Budget Controller - Honda Manufacturing & Development Alabama - Alabama
(2025-06)
- Coordinating with engineers to create Budgets
- Responsible for creating 6 Budgets in a year for 13 cost centers
- Uploading Budget amounts SAP BPC
- Monthly report generation Plan vs Actuals
- Analysis of variances
- Monthly accrual journal entries and correction Journal entries
- Reporting to Accounting of 3rd workday file
- Approval of Purchase Requisition and non-production materials
- Managing and follow up Investment Projects
- Creation of WBS for Investment Projects
- Attending Supplier meeting for Invoice follow up
- Working closely with AP & AR departments
- Managing Fixed Assets Accounting process and coordinating with accounting for Depreciation accrual
- Fixed Asset Audit
- Main role working across many departments AP, AR, Accounting, Engineers, Investment etc.
Cost Accountant - Kia Georgia - Georgia
(2023-09 - 2025-06)
- Closing activities, BOM tracking, Inventory support, Material Ledger, Factory Cost Sheet, Subledger
- KSOX Reports, Vendor Analysis, Invoice Analysis, GL Account analysis, Quarter Closing Reports as needed
- Manufacturing parts, Finished Vehicles, Semi Finished Goods cost analysis
- Monthly Close process
- Material cost updates
- Month end and quarter end reports
Cost Accountant - Hubbell Switching & Fusing and Hubbell Utility Automation
(2022-02 - 2023-09)
Managing Costing for 3 plants. Updating cost as needed. Assisting in Month end cost roll. Assisting year end Budgets. Month end journal entries, variance analysis of all 3 plants. Daily WIP report as needed. Various closing reports as needed by management.
Fixed
Assets audit of all 3 plants for the year 2022. Pictures taken, tags identified, identification of obsolete assets and assets with vendor. Year 2022 Material inventory audit of 3 plants. Test check of parts to the extent of 5% in each zone. Worked with material supervisor to resolve the errors and issues. Quarterly preparation of First 10 Last 10 inventory. Working with other departments for collecting supporting documents for internal Audit.
Cost Accountant - Kamtek Automotive
(2020-07 - 2022-02)
- Updating standard cost for part
- Standard cost rolls up
- Analyzing issues in BOM
- Analyzing Purchase price variance, labor variance, Quantity variance
- Generate Sales and Cost reports
- Analyzing Shipping history report
- Month end journal entries
- Inventory reconciliation
- Month end inventory journal entries
- Intercompany accounts
- Yearend inventory counting of parts
- Participation in SOX audit
- Monthly Sales report, sales and profit analysis
- Break even analysis
- Stamping, casting
- Inventory analysis in the inventory report
- Analyzing if all the parts have the standard cost
- Yearend inventory counting
- Working well with team and seniors
- Accepting work as assigned
Accountant - SMP Automotive
(2018-10 - 2019-12)
- Independent management of large number of vendors
- Posting of invoices
- Communicating with vendors by phone, email
- Preparation of vendor reconciliation statement
- Interacting with vendors to resolve invoice disputes
- Working across other departments like logistic, Receiving and purchase departments to resolve invoice errors
- Worked with shared services to get the invoices posted in a timely manner
- Month end accrual posting of accrual entries
- Posting and parking of invoices in SAP
- Communication with vendors via phone to get the missing invoices
- Managing Goods Receipts and Invoice verification account
- Managing non production vendors like freight vendors
- Clearing of historical invoice errors by getting GRs or proof of delivery
- Managed emails from invoices and respond to vendor inquiries within the deadline
- Manual posting of invoices through MIRO in SAP
- All other work assigned by management accounts reconciliation, month end quarter end year end work
- Working with auditors during audit
- Resolved Invoice errors in excess of 1 million due to missing Goods Receipts, Price difference, Quantity difference
- Getting Good Receipts posted by receiving department for Invoices waiting for GR – Invoice errors reduced by 35%
- Reduction in vendor Outstanding by 50%
- Weekly Check payment run
- Making weekly ACH Payments
- Managing funds needed for weekly payments
- Managed Cost Analysis and Cost Control
- Managing Customer accounts
- Resolving errors in the self-billing process – Automated billing system – reduction in invoice errors by 50%
- Resolving pricing issues with customer
- Determination and posting of month end accrual for invoices in error
- Preparation of customer statement and reconciling with the customer
- Maintaining Daily sales report, weekly sales report and monthly sales report
- Analyzed sales and expense reports and report the issues to management for corrective action
- Interpretation automated sales reports, financial reports and apply the financial policies and procedures
- Posting manual customer invoices due to missing invoices posted in SAP
Product Costing - Mercedes Benz U.S. International Inc. - North America On Site
(2016-05 - 2018-05)
Responsible for cost accounting analysis to identify, analyze, and evaluate cost-related data, expenditures and standards to validate and ensure the accuracy of inventory and cost of sales data. Responsible for maintaining accurate cost and Sales price for vehicles and parts. Create costing run for cost of materials and of Parts when needed. Daily monitoring and resolving interface errors relating to vehicles. Extract cost of parts as requested from other departments.
Weekly
Sales and Production report.
Maintaining Production Volume
Files in spreadsheet and comparing them with actual. Daily monitoring the vehicles in the SAP system and clearing the error logs. Responsible for forecasts and analyzing variations between forecast and actuals. Computation of Transfer Price rates for vehicles for each quarter as needed by management. Calculation of Overhead rates for Material, Outbound Freight, and Custom Duty. Monthly analyze cost estimate report for Vehicles, official and unofficial costs of the current month and previous month. Comparing the costing of parts as posted in the GL Account with the standard cost in Material Master. Analysis, trend analysis of Budgets and analyze the incr
Junior SAP Consultant – Thomas Built Buses - Atos IT Solutions and Services - High Point North Carolina
(2012-02 - 2015-05)
- Cleansing the old and redundant vendors
- Identifying inactive vendors
- Creating Vendor Codes, Vendor number mapping between the old and new vendors
- Assigning the account group, GL Account for vendors in the new SAP system
- Vendor Master Creation
- Automating the correspondence for vendors in the Vendor Master and testing
- Identifying payment reminders to be sent to vendors
- Testing the same
- Generating reports as needed for vendors
- Customizing and configuration and Testing
- Cleansing the old and redundant customers
- Identifying inactive and intercompany customers
- Creating Customer Codes, Customer number mapping between the old and new customer
- Assigning the account group, GL Account for customer in the new SAP system
- Automating the correspondence for customer in the Customer Master and testing
- Identifying payment reminders to be sent to customer
- Generating reports as needed for customer
- Training the users for using SAP effectively and smoothly
- GL Account mapping
- GL Account structure
- Mass loading of data in SAP
- Working in a large team
- Preparation of work instructions and user manuals to perform duties effectively
- Knowledge of the capabilities of various computer platforms functioning in centralized system, distributed system, client server, and stand-alone environments
