Irma Z

Experience

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  Sanford LP

  Mar 2003 - Apr 2006

  Senior Cost Analyst

  • Responsible for general accounting duties which included monthly close, general ledger postings, trial balance reconciliation, cycle counting, costing, etc. Consistently meeting strict deadlines and passing audits with no issues.• Managed fixed assets with net book value of $25 million by booking monthly depreciation, disposals, transfers, additions, reconciliation and audits.• Worked with the internal and external auditors, to ensure accuracy of general ledger postings and trial balance reconciliations. • Worked within strict corporate, GAAP, and Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines.• Financial reporting and forecasting scheduled production hours, material usage, material purchase price variances, spending, absorption, standard cost of production, etc.• Created queries, validated, and analyzed monthly reporting files to present to senior management. Researched and analyzed variances to budget. • Projected and reported ending inventories, inventory turns, productivity, SCOGS, SCOPS, etc.• Work with the finance team to derive budgets. Creation of work center rates (fixed, variable and depreciation dollars per machine hour) for production departments. Other budgetary functions included forecasting, preparation, validation, review and presentations.• Worked with management to provide and analyze piece price cost at the component level. Analyze the impact of new products; capacity expansion investment on work center and prices. Show less

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  Merle Norman Cosmetics

  Jun 2006 - now

  New ERP Systemo Assisted the information technology department with the new ERP system implementation by creating databases of information that needed to be transferred to the new system. Saving the company many labor hours and over $100K. Worked with the various departments to insure their information got transferred correctly. Be part of the decision-making team, participate in the meetings to provide input and suggestions. Attended the initial training sessions of the new system. Special Projectso Any special projects that are assigned by department director. Mainly reports analyzing inventories, product run-out-dates, etc. o Create files that automatically update the information on refresh, saving the users hours of labor and better accuracy.o Assist other departments in the company by creating various databases and reports by using different programs, doing queries, merging files, using v-look ups and pivots to summarize information.o I was able to improve the efficiency by creating or redesigning complex Excel spreadsheets, saving the company over 10K man hours and $200K by automatically updating the reports as needed.Obsolescence Planner o Analyze inventory, report excess dollars, process paperwork for disposals and donations. Obtain approvals for dispositions and take the appropriate actions.o Issue monthly reports of items dispositioned and dollars.Inventory Management o Responsible for take-on inventories, inventory entries, reconciliations and adjustments. Show less • Generate and distribute reports for all new products, color collections and gifts. Update and issue reports regularly that include required quantities of components and finished goods with due dates and missing items to expedite.• Prepare and issue timelines and status of required dates of art delivery specification, raw materials, components and finished goods.• Create any required paperwork for launching the Premier Privileges, this includes work orders for all sub-assemblies and finished goods, packing list, request for labels, material transfers, adjustments and process the billing. Show less • Responsible for planning production of various products. Schedule production as efficient as possible by scheduling product types and avoiding out-of-stocks.• Monitor sales and forecast to schedule or move out orders. • Meet with production supervisors to review planned production orders and schedule production runs in a cost and time-efficient manner. • Review and update safety stocks based on current forecast and sales changes. • Review and update bill of material usage rates based on actual consumption. • Coordinate test runs for new launch products.• Do impact analysis on products scheduled to be discontinued. Show less

  • Senior Planner

    Oct 2012 - now

  • Senior New Products Planner

    Aug 2008 - Oct 2012

  • Senior Production Planner

    Jun 2006 - Aug 2008