-: My name is Katie Meyer.
I am a Business Unit Controller for Silver King,
Marmon Group Company under Berkshire Hathaway.
Silver King is, yeah, we do refrigeration and freezer units,
so we make the units that go in the back of restaurants
such as McDonald's, Burger King,
any of those types of things.
I am the Business Unit Controller.
I'm top of the company for accounting and finance.
I do all of that,
so that means I close the books at the end of the month,
I run any of the financial analysis,
do pricing, costing, look at what we are spending.
I review people's expense reports,
run through some of the procurement stuff,
approve levels of buying capabilities and that.
As always, with accounting and finance
it all comes back down to the bottom line,
where are we with operating profit and such,
so it's always trying to make sure we're making
the right business decisions,
moving forward looking to cut costs but not cut quality,
looking into some of those different things.
Lead time comes into effect as well
when you're looking at procurement and such,
but it all just comes down to
making sure you're saving money,
making the right decisions for your customers
and for your employees as well
and then moving forward,
keeping the business name strong
and trying to make some more money as you go along
so you can hire more people.
So with the project in place
I just recently had this where we have a younger engineer.
We're redoing a couple of our manufacturing lines
and didn't take into consideration
some of the spend that was gonna need to happen
like electrical line drops from the ceiling.
That costs money to put that stuff in
and he didn't consider that.
So I recently just sat down with him
and walked him through how to put together a project plan,
put together the budget, track what's going on,
getting the invoices, who you get the invoices from
so you can tell where you are.
Oh, you got, you know, they did the work.
Where's the invoice?
Oh yeah, we haven't paid that yet,
so you still have that $38,000 pending.
So where are you in that process,
and just kind of working with them
and helping them understand how to track the project
and track the spend.