Ryan Yoshimura
Arcadia,CA
Summary
Plant Controller leading cost tracking for 6–10 cost centers per month, full-cycle accounting, and month-end close for a manufacturing plant. Partners with plant leadership and corporate teams on budgets, 3–4 forecast updates per month, variance analysis, 16+ inventory counts per year, CapEx, and audit support to tighten controls and improve profitability. Turns production, labor, scrap, and maintenance data into clear reporting that supports faster decisions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Plant Controller
Owens Illinois
Vernon, CA
10.2023 - Current
- Process Implementation
- Analyzed and improved processes to enhance tracking and management of costs
- Review Payroll
- Month End Close
- Inventory
- Monthly raw material physical counts
- Annual finished goods physical counts
- Ongoing cycle counts for storeroom items and finished goods
- FP&A
- Facilitated communication with plant management and corporate team to establish annual expectations and budgets
- Weekly updates to forecast with explanations for variances to original budget
- Regular updates to admin team regarding important levers that impact our profitability:
- Labor and overtime
- Production efficiencies
- Repair and Maintenance costs
- Losses to scrap
- Costs associated with 3rd party warehousing and other services
- Monthly financial reporting and analysis
- Variance analysis and explanations for differences between actuals and forecast
- CapEx
- Track capital expenditures by project
- Monitored project progress and ensured timely payment and accurate recording of invoices
- Close out CIP as projects are completed and start depreciation
- Audits
- Work with external auditors during our annual physical counts
- Work with internal auditors to make sure all processes and internal controls are sound and in place
- Glass Bottle Manufacturer
VP of Finance and Accounting
UB Equipment Corp.
Baldwin Park, CA
05.2022 - 06.2023
- Create and implement new processes that will enable a better baseline to expand from and meet Private Equity goals
- Create new budgeting and forecasting procedures so enable regular updates to Private Equity Firm
- Monthly financial reporting and analysis
- Streamlined communication between management and employees to enhance operational clarity
- Prioritized jobs for production workers to ensure that orders were filled.
- Developed plans to reorganize warehouse, optimizing employee time and space utilization
- Full Cycle Accounting
- Established internal controls in family-run business, enhancing financial governance and accountability
- Manage AR
- Manage AP
- Payroll
- Inventory
- Item costing
- FP&A
- Smoothing out the gaps in communication between existing management and other employees
- Prioritizing jobs for production workers to ensure that orders are filled as needed
- Create plans to reorganize the warehouse to improve employees time, use of warehouse space, and overall efficiencies
- Established internal controls for what was previously a family run business
- Segregation of duties and approvals around payroll and purchasing
- Approvals process for adding new vendors
- Led the migration to Quickbooks and new ERP that allowed more controls over inventory, invoicing, purchasing, and many other manual processes that had been used previously
- Implementing 3rd party payment processor to improve AP functions
- Transitioned payroll and benefits out to a 3rd party provider (Insperity)
- Distributor of Construction Equipment
Director, Controller
Amorphology, Inc.
Pasadena, CA
07.2021 - 05.2022
- Process Implementation
- Analyze and improve existing process
- Created new processes to enhance efficiencies during company growth
- Established internal controls
- Created segregation of duties
- Developed purchasing, receiving, and payables processes with tiered approval levels to enhance compliance and oversight
- Reviewed and revised employee systems access to strengthen security and ensure appropriate permissions
- Established approval processes around payroll and any related changes to compensation and/or title
- Payroll
- Month End Close
- Inventory
- Item costing
- FP&A
- Create annual budgets to present to executive team
- Monthly financial reporting and analysis
- Variance analysis and explanations for differences between current financials, prior year, and current budget
- Being a pre revenue startup, gave special attention to cash flows and included cash flow forecasts in the monthly financial packet
- CapEx
- Track capital expenditures by project
- Ensure that projects progress at an acceptable rate and that invoices are being paid and recorded properly
- Close out CIP as projects are completed and start depreciation
- Accomplishments:
- Reconciled all financial statements going back 4 years
- Reconciled AP, AR, and Fixed assets registers
- Uncovered 4-year embezzlement scheme by executive and recovered all $3.8M for the company
- Implemented internal controls
- Reduced month end close down from several weeks to 3 days
- Created weekly forecasts for board to provide timely insights into business performance and cash flow management
- R&D and Manufacturing of Bulk Metallic Glass Gears and Parts
Assistant Controller/IT Controller/Lease Manager
Orora
Alhambra, CA
05.2017 - 06.2021
- Audit Support
- Provide internal and external auditors with schedules and support as requested
- Confirmed and signed off on division processes, ensuring adherence to SOX compliance
- Month End Close
- Review accruals reports and income statements for accuracy
- Create journal entries for accruals, rebates, re-classes, etc for centralized accounting office to book
- Create all lease accounting entries to be booked
- Review balance sheet reconciliations
- FP&A
- Create annual budgets to present to executive team
- Weekly forecasting
- Monthly financial reporting and analysis
- Lease Accounting
- Managed 700 leases (equipment and property), facilitating compliance with lease accounting standards
- Converted all leases from Google sheets over to new ProLease software to enable us to better comply with new lease accounting rules
- Ensure any additions or changes to leases are properly recorded into ProLease system
- Keep track of upcoming expiration dates and notify locations to negotiate new leases if applicable
- CapEx
- Write up CER’s and provide upper management and executives with necessary data and backup for approval
- Track project spend and timelines
- Ensure that projects are closed out and capitalized in a timely manner
- Lead process improvement efforts in billing, inventory management, expense management, etc
- Work closely with department managers to develop various reports to help us analyze the efficiencies of the business and create processes to improve them
- Work with CIO to improve non PO expense management, accuracy of monthly accruals, and clean up prepaid accounts
- Work with other division controllers to ensure that improved processes are rolled out and maintained across all locations
- Physical Inventory
- Manage annual physical inventory
- Created and filed documentation for audits, supporting compliance and transparency in financial reporting
- Ensure that all invoices that are received directly are approved, coded, and processed by centralized AP department
- Excel, Crystal Reports, SAP, EmpowerTime, Amtech
- Manufactured Packaging Products; Corrugated Box Manufacturer, ~200 Million Annual Revenue
Senior Accountant
Rehrig Pacific Corporation
Vernon, CA
08.2013 - 04.2017
- Year End Audit
- Month end close
- Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Create schedules to be provided to auditors for requested accounts
- Provide auditors with necessary support and explanations for audit selections
- Book accruals for rebates, cash discounts, AP, freight, etc.
