Austin Rothe
Idaho Falls,ID
Summary
Financial and accounting professional supporting laboratory cost analysis, financial reporting, inventory accounting, property accounting, and burden analysis in a DOE contractor environment. Handles unallowable transaction accounting, reconciliations, and reporting while partnering with cross-functional teams to improve accuracy, resolve discrepancies, and support sound financial decisions.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Accountant
Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho Falls, ID
10.2020 - Current
- Acted as the corporate accountant, recording laboratory unallowable transactions and supporting accurate classification, monitoring, and reporting of unallowable costs.
- Managed property accounting activities, tracking capital projects, asset additions, retirements, adjustments, depreciation, and ensuring compliance with financial reporting requirements.
- Previously managed unallowable budgets and related reporting before responsibility transitioned to the Financial Planning & Analysis organization.
- Prepared and reviewed internal and external financial reports, including consolidated financial statements, cash flow reports, budget reports, income statements, and balance sheets, to ensure accurate management reporting.
- Perform detailed reconciliations of balance sheet, income statement, inventory, and bank accounts while investigating and resolving discrepancies.
- Research and resolve questions involving unallowable expenditures, charging practices, and appropriate financial treatment of transactions.
- Respond to recurring and ad hoc financial requests by researching account activity, organizing data, and communicating findings to stakeholders.
- Analyze financial information and cost records to support laboratory organizations, cost-distribution accuracy, and management decision-making.
- Analyze inventory funding, burden distributions, and cost activity to identify discrepancies, improve reporting accuracy, and support management decision-making.
- Perform inventory burden analysis and evaluate burden-related activity to support accurate inventory valuation, financial reporting, and cost allocation.
- Support ATR burden analysis through review of inventory activity, funding impacts, cost accumulation, and burden application.
- Manage accounting for Direct Charge inventory, ATR Spares WIP, Fuel WIP, Nuclear Material, Precious Metals, Freight, Allowance for Loss, Inventory Net Change, and related funding and burden activity.
- Maintained month-to-month accounting and reporting for Special Nuclear Material using ABC Financials.
- Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to develop a new Asset Suite workflow for aged Direct Charge inventory items, establishing a sustainable process to resolve long-standing inventory exceptions.
- Perform CARE Program bank reconciliations and establish a new QuickBooks company file to support financial tracking and reporting.
- Partner with accounting, operations, engineering, supply chain, and Quality personnel to resolve complex financial and operational issues.
- Utilized AI tools to enhance documentation and workflow efficiency. to improve documentation, procedures, and workflow efficiency.
Staff Accountant
Eagle Eye Produce
Idaho Falls, ID
01.2019 - 10.2020
- Prepared month-end journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Reviewed monthly financial statements and analyzed account variances to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Reconciled banking activity and prepared cash-position reports for executive leadership to support cash management and financing decisions.
- Managed fixed asset accounting, including depreciation schedules and asset records, to maintain compliance with property tax requirements.
- Oversaw company credit card administration and supervised accounts receivable activities, ensuring accurate balances and timely collections.
- Assisted the Chief Financial Officer with financing records, payments, and related financial support activities.
Production Coordinator
Eagle Eye Produce
Idaho Falls, ID
02.2018 - 01.2019
- Prepared daily production and inventory reports for management and sales leaders, translating operational data into actionable insights to inform decision-making.
- Forecasted production requirements and updated schedules to align inventory supply with customer demand.
- Analyzed production costs against market values to support profitability assessments and operational decisions.
- Monitored inventory balances and aging across multiple facilities, identifying trends and communicating findings to operational stakeholders to support proactive inventory management.
- Evaluated performance data to identify improvement opportunities, enhancing accuracy of production and inventory forecasting.
Education
Master of Accountancy -
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID12-2018
Skills
- Financial reporting Management reportingBudget & Funding AnalysissisCost distributionForecastingCost DistributionForecasting analysis
- Ad hoc analysis
- Financial controls
- Financial tools
- Analysis & Reporting: Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office Suite Process automation
- Procedure development
- Cost Distribution
Timeline
Accountant
Idaho National Laboratory
10.2020 - Current
Staff Accountant
Eagle Eye Produce
01.2019 - 10.2020
Production Coordinator
Eagle Eye Produce
02.2018 - 01.2019
Master of Accountancy -
Idaho State University