Michael Matthews Email & Phone Number

Albuquerque, New Mexico, Us

Albuquerque, New Mexico, Us

Execution and Strategy of enterprise initiatives

Albuquerque, New Mexico, Us

Albuquerque, New Mexico, Us

Albuquerque, New Mexico, Us

•Commercial Finance - Quoting, Revenue and Gross Margin•Supply Chain Finance - Procurement, Production, Inventory, COGS

Albuquerque, New Mexico, Us

•Working Capital - inventory emphasis•Revenue and Gross Margin•Sourcing and Value Engineering Productivity Evaluation

Tempe, Az, Us

DriveTime is large privately held company and the one of the nations largest used vehicle dealers with over $3B in annual sales across 145 dealerships nationwide.•Led team in SG&A related accounting for $600M in operating expenditures as well as $450M of Fixed Assets.•OPEX Annual Operating Plan (AOP) budget leader. Coordinated the forecasting efforts for company OPEX while also forecasting significant portions of the company Annual Operating Plan.•Established monthly process to review and report on departmental OPEX with company Vice Presidents. Highlighting problem areas, misalignment with volume, and suggesting actions to control costs.•Implemented fixed asset project accounting system that reduced the number of hours and errors for assets in development. •Directed the implementation of preventative system controls that eliminated miscoding of invoices and journal entries that significantly reduced the amount of rework and audit risk associated with journal entry errors.

Tempe, Az, Us

•Led team in accounting for supply chain, inventory, insurance product revenues/costs, and customer operating leases.•Established management system of reviews and controls that significantly reduced the number of entry errors during close.•Created process improvements, organization of work, and level loading assignments and entries across accounting teams that reduced the number of close days from 10 to 4.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Site Financial Leader and member of Site Leadership Team at one of Amazon's flagship fulfillment centers.• Led a team of 3 in budgeting, forecasting, and management of $150M in variable/fixed operational expenses. • Created forecasts for weekly staffing plans for 2,500-6,000 employees by working cross functionally with HR and operations to determine needed hires and overtime requirements. Also responsible for forecasting the related financial costs of the staffing plan.• Drove $500K in annual savings through; elimination of wasteful spending, leading renegotiation of contracts with suppliers, and institution of competitive bid processes.• Led team in month-end closing process ensuring appropriate accruals are made. Provided month-end financial performance reporting and budget variance analysis to finance and operational leadership.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Planned, led, and delivered independent and objective financial and operational reviews across the entire Honeywell global diversified portfolio.• Gathered and analyzed financial and operational data across the accounting cycles for receivables, payables, inventory, financial reporting, fixed assets, and employee-related costs.• Identified and communicated opportunities to improve controls and financial/operational processes to leadership.• Worked with management to develop corrective action plans to ensure compliance with control requirements.• Partnered with Honeywell's external audit team on the review and testing of key SOX controls for year-end testing.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

•Provided multi-billion dollar free cash flow forecasts on working capital for entire Honeywell Aerospace balance sheet•Performed analysis and variance explanation on key working capital metrics including; Working Capital Turns, DOS, DSO, and DPP •Coordinated multi-million dollar global unbilled receivables forecasting efforts •Prepared and presented working capital and free cash flow reports for Aerospace Leadership

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Analyzed and reported site conversion costs and production cost variances for finance management and site leadership. • Analyzed and reported labor efficiencies, production efficiencies, and site production volumes, • Created expense forecasts for; labor, overhead, and Production Cost Variances for monthly, quarterly, and annual projections.

• Supervised, trained, & professionally developed 30 employees• Trained in military policing functions; arrest, searches, and civil disturbance riot control

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Analyzed material purchase price variances to determine better methods to forecast certain production costs in the Annual Operating Plan• Worked on special projects of key financial interest in; cost allocations, U.S. government compliance, and supply chain analysis

Washington, Dc, Us

United States Marine Corps (Honorable Discharge)• Supervised & trained 60 employees, maintained critical equipment, and inventoried critical government commodities• In charge of more than $2M worth of mission critical equipment

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting

Graduate Certificate Of Accounting