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Daniel L. Goodhart

Daniel L. Goodhart 7786 Meadowcreek Drive Cell: 513-484-9012 Cincinnati, Ohio 45244 Home: 513-624-6668 [email protected] EXPERIENCE

CONSULTING 2003 – Present SAP FI/CO Supply Chain Specialist University of Cincinnati: March, 2009 – Present o System support resolving backlog of issue tickets from their start-up in 2005 till present. o Fixed splitting document issue by discovering it was really a derivation rule issue. o Resolved screen layout issue by creating a new screen variant with t-code SHD0. o Created new asset class with G/L account automatic assignments. o Created validation rules restricting view of Asset master data fields. o Reduced down to 18 an issue ticket list that had over 80 issues open when I started. MAKINO: May, 2008 - Present o Developed GRIR balance reconciliation process o Generated technical specs for customized Cash Flow Report. o Developed activity type that tracked hours but no dollars. o Configured Foreign Currency Exchange processes. o Converted Customized Excel Inventory into an SAP Report Painter report. o MR11 GRIR maintenance had not been run since 2003. I cleaned up 5 years of GRIR data using MR11 for Affiliated and Non-Affiliated activity. o As an FICL Functional Analyst participated in two weeks of Blueprinting Sessions that are being used to create a plan for SAP upgrades and improvements for MAKINO. o Provided SAP FICO operational support along with the special project work. Titan Technology Partners: February, 2008 -April, 2008 o FI/CO Expert for implementation at OMG. Pomeroy: December, 2007 – January, 2008 o Performed CO Blueprinting analyzing business operations in ECC 6.0 o Reviewed and presented design for:  CO Master Data Requirements  Cost Center Hierarchy  Profit Center Hierarchy Jarden Home Brands: February, 2007 – November, 2007 o JHB has decided to implement Profit Center Accounting(PCA) and use PCA reporting for Balance Sheet and P&L Reporting. o Developed FI/CO specs during Blueprinting phase of the project. o Activated Profit Center Split Processing in Special Purpose Ledger. o Developed and created Profit Center Hierarchy.  Per JHB request created a hierarchy that has Product Line Group  Category Group  Sub-category Group  Brand Profit Center o Created Report Painter Reports that can be used to report Brand Level Balance Sheets and P&L Statements out of PCA. Perfetti Van Melle: September, 2006 – January, 2007 o Reviewed inventory processes to determine where there were control issues resulting in this sampling of recommendations:  Suggested they go back and review warehouse capabilities and match them with PVM’s expectations.  Need to improve “life cycle planning”. Their production requirements were inconsistent with their production capabilities.  Recommended that they implement a “change management” process. There were too many incidents when new materials were introduced to the system with incomplete master data. o Reviewed workflow errors for EDI transactions.  Developed a process for eliminating shipment errors. Bad data was being input into the data fields being read for automatic processing.  Cleared over 400 records that were 90 days old. Daniel L. Goodhart 7786 Meadowcreek Drive Cell: 513-484-9012 Cincinnati, Ohio 45244 Home: 513-624-6668 [email protected]

US Playing Card Co.: July, 2006 – September, 2006 o Configured new company code using cost of sales accounting. o Created house bank for new company code in configuration. o Configured accounts payable for the new company code. o Created budge planning reports using Report Painter in SAP. o Developed steps for analyzing returns for credit” analysis. Ashland: May, 2006 – June, 2006 o Data mining for training client.

Perfetti Van Melle: August, 2004 – April, 2006 o Rebuilt Cost Center Hierarchy in configuration. o Configured Profit Center Accounting(PCA) and created PCA Standard Hierarchy. o Created Profit Center Profit & Loss Reports in Report Writer. o Configured FI/CO Reconciliation Report. o Set up Cost Element assignments for Product Costing using T-code OKTZ. o Maintained and corrected Automatic Posting tables(OMWB & OKB9) o Created new Financial Reporting Version to reflect US reporting requirements. o Built online month end checklist for tracking month end processes in Microsoft Sharepoint.. o Maintained Currency exchange rate tables. o Provided FI/CO support during Batch Processing roll out. Resolved inventory valuation errors created by Supply Chain’s start up process. Bohlke Veneer: April, 2004 – July, 2004 o Configured New Cost Center Hierarchy after determining flaws in their original design.  Developed Process to move spending dollars from old Cost Centers to New Cost Centers. This Process was published in the June, 2005 edition of SAP Financial Experts newsletter. o Supplied analysis and research training for Comptroller and CFO in order for them to understand the SAP reports they were using. Advics: November, 2003 – March, 2004 o Loaded Chart of Accounts. o Developed and modified queries to meet financial reporting needs. o Analyzed Profitability Analysis Tables and provided corrections to improve reporting. Daniel L. Goodhart 7786 Meadowcreek Drive Cell: 513-484-9012 Cincinnati, Ohio 45244 Home: 513-624-6668 [email protected]