- Review income statements for each plant location to ensure that all expenses have been accounted for
- Research any issues and book necessary adjusting entries
- Oversaw rebates and cash discounts for qualifying customers, including management of Pepsi account, ensuring accurate application and timely processing
- In charge of quarterly FIFO inventory re-valuation and related journal entries
- Managed annual 1099 process for accounts payable, ensuring compliance and timely distribution
- Maintain the fixed asset database including quarterly depreciation true ups
- Manage the entire regrind material program
- Tracked, calculated, and accrued shipments of regrind material from each customer, maintaining accurate financial records and reporting
- Communicate regularly with customers and sales reps to ensure that credits are applied and/or paid in a timely manner
- Assist tax department with tax returns on a monthly basis
- Excel, Sales Logix, Visibility, Ariba, ECLynx
- Plastics Manufacturer, ~500 Million Annual Revenue
Senior Accountant
Entravision, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
03.2012 - 08.2013
- Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Collaborated with controllers and managers to develop annual budgets
- Generate and analyze weekly forecast vs. budget/actuals report
- Format and organize daily revenue pacings vs. budget for upper management
- Review and analyze capital expenditure requests against budget before processing
- Reviewed and analyzed HR forms for new hires, promotions, and terminations to ensure budget compliance before submission for upper management approval
- Review and analyze HR forms for new hires, promotions, terminations, etc. against budget before they can be submitted to upper management for final approval
- Assessed account executive commissions to monitor and evaluate performance
- Reconcile account receivables, credit memos, and write-offs between OSI and Great Plains
- Sales journal-book all revenues and expenses for 12 centralized markets
- Accrue payroll, vacation, bonus, commission, and other misc expenses
- Track and book prepaid expenses
- Royalty accounting-calculate fee owed to Univision, Inc. based on % of total revenue
- Review AP vouchers and general manager expense reports for coding accuracy
- Media, Spanish Radio and TV, ~250 Million Annual Revenue
Sales Audit/Inventory Control Specialist
Quiksilver, Inc.
Huntington Beach, CA
06.2010 - 03.2012
- Sales Audit
- Verified sales accuracy between reporting system and store reports, ensuring alignment and integrity of financial data
- Researched discrepancies down to store level and corrected in system
- Inventory (adjustments, journal entries for store transfers, shrink accruals, and annual physical inventory)
- Month end closing (stock ledger, G/L entries, reconciliations)
- New store set-up (set up store with bank account, Visa/MasterCard and AMEX/Discover, and armored car services)
- Reconciled gift card transactions
- Verified gift card sales between store report and gift card merchant services report
- Compiled and delivered monthly expense reports for employee and executive purchases, facilitating review and verification of purchase accuracy
- Prepared and formatted week-over-week revenue comparisons for president of retail, enhancing visibility into sales trends and performance
- Provided monthly expense reports for employee and executive purchases to enable them to review and verify accuracy of their purchases each month
- Organized and formatted week over week revenue comparison for president of retail
Junior Accountant
Friendly Franchisees Corporation
La Palma, CA
03.2007 - 05.2010
- Audited sales discrepancies for 65 Carl’s Jr. restaurants
- Managed accounts receivable processes for 18 Denny’s restaurants
- Executed daily and monthly bank and cash reconciliations for all restaurants
- Verified credit card transaction processing
- Communicated with headquarters to coordinate payment of royalties and advertising fees
- Excel, MAS 90
- La Palma, CA
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree - Entrepreneurship
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Los Angeles, CA12-2011
Skills
- Budget forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Cash flow forecasting
- CapEx tracking
- Financial reporting
- KPI reporting
- Financial modeling
- Month-end close
- Inventory control
- Internal controls
- Audit support
- Fixed asset accounting
- ERP implementation
Timeline
Plant Controller
Owens Illinois
10.2023 - Current
VP of Finance and Accounting
UB Equipment Corp.
05.2022 - 06.2023
Director, Controller
Amorphology, Inc.
07.2021 - 05.2022
Assistant Controller/IT Controller/Lease Manager
Orora
05.2017 - 06.2021
Senior Accountant
Rehrig Pacific Corporation
08.2013 - 04.2017
Senior Accountant
Entravision, Inc.
03.2012 - 08.2013
Sales Audit/Inventory Control Specialist
Quiksilver, Inc.
06.2010 - 03.2012
Junior Accountant
Friendly Franchisees Corporation
03.2007 - 05.2010
Bachelor of Science Degree - Entrepreneurship
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY