For the given job description <<This position is primarily responsible for ensuring the accuracy of inventory costing and accounting across the Consumer Products channel. This person will work closely with the channel CFO, Controller and Operations teams in a collaborative and fast-paced environment as we continue to grow the channel into a leading consumer water player. This role will play a critical role in the monthly close process by ensuring transactions are accurately recorded, preparing inventory reconciliations, and ensuring accurate physical inventories and cycle counts. This requires a strong attention to detail, data integrity, and the facilitation of conflict resolution.
Specific Job Function:
Responsible to create & maintain BOMS in local ERPs (e.g. SAGE) as well as master BOM data in spreadsheet files.Establish, validate and maintain appropriate additional added costs such as per unit labor, handling, etc to be added to materials in BOMS.Ownership of inventory reconciliations across all warehousesWork cross-functionally to provide analysis to ensure supplier shipments align with demand planning and inventory turns goals across the organization.Assist in identifying inventory variances and identify root causes. Work with operations team to implement action plans to remediate issues as they arise.Work with business units on establishing and implementing inventory related accounting policies and procedures as needed.Maintain and validate inventory costing integrity, including responsibility for management of inventory cost tier adjustments.Lead year-end inventory audit process and physical inventories.Maintain purchases clearing account reconciliation.Work closely with location personnel to ensure accurate inventory accounting and work order processing.Prepare supporting documentation for quarterly and annual external audits.Month end freight expense posting reviews for possible Inventory capitalization or billing to end customers.Assist business unit finance functions with expenditure analysis needed for budgeting and forecasts.Support other adhoc projects as needed.
Requirements:
Three or more years experience as a cost accountant in a manufacturing environmentProficiency in Excel in conjunction with ERP systems and planning.Bachelors degree in accountingSAGE, Hyperion, and SAP knowledge a plus.Travel = 20%
Competencies:
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies in this position.
Interpersonal Integrity Tenacity
Initiative Decision Making Negotiation Skills
>> the resume: <<Career FocusAccomplished and results oriented Investment professional with strong leadership and interpersonal skills who adds energy and value to an organization's quest for excellence.
Summary of SkillsInternet and Microsoft Office - MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, Pivot Tables, Spreadsheets,Macros.* Business Objects, Lombardi, Eagle Accounting System, PEGA, DRAS, Workbench.Account reconciliationsDetail-orientedVariance analysisDetail-orientedAnalyticalExpert in MS Office SuiteAccount reconciliation expertEffective time managementComplex problem solvingSuperior research skills
Professional Experience09/2012to10/2015Investment AccountantAmerican Modern Insurance Group|Birmingham,AL,Reconciled mutual fund accounts with the custody Identified and Resolved differences in Custody and Accounting Cash, Currency and Positions using Eagle, IAX, Business Objects, Lombardi and Workbench Reports Communicated and Collaborated with other areas in the firm, client, fund accountant, custodians that are impacted by the functions of the team Conducted weekly client meetings and act as liaison between Accounting and custody to resolve any outstanding items in cash, currency and positions.Completed special projects from the management as needed Trained, Oversee and assisted staff in offshore team (Pune, India) and acted as a liaison between Pune Office and US.Helped US team by performing tests on Pega Vs.Business Objects and Eagle during the Platform Migration Trained new staff and assist them as needed to meet the department goals.Ran daily reports for fund accountants using business objects and MS Database.Award:  Received a special achievement award at BNY Mellon Bank in Asset Servicing  (Dec 2013) Award: Received a special achievement award at BNY Mellon Bank in Asset Servcing (Dec 2014.10/2011to02/2012AML Compliance OfficerWedbush Morgan Securities|New York,NY,Audited customer's bank accounts in the company's system Performed quality assurance reviews on customer information maintained on various bank systems Reconciled the quality assurance results on spreadsheets Performed background search on clients using tools such as world check and google search Finance Projects at UD Project 1: Group simulation project to develop the investment philosophy and strategy to drive a simulated investment of $1,000,000 using Stock-Track.Invested about 50% of our funds in moderate to high-risk investment in order to achieve capital appreciation; Invested about 25% of our funds in low to moderate risk investment in order to preserve our capital.Invested 25% of our funds in derivatives and rest in index fund, cash and money market.Performed an analysis to determine the allocation of stocks by minimizing CV and graphed the daily returns for each stocks Performed regression analysis and analyzed the regression statistics on weekly returns.Performed an analysis on our group's portfolio with the market and with other groups.Case analysis on Price Momentum Strategy Used price momentum model analysis to test whether the price momentum model will work on US stock market as it did with the US Canadian stocks.Used the weighted annual returns and created the worst outlook portfolio and the best outlook portfolio Selected the top eight performing stocks for each quarter to create the best outlook portfolio and compared to the market to determine if the pricing momentum would hold up.Calculated the average return for each portfolio and rebalanced the portfolio and compared to the S&P 500 for each quarter within the same time period.06/2008to02/2012Medical TechnologistUs Oncology, Inc.|Palos Heights,IL,Clinical Microbiology Experience - Highlights include ordering, processing, plating and culturing patient's specimens Tests - Performing rapid tests such as Rapid flu, C.Diff quick check and many more; Performing rapid and confirmatory tests to identify organism; Reading Gram stain slides.Other - Performing daily maintenance and running quality control on instruments.
EducationExpected in2011totoMaster of Business Administration|FinanceUniversity of Delaware,Newark,DEGPA:FinanceExpected in2008totoBachelor of Science|Medical TechnologyUniversity of Delaware,Newark,DEGPA:Medical TechnologyExpected intotoRelated course work in Business: Financial Reporting and Analysis, Financial Management, Corporate Financial Policies, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Corporate Governance, Financial Engineering and Risk Management (Derivatives).|,,GPA:
SkillsMS Office: Database, Macros, V-look up, Pivot tables, OutlookCompany Platforms: Business Objects, Workbench, Eagle, Pega, Lombardi, DRAS.>>. The result is, Potential Fit

Fit assessment: Potential Fit