Gen Alex Maze

Location
houston, TX (US)
Work Category
Accounting
Interests
Business partnerships, Job opportunities, References, Ways to stay in touch
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Seeking new career and business opportunities.

About Me

Accountant/Consultant specializing in Costing and Financial Analysis. I have over 12 years of Accounting experience in support to Senior and Management level Accounting roles. Experience includes Accounts Receivable,Payables, G/L, Financial Statment analysis and preperation, Standard Cost Policy development, Standard Cost roles, Budget Analysis and Development, Forecasting, Labor Cost Analysis,Variances Standard Development and Analysis, Inventory Analysis and Management, Month, Year end closes, Financial Accounting.

Work Experience

  • Jan 2009 - present
    houston, TX (US)
    Analyst
    Parker Cabott
    • Analysis of manufacturing cost, sales and profit margins for a global player in the gas/oil exploration market
    • Create and update management reports that track, measure, and validate productivity, sales performance and manpower usage
    • Utilize H-Lookups, V-Lookups, DSums, Macros, Data Sorting to create reports that are used by the sales team, buyers, engineering group, shop managers, purchasing
    • Perform Data downloads out of Hyperion and Web Focus, Quick Books Pro 8, then analyze and manipulate
    • Design Reports and develop Key Performance Indicators for each division
  • Jun 2008 - Oct 2008
    houston, TX (US)
    Cost Accountant
    Manconix Inc
    • Analyze actual manufacturing cost and prepare periodic report comparing standard cost to actual production cost
    • Oversee Inventory Valuation through adjustments, reconciliation and cycle counting
    • Analyze Standard Cost, compare to LPO & AVG cost
    • Perform Standard Cost Rolls, review and approval of BL reconciliations
    • Compile cost and expense information to be used in Operations Budget
    • Manage Inventory Cycle and Annual Counts, Inventory Adjustments, Reconciliation and Analysis
    • Develop, implement and improve the quality of accounting processes and cost controls
    • Create, monitor and manage budgets for ten departments within operations
  • Apr 2008 - Jun 2008
    houston, TX (US)
    Petroleum Products Staff Accountant
    CVR Energy
    • Identified crude transactions and crude transfer, reconciling scheduled to actual
    • Determines how movements were scheduled and compares to actual movements.
    • Verified open orders are actualized prior to month end
    • Complete reconciliations, involved in ME close, verifying AP transactions
    • Prepared accounting journal entries, analyze reports and statements.
    • Review, and modify accounting reports to ensure accurate communication of financial results to management / shareholders.
    • Ensured timely and accurate internal and external reporting
    • Performed account reconciliations while identifying, and interpreting variances
    • Recorded month end accruals for crude transactions
    • Prepared internal management reports and EIA reports for crude movements
    • Analyzed daily changes to trading profit and loss reports
    • Develop financial metrics used to analyze productivity of crude operations and efficiencies of hedging activities
  • Jan 2005 - Apr 2008
    minneapolis, MN (US)
    Sr. Accountant/Cost Analyst
    EMR Consulting
    • Supervised, scheduled and managed project team and activities
    • Made presentations to perspective clients and partners
    • Handled contract negotiations and closed deals
    • Showed management how to resolve INVENTORY VALUE & COUNT inconsistencies
    • Increased sales by 40% due to aggressive networking and advertising
    • Saved clients 150k in CRACK, SCRAP and MANPOWER costs
    • Created forecast identifying cost of manufacturing, cost of goods sold and expected PPV while identifying trends and recommending appropriate actions
    • Developed COST and FINANCIAL models utilizing queries in ACCESS for management reports
    • Developed clean KPI’s to more accurately guide MANAGEMENT EFFECIENCES and expose INEFFECIENCES
    • Established a database using ACCESS as well as designed REPORTS, QUIERIES and MACROS this database was a pertinent resource for forecast and budget development

Education

  • 2006 - 2007
    Master's - Accounting
    Keller Graduate School of Management
    Graduate Certificate in Accounting
  • 2000 - 2002
    Master's - Managment
    Bethel University
    Study of Organizational Leadership
  • 1986 - 1991
    Bachelor's - Finance/Accounting
    Hofstra University