Dave Meyer Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Accounting & Internal Control Leadership:• Lead, train, and oversee 37 locations globally, representing $2.7B in revenue, on control self-assessment, control design/improvement/implementation, and on audits• Assist new acquisition sites in implementing company policies, procedures, and internal controls, resulting in successful passage of first-time audits • Train sites and deploy new Protiviti self-assessment application to our global plant locations; overhaul business practices to work with new system • Develop tools, staff, train, deploy, and coach concurrent multi-person/multi-plant teams performing control work (i.e. audits) at our plants• Serve as contact point for GAAP accounting and compliance questions/concerns; coordinate with technical experts, senior management, and our external auditor to ensure issues are properly addressed in accordance with Company policies and values• Represent Business Unit (BU) on group-level compliance lead team to help develop common group-wide processes; liaison with Corporate Units• Manage and develop the BU Senior Financial Analyst and also a contract resource supporting compliance and controllership functionsControllership Activities: • Perform timely and accurate journal entry, financial closing, and analysis activities for two of Business Unit’s larger HQ entities• Coordinate and oversee the forecast and annual plan updates for 13 HQ departments representing over $45M in annual spend• Manage multi-site financial processes including revenue recognition accruals, warranty & restructuring reserves, HQ charge-outs, inventory absorption monitoring, monthly legal entity variance analysis, representation letters, and business interruption insurance

Pittsburgh, Pa

Global Process Management and Process Improvement: · Manage the application, process support, response monitoring, legal coordination, analysis, and reporting for Alcoa’s annual Business Conduct & Conflict of Interest Survey Certification (BCS) deployed to over 17.6k participants in 32 countries · Redesigned data collection and reporting processes for annual conflict of interest survey and on-line ethics training enabling the company to expand coverage +50% (survey) and +38% (training) to cover nearly all salaried employees while significantly decreasing enrollment labor · Trained global legal team on business conduct survey response review process and provide as-needed assistance in evaluating conflict disclosures Leadership: · Directly supervise and coach 3 employees involved with records management, BCS, and on-line ethics training support · Manage department’s control self assessment process, ensuring testing from 7 employees is completed timely and serving as main audit contact

Independence, Oh

Compliance & Project Management: · Managed global Oracle segregation of duties project that resolved conflicts across 26 sites with standardized approaches · Coordinated Business Unit balance sheet review process ensuring over 21 ledgers complied with GAAP & company policies · Conducted control gap analyses at BU plants and assisted them in prioritizing and rapidly resolving higher risk exposures Financial Analysis & Business Support: · Coordinated $36M annual plan development for 14 headquarters departments; served as the budgeting and analysis contact for these departments which spanned multiple lead-team members in different functional areas · Applied SharePoint and other automation to the plan & budgeting process to reduce labor and to allow increased analysis time · Supported ongoing headquarters financial processes including: monthly closing, ad-hoc financial analysis, and training initiatives

Pittsburgh, Pa

Finance, Technology, and Business Process Audit Skills: · Planned, supervised, and performed reviews of financial and technology processes at Arconic and its business partners--leveraging global teams of 3-12 people from internal audit, Alcoa functional specialists, and external audit firms · Demonstrated cross-functional auditing skills via audits of areas including: revenue, procurement, inventory, fixed capital, human resources, payroll, account analysis, management systems, program change management, computer security, operations, and disaster recovery Communication and People Management Skills: · Presented control findings & suggestions both via verbal presentations and in written reports to multiple levels of management · Reviewed work-papers & findings of team members for sufficiency, adherence to good auditing practices & SOX compliance · Coached 3 auditors by setting their annual performance objectives, monitoring progress, and conducting performance evaluations · Organized & led monthly department staff meetings for 16 to 19 persons comprising the North American audit team Project Management, Consulting, and Audit Support: · Managed 8 person team tasked with surveying and risk modeling all Arconic locations; cutting survey collection time in half and significantly reducing labor by 50% by improving automation · Supervised a 4-person project team in gathering location feedback and then revising Arconic’s IT self assessment tool used by all plants · Served as a controls consultant and provided advice to locations on finance and technology controls between audit periods · Served as application owner for key department application by coordinating changes, managing security, and developing documentation

Pittsburgh, Pa

· Planned, performed, supervised, and reported on IT and financial internal control work in teams of up to five persons

Mba

Ms Information Science

Bs Accounting