Debra Krutul-Hicks

San Jose CA. 95132 debkrhicks@aol.com Home: 408-263-2770

Senior Cost Accountant Analyst

Inventory Control Standard Costs Variance Analysis Forecasting Budgeting Process Controls

Acknowledged conscientious and experienced employee with a strong work ethic. Highly respected as an individual who not only knows the accounting aspects of the job but the associated manufacturing and engineering considerations. Always makes the extra effort to meet deadlines while producing accurate and reliable work.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: IKANOS Communications, Fremont. Ca. 08/2004 04/30/2013 Leading provider of programmable semiconductors that enable fiber fast broadband services over existing copper wire. Cost Accounting Manager Reposible for quarterly reconciliations and audit statements, quarterly standard cost updates, analysis of reserve requirements, variances and gross margin analysis forecasting and reporting. Created and maintained all necessary finanacial models for position. Handled FP&A services to the Operations, Quality Assurance and Planning departments. A Key member of Oracle Shop Floor Manager Implementation team. Successfully transferred inventory tracking and costing from Excel to the Oracle database, and all deadlines were met. Documented inventory procedures and processes to effectively obtain SOX certification, and maintain annual SOX compliance. Converted to Microsoft Dynamics AX in 2012. All inventory was transferred from Oracle to AX without losses and according to the deadlines set. Reconciled and documented the successful inventory transfer from company acquisitions.

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INTERSIL/ELANTEC Milpitas, CA. Manufacturer of high speed analog integrated circuits

01/1989 02/2004

Senior Cost Accountant Financial Analyst Managed all Cost accounting activities. Assumed responsibility for the monthly forecast and annual budget. Designed Physical Inventory procedures and led annual inventory audit teams. Minimized cost impact to the company with tightly coordinated teamwork while maintaining accuracy and control to satisfy audit requirements. 100% first pass sign off on audits. Performed semiannual standard cost change. Created all models needed by manufacturing, engineering and production control to submit cost updates. Improved New Product Cost Estimate Model helping to give management certainty that all new product proposals have estimated margins based on current and accurate cost data. Model tests new product viability based on cost of production. Created and continuously improved the models used to collect, analyze and redistribute the rolling monthly forecasts and budgeting information. Conversion to Oracle financials 1999. Conversion to Consilium Workstream WIP system from Promise WIP system, 1998. Defined, tested, validated and implemented inventory and cost requirements for systems. Absolutely no inventory value change due to conversion. Implemented Promise W IP and Cost system as first WIP Cost system used by company. Loaded all flows, and cost data and verified results.

Precision Monolithics (Analog Devices) Santa Clara, CA. Manufacturer of Commercial and Military analog integrated circuits.

1977-1989

Production Control Planner - Responsible for scheduling and putting into production all 38510 products needed to meet the backlog and marketing demand. Worked with marketing to set up product line to work like a commodity business. Cost Accountant - Forecasting assistance to manufacturing. On team to implement the in house Standard Cost and WIP reporting interface. Produced the allocation program needed to create Product line P&L statements.

COMPUTER SKILLS: MS Excel, Word. Oracle 11i, Workstream, Promise, Peoplesoft, Great Plains, Microsoft Dynamics AX EDUCATION: MBA, University of Phoenix. BS in Business Administration (accounting). San Jose State University