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Cleveland, Oh, Us

London, Gb

Elyria, Ohio, Us

North American Lead for all Operations Finance Activities supporting multiple factories and distribution centers. -Support manufacturing leadership, develop and execute finance strategies, and promote the achievement of annual operating plans. Work with the leadership team to ensure that decisions are made with the appropriate short and long-term financial impact in mind.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

· Providing financial oversight and leadership for all business operations to ensure adequate strategy, financial and operations planning, reporting, compliance, managing financial risk & opportunities.· Driving the creation and execution of Annual operating plan (AOP), quarterly forecasts, strategy, capital budgeting, and execution of short, mid, and long term plans in partnership with the business (FP&A).· Delivering robust analysis and reporting for periodic business reviews, covering production volume planning, cost structure, capacity planning, SIOP, productivity, E&O, capital expenditure, inventory analysis and Personnel management. Creating ad hoc reports for the executives to provide confident business recommendations and to support strategic decision making. Analyzing investment and financial opportunities. · Successfully managing a breakthrough facility construction design project with a very high visibility, limited information availability, continuous improvement, and rigorous change management. Creating and streamlining processes to be ready for commercialization and larger volume activities.· Leading the review of third-party CMO accounts against performance and identifying overruns, errors, and opportunities to negotiate and resolving disputed activities, production failures and delays resulting in cost savings of $10M+.· Supporting Vendor management including implementation of scorecards/KPI and SLA across the board. Working with operations and legal teams to develop contracting strategy and parameters for outsourced service providers and participate in contract negotiations. · Representing the business at financial audits. Mitigated financial audit findings by implementing effective and efficient process controls. Ensured compliance with US GAAP and SOX.· Soliciting information from and managing globally dispersed teams and remote shared reports.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

· Provided financial oversight and leadership for the CT/AMI business unit operations (budget in triple digit millions) for adequate financial and operations planning, reporting, financial risk, and opportunities management in collaboration with the business Senior Leadership Team (SLT).· Drove the creation and execution of Annual operating plan (AOP) as a financial business partner, partnering with SLT and cross functional teams.· Drove Continuous improvement, by identifying risk, helping to define efficient and effective processes, utilizing Lean, DMAIC Six Sigma and other relevant tools. · Delivered robust analysis and reporting for Quarterly Business reviews (QBR) covering production volume planning, cost structure, capacity planning, SIOP, productivity, E&O, capital expenditure, inventory analysis and Personnel management.· Led Absorption and productivity reporting, inventory management, variance analysis, financial reporting, management reporting, cross functional team management, ROI-NPV analysis, product costing, supporting vendor management, margin calculations, process improvement etc.· Managed ad hoc projects, as required, including E&O recovery project resulting in a positive P&L impact of $40+ million, recognized by the ‘Game Changer’ award by the north America leadership at Washington DC. · Set up Productivity reporting mechanism and gate keeping for Business Unit productivity targets globally. Collaborated with Business Unit owners to define productivity objectives, KPI, strategy and execution plan for short, mid, and long term.· Solicited information from and managed globally dispersed teams and remote direct reports, along with onsite personnel. · Represented the Cleveland site at financial audits. Mitigated financial audit findings by implementing effective and efficient process controls. Ensured compliance with USGAAP, SOX and IFRS.

Mentor, Oh, Us

· Led all financial aspects of the assigned business unit operations, including business analysis, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), controlling, consolidation, variance analysis, data analytics, reporting, budget presentations to executives, regular and ad hoc reports for the top-level management to support strategic decision making.· Analyzed Gartner’s market financial benchmarking studies and advised top level management on opportunities for exceeding benchmarks.· Supervised, developed, and trained direct staff including offshore in Asia.· Reviewed vendor contracts, coordinated and negotiated with vendors.· Led capital budgeting, created, and maintaining project portfolio, developed models in MS Excel to solve complex business problems.· Led, Initiated, designed, and implemented process changes.· Managed projects as required, including a Lean Six Sigma project for increasing the efficiency & effectiveness of capital approval process across the organization to cut down the approval time to approximately 20% by eliminating 'waste' and developing a new approval tool.· Ensured compliance with US GAAP, SOX, company policies and other applicable regulations. Supported Audits, developed and tested process controls. · Coordinating with remote team members in international locations like India, Canada, Mexico, and Europe as required.

Mentor, Oh, Us

• Financial Planning and Analysis, forecasting, consolidating departmental numbers, controlling, variance analysis, data analytics, reporting, presenting budgets, regular and ad hoc reports to the top level management, supporting strategic decision making, providing management advisory services and did month end and yearend journal entries.

Mentor, Oh, Us

• Financial Planning and Analysis, forecasting, consolidating departmental numbers, controlling, variance analysis, data analytics, reporting, presenting budgets, regular and ad hoc reports to the top level management, supporting strategic decision making, providing management advisory services and did month end and yearend journal entries.

New York, Ny, Us

Chartered Accountant (Ca), Accounting, Financial Mangement, Auditing, Regulations, Corporate Law

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting, Finance, Auditing, Regulations

Project Management Certification, Business Administration And Management, General