David Geier Email & Phone Number

Carlsbad, CA, US

• Director of North America’s Finance & Accounting team responsible for Accounting, Audit, A/P, FP&A, & Treasury activities. Financial management emphasis on achievement of financial targets, identification of cost.
• Direct team size: 11 direct team members.
• Key Metrics - Financial partner delivering > 95% achiev. of financial targets for past 2 years (Sales, GM%, EBIT, WC).
• Accounting - Management of 2 P&L’s & Balance Sheets for month end close activities (reduced close by 1 day).
• Manufacturing Financial Control – Cycle Counts, Cost Accounting (cost templates), WIP Analysis, Fin Ops Control.
• Synergy - Consolidated Canadian BU into USA to yield back office cost savings (+$0.5M USD in annual cost savings).

Carlsbad, CA, US

• Budgeting & Forecasting - Ownership of yearly budget cycle in USA & Canada (12-month P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow forecasts). Quarterly forecast updates (4x per year).
• Sales Program Management – Implemented policies and procedures for management of sales programs.
• Inventory Control – Implemented ‘open to buy’ and distressed inventory reviews & process controls.
• Global Budget & Forecast Manager - Coordination of international subsidiaries budget and forecast process (+8 currencies, 13 P&L’s, 13 Balance Sheets).

Carlsbad, CA, US

• Variance Analysis – Conduct variance analysis of actuals vs budgets/forecast for all P&L & BS key metrics.
• Dashboards - Established reoccurring local and global dashboards of key financial metrics for Sr Leadership.
• Audit & Controls – Implemented first internal audit structure in Carlsbad conducting audits mthly, qtrly, & yrly.
• Re-established ERP System Coding & Setup – Locked down control & ownership. New controls resulted in the identification of employee theft, halting +$0.1M USD of lost inventory.

Carlsbad, CA, US

• OPEX Structure Stabilization – Conducted companies first true ‘bottoms up’ cost analysis of North Americas OPEX to create measurable baseline.
• Risk Identification - Identification of areas of risk & opportunities across global subsidiaries to achieve corporate targets.

London, GB

• Implemented tool to reduce time and effort to approve & route risk funding. This eliminated the need for a “middle man”.
• Automated several different financial models in order to collect, analyze, and report data more efficiently.
• Responsible for forecasting operating cash on a week to week basis. This included, but was not limited to changes in timing for programmatic receipts and disbursements, changes in accounts receivables, changes in.
• Worked quarter point reporting and data collection process.
• Worked closely with upper management to develop business operating plan per all financial salient’s – LOB $700M Sales/Year. (Includes forecasting Income Statement, Balance Sheet, & Statement of Cash Flow).
• Worked closely with upper management to develop out year internal business plan per all financial salients – LOB Avg $700M Sales/YoY. (Includes forecasting Income Statement, Balance Sheet, & Statement of Cash Flow).

London, GB

• Primary financial analyst on a development contract valued at $63M.
• Understand programmatic forecasting for Firm Fixed Price, Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Award Fee, and Time & Material contracts.
• Monthly programmatic forecast updates for Orders, Sales, PBITA & Cash on a program.
• Knowledge Expert on forecasting software COBRA.
• Understanding of Earned Value Management System (EVMS) requirements.
• Worked closely with program team to budget $63M program and managed the cost and schedule to the baseline.

London, GB

• Developed over 30 proposal Cost Volumes for new initiatives, engineering changes to proposals (ECPs), Task Orders, & Follow-on Contracts.
• Recruited to work on a new initiative proposal which was valued at $48M dollars with projected growth to over $200M over 5 years.
• Recruited to work on a new initiative proposal valued over $80M over 5 years. Developed the Cost Volume section specifically outlining the rate structure used in the proposal to derive our unburdened and burdened costs.
• Knowledge expert of pricing software PROPRICER.
• Strong knowledge in defense contractor rate structures.
• Experienced in deriving wrap rates for Time & Material proposals.