Phil Popelar Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Finance manager responsible for Working Capital management for Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), a pioneer in process automation and controls with more than 40 years of growth and over 12,000 global employees.• Working capital leader for +$5B HPS, responsible for forecasting, planning, reporting, and driving improvement projects across 6 business unites and over +150 legal entities• Direct financial support to the senior leadership team including business VPGM and CFO.• Implemented management operating changes, including enhanced analytics and KPI hub, that included Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and project metrics for key working capital and cash KPIs • Functional and business lead for Enterprise Cash Digitization project, focused on building a transactional Cash Model and enhancing cash visibility across the Honeywell enterprise • Drove financial visibility to improve forecast accuracy to Working capital (~$600M) and Free Cash Flow• Partnered with functional teams to implement technology projects such as credit, direct debit, collection automation, and project management tools • Managed rotational working capital analyst, coaching and preparing them for career growth

Houston, Texas, United States

Senior Commercial Analyst for Process Measurement Controls and Thermal Solutions, a leading provider of Industrial products and software to increase accuracy, efficiency, and reliability for lowest ownership cost. - Financial leader and commercial business partner responsible for managing Channel Partners (+1000 global partners and ~$300M in annual volume)- Managed channel team costs including sales intermediate payment and incentive programs, including multimillion-dollar rebate program- Provided direct financial support to Americas leadership team including business VPGM and CFO- Drove detailed financial review & action process, including spearheading business reviews, leading to +11% orders and +28% income growth- Built and enhanced internal month end closing processes for all Americas entities- Partnered with marketing to establish tracking and business process to deliver on +$5M in pricing initiatives- Implemented processes and built key linkage to the multiple ERPs (8) gaining access to transnational details and improving detailed KPIs such as global affiliate inventory

Houston, Texas, United States

Senior Income Statement Analyst for +$3B acquisition of Lufkin Industries, a leading provider of artificial lift technologies for the oil and gas industry and a manufacturer of gears. - Led income statement forecasting, planning and reporting. - Worked across the global cross functional team, partnered with 30+ business and finance managers to deliver +$1B of revenue- Provided financial support for the executive leadership team including business CEO and CFO- Built and enhanced internal FP&A processes to integrate into parent company operating requirements - Established sustainable process to timely and accurately complete 30+ quarterly corporate reporting requirements.- Spearheaded business reviews and ad-hoc requests as required by the rapidly evolving business environment. - Implemented weekly pacing of key financial metrics despite challenging IT infrastructure- Drove financial visibility and active cost management for a multi-million-dollar integration budget which led to +$2M underspend- Partnered with functional teams to manage annual budgets, successfully tracked and managed engineering budget, resulting in $1.5M underspend.- Successfully implemented the quarterly lag study to allow for compliant destination base reporting.- Managed several rotational analysts assigned to the global FP&A team, Coached and prepared the analyst for closing activities and career mentoring

Worldwide

Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) is a progressive leadership program with 3 rotations per year. Individuals rotate within the different GE businesses and countries worldwide. Primary responsibilities involve conducting complete reviews of GE businesses, financial reporting, risk management, acquisitions integrations and dispositions as well as compliance reviews.More specific, as an Associate Auditor the auditor performs accounting and auditing functions on field engagements for GE organizational components. Associate auditor participates in pre-audit planning for audit engagements, and review accounting and operating procedures and systems of internal control. The associate auditor subsequently conducts audit tests, which are sufficient in scope to support objective professional opinions as to the fair representation of financial statements. This involves the preparation of financial statement reports, performing analytical reviews of audit documents, and preparing written documentation; with an ongoing focus on maintaining controllership. Further, the auditor performs accounting research to resolve issues that arise during the course of the audit or compliance engagements.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin Area

P&L finance analyst. Responsibilities range from operating margin to supply chain reporting, financial forecasting to account reconciliation. Site finance leader for implementation of logistics payment and reporting system as well as site inventory.