Alexis N. Skipper
Financial Analyst, Automotive components
Grand Rapids, MI · (616) 555 0124 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/alexisnskipper
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Seven years in manufacturing finance across three production plants
INDUSTRIES
Automotive components, industrial equipment, contract machining
SPECIALTIES
Forecasting, standard costing, variance analysis, capital request review
SYSTEMS
SAP, Workday Adaptive Planning, Power BI, Excel modeling
CREDENTIALS
Certified Management Accountant, Institute of Management Accountants
EDUCATION
Bachelor of business administration in finance, Michigan State University
Results at a Glance
1.4
Million dollar margin
$2.3m
Toward the highest
310
Thousand dollars
Executive Summary
Financial analyst with seven years in discrete manufacturing who owns the operating forecast for a 180 million dollar components division. Builds the monthly outlook, explains standard cost variances to three plant leadership teams, and presents the quarterly forecast review to the division president. Certified Management Accountant with a cost accounting background.
Signature Achievements
- Rebuilt the division operating forecast in Workday Adaptive Planning and cut the monthly cycle from nine working days to four.
- Traced a 1.4 million dollar margin gap to underabsorbed labor at the Holland plant and supported a routing change that recovered 900 thousand dollars.
- Delivered eleven consecutive quarterly forecast reviews to the division president with revenue accuracy averaging ninety six percent.
- Built a capital request model ranking eighteen equipment proposals by payback period, redirecting 2.3 million dollars toward the highest returning projects.
- Consolidated twenty two plant reporting spreadsheets into a single Power BI dashboard now used by every plant controller.
- Found a scrap reporting error that had overstated gross margin by 310 thousand dollars and corrected the standard cost roll before year end.
Professional Experience
Financial Analyst
Kentwood Precision Components, Grand Rapids, MI 2021 to present
Owns the forecast, annual plan and monthly variance reporting for a 180 million dollar components division running three plants.
- Produces the monthly operating forecast and walks the division president through revenue, margin and spending drivers.
- Analyzes purchase price and labor efficiency variances by work center and issues a weekly recovery tracker to plant managers.
- Prepares the annual plan with three plant controllers, loading volume, price and cost assumptions into Workday Adaptive Planning.
- Reviews capital requests above 50 thousand dollars and models payback and capacity effect for the approval committee.
Cost Analyst
Rivermark Industrial Supply, Holland, MI 2019 to 2021
Supported the controller of a 60 million dollar industrial distributor with inventory and gross margin analysis.
- Maintained standard costs for eleven thousand stocked items and ran the quarterly cost roll.
- Reported gross margin by customer and product line and flagged accounts priced below target.
- Built the inventory obsolescence reserve schedule reviewed each year by the external auditors.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Management Accountant, Institute of Management Accountants, 2022
Member, Institute of Management Accountants
Education
Bachelor of business administration in finance, Michigan State University, 2019
Core Skills
Operating forecasts · Standard costing · Variance analysis · Workday Adaptive Planning · SAP · Power BI · Excel modeling · Capital request review · Annual planning