Financial Leader to lead the Finance and Accounting functions at the drug device manufacturing business in Lexington, KY. This role will provide overall strategic and operational direction to the company’s accounting and finance function and will partner with the site leader and work with the local senior management team in establishing strategic financial plans, operating policies and procedures to ensure the achievement of corporate objectives.

As part of the executive leadership team, the VP of Finance and Administration will support in the development of business strategies to drive organic and inorganic growth while playing a leading role in presenting financial analytics and operating performance metrics to the board of directors. The VP of Finance and Administration is also responsible to lead and develop the Finance, Human Resources, and Information Technology organizations with a continuous focus on sustainable business process improvements and optimizing the enterprise MRP/APS systems. Specific Responsibilities include:- Business Partner - Team Leadership- Strategy and Corporate Development- Mergers and Acquisitions - Treasury / Cash Management- Financial Planning and Analysis- General Accounting and Reporting

Finance Planning and Analysis Manager - Provides assistance and financial acumen to department/production leadership for two manufacturing sites located in the St. Louis area. - Duties include completing month end close, reporting financial results, preparing monthly forecast models, and managing the overall annual budget process.

The Finance Controller, reporting to the Sr. Director of Finance, is part of the senior leadership team of a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical manufacturing plant that leads, develops, and coaches a finance/IS team of 4 direct reports and 3 indirect reports. The finance team is responsible for variance reporting/analysis, item/cost updates, monthly close entries, reconciliations, payroll, and accounts payable. The Finance Controller is responsible for developing the site budgets/forecasts ($150M+ yearly spending) as well as providing financial assessments on new business opportunities, research and development projects, capital projects, and performance excellence savings projects.Current accomplishments and highlights: - Supported in the Hoshin Kanri Strategy planning deployment that improved Safety culture, Quality culture, Customer Service, and lowered Costs by over 10% in 2 years.- Supported in management governance process and site culture change management initiatives to provided role clarity and updating job descriptions from task based to results based objectives.- Supported in the site master planning, business risk assessments, and in the site business and continuity plan including Serialization.- Introduced and implemented finance management governance process to better understand the economics of the business. - Developed a new physical inventory process with tag/data entry controlled stations that required less resources and reduced production downtime from 9 shifts to 3 shifts.- Revamped item setup process to reduce +1 week process time to 1 day in support of R&D timelines for first to file opportunities.- 2017 Mercer Employee Engagement survey results: 61 questions improved statistically and none declined. Top Ten Dimension Results improved >10% on average 2015 v. 2017.- 2016 Walmart Supplier of the Year; 2016 Cardinal Health Supply Chain Excellence Award; Ranked consistently #1 supplier for AmerisourceBergen out of 26 in the peer group.

The Materials Manager role, reporting to the Site Director, is responsible to have quality material available to operations at the right time. This role is responsible for leading, developing, and coaching the procurement and warehouse teams (5 direct reports with 18 indirect employees spanning over 3 shifts). Accomplishments and highlights:- Developed procurement and warehouse site strategies using A3 Hoshin Kanri planning.- Manage procurement savings initiative to reduce material costs ~$840k annually. - Lead year end physical inventory with 50% reduction in time from prior year with <0.10% adjustment.- Redeployed huddle board for warehouse with collaboration from employees and performance excellence department to improve safety and quality awareness / engagement. - Improved the procurement process to define and document material issue data and effectively communicated the corrective actions taken with operations.- Updated vendor score card risk assessments and reporting for site management.- Review MRP schedule reports to ensure material availability per planning schedule. - Update ERP system with Item/Vendor link.

The Finance Analyst of Business Development and Licensing, reporting to the Sr. Director of Finance, supports the business development process by providing financial modeling on companies, based on data rooms and 10K/10Q filings. This role generates and presents the finance models along with the PowerPoint presentations to the Finance Director and Chief Finance Officer (CFO) before the CFO presents to the board of director meetings. Accomplishments and highlights:- Supported in two Mallinckrodt acquisitions, Ikaria and Therakos - Improved the financial model automation to provide faster and accurate analysis.- Modeled over 20 companies updating the models every quarter.- Collaborated with Tax Accounting department to improve tax inputs for modeling.- Improved both Mallinckrodt simple and complex model analysis.- Developed a visual sensitivity test that factored in Phase I-IV probabilities and loss of exclusivity (LOE) into the model templates. - Utilized S&P Capital IQ to data mine public information.

