product enhancements. 12/2012to 05/2014principal data scientistlumeris– ,lead several big data machine learning initiatives involving the design, development and deployment of advanced machine learning algorithms that impacted paypal's core products allowing business to grow and scale to over 150 million customers and process over 3 billion online transactions annually.the developed solutions have directly helped paypal lower losses, improve user experience and increase revenue simultaneously.few key paypal core products worked on are included below.paypal ato models: designed and developed neural network models to prevent account takeover activity at the time of user authentication.performed feature selection from over 2000 features, and applied best practices in neural network model development.model accurately captured 81% of incoming fraud activity and resulted in 48bps of reduction of losses for paypal in 2013 freeing up capital to grow and expand margins.paypal here mobile card reader: architected the very first anti-fraud ml algorithm that enabled paypal here product to expand and scale to over million merchants.designed many new geolocation specific features that showed high iv contribution to the implemented model.paypal wallet: spearheaded the development of ensemble models for predicting stolen financial usage at the time of transaction completion.developed gradient boosted trees using gbm package in r. -geo, velocity etc.to improve algorithm performance.designed several tools in r to visualize gbt model and developed process to extract model parameters for deployment.partnered with business and product teams to execute and influence business decision around the solution implementation. 05/2007to 11/2012lead analytic scientistcushman & wakefield inc– ,managed the design, development and deployment of several predictive modeling solutions that underlie iso risk analyzer portfolio of products which have contributed to significant revenues for the company.few highlights are listed below.lead the development of an expert system to accurately predict a consumer's likelihood of committing a traffic violation.developed logistic models for predicting violation probability and poisson models for predict violation frequency.incorporated intelligence from 1500 features from 7 different data sources (claritas, crime, traffic patterns, business info, weather etc.) tweedie/compound poisson distribution model developed and implemented several tweedie distribution models to examine environmental factor for predicting personal auto risks for calculating insurance premiums.developed separate frequency and severity models to improve model accuracy.captured interaction effects between various environment variables such as traffic generator, traffic pattens, population density, weather etc.risk analyzer credit scoring module: designed and developed first generation credit scoring algorithms to predict a consumer's accident likelihood using credit payment behavior.performed feature reduction on close to 800 credit attributes and applied multivariate adaptive regression splines (mars) to detect 2nd and 3rd order interactions effects.captured non-linearity using splines and piecewise regression.worked as the analytic manager for the movie advertisement testing product, a high revenue growth initiative for the company. 09/2004to 04/2007senior research analystnbc universal– ,managed 5 statisticians to build predictive models for rating movie trailer/tv spots content on their effectiveness to generate interest.provided analytic insights and advice to maximize the impact and reach of client's resources.the product served 4 of the top hollywood movie studios and generated over $13m in annualized revenues for the company.movie trailer/tv spots advertisement testing product ( spots, print ads etc.).team worked on over 100 movies for most of the motion picture studios-majors, and assisted in building customized statistical models for several mini-majors.provided strategic insights and advice to hollywood studios to maximize the impact and reach of clients marketing resources.box office forecasting models: developed forecasting models to predict weekend box office revenues to help studios estimate accurately a films potential at the day of the release.model used several audience tracking data to accurately predict weekend box office receipts.fox movie sequel study (client - 20th century fox) ? developed a series of ordinal logistic regression models to compare characteristics and attributes describing several fox movies.based on the study results, 20th century fox decided to produce a sequel to die hard in 2007, which was one of the biggest box office hits of that year. 01/2002to 01/2004researcheruniversity of missouri–city,state,managed home healthcare initiative for missouri's sinclair school that involved developing a ai system based gps to optimize hospital resources for saving cost.the gps system incorporated new algorithms for solving multiple-traveling salesman problem in a dynamic setting.researched and applied spatial clustering algorithms in the context of constraint optimization problem. education expected in2004totomaster of science:industrial engineering/operations researchuniversity of missouri-columbia,mogpa:industrial engineering/operations research thesis - "dynamic stochastic vehicle routing model in home healthcare scheduling"expected in2002toto:metallurgical engineeringindian institute of technology-,gpa: , in thesis - "monte carlo simulation modeling of non-uniform stress in structured materials" {secured all india iitjee rank in the top 0.6% -- ranked among 250,000 applicants} , big data, clustering, content, credit, client, clients, expert system, fast, features, financial, forecasting, gps, home healthcare, , iso, java, machine learning, machine learning, marketing, mars, materials, office, 2000, modeling, monitors, network, networks, neural, nosql, optimization, predict, testing product, python, real-time, routing, scheduling, simulation, sql, strategic, .