Experience

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  Tyson foods

  Nov 2000 - Jun 2006

  Estimated weekly cost on Mondays and compiled the actual cost reports on Wednesdays to be sent to the senior management in the Fresh Meat Accounts division of the Dakota Dunes corporate office. Prepared daily P&L for processing, slaughter and case-ready operations. Carried out internal audits to ensure regulatory compliance and operational efficiency and accuracy. Addressed issues regarding primal yield optimization with the production team. Overlooked cattle payments on a daily basis. Built and supervised a staff of 12 team members that did weekly carcass credits, packaging, prime, attendance and case-ready reporting.Key Achievements:•Labor cost per pound produced was reduced by affecting the following measures - increasing production chain speed and decreasing overtime labor.•Audited current maintenance supply inventory and reduced its volume from $4.5 million to $3.2 million over the past year.•Minimized production rework.•Organized work groups and mentored accounting staff on the current ERP system (SAP Financials).•Did monthly and quarterly audit procedures in product inventory to maintain minimal and accurate quantity variances in the perpetual inventory system. This is in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements.•Moved entire accounting staff and set up office in my home temporarily for 3 days after the devastating tornadoes near Goodlettsville in April 2006, using VPN to access host servers, to ensure business as usual including payroll processing for 1500 plant employees. Show less

  • Controller

    Jul 2004 - Jun 2006

  • Cost Manager

    Nov 2000 - Jun 2004
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  Cargill

  Jul 2006 - Dec 2011

  Managed Financials for 5 elevator plants. Ensured internal controls are in place and monitored them thru daily and monthly reports. Confirmed all financial processes including settlements, month end close and balance sheet reconciliations were done timely and accurately. Actively participate in the execution of the FSG’s strategy and business plans. Key Achievements:•Part of the customer profitability team to find and implement continued opportunities in business improvisations.•Built cost variation tool to the existing cost model for plant supervisors to better understand and study cost variances to budget by product line departments.•Built spreadsheet model to help financial managers and BU Leadership to analyze monthly oil credit valuations. •Built a process model to help team in the reconciliation process of inventory every month end at our terminal locations.•Developed the cost awareness tool for the FSG, thereby allowing the leadership team to better analyze the efficiencies and opportunities of all locations simultaneously. This spreadsheet tool was used significantly to reduce our costs by 6% in 2008-2009.•Nominated by the business unit to participate in the 2008 Cargill ELP (Emerging Leaders Program).•Nominated by the BU Controller to represent the Cargill Value Preservation Team that currently revolves in ensuring the Finance Minimums for all Business Units in North America. Completed the Cargill HPM (High Performance Managers) Program in May 2010 and being in the BU Center of Expertise team for Commitment approvals for 2 years. Show less

  • Product Controller

    Jun 2010 - Dec 2011

  • Accounting Manager

    Jul 2006 - Jun 2010
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  Corbion

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2012

  Plant controller

  Responsibilities included creation of monthly financial information operational cost effective measurements through report systems and helping in creating annual strategic reports that included monthly act vs. budget comparisons, profitability analysis and product costing.

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  Conagra foodservice

  Jul 2012 - May 2014

  Plant controller

  The duties comprised mostly of financial reporting and ensuring business partnerships with the rest of the departments. This includes identifying cost effective processes that lowers the bottom line of the P&L. The Dickson plant being a new acquisition, creating reporting tools to help the leadership understand GAAP and SOX regulations is part of my responsibility. Monthly forecasting, budgeting and development of team members are some of the strategic tasks. One of my major undertakings in the last 6 months has been reduction of plant and product (SKU) cost through increased line efficiencies and put-thru.Key Achievements:•Helped build SKU cost reduction in direct labor by increased efficiency and reducing headcount by line. •Created and implemented an effective ZLA (Zero Loss Activity) team for the plant to help identify opportunities and reduce cost.•Continued processes implementations to be in compliance with GAAP requirements as this plant was a private acquisition. Created good processes to monitor capital project completion to payment of invoices and depreciation calculations at the plant level.•Developed and revised a BOM (packaging material) for a SKU that initiated cost savings of $79,000 annually for the plant. Show less

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  B d pharmaceuticals private limited

  Jun 2014 - Nov 2016

  Budget manager

  The position reports to the Plant Controller and the job comprised month end tasks financial reporting, creating and ensuring product costing for the Plant. Reporting out monthly SOX requirements around IR/GR compliance, Blocked Stock and Invoice reports, Inventory management including excessive and obsolete materials and providing monthly forecasting and budget variance reports. Monthly Scrap variance report generation for waste analysis. Creation of the expense analysis report by Cost centers to help understand variances to Budget and Forecast to the department leaders.Key Achievements:•Helped clean the IR/GR discrepancies by coordinating with the Shared Services and the Procurement team. •Helped create C2W (Cost to Win) spreadsheet to calculate savings of projects on a monthly basis that now gets reported out to the business leadership.•Created processes to help in segregation of duties from P.O creation to payment of invoices. Show less

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  Cardinal health

  Dec 2016 - Jun 2023

  Plant controller

  The job comprises financial reporting at month end and providing weekly trending reports to the Plant leadership to help control and manage costs. Monthly inventory management includes cycle counts, excessive and obsolete material management. I have 2 accounting direct reports who are involved in daily tasks like production reporting, payroll management thru Kronos system, accounts payables, product costing, Asset management and other tasks as requested by other departments. Monthly reporting and budgeting includes Absorption costs, Labor rates, efficiencies, PPV and spending analysis. These are also discussed in weekly meetings with operations leaders to access the monthly trending. Continuous process improvement through discussions with operations leaders to help optimize costing and build margins for our products.Key Achievements:•Helped create YOY standard cost savings of $4.0 million through labor rate and overhead cost reductions.•Facilitated in identifying $1.2 million savings through Value Improvement Projects in FY21.•Helped get the Plant in compliance to RIM (Records Information Management) per SOX guidelines. This includes creating electronic record management process in all departments.•Helped create value added report systems that are now being used by Leadership team members to manage and monitor Plant activities on a weekly basis. •Worked with the Corporate Marketing and pack team to help implement a lower cost carton for one of our SKU that reduced cost and helped ergonomically.• Introduced cross functional training of tasks in the Finance team to help work-life balance and also developmental opportunity within the team.•Onboarding our new Plant Director as he came from outside Cardinal.•Built development processes thru classroom presentations on Costing and effective controls/management for Plant Leadership team. Been a 5-S Sponsor for better work environment. Show less

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  Ge healthcare

  Jul 2023 - now

  Global mict cost and productivity leader