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 of pricing/payables/receivables, program financial roadmaps, pricing accruals, Capex, launch tracking, customer tooling reimbursement, product change financial management, inter-company transfer pricing and cost reduction initiatives.• 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 of pricing/payables/receivables, program financial roadmaps, pricing accruals, Capex, launch tracking, customer tooling reimbursement, product change financial management, inter-company transfer pricing and cost reduction initiatives.• 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 footprint in North and South America.• 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.• Consolidated plant-wide financial packages and bridges for accurate monthly reporting.• Performed month-end journal entries and account reconciliations in accordance with SOX requirements.

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