Camila W. Nifong
Senior Cost Accountant
Boise, ID · (208) 555 0190 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/camilawnifong
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Eleven years in manufacturing cost accounting, seven of them in aerospace
INDUSTRIES
Aerospace components, precision machining, industrial fabrication
SPECIALTIES
Standard costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, capital project payback
SYSTEMS
SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Blackline, Power BI, Microsoft Excel
CREDENTIALS
Certified Management Accountant, Institute of Management Accountants, earned 2018
EDUCATION
Bachelor of science in accounting, Boise State University
Executive Summary
Cost accountant with eleven years in aerospace and precision machining, currently responsible for standard cost, variance analysis and inventory valuation across two plants. Spends as much time on the shop floor as at a desk, because the routing sheet and the actual job rarely agree until someone walks the line.
Signature Achievements
- Rebuilt standard costs on four hundred and twenty part numbers, closing a gap between standard and actual cost that had been absorbing one point four million dollars a year.
- Traced a persistent unfavorable labor variance to an outdated routing on the five axis cell and corrected setup times across sixty routings.
- Cut the physical inventory adjustment from three hundred thousand dollars to under forty thousand by introducing weekly cycle counting.
- Produced the cost model that supported a make or buy decision on housings, saving two hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year.
- Reduced the plant close from day nine to day five by automating the work in process reconciliation.
- Trained fourteen supervisors to read their own weekly variance report rather than wait for the month end review.
Professional Experience
Senior Cost Accountant
Cascade Precision Aerostructures, Boise, ID 2020 to present
Cost accounting for two plants, six hundred employees and annual revenue of one hundred and forty million dollars.
- Set and maintain standard costs for material, labor and overhead across two thousand active part numbers.
- Analyze purchase price, material usage, labor and overhead absorption variances every month and present findings to plant leadership.
- Value raw material, work in process and finished goods inventory and support the external audit of those balances.
- Build the payback analysis for every capital request above one hundred thousand dollars.
- Maintain the bill of material and routing accuracy program with manufacturing engineering.
Cost Accountant
Snake River Machine Works, Nampa, ID 2014 to 2020
Sole cost accountant for a contract machining business of one hundred and eighty employees.
- Costed every quote and compared bid margin against actual job margin after completion.
- Introduced job level reporting that identified two customers priced below the cost to serve.
- Ran the annual physical inventory and the reconciliation to the general ledger.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Management Accountant, Institute of Management Accountants, certificate 41827
Education
Bachelor of science in accounting, Boise State University, 2014
Core Skills
Standard costing · Variance analysis · Inventory valuation · Bill of material accuracy · Cycle counting · Overhead absorption · Capital payback analysis · Plant close