The Senior Cost Accountant - Logistics/Finance (Latin America - LATAM) role, reporting directly to the Senior Director of Finance, managed the financials of the distribution centers (DC) and inventory in Puerto Rico, Panama (Local and Free-Trade-Zone), Mexico, Columbia, Chile, and Argentina. This role, responsible to maintain financials for local governments and US GAAP, performed month end close, reconciliations, and weekly/monthly reports for each DC. Daily inventory transaction review was performed to ensure weighted average costing (WAC) accuracy. Role required to provide Ad Hoc analysis for projects and requests.Accomplishments and highlights:- Supported in the Spin-off of Mallinckrodt from Covidien, both Financially and Operationally for Latin America.- Participated in the JDE E1 Project and Implementation Team as a subject mater expert (SME) for all LATAM entities Panama, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. - Participated in the JDE E1 deployment project in Europe and East Asia (EMEA).- Documented & Implemented Accounting Procedures for Logistic/Finance JDE E1 (LATAM, EMEA, APAC - Asia Pacific).- Developed cross cultural relationships with sales and operations personnel to improve profitability by reducing the slow and non-moving reserves by $10M through short term discounts and optimizing inventory levels through Panama Free-Trade-Zone. - Collaborated with customer service department to correct transaction issues and to ensure appropriate processes were followed to minimize issues/corrections with weighted average costs. - Lead Physical Inventory Activities for E1 Finished Goods Inventory for Puerto Rico, Panama (Local and Free-Trade-Zone), Mexico, Columbia, Chile, and Argentina.

The new Supply Chain Financial Analyst role, reporting to the Director of Finance, is responsible for the yearly budget, 12 month rolling forecast, monthly financial analysis of all the manufacturing sites and distribution centers.Accomplishments and highlights: - Automated, documented, and established Accounting/Finance department processes based on role/responsibilities from the Manufacturing Controller; reducing 2 full-time site accountants.- Finance organization restructured and transformed which moved all accounting roles to corporate headquarters. - Developed and reported site specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to Chief Finance Officer, Director of Finance, and Jarden finance management team. The Senior Cost Accountant role, reported to the Manufacturing Controller, managed all product cost accounting tasks for Distribution Centers in Washington, MO and Canada; Manufacturing plants in Washington MO; Joplin, MO-DeBeer/Jarden Sports Licensing (JSL); Tennessee-Leather Tanning, Minnesota-Miken Sports, Turriabla, Costa Rica - baseball/apparel; Adirondack, NY - baseball wood bat manufacturing. Role is responsible for maintaining all item costs (including material, freight, duty, labor, and overhead), updating bill of materials (BOM) and routers, and performing month end activities related to manufacturing work orders and inventory. Accomplishments and highlights: - Automated month end activities reducing close from three weeks to four days.

The Financial Analyst role was responsible for reporting and analysis for Wholesale and Retail businesses of Save-a-Lot to Supervalu. This role was responsible to collaborate with other departments to analyze the variance between actuals and budget, provide monthly financial write-ups, develop/review/analyze key performance indicators (KPI's), improve financial efficiencies, and provide ad hoc reporting as necessary. Accomplishments and highlights:- Developed automated Excel reports and Access databases using Visual Basic and SQL programming to improve procedures and internal controls that improved accounting and finance efficiencies. - Reduced time to present financial reports with written analysis to CEO, CFO, Directors, and Supervalu Upper Management from 2 weeks to 3 days. - Updated wholesale and retail dashboards/metrics annually based on business goals and objectives.- Utilized AS400 (JD Edwards), AXS-One, Oracle, Hyperion/Essbase, Data Warehouse, SharePoint, and Monarch systems to automate reporting process and provide ad hoc analysis.

The Senior Accountant, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, managed the Accounts Receivable (A/R), Accounts Payable (A/P), cost accounting - inventory/item costing, tax preparations, cash flows, bank accounts, month end close/reporting, and reconciliations. Accomplishments and highlights:- Reduced the $2MM accounts receivable from Wal-Mart to $0.2M. - Attended Training on Syteline and Participated on an Advisory Team as a Super User. - Re-engineered Financial Statements in Excel & Syteline (Manufacturing ERP System).- Developed Custom Excel, Crystal, & Syteline Reports.- Established, Maintained, & Documented Procedures and Controls. - Analyzed Bill of Material & Purchasing Variance Accounts.- Managed Invoicing, Credits & Debits; Including RMA (Return Material Authorization).- Maintained A/R Collections, A/P Processing, and Prepared Quarterly Sales & Used Tax Forms.- Prepared Period End Journal Entries and Financial Statements.- Reconciled Bank Accounts & General Ledger Accounts.

The Accounting Specialist role is responsible for reconciling, auditing and researching accounts for potential fraud and losses.