Daniel Podoll Email & Phone Number

Monticello, MN, US

Anoka, MN

• Coordinated yearly budget plan and monthly forecasting processes that integrated two acquisitions during a period of record organic growth.
• Created and led the training of a new companywide goal tracking project with senior leadership, driving consistent and aligned presentations to the CEO.
• Responsible for the creation of slides and commentary for quarterly board of director meetings and monthly operating reviews.
• Established pricing deviation procedures to determine budget impact; track and review discounts to monitor for patterns and changes required for future pricing updates that led to a 12% reduction in discount requests.
• Led SKU rationalization planning and reporting project; achieved target of eliminating three SKUs for every new product released for a total of 436 SKUs rationalized, saving an estimated $17M of inventory.
• Implemented a mentorship program between divisions that created training opportunities for junior finance staff resulting in increased engagement and reduced turnover.

• Led the Supply Chain and Operations Value Creation reporting to harmonize metrics and standards to implement and track quarterly goals for each division.
• Implemented quarterly operations metric scorecards and review process, providing insights into the businesses while improving COGS forecasting accuracy by 6%.
• Developed CapEx module in Anaplan to consolidate and report spend companywide.
• Created an interactive PowerBI solution for executive-level CapEx and COGS reporting, providing standardized and tailored views for their respective divisions.
• Prepared quarterly commentary to the board of directors on CapEx, COGS, and competitive analysis.
• Served as the finance representative for the Supply Chain Leadership meetings.

• Managed and led Earnings Release presentations for the CEO and CFO, preparing them for earnings calls and discussions with investors.
• Lead analyst for global operating expenses and working capital with monthly presentations to senior management on results and recommendations for forecasting.
• Developed a quarterly review process with investor relations to provide early agreement and direction on required analyses, decreasing presentation preparation time on average by four days.
• Implemented an international month-end close tracking system that provided early reporting capabilities, decreasing reporting time on average by two days.
• Met with regional and business unit finance leads to coordinate and prepare monthly Operating Reviews and analytics for executive management.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Global lead for the Master Data Management implementation project preparing Dubai and Singapore factories for an Oracle upgrade.
• Directed three teams of domestic and international analysts bringing 24/7 analyses to the department.
• Lead trainer of supply chain project models and tools; conducted in-person training for analysts in Europe and Asia.
• Developed and presented quarterly Inflation/Logistics analyses and cost plans to CFO and directors, bringing alignment between commodity managers’ initiatives and financial forecasts.
• Prepared project slides for the corporate CEO and board of directors.
• Created reporting tools and held world-area management meetings to ensure alignment of projects that led to exceeding department goals for each of the years I was with the team.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led monthly product group reporting with presentations to senior management.
• Developed new asset management tracking databases that reduced monthly review and report preparation time by 60%.
• Led the development of new intercompany pricing models that improved the accuracy and timeliness of setting up new products.
• Managed the 2006 through 2012 Profit Review (five-year forecast) analysis entailing 115 separate reports, five world areas, and five product group teams.
• Led the testing, training, and implementation of a new inventory exposure model to all international sites resulting in consistent reserving practices.
• Managed the domestic and international real estate valuations for lease vs buy recommendations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Decreased aging of non-billed projects from 46% past 30 days, to only 9% past 10 days.
• Developed a quality control database covering protocols for 560 customers and approximately 5,000 projects per month. Now in use by Operations, Sales, and Accounting departments.
• Changed workflow policies to reduce invoice generation time by 23%.
• Developed a new project management team within the Operations department servicing 20 customers and managing 400 projects per month.
• Reduced invoice disputes by 27%.
• Awarded a $400,000 project from a customer that fired two of their previously assigned teams.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Decreased production hours by 17% while sales doubled.- Created project tracking reports allowing the Marketing department to more accurately predict future purchasing trends.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Greater Milwaukee Area

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Corporate Finance

Bachelor’S Degree, Biology