ANDRETTA ROBINSON
Piedmont
Summary
Experienced Accounting Professional with 27 years of expertise in accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and operational management. Especially enjoys being involved in the day-to-day activities of the accounting department.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
VP of Finance & IT
Goodwill Industries of Upstate / Midlands South Carolina, Inc
01.2020 - 05.2025
- Establish, maintain and develop accounting policies and procedures ensuring strong internal controls in a spirit of continuous improvement.
- Supervised the accounts payable function ensuring that invoices are properly approved and processed timely. Also responsible for verifying expense and travel reports.
- Purchase card administrator: maintains policies and procedures for the issuance, usage, and termination of purchasing cards.
- Managed procurement which involved reviewing vendor contracts, managing the bid process for large quotes, and managing supplier relationships.
- Responsible for cash management, ensuring that all cash is booked properly, preparing invoices, and collection notifications.
- Oversee the payroll function, coordinating with HR to verify employee data and accounts and ensuring records and processes comply with company and legal regulations.
- Oversee and perform general ledger accounting: monitoring and recording transactions, reconciling sub ledgers to the general ledger, creating accounts when appropriate, and preparing financial statements.
- Provide leadership in developing and recommending the annual budget approved by the Board of Directors under the direction of the CEO.
- Responsible for the month-end and year-end closing process to ensure accurate and timely data are presented to internal and external parties.
- Liaison to the external auditors: ensure adherence to audit requirements, prepare audit schedules, address auditor inquiries and provide supporting documentation for transactions.
- Responsible for working with the tax accountant to prepare the annual 990 or tax return.
- Ensure compliance with regulations including CFR 200 for federal funding.
- Establish and maintain relationships with financial institutions, funding sources, and other organizations for which the company receives, holds, disperses or utilizes monies.
- Provide management and leadership of supervisors and staff to assure effective and timely performance in the achievement of objectives within the Information Technology department.
- Provided IT governance: align IT strategy with business goals, analyze workflow, establish priorities, and set deadlines.
- A not-for-profit organization committed to helping people become independent through education and training leading to employment.
Controller
Collins Aerospace a division of United Technologies Corporation
06.2019 - 01.2020
- Responsible for the site's SOX compliance.
- Core team member of the site's ERP system implementation.
- Responsible for the timely closing of the financial period.
- Responsible for creating a more robust cost accounting environment which includes but is not limited to: creating and maintaining an annual cost roll standard process for the facility, ensuring that costs were allocated and reported correctly in the general ledger, and margin analysis by product line.
- Responsible for the site's response to government client audit requests.
- A leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry.
Controller
PA Solutions, Inc
Greenville
02.2017 - 06.2019
- Responsible for month end close and consolidation of two sites within the organization.
- Assist with the monthly forecast and preparation of presentation for monthly results to the VP of Finance.
- KPI Reporting
- Liaison between site and Corporate IT
- Credit card administrator: audits credit card transactions from cardholders to ensure integrity
- Site contact for external and internal auditors
- Supervision of the billing team and staff accountant.
- Develop innovative, individual automation solutions for secure and reliable production processes.
Assistant Controller
WYNIT
Greenville
01.2016 - 02.2017
- Supervision of the company's deduction team which encompasses a portfolio averaging $7M of customer deductions; responsible for ensuring the integrity of transactions related to these deductions as well as the proper charge-backs to suppliers to strengthen cash management.
- Supervision of the company's consignment accountant; responsible for AR billing to consignment customers as well as AP to consignment suppliers.
- Supervision of the company's royalty accountant.
- Managed all price protection claims, deal buys with suppliers, and was the liaison between the company and suppliers for any issues related to these categories.
- Ad hoc reporting as required.
- A leading North American wholesale distributor of emerging technology and products.
Controller
Faiveley Transport
Greenville
10.2009 - 01.2016
- Standardized the monthly project meetings with the director of engineering and the director of project management to review the contract margin of projects, projected expenses as compared to appraisal, as well as an assessment of the project risk.
- Produced a department expense budget vs. actual spreadsheet that is sent to the directors each month.
- Preparation of the yearly budget: gathering departmental expenses, earned hours estimate, contract margin on backlog analysis.
- Responsible for annual standard cost roll.
- Approved and reviewed engineering changes to routers and bill of materials.
- Established and published KPI's on a weekly basis.
- Created a spreadsheet so that a P&L could be produced by project which significantly broadened our ability to give feedback to corporate concerning a project status as well as to help internally understand how the business is trending and to understand the gross margin.
- Prepare month-end journal entries for risk and provision utilization and any other account reclassification that is deemed necessary.
- Responsible for inputting the company's forecast and consolidation packages for corporate reporting. Have created several excel templates (as the reporting forms are standardized) that have helped to reduce the time of gathering and inputting data.
- Responsible for the Controlling package which is sent to corporate on a monthly basis which includes: P&L, balance sheet, CAPEX spend, project reporting, and cost center analysis.
- A world leader in the manufacture of transit car hand brakes, stainless steel and aluminum windows and doors for transit cars.
Senior Cost Analyst
Sauer-Danfoss
Easley
09.2008 - 10.2009
- Automated month end journal entries by creating variants in the SAP system.
- After evaluating low margin part numbers; provided data to a cross-functional team to analyze and take action to improve the margin.
- Maintained standard cost integrity and created a template to compare the cost evolution of a part number from one period to another.
