Franklin Delgado Email & Phone Number

Plymouth, Michigan, US

• Director of Commercial Finance for the Ford Business Unit, with revenue of approximately $1.7B and automotive seating production across multiple plants in USA and Mexico.
• Key member of Business Unit Leadership and Finance partner to the Ford BU Vice President.
• Lead team of 7 Finance Managers and Account Financial Managers (AFMs) responsible for new program quotations, business cases, discounted cash flow/NPV/IRR analysis, program budgeting, platform profitability, management.
• Responsible for financial analysis that supported BU financial turnaround and strategic commercial negotiations.

Plymouth, Michigan, US

• Director of Commercial Finance for the Stellantis/FCA/Chrysler Business Unit, with revenue of approximately $1.6B and automotive seating production across multiple plants in USA and Mexico.
• Key member of Business Unit Leadership and Finance partner to the Stellantis BU Vice President.
• Lead team of 6 Finance Managers and Account Financial Managers (AFMs) responsible for new program quotations, business cases, discounted cash flow/NPV/IRR analysis, program budgeting, platform profitability, management.
• Responsible for financial analysis that supported BU financial turnaround and strategic commercial negotiations.

Plymouth, Michigan, US

• Developed price-allocation model that allowed for cash collection of $1.4M on OEM-directed components.
• Leveraged platform financials to engage teams on profitability improvement initiatives.
• Led standardization of business unit commercial month-end-close process.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Led forecasting, annual budgeting, strategic planning and month-end close processes for global product group with annual revenues in excess of $14B and 107 plants.
• Provided financial leadership to regional and functional finance leaders for delivery of world-class financial packages.
• Developed global standard models and processes to improve efficiency and accuracy of financial reporting and analysis.
• Performed detailed financial analysis by region, customer, plant and vehicle platform to drive financial improvements.
• Partnered with Senior Level Leadership on analysis of strategic initiatives and target setting for regional groups.
• Reported directly to Global Finance VP.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Managed financial deliverables of 5 regional operations controllers (and 25 plant controllers) on month-end closing, quarterly forecasts and annual budget setting.
• Identified operational variances to budget/forecast/benchmarks, and risks/ opportunities to focus in order to drive operational improvements.
• Provided financial support to senior leaders and teams through consolidation, tracking, analysis and reporting of conversion costs, capital expenditures, freight, inventory and operational efficiency metrics for group.
• Developed multitude of automated models and to promote standardization across plant network. Trained regional and plant controllers on KPI reporting and analysis.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Managed plant financials for automotive seating platform with $193M in annual sales.
• Key contact for all financial discussions and activities with business unit regarding platform financials.
• Maintained costed bill of materials and standard costs for platform finished-goods.
• Implemented cross-functional process resulting in cost recovery of $500k.
• Led re-negotiation of annual JV contract manufacturing agreement, successfully adjusting platform transfer price for fiscal year based on new model-year costs.
• Executed forecasting of platform financials for annual budget and quarterly updates.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Led initiative with manufacturing facilities to improve $4M in cost allocations allowing for critical decision making regarding new quotes.
• Led creation of business unit financial roadmap to profitability through identification of price and cost improvement opportunities.
• Analyzed details of volume shortfalls and underperforming parts within each platform/plant to drive customer renegotiation and part outsourcing.
• Mentored South American team on business plan financial analysis and action plan that improved program ROS by 7%.
• Analyzed global profitability of specific product line for business unit, allowing senior leadership to redefine strategy for future quotations.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Led cross-functional team of 10+ members on engineering development and production release of Toyota and Honda automotive seat trim covers achieving "Excellence Award" for program launch.
• Partnered with BU AFMs to identify, cost and implement several cost-saving initiatives.
• Effectively managed program deliverables with business units resulting in on-time program launches.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Led design of automotive seating trim covers for a wide range of GM, Ford, Audi, VW and Nissan programs, promoting sharing of best practices across projects and cost reduction from part standardization.

Specialization, Python 3 Programming

Masters, Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelors, Engineering