Experience

Scouts Talent

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Feb 2023 - Present



Robert Half

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Analyst

  • Apr 2021 - Feb 2023

  Responsible for month end close and journal entries. Weekly, performed percentage of completion calculations for a dozen large projects including reclass and revenue recognition entries. Responsible for month end close and journal entries. Weekly, performed percentage of completion calculations for a dozen large projects including reclass and revenue recognition entries.



3M

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Audit Specialist

  • 2019 - Sep 2020

  Led and participated in audits in North and South America, including plants and divisions. Assisted outside auditors with revenue, asset, and insurance testing.

• Spec Finance

  • 2015 - 2019

  Chart of accounts Lead - SAP. Guided SAP Chart of accounts implementation. Partnered with finance leaders to establish country appropriate SAP general ledger accounts. Collaborated with data team and country leads on data cleansing, conversion, and validation, working with conversion tools BODS, DCT, and CAPP. Spearheaded initial account mapping from SAP back to PeopleSoft for consolidation.-During pause in deployment, supported team replacing legacy external transfer pricing system with SAP pricing conditions, including entering mark-ups by country and product, writing test scripts, and reviewing invoices/intercompany purchase orders for accuracy, leading to team finance award nomination.-Created over 700 base accounts for over 36 countries, plus country-specific accounts for cash, unique processes, and statutory needs, with 3 - 10 account settings each and handling 48 company codes (legal entities) simultaneously at peak deployment.-Updated and ran Microsoft Access system for reconciliation of financial statement differences between legacy system and test system, including investigation and correcting entries.

• US Accounting Center Manager

  • 2012 - 2015

  Supervised team of 8, split between St. Paul, MN, and Austin, TX, focused on auditing, correcting, and reporting of monthly results for a business group of divisions for US operations. Followed up with country leaders regarding questions on reporting and investigating of international results. Summarized global results for finance leaders monthly.-Played key role as member of USAC leadership team determining priorities and driving process standardized and other improvements across divisions and business groups.

• Business Unit Financial Analyst

  • 2003 - 2012

  Provided 2 business teams with monthly financial reporting, budgeting, factory cost reconciliation, unit cost analysis, new product estimates of sales and profitability, and capital expenditure analysis. Participated on business teams to help set priorities and drive results. Acted as division lead and provided requirement definition, systems testing, and training for implementation of business group customer profitability system.Created financial and return on investment analysis of major capital expenditure, renewing important profitable product that required corporate operating committee approval due to size of investment.Provided manufacturing operations manager with forward looking indicators of month performance via weekly analysis of major production departments that constituted 80% of production spend and output. Traveled monthly with MOM to local plant for on-site review.Partnered with international manufacturing engineers on producing several financial analyses resulting in manufacturing expansion in Asia.Shared knowledge as financial trainer for many years, and along with a business trainer, facilitated 2-6 annual 1-day business simulations helping business leaders understand how operational decisions affect financial statements.Analyzed previous year's sales data, assisting division financial manager and legal team in crafting defense for several legal cases.

• Accounting Supervisor

  • 2000 - 2003

  Supervised staff of 8 accountants and coordinators responsible for P&L, financial analysis, unit cost, inventory, and transfer pricing for manufacturing organization supporting 5 selling divisions with annual sales value of production exceeding $1B.• Drove process improvements yielding cost savings via 25% staff reduction by end of term.

• Financial Analyst

  • 1997 - 2000

  Constraint Management Center of Excellence - Directed accountant and dedicated programmer. Delivered presentations and participated in monthly roundtable with manufacturing and supply chain. Measured and improved plant productivity using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints.



3M

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Accountant

  • 1984 - 1996

  Previous 3M roles: Accountant to Senior Financial Analyst. - Led implementation of corporate finished goods inventory system for several divisions, PCDUCS unit cost system implementation for one division, and had remote plant accounting responsibility for several plants. Previous 3M roles: Accountant to Senior Financial Analyst. - Led implementation of corporate finished goods inventory system for several divisions, PCDUCS unit cost system implementation for one division, and had remote plant accounting responsibility for several plants.