PROCTER AND GAMBLE, Cincinnati, Ohio 1977 – 2002 Senior Accounting Manager Global Systems Development 2000 – 2002 Responsible for redesign, implementing and support of North American SAP supply chain accounting solutions to be aligned with the Global accounting supply chain solution and was aligned with generally accepted accounting principles. Managed SAP FI functionality start-up in North America Central Cost organization in Costa Rica.  Designed and implemented the Reserve Accounting interface.  Developed work processes for the Outside Overseas Purchasing System (OOPS) Ledger. Resulted in moving OOPS Ledger data from legacy system into SAP.  Led first month end closing process for the Costa Rican work processes. Key users and end users were able to complete month end closing with 99% accuracy.

Senior Accounting Manager North America Central Cost 1998 – 2000 Maintained training plan for 400 North American SAP accounting users in 40 different sites. Developed and implemented Training Guidelines and Principles for North America Cost Training. Provided SAP accounting support to Canadian operations for 18 months.  Resolved 100% of cross company out of balance issues between US and Canada, avoided $1.5MM in misstated postings.  Developed and executed a plan for Central Cost employees trained in SAP. 63% of all Central Cost employees were trained within six months, exceeding the identified goal of 50%.  Developed and led project training of 40 Costa Rican professionals in SAP accounting work procedures achieving the goal of 100% trained and relocated within 6 months. Training plan was rated a “success” due to the successful start-up of the Costa Rican Central Cost organization.  Revamped international rollout procedures for the SAP Maintenance & Storeroom solution in Japan. Improved productivity ratio 30%.

Senior Accounting Manager – SAP North America Rollout 1995 – 1998 P&G’s ambitious SAP undertaking included all Business Units and 100% of North American supply chain operations. Roll out SAP Supply Chain solution to over 40 plants in approximately 3 years. Dan was the leader on one of the 5 cross-functional teams assigned to complete the project design and implementation. He led the team with business focus on Finance and Accounting. Results of leading this team:  Led a 6-member cross-functional team that developed shipping procedures in SAP for lead site. Resulted in establishing common process across all business units.  Developed the design for processing by-products and rework in SAP assuring accounting was posted properly. Rework is now properly accounted for and priced on the costing bill of materials.  Developed training materials and trained end users on an end solution that improved performance by reducing staff in Product Costing and Accounts Payable areas for lead site.  Provided the direction and initiated a plan instituting SAP accounting training program in North American plants. Over 400 key and end users were trained in 3 years.  Created work process that resulted in accurate calculation and reporting of costing routings and costing bill of materials.  Developed SAP work process handling international purchasing of machine parts for 8 NA plants.  Key leadership role in the successful rollout of SAP in 8 Paper Sector plants in U.S. & Canada. First certified instructor for accounting processes in SAP. Developed and implemented accounting training materials. Traveled across NA training and qualifying over 20 materials accountants.  Developed and implemented Inventory Record Accuracy procedures.

Senior Accounting Manager – SAP North America Rollout 1995 – 1998 Senior Accounting Manager General Advertising Finance 1992 – 1995 Plant Accounting Manager, Lexington, Kentucky 1989 – 1992 Plant Merchandise Accounting Manager 1987 – 1989 Various Manufacturing Plant Assignments 1977 – 1987

EDUCATION BS, Accounting, Information Processing Systems University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1987 TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND AFFILIATIONS  Operating Systems: Advanced user of SAP FI/CO modules, as well as Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.  Affiliations: Member of International Who’s Who In Executives and Professionals  Article published in the June 2005 edition of SAP Financial Expert.

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