Dave Solar Email & Phone Number

Lincolnshire, Il, Us

In collaboration with senior leadership, create a 3-5 year vision for transformation and drive execution teams to deliver strategic and operational changes that support the vision. Leads large transformational projects for various business areas across the enterprise. These initiatives will focus on impact on market share, top line growth, and bottom line results.Identify, advise and establish strong, effective, and collaborative partnerships with key business area leaders, subject matter experts, and project leaders to build and deliver on effective solutions and strategies.Maintains and publishes metrics designed to update management/employee awareness and measure progress against objectives.Partner with global and regional business leaders in the design and delivery of new processes and solutions.Partner with IT organization in the design and deployment of enabling technologies.Drive Process, Information, and Application DecisionsDrive Performance and TransformationPrioritize and Integrate Business and IT initiativesDrive consistent application of BPM methodology and toolkitsDrive and Support Optimization of Business Functions, IT, Processes, Financials, People, and Organizational structure.Focus on metrics associated to processes. Drive actions based on metrics

Chicago, Il, Us

Program Lead for Corporate Oracle R12 Analytics & Reporting • Project Manager & Functional lead for deployment for all Oracle Business Intelligence modules & for leveraging technology to deliver operational analytics & reporting with ad-hoc capabilities• Manage oversee the data warehouse, BI applications, and data governance efforts to maintain data quality• Responsible for delivering a centralized service to publish standard reports and management dashboards• Partner with IT Architecture & IT Build teams to make critical design decisions based on the guiding principles of using standard tools & enabling them to fulfill the requirements of the business• Specifically listed, the modules being deployed are: General Ledger & Profitability, Receivables, Payables, Projects, Procure & Spend, Inventory, Order Management & Order Fulfillment• Direct and approve data architecture & refresh methodology to ensure DW is scalable and flexible to accommodate all needs• Design and Direct effective security measures for access to ensure compliance to SOx and Internal Controls• Functional Lead for standardizing global corporate hierarchies & deploying them using the Oracle Data Relationship Management tool (DRM) which enables other Oracle Reporting tools to leverage common hierarchies

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Lead for Ship to Cash (Collections, Cash Applications & Reporting) business transformation implementation •Instrumental in creating the business case for funding to create a world class Revenue Cycle Shared Service•Business case targeted to save $5M in annual cost through efficiencies and improved cash flow•Project lead for two successful business unit conversions onto the new common platform with no business interruption•Responsible for Adoption and Change Management into the Shared Service environment•Implemented world wide Oracle Accounts Receivable software, configuring successfully to maximize it’s utility•Responsible for Accounts Receivable process & system re-design to a common Oracle 11.59 platform•Designed common processes with 15 best practices, with best practice metrics in order to open a shared service center in Poland for Accounts receivable management•Specifically responsible process and tools for Collections, Cash Application & Reporting for new regional Shared Service Centers, creation & deployment for a $5B Accounts Receivable Portfolio

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Redesigned the business model for Collection and relationship management with channel patterns• Led a group of 23 credit analysts who manage credit & collections relationship within their territory• Right sized the department to save $1M per year in budgeted costs• Balanced sound financial decisions & risk for both Motorola and it’s distributors/customers• Responsible for integrating department into new business structure• Developed SOP / SOx documentation for financial compliance• Business lead for short term financing program with MCC• De-facto Distribution Controller for 22 Sales people & three Sales VPs

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managed group of 36 Service billing analysts responsible for billing $100M of service recurring billings•Financial lead for the Core Process Redesign billing process/system replacement•Finance lead for IT change committee for Service Billing Systems•Chairman of the COF Change Advisory Council, responsible for prioritizing IT change requests

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Business partner to the GMSG North America Infrastructure Product Group (Public Safety Radio Systems)•Responsible for financial integrity including all aspects for the $300M P&L, Budgets, & Reserves•Ran cost reduction programs with manufacturing facility resulting in $3M of savings•Created Project Tracking System/Process to track, report and forecast large radio systems revenue & material•Partnered with operations to prepare financial modeling for new products, promotions & sales strategies•Analyzed discount and manufacturing cost trends to ensure profitability of the business•Constructed annual financial plan, quarterly financial forecasts, and LRP's•Developed material forecasting tool for Schaumburg Factory & Drop Ship organizations•Responsible for financial management of the Center for System Integration

Masters, Finance

Bs, Finance