8/6/2019 Finance Accounting Manager in NYC NY Resume Joseph Hom

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JOSEPH HOM(412) 498-6861

Port Chester, NY 10573 joehom@flash.net

SUMMARY

A highly skilled and globally minded professional with wide ranging experience in SAP, change management,logistics, productivity, marketing/business analysis, strategic planning, and operations. Demonstrates expertise inmetrics, key performance indicators, financial analysis, benchmarking, auditing, and continuous improvement.Technical and business background provides a theoretical and practical understanding of systems with a focus on

corporate issues and objectives.EXPERIENCE

PEPSICO INTERNATIONAL, Valhalla, NY 2004 - 2011Finance ManagerOwner of budgeting process (annual, quarterly) and financial period close including cost driver issues. Responsiblefor the integrity of freight billing process, account reconciliations, inter-departmental cross-charges, accruals,reversals, and operational activity charges totaling over $11 million in expenses. Active participant in Sarbanes-Oxley controls and documentation.

Completed budgets on annual and quarterly basis utilizing data extraction and merging, reconciliations, yearon year comparisons, macroeconomic factors, productivity initiatives, forecasts, and stakeholder inputtotaling over $12 million.Completed financial period close including account reconciliations and variance analyses to budget rangingfrom $700,000 to over $1.1 million.Assisted in financial monitoring of savings projects totaling $1.7 million annually and exceeding targets toover $2.3 million.Provided financial control of five capital projects totaling over $7 million including approvals and payment.Managed ad hoc requests for cross-charges, activity based costing, reconciliations, analyses, financialprojections/forecasting, and data gathering.Validated, verified, audited, and reconciled weekly departmental charges and postings to affected accounts.Managed vendor relationship including charge allocation and vendor costing/charge resolution totaling over$4.7 million annually.Named subject matter expert (SME) as Power User (reporting and data needs) and Super User (SAPexpert).Worked with corporate partners as Power User to enhance and develop data sources and reports to meetend user needs.

Designed and developed training and reporting tools as Super User to enable department and fellowcorporate colleagues.Completed departmental deployment and readiness for successful SAP implementation as Change Agent(role mapping, training coordination, cascading information, general awareness).Completed freight budgeting and cost variance analyses for non-carbonated soft drink lines to identifyopportunities to improve upon $100 million expense.

BAYER CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, PA 1998 - 2004Supply Chain Consultant/Analyst, 2003 - 2004Effectively worked in Global Supply Chain Management group involving metrics / key performance indicators (KPIs)to implement and coordinate project plans with stakeholders on a global basis, enabling them to evaluate theireffectiveness and performance. Efficiently collaborated with European colleagues to achieve project milestones,reporting, and master data requirements.

Successfully completed ahead of schedule Order Change Ratio metric (KPI) with Regional Business Supportgroup by coordinating legacy system data projects enabling Customer Service groups to advance theircontinuous improvement projects.Designed data retrieval and calculation processes to conduct Phillips Townsend Associates US portion ofglobal benchmarking study of product supply chain comparing companys operations with its competition.

Manager, Business and Economic Information, 2000 - 2002Developed divisional consulting support by planning and directing projects which included competitor intelligence,company / market analyses, value chain analyses, financial analyses, and projections for business units.

Designed financial analyses for business plan of new application of isocyanate and polyol composite forPolyurethane Division forecasting five-year sales increase of $22 million.Led and completed team assessment of thermoplastic elastomers industry by performing market researchfor Plastics Division in order to allow company to assess its market share.

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Logistics Engineer III, 1998 - 2000Coordinated initiatives of site projects to meet long-range strategic and site development plans of engineering andproduction groups. Acted as internal consultant for site projects by performing material, traffic, and personnel flowstudies and analyses to provide basis for logistics concepts for upper management decision-making.

Created layout and material flows for $5 million (150,000 square feet) warehouse turnkey project.Acted as Project Manager for material handling system expansion at manufacturing site.

SOLVAY POLYMERS, INC., Houston, TX 1997 - 1998Logistics Analyst IIGenerated ad hoc reports and conducted bulk terminal audits. Created content for departmental homepage oncompany intranet. Conducted and facilitated departmental staff meetings.

Analyzed and reported performance of railroad industry to Society of Plastics Industries, which enabledobjective assessment of weekly service recovery after railroad merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific.Managed order reporting to bulk truck terminals that facilitated proper delivery in excess of 1 million pounds(approximately $350,000) of product daily.

EDUCATION

RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Troy, NYMaster of Business Administration, 1994

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, 1990Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, 1989International University of Japan (Foreign Exchange Studies), Urasa, Japan, 1993

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP (ECC, BW, BEx), Business Objects, MS Project, MS Visio, Documentum, Brio, Oracle, MAPICS, Lotus Notes,MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook)

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

PepsiCo Employee Resource Group - ChairGotham Volleyball Assistant Secretary, League Manager, Treasurer, Division Representative

Big Apple Softball League Division Representative

Employee Resource Group ChairResponsible for headquarter location employee resource group including programming for employees, working withother groups, engaging senior executive sponsors, and enabling/coaching of volunteer committee chairs. Workedwith local (Senior Vice President) and national (Chief Financial Officer) executive sponsors to completeprogramming at various levels in the organization.

Managed $10,000 annual budget to deliver activities and programming to employees and group members.Collaborated with several groups to complete joint programming for employees to create diversity andinclusion awareness of partnered groups and program topic.Worked with corporate chapters of other headquarter locations to enable and complete national corporateprograms and goals to impact corporate social responsibility.Organized annual speaker series which included a state senator and former professional sports athlete.Created national awareness pamphlet for employees to learn about supporting employee resource groups.Headed committees that organized and collaborated with headquarter and field employees to securesponsorship and volunteers for local fundraising events in New York City, NY; Los Angeles, CA, and SanFrancisco, CA.