Laura Sanchez
Decatur,USA
Summary
Skill Accounting professional bringing 10+ years of experience working in Controllership, Financial Planning & Analysis, Cost Accounting and Inventory Management with a Audit big four background. Passionate for operational excellence, cost reduction and develop business and growth strategies.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Controller
DART CONTAINER CORP
12.2022 - Current
- Prepared and presented detailed financial statements and productivity reports to senior management
- Review, research, and write explanations for monthly financial results to present to the regional leadership group, compare with the budget of the month/year / Gross Margin and KPI’s monthly
- Developed and implemented internal control processes and procedures that ensured compliance with all applicable Dart internal policies
- Responsible for Month End process, reviewed reconciliations of balance sheet and income statement accounts
- Developed and monitored key performance indicators (KPIs) to track financial performance and identify areas for improvement
- Analyzed financial trends and reports that help to identify opportunities of saving and flag potential financial threats to inform strategic planning and decision-making
- Prepared annual budget for two manufacturing sites (Conyers and Thomaston facilities) at cost center level – calculated rates
- Creation and implement of power BI reports of KPI’s for a daily/weekly review operations to have a more visible way of analyzing data (Expenses, volume, etc.)
- Key player on the CAPEX analysis – capital investment, ROI, etc
- Leading BOM/Routings review annually to ensure cost its align to actual operations and ensure margins.
Controller
DART DE MEXICO
05.2021 - 11.2022
- Oversee the financials for two plants.
- Managed a team of four people.
- Creation of annual budget. Developed labor planning tool for Mexico plants since their payroll system was different than US plants.
- Collaborate with plant managers and corporate accounting to simplify the accounting and coding structure in both plants.
- Participate in weekly and monthly cost savings meetings to help identify initiatives and calculate savings.
- Review, research and write explanations for monthly financial results to present to the regional leadership group, compare with the budget of the month/year / Gross Margin and KPI’s monthly.
- Created a cost board from scratch to highlight spending in daily management meetings in power BI.
- Improve the integrity of inventory values by doing the cost quarterly cost rolls and the monthly reserve journal.
- Review BOMS and routings.
- Leading the inventory cycle count & organizing people to avoid the walk-to-walk inventory and leading the external audit preparations (PWC)
- Leading external audits on the inventory and costing. (PWC)
- Be the first point of contact between corporate and local to translate and communicate local laws that may impact financially the business decisions and helping them to calculate affectation or benefits.
Sr Corporate Cost Accountant
POLY
07.2020 - 05.2021
- Leading two people under my position
- P&L reporting and Balance sheet
- Global Inventory responsible
- Control the Global Excess and Obsolete Inventory Reserves (quarterly analysis presented to supply chain, product management, sales operation)
- Financial Controls (Global/Sox)
- Global Physical Control monitoring/ Auditing
- Ad hoc reporting to support close cycles and audits Deferred capitalization analysis Preparation of the monthly, quarterly, and annual budget/forecast (Assist to FP&A and operations)
- Responsible to review monthly closing/ quarter end/ year end and accounts reconciliations
- Oversight of all intercompany inventory transactions, profit in inventory, and eliminations
- Assist to local cost accounting team to review cost situation such Cost roll up, variances, rates calculation, etc.)
Sr Financial Analyst
TE Connectivity
09.2019 - 07.2020
- P&L reporting and balance sheet review, forecast and manufacturing variance
- Help in the preparation of the monthly, quarterly, and annual budget/forecast
- Calculate rates of labor & overheads
- Review with corporate SOX audit on internal control (local support) Lead annual Cost roll-up and update quarterly
- Daily report of sales, booking and backlog, scrap
- Interact with the engineer team to create BOM and routes of new products
- Review and prepare absorption, volume, earned hours and efficiency reports
- Variation analysis (PPV, MFG, OVEARHEAD) KPI’s report to corporate controller (Budget vs Actual)
- Responsible of monitor accuracy and controls for the standards inventories (Raw Material Subcontract, WIP)
- Oversee physical inventory and aids auditors
- Responsible to review monthly closing and accounts reconciliations
- Report the saving projects made by the different areas monthly.
Cost Accountant
ARRK Product Development Group Mexico
05.2017 - 09.2019
- Active participation in the implementation of ERP (Syteline 9)
- Implementation of standard costing from scratch with a huge variably of items due unique parts arrived in daily basis to be created
- Develop the a standard budget.
- Leadership in the creating of a tool that help the engineering team to create BOMs using the quote information made by standard and latter only changing the specifics by clients’ requirements. This standardization helped in the creation of an “standard cost”
- P&L reporting and Balance sheet review
- Financial Month end closing (P&L, Balance sheet, Journal entries, Forecast and budget) Elaborate forecasting/budget of the year and quarters
- Interact with the Engineer team to create BOM and routes for new products.
- Cost roll up of the new manufactured item numbers Calculate rates of labor & overheads
- Variation’s analysis, (PPV, MFG, OVERHEAD)
- Responsible for monthly closing, and accounts reconciliations Calculate and analyze sales reports, sales costs, variations and adjustments of inventories and expenses in production areas
- Closely support with production managers to implement cost reduction in the production areas.
Audit Senior
EY
09.2014 - 04.2017
- Planned and executed audit of financial statements
- Audit big companies that were public, execute physical inventories.
- Presented financial statements under IFRS, USGAAP, Mex GAAP and SOX.
- Analyzed and appreciated internal control processes
- Prepared and presented tax opinion before Mexican Tax Authorities
- Elaborated and reviewed financial statements.
- Elaborated electronic accounting for Mexican compliance
- Elaborated and reviewed Annual Income Tax Return.
Education
Cost Engineering Diploma -
CETYS Universidad
Tijuana, B.C.02.2018
Degree in Public Accounting -
CETYS Universidad
Tijuana, B.C.06.2016
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration -
City University of Seattle
Seattle, WA06.2016
Skills
Preparing financial statements
Fixed Asset Management
Cost accounting
ERP Systems Expertise-SAP/Oracle
Cost Variance Analysis
Microsoft Excel proficiency
Financial and operational reporting
Teamwork and Collaboration
Attention to Detail
Complex Problem-Solving
Power BI Tool
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Controller
DART CONTAINER CORP
12.2022 - Current
Controller
DART DE MEXICO
05.2021 - 11.2022
Sr Corporate Cost Accountant
POLY
07.2020 - 05.2021
Sr Financial Analyst
TE Connectivity
09.2019 - 07.2020
Cost Accountant
ARRK Product Development Group Mexico
05.2017 - 09.2019
Audit Senior
EY
09.2014 - 04.2017
Cost Engineering Diploma -
CETYS Universidad
Degree in Public Accounting -
CETYS Universidad
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration -
City University of Seattle
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