Matt Hohbein Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL

Bristol Reports is a boutique consulting firm that specializes in:1) Customized portfolio reporting for family offices and high net worth individuals2) Real estate deal modeling3) Corporate financial forecasting, planning, and analysis 4) Miscellaneous custom Excel model development

Birmingham, MI

Chicago, IL

• Managed a team of twelve with financial planning, results reporting, global procurement finance, cash flow/inventory management, productivity, CapEx budget management, DCF investment evaluations, and product costing.
• Championed the 2015 cross-functional SKU rationalization initiative, discontinuing 16% of the low performing/high inventory items

Chicago, IL

• Led the forecasting, period results reporting, and annual operating plan processes for the Quaker Business Unit’s $1.2B supply chain costs (including plant manufacturing, commodity procurement, and HQ expenses)

Chicago, IL

• Led the long-term financial planning (for both the 3-5 year horizon and the 1 year horizon) for the $2.3B Quaker division
• Developed risk assessments, contingency plans, and evaluations of the brand trade-offs needed to deliver Quaker’s target metrics
• Created innovative dashboards, established performance metrics, and drove insights behind trends and brand performance
• Partnered with the Quaker Strategy Team to explore M&A opportunities

Chicago, IL

• Developed an analytical methodology to identify and evaluate potential opportunities for gross pricing actions, factoring in competitive positioning, customer margins, elasticity, trade rates, and promoted mix
• Identified opportunities to correct misaligned price/pack architecture offerings along the cross-channel value incentive curve

Chicago, IL

• Provided financial guidance for the strategic planning of the $375MM granola bars business
• Introduced regression-based modeling to the brand performance team as an additional tool for calculating/validating elasticity assumptions of pricing actions
• Developed a macro-driven consolidation model for tracking A&M spend by account, brand, time, project, and forecast scenario to allow for a granular, historical level of reporting

Chicago, IL

• Prepared periodic (~monthly) sales & production forecasts by SKU for the Gamesa brand
• Analyzed and evaluated international, intercompany transfer prices
• Prepared periodic business performance summaries, highlighting the key drivers of sales and profit

Chicago Heights, IL

• Revised and automated over a dozen financial reports, freeing up the equivalent of 60% of a financial analyst’s weekly capacity
• Co-prepared Ford Motor Company’s Chicago Stamping Plant’s $231MM, physicals-driven, road-map improvement-based budget
• Lead plant-wide project cost evaluator and coordinator

Chicago, IL

Mba, Finance, Operations, Strategy

Bs, Mathematics (Operations Research)