1. Phone – 765-532-1340
Email – grayra58@gmail.com
Professional Experience
Accounting career began in 1982 w ith a not for profit administrative office as controller, associated
w ith expenditures of grants fromthe Older Americans Act and Community Service Block Grants
w ith providers in an 8 county area and supervising 3 individuals. 1985 – 2015 involved w ith
accounting team for a fortune 500 company w hich wasa manufacturer of Aluminumin the areas of
melting, casting, and extrusions selling the finished products to the aerospace and automotive
industries. Executed strong accounting and administrative skill moving the location from minimal
use of personalcomputer software in 1985 to extensive use.
Principal Areas of Practice
Randy Gray provides clients w ith 33 years of experience in creating and review ing accounting and
other administrative processes. His experience has required managing administrative processesin
a manner that requires a minimum of cost w hile providing the best tools for decisions w hich willadd
value to the core activities of the business.
Major Projects during time with fortune 500 Manufacturer
Implementation of Oracle Enterprise Manufacturing System
 Worked w ith programmers to assure raw material, w ork-in-process, and finished goods
inventory transactions collected in the manufacturing systemw ere properly reflected in the
general ledger.
 Worked w ith sales, purchasing, and quality departments to assure sales invoicing and vendor
invoice payments data collection w as in line w ith corporate and GAAPguidelines and
interfaced properly with the generalledger.
 Built resources for equipment assigning labor and overhead burden rates.
 Coordinated throughputs and recoveries with materialplanners for routings and bills of material
for proper item costing.
Reduced month end closing time from 4 days to 2 days and finally 1 day
 Created queries and pivot tables to reconcile inventory in less than 3 hours on 1st w orkday.
 Created queries and pivot tables process forreconciliation of revenue in less than 2 hours on
1st
w orkday.
 Created queries and pivot tables for reconciliation of intercompany charges on 1st
w orkday.
Fixed asset location identification
 Locations property accountant role, coordinated process of identifying actuallocation of over
4,000 items on the facilities fixed asset listing. Process designed to reduce amount of time
needed to conduct a physicalinventory of 20% of fixed assetsper year over a 5 year period
as required by corporate guidelines.
Plant Capital Project Accountant
 Created pivot tables to allow engineers trackproject expenditures and commitments on a
daily basis.
 Created processes for engineers to close projects and capitalize assets in a timely manner
correcting a SOX comment.
Last 3 years, Project Accountant $100M Aluminum Lithium Cast House Project
 Role w as coordinatorbetween companies lead management and 3rd
party coordinator to
assure cooperate and GAAPguidelines w ere being followed.
 Set up new facilities inventory transaction processes, applied labor and overhead rates to
resources.
 Coordinated purchasing, sales, and quality departments for proper administrative processes.
 Capitalized, assigning corporate accounting life values and distributing overhead costs of
project to actualasset acquisition values to over 180 assets totaling over $100M.
Areas of Practice
G/L Accounting based on GAAP, Inventory
process controlcreation and reporting,
manufacturing budgeting and forecasting,
capital project accounting, fixed asset
accounting, A/P, Sarbanes/Oxley internal
auditing, revenue reporting using excel
pivot table and v-lookup functions,
coordination of annual physicalinventories
raw material, w orkin process, and finished
goods coordinating 15-20 employees,
monthly financialclosing activities. Not for
profit accounting administrating Title III, V
and XX of Older Americans Act and
Community Service Block Grants
Industry Lines
Aluminum melting, casting, and extrusions
primarily use in aerospace and automotive
applications. Not for profit administration
of socialservices.
Computer Applications
Oracle MRP System, Discover (front end
query tool of Oracle data), Microsoft Excel,
Word, Access, Pow er Point, Outlook,
Maximo (fixed asset repair and
maintenance management system),
Concur (traveland expense software),
Hyperion
Education/Qualifications
 Bachelor of Science - Business
Administration, Indiana Weslyan
University, LEAP program
 Associates Degree - Accounting, Ivy
Tech, Lafayette, Indiana
 Certificate of Achievement - 2002
Entrepreneurship Academy -
Sponsored by the Greater Lafayette
Small Business Development Center
Randall A Gray