Edgardo Rodriguez - Cost/Operational Accounting Manager,

Cost/Operational Accounting Manager

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Finance and Accounting Professional with 20+ years of experience in Cost/Operational Accounting, ERP Optimization, and Financial Leadership across global manufacturing and consumer goods companies. I’ve led high-impact roles at Wildpack Beverage, Fresh Del Monte, MONAT, Carnival, Cosmetic Essence, Alcoa, and Praxair driving operational efficiency, automation, and cross-functional alignment. Key achievements include cutting month-end cycles by 50%, boosting inventory accuracy to 99%, leading ERP integrations across multiple sites, and delivering $800K+ in cost savings. As a CMA and CSCA, I bring strategic insight and operational excellence to every financial challenge.

CR BardCost Accountant

Jun. 2005 - Feb. 2007Humacao, PR•Responsible for restructuring all the tasks and processes in the Cost Accounting area in order to improve efficiency in the reports preparation, have more detail and time for analyzing the Manufacturing Variances and to provide a strong support to the manufacturing and support departments. •Analyze the Manufacturing Variances for all production lines. •Prepare the Sales and Expenses forecast and responsible for developing processes and tools to monitor and analyze the performance against the forecast and identify any discrepancies in a daily basis. •Analyze the actual performance and compare with the Forecast, Budget, and Prior Years in order to identify any deviation from the trends or analyzed expected results. •Measure the viability of new production lines by performing the ROI (Returned on Investment), Payback Periods and IRR analysis. •In charge of creating and supervise the Cycle Count Process. Also was able to improve its process and quality reducing the inventory variances en the annual Physical Inventory. •Responsible of creating a MRP temporary tool for the supplies managements. This tool was created in an Excel base and was able to identify the materials needs for purchasing and production and sales prior to the implementation of JDE. Also the tool was able to maintain standard cost, explode materials and labor requirements and cost, and analyze material and labor variances. •Assist in creating the structure for all the modules in the implementation of the JDE System in the Plant of PR and responsible for all the aspect of the implementation in the Cost Accounting Area. •Maintain the product full cost when changes in structure occured, analyzing the best way to allocate the actual resources costs. •Created the Standard Unit Cost for the entire product lines. •Responsible for elaborating the Budget 2006 and 2007 in the area of Sales, COGS and manufacturing expenses. •Created a tool that list all the Items Cost Structure in a Multilevel Structure.

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