Marjorie Ardid Africa
Santo Tomas,Batangas
Summary
Finance and Costing Professional with extensive experience in product costing, FP&A, and budgeting for global manufacturing companies. Proven track record of managing multi-business unit P&Ls turning complex data into clear, actionable insights for executives.
Overview
1
1
Certification
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Financial Planning Analyst Supervisor
Littelfuse Philippines Inc.
Batangas
01.2023 - Current
- Develop, maintain and scale complex financial models to accurately forecast future performance and drive strategic decision-making across two distinct Business Units (BUs).
- Lead P&L build up by work closely with the key team leaders in determining robust assumptions from Revenue up to Opex line.
- Direct monthly BU P&L and product line reviews, utilizing detailed margin analysis and gross profit bridges against forecasts, previous quarters, and prior years to identify key performance drivers.
- Deliver concise financial reports and visual breakdowns to business unit leadership, providing strategic counsel on operational issues, market trends, and financial recovery opportunities.
- Lead annual cost center expense planning for Sales & Product Management teams and load their budget in BPC system. Providing also spending bridges YoY, QoQ and vs. Forecast.
- Mentor, train, and delegate tasks for Junior Finance Analyst, establishing quality controls and reviewing all reports to ensure precision prior to executive submission.
Senior Cost Accountant
Littelfuse Philippines Inc.
Batangas
05.2015 - 12.2022
- Established and maintained standard costs for new raw materials and finished products, analysing year-over-year cost variations to identify trends.
- Collected financial data across plant thru closed coordination with Operations team to create realistic factory budgets and forecast future manufacturing P&L variances, including absorption variance, material usage variance, PPV, and E&O.
- Variance Analysis: Conducted monthly review meetings with Operations team to analyze major manufacturing gaps, focusing on material spending, usage errors, factory absorption, and inventory write-offs.
- Acted as a trusted finance partner for the factory teams by checking and tracking local cost-saving projects and core plant performance metrics (KPIs).
- Managed monthly balance sheet reviews for inventory accounts and personally led the plant's big annual physical inventory count.
Product Supply Finance~ Business Support
SC Johnson Philippines ROHQ
Makati City
11.2010 - 05.2015
- Developed and maintained standard cost for raw materials and finished goods semi-annually and provide insights on changes on cost period per period
- Analyzed purchase price variances for raw materials and finished goods, updating standard costs in the system accordingly.
- Validated and tracked material and product cost-reduction goals, ensuring accurate logging in global corporate reporting system.
- Collaborated with local purchasing to forecast inflation trends and analyzed impacts on raw material purchase prices.
- Forecasted variances in manufacturing profit and loss for budget and ongoing forecasting purposes which includes PPV & E&O
- Prepared journals for month-end accruals and inventory adjustments, ensuring accuracy in financial reporting.
- Prepare inventory related Balance Sheet Recon
- Organized a successful project to clean up SAP Master Data (specifically Purchase Info Records and Source Lists), which fixed deep-rooted system pricing errors.
Cost Accountant
Delta Design Philippines LLC
Calamba City, Laguna
06.2008 - 10.2010
- Established standard pricing and sales costs for custom projects using job order costing; tracked material and labour hours to ensure accuracy, closed completed jobs, and allocated variances to appropriate expense codes.
- Analyzed purchase price variances of raw materials and buy parts and updated standard cost in the system.
- Conducted quarterly physical inventory audits of raw materials, buy parts, and work in process; investigated variances between physical and system counts, and reconciled accounts including inventory, WIP, and material scrap.
- Developed and distributed weekly shipment reports detailing real-time manufacturing costs and profit margins, providing management with insights into weekly earnings.
- Handled the monthly depreciation schedules and journal entries for all of the company's capitalized physical assets.
Cost Management Assistant
Fujitsu Computer Products Corporation of The Philippines
Calamba City, Laguna
09.2004 - 04.2008
- BOM Coordination: Coordinated Bill of Materials (BOM) creation, collaborating with purchasing team to ensure accurate material and subcontractor labour overhead costs.
- Product Costing: Calculated high-precision product, transfer, and budget pricing for Hard Disk Drive and Magneto Resistive Head lines based on actual assembly run workflows.
- System Cost Roll-Overs: Updated inventory values for direct parts, ensuring accuracy for seamless automated system cost roll-overs in GLOVIA.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Financial Management
Batangas State University
Batangas City01-2004
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Budget planning
- Variance analysis
- P&L reporting
- Cost accounting
- Standard costing
- Inventory control
- SAP systems
- Financial analysis
- Financial mentorship
- Effective communication skills
Certification
- CMA – Certified Management Accountant
- 2017
Timeline
Senior Financial Planning Analyst Supervisor
Littelfuse Philippines Inc.
01.2023 - Current
Senior Cost Accountant
Littelfuse Philippines Inc.
05.2015 - 12.2022
Product Supply Finance~ Business Support
SC Johnson Philippines ROHQ
11.2010 - 05.2015
Cost Accountant
Delta Design Philippines LLC
06.2008 - 10.2010
Cost Management Assistant
Fujitsu Computer Products Corporation of The Philippines
09.2004 - 04.2008
Bachelor of Science - Financial Management
Batangas State University