SUMMARY:

• Senior Finance Executive with strong technical and analytical skills who is adept at working in highly complex and diverse multi - location, multi-cultural environments.
• Individual with a solid history of completing complex negotiations and creating significant cost reductions and cash increases.
• Highly skilled in developing innovative strategies and processes to solve major problems and improve performance.
• Passionate about achievement of organizational goals.
• Worked with created, measured and incorporated Lean, 5-S and Kaizen principles into all parts of an organization.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Negotiations Financial Control International Finance
• Manufacturing Labor Negotiations Profit & Loss
• People Development Strategic Planning Budgeting
• Resource Management Compensation Programs Retail & Corporate
• Operational Analysis Planning/Organizing Troubleshooting
• Problem Solving Lean Communication
• Special Projects SAP Design & Implementation Balance Sheet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Senior Competitive Analysis Executive

Responsibilities:

• Made recommendation on the sale and procurement in the automotive, poly-silicon and other major industries - delivering vital insight ahead of key investment decisions
• Developed competitive intelligence reports for client on the involvement of European and Asian corporations in the U.S. markets - Based on non-public financial and operational information
• Determined cost structure, sales, union/employee relationship, target expansion markets and governmental \environmental issues for non-segment reported target plants and divisions ($100M to $Billion entities)

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Operations Controller

Responsibilities:

• Produced a joint venture analysis/recommendation resulting in company re-negotiation to an alternate arrangement
• Developed a model allowing company to rationalize global employment following a 50% reduction in sales
• Created a mentoring program for the global finance team
• Introduced a benchmarking measuring tool resulting in savings of $650K annually for the Taiwan site

Confidential, Smithville, TN

General Manager (CFO / Controller)

Responsibilities:

• Repaid $6.7M debt to parent company within 1 year through lease contract terms & changes to tax assessments
• Documented key process controls and implemented a new program correcting and closing of a previous year audit with 5 material control deficiencies
• Renegotiated equipment and computer leases with an annual savings of $1.8M and $250k respectively
• Initiated a property tax filing and assessment program with an annual savings of $350k
• Acquired 2 interest free loans to facilitate a start up manufacturing operation: $100k from Smith County, TN, $450k from USDA
• Negotiated property tax abatement on 250k square foot facility based on employment levels in a rural county
• Moved company’s daily cash into overnight interest bearing sweep account earning $500k annually

Confidential, NC

Controller

Responsibilities:

• Led finance side of labor negotiations with the United Steel Workers resulting in a contract that allowed the company to remain competitive while enabling the company to guarantee U.S. employment levels and avoid work stoppage during the negotiations
• Led implementation of SAP purchase order system resulting in a reduction of corporate office spending from increased control
• Managed $140 million legal settlement accrual to meet the requirements of FAS 5 while establishing procedures to monitor the financial risks associated with pending litigation and environmental exposure

Director of Finance-Agricultural Operations

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Reduced accounts receivable past due percentage by over 50% and reduced bad debt write-offs to 0 on an international and OE account balance of $60M
• Managed internal and external audits with no material exceptions
• Implemented a market driven, geographically distinct pricing policy to meet competitive requirements
• Saved $400K annually by relocating sales & marketing to plant property
• Acquired a 200,000 square foot distribution center in Fresno, CA supporting a 5% market share increase in the southwest US

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Managed lead pilot plant roll-out of SAP’s Enterprise-wide Resource Planning system: in one year reconciling all balance sheet accounts to three different accounting systems
• Developed SAP finance training courses and trainers; later rolled out to all tire manufacturing facilities
• Led strategic IT solution for shop floor to AS400 connectivity; utilizing Windows NT and setting up an in-plant intranet
• Designed the costing system for a 2,000 SKU manufacturing plant with thousands of raw material components and routings. The plants diverse and complex finished goods ranged from a 10 Lb. tire to 2,000 Lb. tire, taking 1 hour to 24 hours to go from mixing to curing to final under a 52 acre structure.
• Reorganized Finance and Purchasing functions reducing monthly closing by one day
• Successfully Negotiated all major company vendor contracts including long-term utility contracts with annual savings of $600k on natural gas and $2M on electricity

Manager of Manufacturing Analysis

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Identified & implemented analysis requirements for Confidential with annual factory cost

Manager of Strategic Modeling & Planning

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Led labor relations team in analysis & costing of the company’s master contract negotiations, affecting $300M annual payroll cost
• Designed Performance Based Pay program, tying $20M of annual Confidential increases to productivity improvements
• Coordinated 5 year (7 tire plant) $1.6B manufacturing strategic plan