David Keding Email & Phone Number

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Project lead for Hyperion Oracle Cloud PBCS (Planning Budget & Consolidation) implementation. Framed implementation and system architecture towards process improvement and future needs.Performs variance bridge analysis on Margin as well as Indirect and SG&A Expense.Administrator for Hyperion Oracle Cloud PBCS. Manage and coordinate budget across departments, plants and functions for a global business with $550M in revenues. Built and maintained mapping and account hierarchy to ensure standard reporting between old and new financial reporting tools.Facilitate regional business review meetings.Creates analytics for headcount, benefits and FTEs.Ad hoc financial modeling.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for financial consolidations and forecasting for a $900M global business unit. Re-engineered forecasting through process improvements.Created and published BU KPIs and researched and provided commentary on same.Utilized bridge analysis to explain period on period and forecast to actual deltas of Sales, Gross Margin and Operating Income.Developed financial modeling, budgets and operating plans.Monitored risks and opportunities for the business.Created new P&L templates utilizing system functionality and trained end users.

Finance Business Partner for the Global Director of Supply Chain & Procurement. In this capacity, provided analysis for Capacity Planning, indexes, budgeting, spend & variance, regression analysis & material harmonization.Finance Business Partner for the Global Director of Research & Development. In this capacity, provided analysis of sales by market focusing on new products as well as innovation metrics, financial modeling, budgeting & forecasting.Finance member of three person cross-departmental team (Finance-IM-Procurement) that successfully built and implemented a SAP BEx 7 Procurement solution that allowed the company to effectively manage spend and payment terms across the global business.Management responsibility for a line of three (including one direct report). Provides training to develop analytical ability and independent judgment. Provides mentoring to various Surface Chemistry employees and co-workers.Finance team member for Operating Working Capital (OWC); created and distributed analytics to business management to pinpoint problem areas as part of a cross departmental initiative that reduced OWC from 18.5% to 16.0% as a percentage of annual revenue in an eleven month period.Finance member of the Innovation Project Team, which resulted in the successful implementation of Ideation and Innovation systems as well as stage gate and project prioritization processes. These systems and processes aligned with the business strategy and resulted in R&D increasing resources allocated to breakthrough innovation from 52% to 68% over an eighteen month period.

Performed financial consolidation as well as variance and budget to actual analysis. Automated processes utilizing Hyperion Retrieve and other system tools.Performed analysis on 18 new legal entities (which expanded the Business Unit from 12 to 30 legal entities) to identify and resolve financial reporting issues. Worked with entities on budget and forecasting; expanded the rolling forecast and budget to include ratio and trending package for management decision making and benchmarking. Utilized SAP BW for trend analysis and to identify and analyze issues at the legal entity level.Performed analytics for Operating Working Capital and Economic Value Added metrics.

Worked with operations and process owners to produce a control design that functioned efficiently and effectively. Successfully managed the internal control process to reduce the number of controls deemed key for testing in Americas from 270 to 90 by implementing a risk based approach to SOX testing. This resulted in a more efficient testing design that fulfilled all SOX requirements while providing substantial time savings to operations. Coordinated program roll out to key process owners, to ensure consistent implementation. Created SOX narratives, walkthroughs, and test workbooks. Identified “at risk” balance sheet accounts, those with the weakest control processes and/or most likely to contain material misstatements. Conveyed results of analysis to upper management. Created new processes and procedures to research and resolve open items. Directed or performed balance sheet analysis and clean up.Mapped workflow in the pricing process, including involvement with sales, finance, customer service and communication with customers and identified opportunities to maintain and improve margins. Successfully rolled out the FCA (Financial Compliance & Assurance) program for Surface Chemistry Canada and first implementation of full SOX process for Surface Chemistry Asia.Travelled internationally and domestically to improve design and universalize the control design. Acted as facilitator between finance and business process owners.

Managed two direct reports.Coordinated Compliance functions with Treasury, Escrow Accounting, Legal, Statutory, Tax, and Internal Audit Departments in a Region of seven States & 15 legal entities. Ensured compliance of financial statements with GAAP.Performed trend analysis, budget to actual analysis and YTD P&L fluctuations.Managed Internal, External, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sales & Use and Department of Insurance audits.Charted workflow and control processes as basis for process improvements.Performed due diligence for two new acquisitions.Created or streamlined processes in areas of document recording, escrow reconciliation & reporting and tax reporting.Implemented new escheat (unclaimed property) procedures which created new opportunities for proactive problem solving and positive customer service while safeguarding the company’s regulatory standing.

Analyzed company position for control weaknesses and corrected weaknesses in anticipation of Sarbanes-Oxley testing. Mapped workflow for business processes and identified opportunities for improvement. Created and implemented new control procedures.Performed balance sheet cleanup. Worked closely with Treasury in cash cleanup.Prepared insurance premium tax returns and use tax returns.

Mba, Business Administration

B.A.