Promoted to $100M division with responsibility for all financial aspects of business including accounting, forecasting, strategic planning, cash flow management, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. Managed and developed two controllers and two plant accountants. Reported to President.• Developed dashboards with key operating and financial metrics highlighting issues to meet business objectives.• Completed monthly and quarterly review packages and presented business results to corporate executive team.• Improved cash flow significantly over last 12 months, driven by reduction in working capital connected to 80/20 strategic initiative to simplify business by focusing on key customers and products.• Provided financial analysis and support for restructuring project to shut down plant to improve operational efficiency with projected one-time costs of $1.9M and annual savings of $1.7M representing 13% cost reduction.• Directed monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities and financial reporting.• Led successful phase one implementation of new ERP system at Jamco.

Promoted to newly created role to provide financial analysis for $250M business group comprised of Buckhorn, Akro-Mils & Jamco. Responsible for managing and consolidating weekly & monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and strategic plans. Supervised a financial analyst. Reported to Director of Finance. • Provided financial analysis and support for restructuring project with one-time costs of $1M, capital spending of $9M, and annual savings of $2M representing 10% cost reduction.• Enhanced forecasting process by creating forecast model with supporting analysis linked to forecast upload template. Allowed leadership team to quickly see operating income impact of forecast adjustments. Identified opportunities for improvement in forecast estimates and accuracy. Reduced errors and preparation time from 4 days to 3 days. • Prepared monthly executive summaries and quarterly review presentations for each business including bridges of actual results for sales, GM, OI, and EBITDA vs. budget and prior year.• Developed analysis to identify drivers for profitability variances between actual results and forecast, budget, and PY. • Modified capital appropriation request model to automatically calculate EBITDA/investment ratio ensuring projects aligned to strategic initiative to improve this key metric.• Created numerous automated tools resulting in improved reporting efficiencies to meet reporting deadlines.

Promoted to newly created role providing financial leadership and support for $100M business. Designed financial models and reporting to support R&D, Sales, and Marketing functions. Reported to General Manager. • Developed resin index pricing model to offset lower margins driven by higher resin costs and mitigate risk of future resin increases. 25% of sales connected to resin index pricing.• Participated directly in due diligence and integration of Jamco Products acquisition in 2012 with $15M purchase price.• Led successful effort to enhance internal controls at Jamco ensuring SOX compliance.• Generated financial analysis for new products with $4.5M average annual sales representing 6% of total sales, and capital investments totaling $11M.• Served as steering committee member for $2.5M ERP selection and implementation project at Akro-Mils.• Managed monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities and financial reporting.• Recruited, supervised and coached Akro-Mils Controller resulting in increased responsibility for A/R and A/P.

Recruited by CFO for this newly created position to establish and implement corporate-wide budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning process for 10+ divisions. Provided support with due diligence and integration of acquisitions. Recruited, supervised and coached a financial analyst and multiple financial interns. Reported to Director of FP&A.• Developed MTD, QTD, and YTD automated walks of sales, GM, OI, and EBITDA for variance analysis of actual results compared to PY and budget, which saved 1 day of manual preparation per division and improved accuracy.• Collaborated with outside consulting group for due diligence and integration of acquisitions, including ITML Horticultural Products ($119M) and Schoeller Arca Systems ($42M).• Worked with legal counsel for divestiture of Michigan Rubber Products and Buckhorn Rubber Products. • Crafted objective bonus calculation and tracked monthly progress by business and total enterprise.• Designed various financial reports/dashboards driven by needs of executive leadership team.• Prepared annual goodwill impairment assessment and other SEC reporting requirements.• Created executive team’s monthly presentation to Board of Directors.• Reviewed financial justification for all capital and expense requests exceeding $100K.

Provided financial analysis and support to 7 cross-functional business teams comprised of Sales, Marketing, R&D and Purchasing generating $600M annual revenue. Supervised staff of two financial analysts• Prepared, analyzed and reported financial information to support business decisions related to new and existing products, new businesses, product line extensions, and mix management.• Prepared gross margin reporting, price realization, and annual sales plan.• Managed excess and obsolete inventory, reducing E&O inventory by $6.2M in 2005.• Generated and evaluated financial justifications for proposed capital appropriations totaling $55M.• Performed post-production audits for all new products to determine potential areas of improvement.