Ilse Messner Email & Phone Number

Lombard, IL, US

• Directly support the CFO and senior management in the compilation and presentation of financial reporting and consolidation of quarterly P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow forecasting.
• Develop financial presentations for board of director’s quarterly meetings, executive committee meetings and analysis for bank, investor and audit inquires.
• Manage the consolidation of the enterprise wide annual strategic plan, budget and quarterly forecasts by collaborating various business units and departments throughout the company.
• Develop budgets for over 20 corporate departments including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Partner with corporate accounting in the month-end close, improving the accuracy and policy adherence.
• Develop Dashboards for FP&A and divisional management to monitor the health of the business.

• Updated internal controls policies, reporting and capital requirement standards across the organization; provided process and policy training.
• Managed capital budget of $90M annually, worked with cross functionally teams to develop capital and project reporting tools.
• Seamlessly consolidated IT function with $50M of expense and 275 employees into a shared service department with no business or reporting disruptions.

• Responsible for all financial forecasting and analysis for two global business teams with over $139MM in annual shipments combined. Primary focus includes analyzing global financial/operational results, reviewing.
• Preparing customer bids analysis and preparation including break even scenarios, promotions and pricing adjustments
• Performing reporting on Shipments, Returns, Scrap, tooling & YOY trending files
• Managing New Product Development ROI calculations, estimating & updating cost estimates during the development period
• Establishing standard costs on new items, reviewing product cost variance analysis monthly/quarterly and making adjustments as needed, updating standards costs and estimating material cost impacts, reviewing all costed.
• Managing pricing matrix’s, assisting in establishing market pricing and setting intercompany pricing, developing pricing & comparative models, recommending product price increases/decreases; calculating profitability.

Lead forecasting analyst for all Oil credit card portfolios consisting of over $15B of sales and $200MM of operating income annually. Primary focus on revenue, contra revenue, marketing expense and net credit loss. Responsible for planning, analysis, reporting and decision making for Private Label credit card portfolios, including but not limited to.

Sr Analyst- Purchasing:Developed annual Service Parts Material cost increase and inflation forecasts on $1.2B spend. Coordinated with over fifty purchasing managers for insight on commodity cost increases and industry expectations. Responsible for all freight and logistics forecasting, analysis and reporting at truck manufacturing plants in the US, Mexico.

Regional Operations Supervisor:Negotiated favorable terms and conditions on multi-million dollar impaired assets to maximize company return and achieve best practice results compared to company and industry averages/levels. Supervised field staff responsible for timely and accurate audits at dealer locations to safeguard company assets and collect aged.

Senior Financial Analyst:Provided research and recommendations essential to develop tiered pricing structure estimated to increase revenue of up to $25MM annually. Performed statistical validation and regression testing on credit scorecards and made recommendations to senior management for the development of a new scoring technique. Reviewed credit.

Mba, Finance & Economics

Activities and Societies: University of Chicago Women’s Business Club.

Ma, Economics

Bs, Industrial Technology

Activities and Societies: Varsity Letterman Cross Country and Track & Field. Graduated Magna Cum Laude. Awards include Provost award.