Matthew Hauer Email & Phone Number

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Troy, Michigan, United States

Promoted by leveraging my previous experience with operations, to improve financial processes around centralized functions. Hybrid role of P&L Support, Board of Director reporting and special projects. Managed a staff of 2 Senior Financial Analyst.• Directly supported $45M of multiple Corporate and centralized functions in budgeting, forecasting, and close activities. • Department (high) level variance analysis to influence C-Suite as well as detailed analysis for Department Level leaders.• Reporting evolved to fit the needs of groups, ultimately resulting in P&L reporting of 2 different styles for different departments, balancing flexibility with standardization.• Mentored, trained 2 direct reports. Reviewed performance and coached them to build stronger relationships with mid-level leadership, and how to be an effective business partner. • Created in-depth Board of Directors reporting slides quarterly with robust and actionable commentary, often focusing on particular aspects / dynamics for the quarter. • Involved with creating long-range strategic planning models with ability to dynamically alter components to show impact of certain parameters and assumptions. • Improved and simplified allocation and chargeback processes to be more accurate, shortened analysis and processing time for all parties involved, without compromising useful/actionable reporting, ultimately allowing for 1 FTE reduction in my department and freeing up work time in other areas.• Involved in highly visible projects to review and challenge business-case and assumptions.• Took ownership of financial plan and modeling for organizational changes for several departments generally moving functions from centralized to decentralized structure, with some offshoring.

Troy, Michigan, United States

Promoted to Manager and absorbed work of one employee who left the company.• Oversaw month end close process, forecast, budget (including tactical and strategic), and long-range planning for above lines of business, and provided monthly and quarterly variance commentary largely on a customer level, along with abundant ad-hoc analysis for potential improvements or occasional recommendation to exit business.• Provided guidance to, and reviewed work and analysis of 2 direct reports.• Interacted regularly with senior business heads, providing council and understandable results and reporting.• Partnered with Accounting to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley and GAAP compliance and proper revenue accounting.

Troy, Michigan, United States

• Responsible for month end close, forecast, budget for 2 lines of business.• Produced monthly reporting and dashboards, with automation improvements.• Communicated with multiple levels of the organization.

Troy, Michigan, United States

Two roles in this time, P&L Management, month end close, forecasting, as well as pricing for customer RFPs.• Responsible for month end close, forecast, budget for 2 lines of business.• Produced monthly reporting and dashboards, with automation improvements.• Communicated with multiple levels of the organization.• Created new pro forma profitability models for Americas, APAC, and EMEA that allowed for changes in key inputs and assumptions.• Created ad-hoc sensitivity analysis used by both finance and operations to model changes in business mix, contract term changes, payroll tax and other key inputs.

Budget, forecast, monthly and year-end close support. Supported revenue/contract worth $100M annually for the automotive industry and business process outsourcing.

Build and maintain pricing models, used standard costing methodology to effectively cost/price product solutions. Forecast fixed and variable costs as they applied to product offerings. At a different role there, I worked as a General Ledger Analyst, performing month-end activities, posting journal entries, reconciling account balances.

Master'S Degree, Finance, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting And Finance