Janine Powers

• Collaborate with the local operations team to streamline manufacturing processes and yield annual year over year productivity savings
• Maintain internal control standards to ensure SOX compliance
• Develop annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Create monthly reporting packages that analyze variances and identify trends
• Financial oversight and management of over $70 million in inventory, including materials costing, slow moving, obsolete, blocked, and expired stock, inventory provisions, and write-offs
• Management of capital expenditures including ROI and payback analysis, project approvals, budgets, spending timeline, and tracking of expenses
• Responsible for all aspects of month end close for the local site, including creating and approving expense and inventory journal entries, ensuring proper sales cutoff, collaboration with the global team, etc.

• Tackled both annual and quarterly budget management tasks and developed financial models from benchmarking.
• Conducted detailed financial analysis to identify and evaluate changes in operations, trends and potential areas of improvement.
• Collected data from other divisions to support quarterly forecasts.

Coordinated, prepared, and created the annual budget, various cost saving models, and the departmental allocations and related schedules for all divisions. Performed and analyzed monthly bank reconciliations and monitored bank balances and cash flow. Prepared journal entries using the Oracle general ledger.

Executed engagements and performed audit procedures effectively by analyzing client's general ledger and financial statements , and addressing all significant financial statement balances. Identified potential accounting and audit issues and appropriately documented the issues and their conclusions.