Damon S. Mcdaniel, Mba Email & Phone Number

Wilmington, De, Us

Plant controllership including costing responsibility for Solenis, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of specialty chemicals and sustainable solutions for water-intensive industries. Solenis acquired Clearon in Sept '22 and integrating the business into Solenis' Pools Solutions division.

South Charleston, West Virginia, Us

Controllership and SAP costing functions for Clearon Corporation, a leading manufacturer and supplier of water treatment chemicals.>Wins have been achieved in areas of reporting and understanding SAP functions; cost center cost controls; maintenance reporting visibility; capital spend & AUC reporting; supply spend and cleaning up internal allocations in ECC. >Improved cross-functional relationships to/with finance customers - operations, engineering, maintenance and management.>Part of S4 HANA conversion team - main responsibility area in financials and costing.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Controllership functions and responsibilities for the Wood North American business. Scope includes two plant manufacturing sites and multiple warehousing locations. Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global company focused on innovative, beautiful, colorful and sustainable solutions involving performance and transportation coatings for manufacturers of light and commercial vehicles, the refinish aftermarket and diverse industrial coating system applications.>Facilitated the adoption to SAP from an Oracle system by developing the reporting needed in SAP to support the Wood business financial objectives.>Reconstructed the 3rd party Audit process for efficiencies - from numerous folders, documents & emails to four main support schedules. Avg audit time went from 6hrs+ to under 2 hours quarterly.

Wiesbaden, Hessen, De

SGL Group - The Carbon Company - is one of the world's leading manufacturers of a comprehensive portfolio of graphite and carbon fiber based products for a host of industries and technologies. SGL operates close to our customers through an integrated value chain, a global sales network and state-of-the-art production sites in Europe, North America and Asia through carbon fibers to composites.> Wins - improving plant cost reporting to the Plant Manager & staff leaders for enhanced understanding of plant operations. Oversight of a AP processing shared services move.

Key finance member of the local management team. Responsible for the entire financial functions, entries, supervision and reporting for chemical operations including all fixed costs, variable costs, monthly closing, variance reporting, fixed assets, CAPEX reporting and lead for all forecasting initiatives.> Rapid learning of plant SAP FI/CO system.> Implemented new utility accrual models in gas and electric incorporating market purchasing, commodity hedges & daily demand review for optimal utility costs - $21+M utility spend – electric, gas & steam.> Moved variance reporting to significant drivers of activity for better understanding of monthly operations.> Proposed technologically up-to-date possibilities for bio plant waste treatment vs status quo or "me too" option.Annual Fixed & Variable Costs ~$65 Million; Raw Materials ~$335 Million.

Geneva, Switzerland, Ch

Promoted to Sr. Financial Analyst as a result of high performance and career progression.Assumed a support role to manufacturing production in Huntington's operations via direct labor finance, a ~$25+M annual spend. Mfg ops are extremely labor intensive & role is implementing improvements to generate efficient DL operations.Effective contributions since:> Discovered and corrected error in DL staffing model (2013 - budget plan) resulting in DL savings ~$875k annualized (full year 2014).> Streamlined complex budget labor processes enabling agreed alignment with Plant Leadership over a 1-hour review (2014).> Implemented barcode scanning system for improved DL reporting & insight to labor utilization & accurate hours per unit measurements (2014).> Established creative process for utility bills eliminating late charges & return of deposits $220k as well as an update to Corporate EDI 820 protocols (2012).> Creative suggestions (including multi-site combined procurement) valued at $1.2M (2012). ~$500k direct procurement savings.> Active engagement with CAR owners enabled Alcon “best-in-class” Capex forecasting (2010 – 2012).> Cross-functional contract review efforts resulting in negotiated final agreements for critical equipment & service contracts. Recognized for initiative via a Special Achievement Award & dollar bonus (2010).> Contributed to global standards on RFID technologies on Alcon’s Auto-ID team (2006 - 2009). Implemented JDE Shop Floor Module (2007) covering 26 product families / routers; 110 models; ~9500 sku’s; ~25 unique router steps, approx. 8 workcenters & 8 business units.Total COGM - ~$80 Million

Us

Successes:> Managed & directed a personnel team of 15 MOST-certified work measurement specialists in the development of labor standards of the manufacturing/assembly operations. MOST Certification from H.B. Maynard, Inc.> Created & defined the workcenter methodology – defining operation type & specific work area for multiple buildings across 2 plant sites. > Refined BOM reporting and exceptions with product engineering.> Coordinated the creation of productivity reports to test/validate the labor standards between the CFO and IT programmers & developed off-system spreadsheet testing until validated system reports were implemented.> Evaluated & tested the standards for completeness & accuracy of the 365,000+ active item item-master and analyzed “best-method” routings for efficiency optimization.> Refined or developed individual reports and trend analysis for Daily Sales, Net Orders, contribution, rejects, usage variance to key executives and managers.COGM - ~$565 Million

Successes:> Authored and developed all reporting procedures, policies and spreadsheets for accurately tracking materials, labor reporting, and job costing per customer and product lines.> Installed all networking equipment to link to corporate LAN & installed all appropriate software on local PC’s.> Implemented a standard cost structure with variance analysis to enable better management decisions regarding product mix, labor applications, need for new or additional equipment or investment.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Executive Master'S Of Business Administration

Wv Board Of Regents Bachelors Of Administration (Rba), Accounting