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Saint Clair, Mi, Us

Led Manufacturing Controllers in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and USA supporting 24/7 manufacturing for a division with 5000 employees and $2 billion in Sales. • Dotted line responsibility for five Manufacturing Controllers, resulting in breaking barriers, sharing information and best practices between the different sites.• Managed rolling 15-month forecasts for five factories and implementation of new forecasting system resulting in quicker and more accurate forecasts• Drove monthly actual versus forecast analysis and standard to actual. By working with the Plant Controllers and establishing a common understanding, the financial review presentations were more meaningful to the entire management team and increased accountability.• Successfully implemented actual cost by channel within each factory, which uncovered numerous hidden problems driven by demand fluctuations, late/unplanned changes in schedule, the impact of startup channels on the overall factory. This facilitated both variance analysis by channel and operating profit by channel.• Controlled 10 MUSD multi-business unit and multi-system footprint project spending, on time and within budget.• Optimized Capital Budgeting Investment request review/approval and budgeting resulting in better tracking, planning and budget adherence.

Managed four Manufacturing Controllers in the Americas supporting manufacturing for 1500 employees and $500m in sales.• Opened the door for bilateral communication by developing a central KPI tracking system using Excel Power Query to aggregate operating unit data from multiple currencies providing quick pulse tracking.• Accelerated ad-hoc and daily analysis of production deliveries by creating tools to automatically query JD Edwards within MS Excel and create dashboards and output reports.• Eliminated 1 full day during the closing cycle by establishing a tool to extract financial data from JD Edwards for 27 separate business units, map and transform into the correct format and output to BPC system.• Enabled more insightful business metrics and reporting by codeveloping standard cost at each site and thus enabling actual versus standard analysis that was meaningful.

Managed a team of 12 Manufacturing Controllers throughout the USA, supporting 24/7 operations for $1 billion in sales.• Developed SharePoint tools to identify, collect and document account reconciliations.• Developed analytical tools to measure country organizational results for more than 100 business units.• Developed business application to enable the ongoing monitoring of operational results

Armada, Michigan, United States

Managed four employees responsible for H/R, A/P, A/R, Payroll, Shipping, Receiving, Purchasing, Order Entry, Costing and Controlling supporting manufacturing with 100 employees and $20 million in sales.• Prepared monthly financial statements, forecasts and budgets, monitored capital investments.• Implemented ERP system (Movex/M3), setup financial reports and costing system.