Senior Finance professional with a diverse background in Manufacturing, Distribution, and Consumer Products. Successful operating in multifunctional teams and managing competing priorities in matrix organization. Progressive career movement with increasing responsibilities and authority.
Proven areas of expertise/strengths:
Planning, Forecasting Analysis
Policy / Procedures
Multi-Plant Controllership
Distribution Network optimization
Sarbanes-Oxley
Cost Analysis
New Product cost estimates
Variance analysis, KPI's
Professional Experience
Confidential
Director of Finance
Responsible for all forecasting, AOP, results analysis, implementing policies and procedures and as the top financial person attached to the manufacturing location.
Updated weekly rolling forecast for current month and balance of Quarter. Includes updating forecasting program for new job additions and updates
Capital request generation and reviews prior to submission for approval.
Weekly update of key KPI's as part of the reporting and forecast packages.
Review of job performance with a focus on low margin work. Comparing invoice to quote and actual cost.
Month end and quarterly review of job mix, actual expenses to budget and key performance metrics.
Partnering with VP/GM and Senior staff to raise awareness of financial impact of mix change or any other proposed changes to operations.
Lead the Q4 inventory initiative that reduced Raw material inventories almost 2.5M and identified exposure from unreserved aged inventory.
Confidential
Sr. Financial Ops Analyst / Finance Manager
Conf idential from Finance / Ops Analyst to Senior Analyst direct report of the Director of Operations Finance. After merger with Pactiv, Corporate title changed to Finance manager. Main internal customers were the Senior Management team of Manufacturing and Distribution in evaluating manufacturing and distribution results, and ad-hoc projects.
Updated and developed the Monthly consolidated reporting package of P L results for six MFG. locations.
EBITDA bridging tied to P L package with explanations of variances both controllable and non-controllable to Plan, Cycle and Forecast.
Developed and maintained a Weekly 13 week rolling cash forecast model consolidating multiple locations ranging in spend from 4- 20 million weekly.
Developed for the Director of Distribution a cost based AOP and forecasts model for multiple locations with annual spend in excess of 8 million.
Point of contact for the Annual budgeting process, forecasting and review process for a group of six plants that supported a billion dollars plus in Annual Consumer sales.
Finance lead on the Small Core project team that reduced material costs over 3 million annually.
Finance Manager on a team that reviewed new Foil, Parchment and Bake cup products.
Confidential
Plant Controller
Controller over a manufacturing site and distribution center, managed and developed a staff of two accountants and two clerks. The locations had combined gross revenues in excess of 150 million.
Responsible for the monthly, quarterly and annual closing of the books.
Monthly reporting of results to Corporate thru P L, Balance Sheet, Lean MFG and Capex Major Maintenance schedules, along with analysis.
Led the AOP and forecasting process at the Plant level.
Led a diverse group of internal and external resources thru the process of becoming SOX certified.
Championed the product mix review team that delivered 350k to the bottom line thru the elimination of low or negative margin products.
Financial representative on the product quote review group.
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