Manage a global team of Business Unit Controllers, providing leadership, guidance, and oversight on all facets of financial and government regulatory reporting. Successfully transitioned the business from group based to division level reporting, instituting standardized Excel tool sets for consolidation reporting and unit performance evaluation. Promote and implement corporate financial growth and cost savings strategy directed by the executive management team.

•Restructured U.S. finance and IT departments; established internal controls and policies, hired a new team, and created an operation that delivered accurate and timely information. •Overhauled IT network architecture to include Asia and Canada operations; developed a global support network.•Created and executed finance and business strategies to maintain a 20% operating income level in response to the 2009 recession; designed a “bottom-up” assessment to identify weak product channels and evaluated operating expense levels to develop spending and cost control policies. •Spearheaded aggressive cost-cutting initiatives, including a 10% reduction in workforce; leveraged China operation to offset U.S. economic downturn, resulting in a solid recovery by the end of 2009. •Developed monthly financial operation tools to highlight business performance across unit platforms allowing management to focus on global strategies. Prepared action plans to control inventory, reduced SG&A expenses, and improved purchase and manufacturing costs.•Established a budget as part of a Florida cable manufacturing plant acquisition and business integration. Planned and managed an ERP implementation & training.

• Reengineered the financial reporting process, streamlined staff responsibilities and resources and reduced reporting time by 30%. • Developed, wrote, and produced custom reports.• Collaborated on implementation, and audited, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 narratives and was a key memeber of team that won a company award for best SOX audit performance.• Analyzed and assimilated financial data to forecast future financial position and measure current actual versus budget requirements.• Recommended and implemented technology objectives for sales tax processing improvements and payroll/personnel enhancements.• Oracle 11i power user• Transitioned functional responsibilities to a new Finance team and supported training and operational setup.• Approved sales tax filings, vendor payments, and bank wire transfers.• Developed, generated, and distributed monthly financial statements.• Integrated and consolidated Japanese business unit into US set of books.