Preston White Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Finance leader supporting Mergers & Acquisitions, Product Licensing, Strategic Sales, Order Firming, and Pricing

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Responsible for leading financial reporting, analysis, forecasting, and decision making for $200M+ global aerospace trading organization.• Member of HAT leadership team involved in critical decision making and strategic direction of organization. • Developed financial reporting operating system including short-term forecasts, long-term strategic forecasts, and daily/weekly/monthly financial metrics.• Partner with Business Development team to analyze potential airframe acquisitions and dismantlements. • Evaluate sales opportunities and repair decisions with regional sales teams to optimize decision making towards financial results.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Lead all FP&A activities for Airlines EMEAI business team including annual operating plan (AOP) and short range outlooks (SRO).• Interim finance leader from January 2016 until March 2016 while Finance Director position was vacant. Recognized for leadership impact and integrated thinking during transitional period.• Analyze monthly financial results and provide detailed variance commentary to business leaders. Highlight themes and trends to demonstrate where changes in business environment are directly impacting financial results.• Improved legacy reporting tools and developed new tools and processes to assist business leaders in opportunity identification and drive growth within their portfolio.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Support the continued growth of the Satellite Connectivity business.• Influence revenue increase by providing financial business decision support and collaborate with sales and marketing to identify opportunities. • Improve accounts receivable collections by driving proactive staff involvement.• Develop annual operating plan and subsequent forecast risk opportunity identification for the Satellite Connectivity business segment.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Management of EAC Revenue and EAC Cost for Engineering efforts to ensure accurate revenue recognition based on percentage of completion basis.• SAP project systems management including maintaining settlement rules, ensuring proper project structure, and correct P&L classification of costs and revenue.• Standardized AEWA/IEWA billing processes across Phoenix COTA sites. Provided consistency in invoicing intercompany engineering work.• Present in Finance Functional Reviews where balance sheet activity and engineering effort occuring at site is discussed and reviewed.• Lead annual engineering over/under applied burden flush process for 7 Phoenix COTA engineering sites. Executed SAP processes and performed analysis to ensure accurate rate adjustments and burden application.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Responsible for all Finance and Accounting activities for the US/Asia and Czech Republic Branches of ASASCo, a legal entity facilitating over 150 expatriates supporting Honeywell.• Transitioned ASASCo US to SAP; collaborated with SAP deployment team to achieve accurate balance sheet mapping, proper recognition of Concur and PeopleSoft SAP feeds, conversion of monthly processes, and advanced reporting techniques.• Led Finance transition to new third party freight consolidation system (Trax) that significantly increased efficiency and improved analysis for freight accountant and site analysts.• Shortened close proces for FCOE Cash Management accountant from three days to one day.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Responsible for reconciling Net PPE and Software to ensure accuracy and compliance with GAAP.• Led the annual fixed asset and software verification for two sites with combined $7M+ in install costs and 400+ assets; completed all verification requirements and maintenance within four months. • Created standardized capital accounting processes to align with SAP Fixed Assets module for multiple Phoenix COTA sites.• Prepare ad-hoc/monthly capital expenditure and key metric reporting.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Packaged fragile items for shipping and shipped customer's items after packaging.Multi-tasked while assisting customers on copier, fax machine, and shipping packages.Trained three new employees to company specific rules and regulations