Dave Lauth Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Greater Milwaukee Area

Retained all Director level responsibilities and added financial responsibilities of Corporate Development (M&A and divestitures). Corp Dev responsibilities include:1) Screen teasers and CIMs of M&A opportunities to identify only those projects worthy of review by Quad’s executive leadership team.2) Coordinate and perform financial due diligence of potential acquisitions.3) Coordinate internal information collection for divestitures.4) Identify solutions to keep acquisitions and divestitures on track for close.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Guide a team of six managers and analysts responsible for a variety of functions in one of the most visible areas of finance within the company.Personally responsible for:1. Coordination & review of annual financial plan, interim reforecasts, and annual strategic plan.2. Presentation of financial forecasts to the Board of Directors & Quad’s senior executive group.3. Creation of financial metrics for executive compensation programs and tracking thereof4. Multi-year forecast of income statement, balance sheet, cash flow modeling for Quad and other public companies5. Projected financials, synergies and cost to achieve for acquisitionsOversight of team responsible for:1. Controllership of Quad’s multi-facility ink manufacturing division, including: month end close, variance analysis, journal entry review, budgeting/forecasting, business partner advice2. Financial tracking of Quad’s cost reduction programs3. Accounting of corporate shared services (HR, Finance, IT, Legal, etc) including direct and indirect allocations of their cost to individual businesses4. Quad’s finance roll-out of Anaplan software for financial planning and business visibility5. Detailed monthly free cash flow forecasting and creation of real-time visibility6. Weekly reporting of capital expenditures vs budget and management of authorization process7. General support of forecasting process: data loads, forecasting for depreciation/amortization, interest, restructuring

Corporate PlanningCoordinate financial forecasting process at the division level.Check divisional, plant, and departmental forecasts for reasonableness.Develop and run complex corporate financial models to test various scenarios and expected impacts.CRT ControllerGeneral financial analysis for Quad's ink manufacturing division.Prepared monthly journal entries.Peeled out the noise and explained monthly variances to plan and prior periods.Created ROIs on proposed capital expenditures.Created annual financial plan.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Audit intern for Wells Fargo Business Credit, summer of 2005 and summer of 2006.Performed audits of client's collateral base for the asset-based lender.

Busy season intern.Performed compilations and reviews, assisted in audits or clients.Prepared state and federal income tax returns.