Aaron J Wachholz Email & Phone Number

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Explore opportunities to expand current services and develop new services and processes.
• Develop solutions to difficult and complex problems not covered by established procedures.
• Assume responsibility for being knowledgeable about all Facilities standard processes; mentors less experienced staff regarding processes.
• Identify project issues and risks; determine and execute mitigation strategies.
• Proactively recommend improvements to standard practices and processes.
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• Managed Facilities Strategic Services (FSS) and Global Security (GS) operating cost portfolio.
• Prepared annual budgets and forecasts, ad-hoc analysis, and reporting. Work with all leadership levels in the organizations on cost management and strategy. Use clear communication of insights from financial.
• Drive strategic discussions and decisions that enable FSS & GS to move to resolution or actionable steps quickly by understanding potential… Show more
• Drive strategic discussions and decisions that enable FSS & GS to move to resolution or actionable steps quickly by understanding potential paths, and tradeoffs.
• Ensure function leadership is aware of impacts to cost allocations when financial spend strategy shifts. Work to forecast, translate, and inform downstream cost recipients of financial impacts.
• Facilitated creation of Project Management’s short and long-range capital investment plan and create environment to ensure plan is aligned with overall Institute facility needs, goals and objectives.

• Managed laboratory sciences financial portfolios containing ~30 revenue levels. Activities include financial oversight of individual research project funds to summary financials at a Center and Division level for.
• Supported Division and Center level technical management with budgeting, scenario modeling, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial interpretation.
• Provided quantified financial impacts to technical and financial leadership with… Show more
• Provided quantified financial impacts to technical and financial leadership with respect to downside and upside opportunities on KPI’s including timing and specified actions to achieve mitigation if needed.
• Offered suggestive next actions to technical leadership based on results of future looking financial models and results of current financials and KPI’s.
• Reviewed contractual documents and business partner with Pricing, Contracts, Sub-contracts, Billing, AR/AP staff to ensure compliance to RTI, client, and government requirements. Show less

Managed all aspects of warehouse facility and operations. Created reports to calculate production costs for product lines and new item production forecasts. Provided inventory management and oversee quality control. Prioritized and tracked daily and weekly production targets. Managed 15 core staff and up to 40 staff during peak production seasons.

Senior Financial Analyst (2006 to 2008) Provided analytic support for category management, marketing, and operations. Served as key contact in the area of sales budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis. Performed duties and supported in the areas of strategic planning, financial review, development of proformas, ad hoc reporting, and activity-based.

Mba, Business Administration

B.S., Management