Marshall Severhof Email & Phone Number

• Undertake analysis and review of financial information including budgets, forecasts, results, and reporting, to identify trends, opportunities, and issues.
• Business partner with SBU leaders and key stakeholders to assist with investment proposals and business plans. Provide an independent appraisal, identify risks, and support with any financial modeling, report writing.
• Deliver key business analysis required for decision-making by Executive and local management teams. This will include market analysis and research; reports on specific business threats/risks/opportunities; in-depth.
• The commercial business partner for business systems to ensure accurate scoping of business systems projects to fulfill the requirements of the commercial team
• Qualify & quantify opportunities
• Partner with project leaders across multiple departments sales, engineering, operations, supply chain, operations, etc. and drive delivery of services and product milestones

Bowling Green, OH

• Actively manage and develop an additional financial analyst in daily tasks and financial principles
• Manage all budgets and forecasts for the Americas segment
• Perform process audits in key areas to confirm the budget adheres to actual
• Perform fluctuation analysis on 30+ cost centers and three separate manufacturing facilities and present findings to cost center leaders
• Review KPI’s with leaders and discuss performance to create action plans
• Prepare financial presentations related to the Americas for A-Gas Corporate and the Board of our private equity partners

Bowling Green, Ohio

• Preparation and presentation of analysis on key company priorities and metrics to management team
• Develop, design, compile and prepare adhoc financial analysis and reports requested by the management team
• Develop a bank of reports available to users on an as-needed basis using SAP Crystal Reports, Cognos BI, Sage Intelligence, and Microsoft Excel
• Perform fluctuation analysis versus historical, forecast/budget and other benchmarks
• Interface with operations and SBU leadership to help analyze and interpret financial performance and key metrics
• Assist in the review and analysis of the monthly management reporting

• Actively prepare, analyze, and submit SEC forms 8-K, 10-Q, and 10-K statements including work with XBRL tagging
• Research and interpret accounting guidance and draft technical memos to support conclusions
• Manage corporate consolidation software Cognos Controller
• Perform monthly US GAAP and elimination entries for our foreign affiliates to comply with US GAAP rules
• Perform forecast, budget and prior year variance analysis on monthly financial statements
• Interact with affiliate regions US & Canada and Europe as liaison between Corporate Finance and Regional Finance teams

Toledo, OH

-Accounting Analyst supporting the entire United States and Canada region for Libbey Inc. -Manage all Fixed Assets in the US&C, Corporate and China regions.-Administrator of Libbey issued credit card.-Responsible for Intercompany Receivables between 5 Libbey Affiliates.-Maintain and complete all US Census obligations for the US&C region.-Responsible for.

Monroe, MI

• Provide support for the La-Z-Boy financial system Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains to 100+ La-Z-Boy Galleries and over 10 Independent Dealers.
• Traveled to Independent Dealer sites to train the financial team on Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains.
• Participated in enhancements for the Payroll system and the company wide Time Management system.
• Lead and participated in projects to enhance the pricing and financial side of the Point of Sale system while working with Independent Dealers and corporate management.
• Liaison between the Accounting departments and IT Applications department for projects, network security, and support services.
• Adhered to Sarbanes-Oxley Act by documenting projects using the System Development Life Cycle approach.

E-4 Infantry Team Leader

Temperance, MI

• Prepared tax forms for individuals and families
• Gave tax guidance for next years tax season
• Interacted with clients to help them with any questions they had
• Adhered to the internal controls that were set in place by the firm
• Handled $100+ in petty cash while taking in funds from clients

• Helped customers to their seats and performed maintenance after the shows
• Interacted with customers to get the orders they requested