Aaron Watterson Email & Phone Number

Omaha, Ne, Us

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

We are a team of CFO's, controllers, audit directors, bankers, and finance and HR managers offering our clients practical experience because we've been there. Combined, we have over 1,500 years of experience across dozens of industries. We've led clients through mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds, restructuring, steep growth, capital raises, organizational changes and more.Our clients rely on us to be objective partners and strategic leaders and as interested in seeing their organizations succeed as they are.

Greater Omaha Area

Controller for the largest cereal plant in North America, producing over 1MM lbs of cereal a day. I started with making an immediate impact on capital through building discounted cash flows which bring in $100M capital and 5-6% YOY savings annually. We produce cereal on 7 processing lines and 20+ packing lines. My team manages a $130MM overhead budget and $200MM raw/pack budget to ensure continued year over year $/lb improvement, along with ensuring our 250+ skus are running as expected by monitoring throughput, scrap and overweight. I have been trained proficiently to be able to classically tell a story with monthly reporting fromspreadsheets to charts providing information presented for executive management creating a new level of understanding through report enhancement initiatives that I have created and also implemented.I am also experienced in risk management as I have reduced waste with personally developed enhanced reporting methods by 3%. I am technologically efficient as I am consistently upgrading and making changes making smooth transition for corporate networks. So far one of the highlights during my time with Kellogg's has been getting awarded "Finance Lead for Organizational Performance Model, North America."▪ On-board and train new controllers in network and leadteam.

Greater Omaha Area

Manage four frozen platform brands estimating $570M worth on full P&L procedures, additionally driving Net Sales in new categories. I also developed and implemented reporting/analytical processesdriving departmental decisions. In this role one highlight I can remember is the role that I played when I transitioned departments on new financial system paving way for deeper financial analysis and usage for SAP system

Greater Omaha Area

I oversaw 70+ central and private brand sales associates through educational value prioritizing forecast of a $1.3B organization. I diligently reported private brands through Excel spreadsheets while maximizing sales team decisions to increase visibility to the overall risks through personally customized reporting tools.

I managed the working capital balance sheet of consumer foods, by increasing payable terms, showing this improvement in a $6B fund that became available, assisting in future acquisition. I was able to drive money out of the department through touring supplier facilities, setting forth an action clean sheeting gaining the best day to day operations perspectives. I designed and implemented reporting measures combining 3 reports reducing monthly report generation time by 80% and also reduced forecasting time by 50%+ as co-finance lead on a new procurement tool. Finally, I was able to utilize my ingenuity to create an analysis tool driving fact-based negotiationsWorking Capital - Working with CAG employees to help drive working capital savings in AR, AP & Inventory

Greater Omaha Area

I directed material spend completing end close processes monthly and $4B annually through analyzing and forecasting data financials. I also supported supply chain into the SAP integration and officiated a forecasting tool which allowed more flexible analysis of direct spend implementation as the finance lead.

Greater Omaha Area

Oversaw compliance and financial audits in addition to successfully implementing compliant Sarbanes-Oxley based internal controls with quarterly documentation maintenance.