Provide financial support for Program and Settlement supplier claims. Perform Complex Contract Impact Assessments, Data analytics for supplier claims and financial analysis for month end activities. Perform post-audits on auditor submissions to ensure common standards. Establish work structure guidelines and create manuals that can act as training tools for the auditors. Perform termination, obsolescence and tooling confirmations. Proficient user of SAP for initiating payments and account reconciliations.

Responsible for recovering monies from GM suppliers who were overpaid on escalated metals. With global access into multiple systems, our team uncovers weight discrepancies amongst these systems. Through collaborating with engineers, buyers and plants these weight issues are resolved leading to supplier concessions and future savings. Also perform plant audits, supplier spec sheet analysis and parts price walks to make sure all pricing changes have been adhered to as parts change numbers due to engineering changes. This team set a GM record by recovering over $110 million in nine months of work in 2013.

Daily cash reporting for all banks and global sites, preparing and analyzing reports, working with sites/departments/ etc. on discrepancies. Prepared 13 week cash forecast, analyzing, questioning and explaining variances. Tied out actuals to forecast ,analyzing and explaining variances. Prepared corporate office forecasts. Prepared borrowing base and bank analysis. Assisted in reporting to bank (monthly, quarterly). US credit agreements. Coordinated disbursement requests by working with requester, comparing to forecasts. Updated Invoice database for accruals. Performed other special projects. Improved spreadsheet efficiencies by adding input sections and formulas thereby saving time and improving accurateness.

Supervise Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable departments totaling 10 employees while managing the day-to-day cash activities of five global companies and a multi-million dollar credit line. Managed bank accounts and relationships with multiple banks including all on-line banking activity involving credit cards, wires and ACH payments. Placed forwards to hedge against foreign currency exchange risk. Established customer credit lines and determined credit holds. Prepared daily bank reporting, monthly borrowing base, and monthly 13-week cash flow.

Responsibilities: • Writing of Policy and Procedure Manuals involving systems, journal entries and wire transfers pertaining to securitization transactions.• Preparation of journal entries for month-end involving manual inputs, interest and wires.• Reconciliation of Collection, and other bank accounts involving securitization transactions

Responsibilities: • Preparation and distribution of daily bank reporting.• Preparation of monthly borrowing base with a full understanding of all items involved in its computation.• Daily management/supervision of AR and AP departments.• Daily treasury/cash management including, but not limited to, timely collection of receivables within trade terms, reduction/minimization of ineligibles, cash application, billing, identification/resolution of invoicing issues. • Preparation of weekly 13-week cash flow.• Reporting of all pertinent matters to CFO involving various functional areas of supervision (sales off, liquidity shortfalls, monitoring of unapplied cash).

Responsibilities: • Managed the global daily cash positions including wire transfer approvals, the short-term cash investment program and interfacing with counterparts worldwide to collect and consolidate the global cash and debt position. • Researched and implemented process improvements in cash collection, disbursement, funds transfer, reporting and bank selection and negotiating. • Assisted in identifying foreign exchange exposures, developing risk management strategies and executing hedging transactions. • Oversaw maintenance of bank account and other related records, such as signature authorities, resolutions, correspondences, loan documents, etc.• Supervised and developed the Cash Management Assistant.

Responsibilities: • Managed all cash activities and banking relationships. • Created one-year cash forecast plans and maintained 13-week Rolling Cash Forecast. • Monitored daily cash requirements for the organization. • Delegated authority for receipt, disbursement, banking, protection and custody of funds, securities and financial instruments. • Prepared weekly borrowing bases, confirmed Letter of Credit openings tie out to forecasted need and determined strategies to manage interest expense. • Evaluated credit agreements and auditor reports to find areas open to renegotiation for improving the company’s leverage position. Accomplishments: • Increased by millions of dollars the company's borrowing capacity by working with other Department Heads in initiating new procedures and creating new reports to capture and quantify all in-transit inventories within the organization.• Created the Vendor Relations Program to open communication lines, develop stronger relationships with our vendor community to improve credit terms, and help develop businesses.• Improved borrowing availability by educating our buyers as to the negative effect Letters of Credit had on the company's ability to borrow and by stressing to them the importance in negotiating wire terms with anticipation on purchase orders.• Reduced interest expense by as much as one point by strategically borrowing in Eurodollars at the LIBOR rate versus borrowing in US Dollars at the Prime rate as forecast dictated.

Responsibilities: • Supervised accounting department and oversaw general ledger, daily cash flow, budgeting, and acquisition activities. • Managed health insurance plan, payroll, employee benefits, 401K plan, and pension funding.• Reviewed and monitored pension and 401K activities and researched investment alternatives. • Served on Board of Directors as Assistant Treasurer. Accomplishments: • Developed spreadsheets to forecast and budget daily cash flow needs while managing company cash flow on a week-to-week basis for four years due to company's inability to obtain any lines of credit.• Improved cash flow by cutting healthcare costs by more than 20% through negotiation and implementation of a self-funded PPO Plan between our local hospital and our manufacturing plant, employing over 250 workers, in Southern Ohio.• Successfully negotiated a four-year Union contract with United SteelWorkers and re-negotiated our sales agreement with Rouge Industries preserving $1,750,000 in revenue. Both deals were critical to the company's survival at the time.