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Summary
This Financial Analysis Expert Consultant is an accomplished finance and operations leader whose experience spans several industries, including industrial manufacturing, food production, CPG, medical device, and telecom equipment. He designs strategic solutions and drives profitable, scalable, and sustainable process improvements. Having learned to operate within Oracle, SAP, Navision, and Infor SyteLine ERPs, this Financial Analysis Expert Consultant has repeatedly proven that he is a quick study for mastering software and its functionality. He leverages those tools to transform organizations into becoming data-driven decision-makers. This finance expert is a servant leader of accounting, operations, and cross-functional teams, always acts with the highest integrity, and strongly believes in the power of accountability. This Financial Analysis Expert Consultant respectfully challenges norms and standard operating practices to learn the business and seek ways to improve those SOPs. Their core competencies include organizational leadership, project management, planning and coordination, team and development, financial analysis, and data management.
Highlights
- SAP & Oracle implementations
- Power User of 4 different ERPs
- Recognized as a systems thinker
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Excellent verbal and written communicator
- Establish annual standard costs
- Skilled cross-functional team leader
- Performa period-end close duties
- Create budgets and forecasts
- Month-end variance analyses
- Inventory optimization analytics
- 20+ years of experience
Relevant Accomplishments
- Successfully led business user team in the on-time implementation of SAP FICO and BW at $1B+ egg, potato, and cheese producer.
- Informed senior leadership team (SLT) of the need to scale manufacturing operations immediately at a $50M candle and fragrance manufacturer. Identified and prioritized tasks, including investing just $50K in additional information technology capability to improve cash flow by up to $2M annually.
- Performed majority of accounting month-end close and year-end audit processes, including conducting complete physical inventories, creating and posting journal entries, etc.
- Completed various Controller functions at Cogentix Medical and CURiO Brands (both were consulting engagements), as well as at Jack Link’s (5 Plant Controllers & 1 Cost Mgr. as direct-reports), Michael Foods, Donaldson Company (plant, DC, and business unit) and US Steel (coke works, iron production, sheet mill and tin mill).
- The quarterbacked cross-functional team at the manufacturing plant, developing their critical thinking skills, emphasizing the need to over-communicate and report progress daily to the executive team.
- Made business case to SLT to outsource production and save $1M+ annually at a $50M medical device firm.
- Leveraged ERP to extract and stratify $2M in product repair cost data, then proposed to the executive team the strategic value of creating tiered pricing service contracts ($25K+ P&L impact).
- Developed optimal inventory levels for CFO and SVP Ops; $1M cash flow improvement.
- Mined SAP data to develop weekly procurement spending projections and reviewed results with the CFO and COO. Proved critical in managing down borrowing by $70M over four months.
- Eliminated 400+ hours ($33K) from annual standard costing cycle at $1B+ protein snack firm.
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