Cost Accountant

Cost Accountant — Apex Precision Manufacturing

Dallas, TX | June 2023 – Present

• Designed and implemented a refined activity-based costing (ABC) model for a 120-employee assembly plant, identifying $340,000 in annual overhead misallocations and improving product line margin accuracy by 14%.
• Led monthly inventory audits and standard costing runs for 18 distinct product lines, reducing inventory variance from 4.2% to 0.8% and saving $115,000 in write-offs over an 18-month period.
• Developed automated SQL-based dashboards to track scrap rates and material yield variance, reducing labor time spent on monthly reporting by 24 hours and decreasing material waste by 9%.
• Collaborated with procurement and engineering teams to audit the Bills of Materials (BOM) for 250+ active SKUs, correcting 38 routing inaccuracies and saving $95,000 in annualized production costs.

Cost Analyst — Summit Industrial Parts

Fort Worth, TX | August 2020 – May 2023

• Assisted in the transition of legacy inventory ledger to SAP CO module for 3 warehouse facilities, reconciling $8.4M in physical assets and completing the project 10 days ahead of schedule.
• Conducted weekly labor and overhead variance analysis across 4 production departments, identifying efficiency leaks that led to a $62,000 reduction in annual manufacturing overtime expenses.
• Analyzed and updated overhead absorption rates quarterly based on historical machine hours and direct labor usage, improving the accuracy of product pricing margins by 8.5% across the board.
• Investigated purchase price variances (PPV) monthly for 80+ active vendors, recovering $28,000 in pricing errors and billing discrepancies over a two-year period.

Standard costing, Variance analysis, Activity-based costing (ABC), Inventory valuation, Cost allocation, Bills of Materials (BOM), SAP CO, Oracle Financials, SQL, Power BI, Advanced Excel, Purchase price variance (PPV), Work-in-progress (WIP) tracking, Process manufacturing accounting

ERP Cost Module Integration

Role: Lead Cost Accountant

Tools: SAP CO, Microsoft SQL Server, Power BI

Directed the migration of inventory and costing models from legacy ledger to SAP CO, resolving $4.5M in balance discrepancies and reducing month-end close by 3 business days.

Plant Overhead Optimization Project

Role: Cost Analyst

Tools: Advanced Excel (VBA), SQL, Tableau

Re-modeled cost allocations based on machine utilization hours for 6 manufacturing cells, identifying $180,000 in redundant overhead charges and improving margin visibility by 22%.

• Certified Management Accountant (CMA) (2022)
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (2024)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Treasurer for Dallas Community Development Fund (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice