SAMUEL S. TAYLOR

652 Ivybrooke Ave., Greenville, SC 29615 C: 864-640-2677 samtaylor652@charter.net

Education Associate of Applied Science: Information Technology, 2005 ITT Technical Institute – Greenville, SC

Top 1% of class - graduated achieving Highest Academic Honors. 3.75 GPA – Valedictorian

Computer Skills

SAP – HCM (payroll) and ECM (financials) MillikenMicrosoft Business Intelligence - Milliken

Microsoft Word- Intermediate Level, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint – advanced level Microsoft Power View-Importing data into an excel spreadsheet and constructing a graph(s) that you can click on and the view changes depending on what you click on in the graph - MillikenMicrosoft Outlook – Intermediate LevelWorking with scheduling appointments, meetings, calendar sharing, and contact informationPeople Soft/JD Edwards (Spectrum Reach)Financial software working with financial reports, verifying data and reconciliation for individual GL accounts, accounts payables and receivables, and monthly reportingEclipse (Spectrum Reach)Revenue software that was sorted by one to three conditions, exporting to excel or saving as a csv file, and/or running reports for backup to support the report documentation.

Training Manual – Developed a training manual with tabs for the tasks of my job responsibilities. Typed step by step procedures for each task and built screenshots to support the process. This was instrumental to help train another associate in a different location and saved the manager time from answering questions over and over again. (Milliken)

Waste Procedure -Implementing a Waste procedure between the plant and the vendors, so the environmental engineer and plant manager could keep track of waste carpet leaving the plant monthly. (Milliken)

Time saving task - One example of how this was accomplished is through envisioning a commission database that reduced the number of days to input data from three to one, working with a database administrator to develop. (Spectrum Reach)

Implementing a political structure for gathering files for company website – Contact information from the company locations and from the third party systems was gathered. Associates in the company locations were trained on how to complete the file component process for uploading and sent out monthly reports to follow through with the process. As a result, implementation in organization of files and structure for the procedure to upload to the secured website. In addition, worked with third party systems on how to send the necessary information to me on a monthly basis. (Spectrum Reach)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Finance Administrator, Milliken – Hillcrest Plant, Simpsonville, SC 06/2015 to 07/2016 • Keying time entry weekly into SAP for each associate in the plant and run audit for accuracy and verification

• Creating a payroll report with graphs and charts to help the plant manager better understand where the hours are used and track them from week to week with a trend line by cost center

• Creating reports from MSBI at top level and subaccounts for weekly and monthly reports• Producing a weekly target cost report utilized to measure plant spending, inventory, and price variances. Added details from the 625 report for explanations.• Downloading data from SAP and adding it to individual reports to build pivot tables, charts, graphs, and trends – Adhoc for various team members• Creating material costs, building BOM’s, and adding routes & production versions in SAP. Attention to detail for panels, duration, efficiency and number of associates• Reviewing route and material lists to update the plant manager for changes• Build a excel workbook to download raw data into and created pivot tables for all categories/material types for use variance report.• Uploaded the WIP report to a an excel workbook showing pivot tables by material type status. This helped the plant manager keep up with materials moving through until finished• Developed a spreadsheet to download and input all the aging for two plants and outside warehouses and work the 90 day and older invoices• Working in SAP Work Flow to work items that need further information and coding• Inputting indirect material counts and checking on the accuracy in SAP• Daily attention to EDI Statlist for freight charge verification and coding• Prepared monthly energy report for supervisor from the monthly bills and meter readings

Mortgage Lending Investor Reporting Assoc, BB&T Bank, Greenville, SC 03/2015 to 05/2015•Reconciliation of general ledger and custodial bank account activity to loan servicing details or to remittance activity•Recording the amounts to a remittance log and verifying the actual submits,•Recording the wire account activity•Balancing the DDA account•Balancing one private investor account against the daily bank activity

Financial Business Administrator, Spectrum Reach, Greenville, SC 03/2001 to 02/2015• Preparation and analysis of monthly financial statements, G/L accounts and allocations • Assisting with management reporting and budgeting • Inputting accounts payables/receivables and purchase orders • Verifying and analyzing data once the month is closed • Working on multiple monthly financial reports • Assisting with implementation and monitoring of accounting policies and procedures • Building commission data reports for various individuals worksheet and audited all the commission worksheets for each team and group through the Southeast for payout.• Verifying commission data for the Peak Performers database

• Managing a political coin site for third party systems for the North and Southeast regions

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WORK HISTORY

Business Analyst, Tyco International, Simpsonville, SC 04/2000 to 03/2001• Running sales reports and passing them out to the account executives • Checking the shipping reports with shipping to ensure all shipments were leaving timely • Working with account executives and their supervisor to account for any adjustments • Quarterly, implementation of a sales contest for the account executives

Purchasing Agent, Contract, Simpsonville, SC 01/2000 to 03/2000 • Purchasing agent working with purchasing team to fill orders sent up to the department

• Purchasing specific electronic items that were sent to specific agents to fill daily • Managing of inventory levels at desired amounts for operational purposes.

Purchasing Agent, Collins Companies, Greenville, SC 09/1998 to 12/1999 • Purchasing supplies for vending company working with the locations to keep music, Pool tables, video and vending machines, and prize machines running at all times • Assisting the purchasing manager in special projects for new video machines and newly acquired locations.

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WORK HISTORY