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Little Rock, Arkansas, Us

Birmingham, Mi, Us

• Responsible for the financial reporting, budget planning, and consolidation of $3 billion in engineering spend annually, both domestic and international.• Consolidation and integration of the engineering finance function with Rockwell Collins.• Oversight of financial operations of our Global Engineering Centers in India, UK, Poland.• Integration and harmonization of our rate and footprint structure in India.• Restructuring efforts and relocation of our UK engineering cost center.• Liaison to executive-level leadership for engineering reporting and compliance.• Tracking and reporting of Engineering Cost Synergies.• Supervision and oversight of Collins Aerospace finance team 20 analysts.

• Responsible for the financial reporting, budget planning, and consolidation of $2 billion in engineering spend annually, both domestic and international.• Oversight of a $550M engineering overhead budget.• Consolidation and integration lead for engineering finance for Goodrich integration.• Development of engineering base rates for UTAS based entities.• Perform monthly affordability analysis for all business units for engineering hiring approvals.• Continual development of consolidated reporting metrics on key deliverables.• Liaison for engineering personnel on technical accounting guidance as it pertains to engineering.• Controller for all central engineering sites including Poland, India, and the UK.• Supervision of 11 financial analysts.

• Responsible for the financial reporting, budget planning, and consolidation of $146 million OEM aerospace APU business.• Responsible for the financial reporting and analysis of $80 million in engineering annual spend.• Forecasting and budget planning for all OEM and engineering spends.• Lead finance for all APU transitional cost reduction initiatives.• Development of additional foreign entities and subsequent governmental subsidy funding.• Establish prevailing engineering plan rates and DCI targets.• Approval of all engineering job headers and charge number creations.• ACE lead responsible for (2) SIPOCS.

• Responsible for financial reporting and consolidation of one domestic and five international air compressor businesses.• Forecasting and budget planning, monthly cash forecasts and annual budgets, for domestic and international businesses.• Responsible for all accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, payroll, and capital expenditures.• ACE leader and owner of (3) SIPOC models.• Complete all monthly/quarterly analysis and bridges for domestic and international operations balance sheet items.• Approve all credit extensions to domestic and foreign customer base.• Analyze profitability and net effect on DSO on all extended-term requests.• Prepare and analyze quarterly tax packages for all domestic and international air compressor businesses.• Analyze and provide daily, weekly and monthly accounting reporting to corporate, including all internal and external audits.• Manage staff of thirteen, reducing headcount by 21% while improving DSO and forecasting.

Pendleton, Indiana, Us

• Responsible for the financial plan and analysis of a $1.1 billion dollar international automotive starter and alternator business. • Established Shared Services environment, consolidating all Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Credit functions into a combined environment for all of Delco’s subsidiaries, including their Mexico operation.• Handle all cash forecasting and cash collection activities for all Remy divisions.• Trained and continue to supervise shared services staff to ensure best practices are always followed.• Evaluate, establish and maintain all credit lines for our customer base.• Review and approve all check disbursements for all Delco companies.• Responsible for all international intercompany reconciliations.• Coordinate and supervise all internal and external audits.• Standardized and documented all procedural processes in adherence to Sarbanes Oxley requirements.• Developed and rolled out standardized travel and procurement card policies prepared annual departmental budgets.• Interface with all levels of management including board, providing financial results and requested analysis.

Pendleton, Indiana, Us

• Consolidate all cash flow functions of eight subsidiaries post acquisition.• Establish credit limits and Negotiate workout payment agreements.• Forecast rolling bi-monthly collections and disbursements for a $1.2 billion automotive supplier.• Supervise and Train all functions of international Receivables and Payables.• Coordinate internal and external financial audits.• Approve G/L reconciliations.

Fishers, Indiana, Us

Indianapolis, In, Us

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance Advising And Consulting Major, Accountin