Jon Berg, Mba Email & Phone Number

Ramsey, Minnesota, US

Lead all financial functions of growing, privately held, manufacturer and distributor of gloves and safety equipment. Oversee accounting, human resources, and information technology staff. Liaison with outside partners ranging from audit, legal, banking and manufacturers.

• Top financial position of the privately held company reporting directly to the CEO of Manhattan Toy and CFO of the holding company. Led all financial functions including strategic planning, FP & A, treasury, budgeting.
• Identified key and mass accounts for growth, leading to +15% sales growth
• Negotiated contracts with CEO to double outside designer and licensing network
• Analyzed and implemented revised sales commission structure, leading to substantial savings
• Developed scalable channel/product line gross margin matrix to better analyze profitability
• Led product line profitability analysis, leading to a more focused product development process

• Company Officer with additional attention to cash management, banking relationships, and holding company tax support and planning.
• Built treasury management tools, leading to more predictable cash needs and enabling outside lines of credit utilization.
• Assured proper compliance with bank line covenants, ultimately lowering company cost of capital.
• Member of TIA credit committee, bring best practices to the company.
• Analyzed and ultimately shut down manufacturing facility, leading to less expensive, more flexible Asia sourced products.

• Manage the accounting and credit operations as well as the budget and audit processes. Ensure timely and accurate month-end reporting process, reporting results in monthly Board meetings.
• Organized UK legal entity for direct sales into Europe.
• Set up control systems, meeting audit and ownership requirements.
• Developed weekly credit metrics and guidelines to improve collections and maintain low bad debt ratios.
• Implemented audit efficiencies, shortening time and reducing costs.

• Top financial position of the Weiswaste Division. Led operational accounting operation as well as supported parent company initiatives. Included operating systems upgrade to Great Plains.
• Implemented Great Plains operating system for the division.
• Developed customer profitability matrix to focus sales efforts and contract negotiation.
• Managed operational budget goals and contributed to long range financial plan.

• Lead audit and budget processes, complete month end reporting, support Controller in ad hoc reporting and financial analysis.
• Led audit process and month end reconciliation support.
• Analyzed and revised sales commission plan to align sales and corporate goals.
• Consolidated and implemented corporate bidding process for on-going purchases.
• Managed initial annual budget roll-up and analysis

• Ensure timely and accurate client reporting process, reconciliation of general ledger accounts supporting month end and audit processes, initiate activity based costing (ABC) model.
• Extensive work on Activity Based Costing model (ABC) in service environment.
• Developed cost drivers with organizational leaders, translating quantitative tasks into costs.
• Communicated customer profitability profiles to upper management, developed actions steps for improvement.
• Supported audit, budget, and month end processes.
• Researched tax and other technical accounting issues.

Mba, Finance

Bachelors Of Science, Accounting