Experience

Severstal NA
• Strategic Business Planning Analyst


American Axle & Manufacturing

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Payroll Co-op

  • Jan 2010 - Apr 2010

  Responsible for distribution of U.S. employee paychecks: weekly for hourly associates, and semi-monthly for salaried associates.Collect mail and distribute to appropriate areas on a daily basis.Scan and save any employee garnishments on shared drive to maintain payroll accuracy.Maintain regular contact with payroll counterparts in American Axle facility in Mexico.Collect W-4s from all U.S. associates to update 2010 tax treatment of earnings; save all data on shared drive and file manually to comply with audit requirements.Extract current employee filing status data and enter in Excel spreadsheet for uploading in ADP.Investigate previously issued payroll checks currently outstanding on bank statements of three accounts; determine whether to reissue check or cancel out of ledger.Assigned by management to develop a process to improve the tracking of these issued-but-uncashed checks. Show less

• Financial Reporting Co-Op

  • Dec 2008 - Dec 2009

  Analyze balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements to extract data. Prepare and submit various quarterly and annual economic surveys for the U.S. Census Bureau.Perform quarterly internal testing to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Collect random reconciliations and test for completeness and managerial review. Analyze and review policies, providing documents to department heads to sign that policies and procedures are followed, etc.Prepare multiple Oracle reports (expense distribution reports, general ledger reports, and budget reports) and distribute monthly invoices to 7 domestic and international locations with 10 plants to validate accuracy of intercompany transactions. Investigate and resolve discrepancies reported by plant finance managers. Perform various month end responsibilities including bank reconciliations and training journal entries (bill backs to cost centers). Run, compile, and distribute monthly expense and general ledger reports to internal audit, product engineering, legal, and human resource directors.Perform several support roles for compilation of quarterly (10-Q) and annual (10-K) reports. Proofread and validate financial data, conferring with senior financial analyst regarding corrections.Participated in four annual physical inventory audits with internal audit staff; process included meeting with all involved plant personnel to review procedural changes. Observed and randomly selected inventory to ensure accuracy during audit. Participated in review of audit results with plant finance staff. Show less