Eric Mcdermott, Cma Email & Phone Number

Cornelius, North Carolina, United States

FP&A analyst for two business units with nearly $3 Billion in revenue. Responsible for partnering with Sales to deliver standard and ad hoc reporting to help deliver on the business’s goals, sole Finance partner for the $350 Million business unit and their forecasting, and transitioning the business units to a new platform for reporting. Recognized for:- Finding and coordinating with Accounting to fix $10M+ in errors- Bringing the warehouse budget from 67% to 95% accuracy ($400k less annual variance)- Solving Accounting’s warehouse journal entry errors that were creating false OPEX credits- Taking the lead working with auditors for the $350M business unit- Reducing the time for associate ranking reporting from 3 days to 1- Through Excel automation, reducing the time on several reports to 20 mins or less- Accelerating month-end reporting from 5- to 3-days- Recreating all reporting into Tableau and gaining adoption of Tableau through hosted training- Ensuring written standards exist for all reporting to ensure continuity

Fort Mill, South Carolina

FP&A analyst for Headquarters and Americas region Finance for a $1.1 Billion business managing annual and quarterly forecasting; R&D accruals & approvals; $35 Million in freight accruals; $25 Million in rebates for 300+ customers; margin analysis; and ad hoc requests from all departments through SAP, HFM / HSP, and advanced Excel techniques. Recognized for:- Saving $1.4M in rebates by correcting the previous responsible’s Excel tools- Correcting $4.5M in freight accruals to avoid an under-accrual- Correcting $2.1M in rebates by reading customer contracts and fixing misinterpretations- Correcting a $20M error for $0.5M in tax savings- Managing forecasted financials at the HQ level through adjustments and regional coordination- Consolidation of regions’ financials for reporting to Leadership- Creating semi-automated reports and eliminating non-value-added reports- Validating data warehouse financials for the creation of standard reports across platforms- Analyzing global SKU margins to determine which SKUs to retire and which to capitalize on

Norwood, North Carolina

Site Controller for 450 employees, over $50 Million in equipment, and $117 Million in annual costs; responsible for the cost culture, material usage variance (MUV), forecasts, data-driven analytics and decisions, and acting as part of a team to achieve progress in costs. Recognized for:- Auditing and correcting $5.6 Million in errors- Saving $3.2 Million through steering performance and progress as a team- Working within a team to increase productivity by 1% for $1.1 Million in efficiency savings- Leading teams to reconcile shipping errors by 97% and improve all MUV by over $1.0 Million- Decreasing vendor invoices on hold from month to month by 58% - Enforcing a RACI for holding managers accountable for their variances and costs- Leading the region in implementing and training managers on the company's new budget tool- Developing digital tools to assist in quantitative analytics for driving KPIs

Lexington, South Carolina

Responsible for labor forecasting, all analyses in the department, guaranteeing the standards, and advancing progress & performance gains within a manufacturing area of over 160 individuals and $25 Million in equipment. Recognized for:- Saving $640,000 working within a team to suppress 10 positions- Saving $288,000 by reducing non-value added trailer storage through a kaizen event- Identifying $490,000 of potential savings with additional work- Leading a team of 8 to finish a project ahead of schedule at a 30% gain in production- Identifying and reducing 22% of unidentified machine utilization losses- Keeping 90% of standards updated and completing over 30 root-cause analyses

Texas, Iraq, Kuwait, And Washington

Multiple positions from leading a team of 7 in conducting daily and planning future operations for a critical combat organization of 4,700 personnel; second-in-command of a deployed combat unit of 91 personnel; leading 25 combat-trained individuals; and acting as an aide-de-camp and local area expert for a senior military official in charge of 700 personnel. Recognized for:- Ranking officer at night for operational decisions- Deconflicting operations through coordination with 18 separate departments and organizations- Elevating a unit from worst to best out of 6 units in less than 90 days, on a reduced budget- Directing the maintenance of over $76 Million in assets- Merging two organizations’ property books totaling over $63 Million without incident- Developing systems that reduced attacks by 60% along 200kms of roads- Exceeding the maintenance standard by 11% for $18 Million in assets- Improving US and Iraqi relations through managing over $250,000 in humanitarian aid- Leading a team of 34 in managing a $100,000+ project over 150kms of highway

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science, Economics