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Lake In The Hills, IL, US

Lake Forest, IL, US

• Directed team responsible for all accounting, financial planning and analysis for $600M+ beverage carton converting and filling equipment business that encompassed 7 manufacturing plants.
• Managed remote team of 25 accounting and finance professionals (10 direct reports).
• Supported successful merger of Pactiv and Evergreen Packaging and transition to public company by integrating new internal controls, enhanced variance analysis and forecast integrity.
• Developed analytical model to evaluate customer profitability and track impact of pricing actions during period of unprecedented inflation.
• Partnered with operations director to prepare detailed manufacturing footprint analysis to bring to light shortcomings in the study proposed by an external consulting group to ensure informed decisions could be made by.
• Designed account mapping and cost allocation rules for NA packaging to support company-wide launch of new consolidation software and product line profitability reporting.

Rochester, Michigan, US

• Managed team accountable for all aspects of financial planning, monthly forecasting and analyzing results. Developed FP&A function following Fram Group's separation from UCI-FRAM in 2016. Championed new monthly.
• Facilitated 5-year strategic plan and prepared analytics deck to support successful corporate debt refinancing.
• Partnered with sales team to execute successful bid to gain share and $10M business with major retail customer. Enhanced financial business modeling to isolate contribution margin, incremental fixed costs, and working.
• Built sales analytical tool using Excel PowerPivot data model to provide flexible, efficient reporting of gross and net sales and standard margin by channel, customer, and product groups. Model generates comparative.
• Designed pricing model to capture impacts of steel inflation and tariffs at product level to equip sales team to successfully implement retail price increase.
• Deeply engaged in financial due-diligence requirements related to sale of Fram Group from Rank Group Ltd. to TRICO Group, LLC in February 2019. Handled detail-intensive analysis and responses under tight deadlines.

Lisle, IL, US

• Spearheaded forecast accuracy team established to reengineer and enhance the consolidated financial forecasting and analysis process. Utilized lean principles to streamline and document processes and define.
• Designed and implemented new income statement causal matrix based on Hyperion Essbase retrieves to drive consistent, comprehensive variance analysis and methodologies based on a single data cube across all functions.
• Developed centralized Essbase reporting with drill down capability to streamline reporting and analysis of $1B SG&A spend for senior leadership to provide clear road map to $200M (20%) cost reduction initiative.
• Served as subject matter expert to teach and advise multiple groups during period of high turnover.

Lisle, IL, US

Oversee all accounting, financial planning, analysis, and reporting for $600M joint venture between Navistar and Ford Motor Company that sells and markets OEM aftermarket diesel engine and truck service parts to Ford dealerships and parts wholesalers. Also served on operating committee management team.

Lisle, IL, US

• Led team of 8 accounting and finance professionals accountable for all accounting, financial planning, cost reporting and cash management as it pertains to $6B+ direct material buy to support all North American.
• Initially led area through companywide financial restatement and resolved material weakness tied to supplier rebates and tooling purchases in truck segment. Developed strong control environment, accounting procedures.
• Established strong cash management focus within procurement by developing supplier payment term metrics, goals and training for purchasing managers, and implemented supply chain financing program that improved.
• Enhanced forecast and validation of material cost savings to align operational performance tracking in SalesForce with true ledger impact. Actions improved accuracy of material cost forecast and communication of.

Lisle, IL, US

• Managed team accountable for all financial analysis and accounting of $400M spend covering freight, fuel surcharges, finished product delivery, 3PL, and other logistics costs to support 12 manufacturing locations..
• Designed and implemented new corporate accounting procedures for forecasting and accruing for inbound freight costs at all plants to address companywide problem.
• Developed analysis to isolate impacts of fuel prices on freight costs, which enhanced forecasting of freight costs and led to proactive efforts to hedge exposure during period of high market volatility in fuel prices.

Lisle, IL, US

Responsible for all aspects of financial analysis of consolidated results for Engine and Finance Groups as it pertains to the Board of Directors and Executive Council. Consolidated corporate-wide operating and strategic plans, forecasts, and capital spending plans. Prepared and reviewed Corporate SG&A budgets with Corporate Controller. Prepared Board.

Lisle, IL, US

• Managed team of 4 at diesel engine manufacturing plant with $400M+ in annual sales. Responsible for reporting and explaining of monthly financial results to plant manager and division executive staff, forecasting.
• Spearheaded the implementation of an activity based costing model to evaluate product line profitability and identify problem areas and non value-added activities.

Lisle, IL, US

Lisle, IL, US

Lisle, IL, US

Lisle, IL, US