- Prepared cost center spending analysis for the plant manager and explanations of material variances.
- Assisted with preparation of the yearly budget; with emphasis concerning the annual cost roll.
- A global leader in the manufacture of components and integrated hydraulic systems used in agricultural, construction, material handling, turf care, and road building equipment.
Financial Analyst
Goodrich Corp
Greenville
02.2007 - 09.2008
- Created a notebook of integrity reports for the plant manager and other members of operations. These reports included materials that shipped with low margin which afforded engineering and sales the opportunity to see if a price increase should be negotiated or if a design change was necessary to reduce the cost of the material.
- Helped to reduce work order variances by 50%. Education for the team was the largest driver in getting the work order variances under control. Having someone at the facility to closely monitor production order variances (i.e. material issues and labor usage variances) and to provide immediate feedback to the team concerning issues created a cooperative environment between production, inventory control, engineering and finance.
- Conducted a work-in process audit to determine how many of the open work orders were viable. Provided a list of open work orders to the planners on a monthly basis. The number of open work orders was reduced by 75% during my tenure. The visibility and focus on open work orders provided savings for the company as it reduced purchased material (from using what we already had) instead of buying more material when unaware of what was already in progress on the shop floor.
- Helped to lead a complete physical inventory. The facility had been exempt from a 100% physical inventory due to its weekly cycle count results. After detailed analysis of inventory transactions and monthly cycle count observations I requested authorization from my supervisor for a 100% audit. There were more than two hundred inventory movements after the audit was complete and as a result when sales/marketing went into the system to quote an order, there was a higher comfort level that what the system showed was physically at the location. Also, the store keeper spent less time looking for parts and more time filling work orders and charging out materials.
- Provided excess and obsolete inventory report and calculated reserve.
- A Fortune 500 company that designs and manufactures aircraft and engine sensors that provide critical measurements for flight control.
Inventory & Promotions Controller
ScanSource Inc
Greenville
05.1998 - 02.2007
- Set the precedent of a 48 hour response from Finance for customer miss-shipments which resulted in a higher level of customer satisfaction.
- Fostered a relationship with one of our largest suppliers to make the collection process more robust; created multiple templates so that variances between the claim and payment were easily identifiable. This improved the company's cash flow by tens of thousands of dollars per month and accounts payable was able to reconcile their statements more efficiently and effectively.
- Responsible for claiming, collection, and disputes for all of our suppliers; this receivable portfolio generated over $10M per year.
- Partnered with accounts payable to ensure that suppliers stayed current with payments by training accounts payable to be more independent by using my receivable tracking spreadsheet to determine what was aging (vs. waiting on me to notify them). This effort created cross-training so that I would not be the only person in the department who could give suppliers back-up information for the company to be paid.
- Worked with a large supplier to take our invoicing to them paperless. Created a customer spreadsheet that included all of their special requirements when invoicing which reduced approximately one hour and thirty minutes of workload per month.
- Worked with IT to create a cost change report that could be downloaded into excel and easily manipulated instead of using hard copy reports. This reduced time to record and track cost changes on a daily basis by approximately three hours and improved the accuracy and integrity of the data.
- Introduced the idea of scanning all of the promotion/price protection invoices and back-up into the COGNOS database whereby anyone could view them when necessary. This reduced the amount of time to manually pull documentation and in some cases re-create what was originally submitted to the customer. This cleared storage space at the company and also allowed records to be maintained in a central location.
- Worked with IT to create a report that would show by part number when the addition or subtraction did not calculate correctly in the ledger, thereby, being able to find inventory roll-forward discrepancies automatically instead of manually.
- Selected by the CFO to be the first chairperson of the finance team employee recognition program. Developed and distributed guidelines for eligible nominees; conducted committee meetings and made sure the candidates were selected based on merit, and worked with IT to create an electronic nomination form. This employee recognition program increased employee morale and also gave the finance team an opportunity to hear the contributions and accomplishments of their peers.
- A billion dollar company that operates as a wholesale distributor of specialty technology products providing distribution sales and value-added services in specialty technology markets.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
Louisiana State University
ShreveportBachelor of Science/Business Administration - Public Accounting
University of South Carolina Upstate
CPA License -
Skills
- Numerical and analytical abilities
- Self-managed projects
- Team collaboration
- Organizational effectiveness
- Calm under pressure
- Meets deadlines
- Adaptability
- ERP system implementation
- FACTS
- JD EDWARDS
- SYTELINE
- SAP
- SAGE
- HYPERION
- MAPICS
- EPICOR
- POWERPLAN
- WINDOWS software experience
Certification
Stanford Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders Graduate, 06/01/22
Timeline
VP of Finance & IT
Goodwill Industries of Upstate / Midlands South Carolina, Inc
01.2020 - 05.2025
Controller
Collins Aerospace a division of United Technologies Corporation
06.2019 - 01.2020
Controller
PA Solutions, Inc
02.2017 - 06.2019
Assistant Controller
WYNIT
01.2016 - 02.2017
Controller
Faiveley Transport
10.2009 - 01.2016
Senior Cost Analyst
Sauer-Danfoss
09.2008 - 10.2009
Financial Analyst
Goodrich Corp
02.2007 - 09.2008
Inventory & Promotions Controller
ScanSource Inc
05.1998 - 02.2007
Master of Business Administration -
Louisiana State University
Bachelor of Science/Business Administration - Public Accounting
University of South Carolina Upstate