Sr Cost Accounting Analyst
St. Louis, MO
Accounting
7 years
1/16/2025
Profile
I’m an accounting professional with a well-rounded background in cost accounting, corporate accounting, and public audit. Proven record of success leading teams responsible for the oversight of inventory, revenue, COGS, and AR in both a retail and plant environment. Confident, professional communicator with demonstrable success adding value via operations finance and cost accounting analysis and reporting. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional departments to develop and enhance current processes, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment across teams.
Why Hire This Candidate (In Their Own Words): I am a skilled accounting professional with a strong analytical mindset, constantly seeking opportunities to improve efficiencies within the department. I collaborate effectively with cross-functional departments and take pride in recognizing and analyzing market trends. Additionally, I have a keen eye for identifying unusual activity, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial operations.
Strengths: (1) Process improvement (2) Cost accounting and complex data analysis (3) Operational Accounting (4) Intellectual curiosity
Career Highlight 1: Received recognition from our executive team for successfully managing the financial transition of our two plant divestitures. This involved training the acquiring staff on day to day financial operations as well as providing guidance on the build out of their future state business processes.
Career Highlight 2: Discovered significant inventory shortfall at a 3rd party storage facility and led negotiations to recover the lost inventory at our retail value.
Career Highlight 3: Created and developed an end-to-end process to appropriately recognize revenue while tracking sales with intercompany repurchase obligations at the vendor level.
Hobbies & Personal Interests: I really enjoy going to live sporting events (St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Cardinals, and Texas Longhorns). I also enjoy spending time with my friends and close family, as well as weightlifting. I also love going on walks with my wife and daughter.
Education: BS Accounting, MAcc
Industry Experience: Agriculture, Industrials, Manufacturing, Public Accounting, Retail
Company Fit: I’ve worked at small/medium companies generating between 200-500 million in revenue annually. This includes private and publicly traded.
Management Experience: 2 years of management experience with 1-3 direct reports
Systems Experience: NetSuite, iRely, Dynamics 365, Great Plains, Excel
Open To: Hybrid, In-office, Remote
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