Robert Schulte Email & Phone Number

Finleyville, PA, US

Dublin, Ireland, IE

Dublin, Ireland, IE

Dublin, Ireland, IE

• Led financial planning and analysis objectives for the Fluid and Electrical Distribution (FED) and Interconnect and Power Conversion (IPC) businesses under Eaton Aerospace. Business 2018 reported revenues of $896M.
• Coordinated plans, objectives and commitments both within finance teams and cross-functional teams across all sites for monthly forecast and yearly planning cycles.
• Led the development of the strategic planning initiatives spanning 5 & 10-year outlooks for the FED business. Included top line revenue projections, manufacturing growth and initiatives, support expense outlook.
• Managed efforts to analyze operational and financial data for FED and IPC that included investigating variances, identifying business drivers and providing evaluation on impact to planned/forecasted business objectives.
• Implemented a consolidated Tier 4 reporting structure geared towards receiving weekly updates from each site on key metric tracking to forecast and plan commitments. Structure aligns a standard communication point and.
• Managed Division Accounting department team of 5 positions. Drove strategic development for each employee through stretch assignments and tasks, exported talent within Aerospace operations and on-boarded high potential.

Dublin, Ireland, IE

• Controlled all financial aspects for Eaton’s Internal Components Division (ICD) Avery Creek plant and Direct Source operations totaling $78M of sales / 32.6% manufacturing profit in 2016, maintained internal controls.
• Developed and implemented 2 new processes for the plant operation; purchase requisition process to ensure proper controls are in place for all purchase and a bill of material (BOM) audit process to verify Enovia BOM.
• Drove improvements to Direct Source foreign exposure reporting through the creation of a forecast/reporting tool that captures monthly Euro to USD profit & loss statement (P&L) impact, the FX tool has provided improved.
• Led the Avery Creek plant and Direct Source operations through a ledger consolidation to combine operation reporting into one ledger, led to the reduction of repetitive accounting tasks (balance sheet reconciliations.
• Managed Accounting department through department workforce reduction, strategically outlined department tasks to ensure key deadlines were met, canceled open Financial Analyst position leading to $91K of savings
• Realigned the Avery Creek plant product cost structure to ensure plant burdened costs were accurately reflected, updated product costing provided the Division Marketing team with better visibility to the margins of.

Dublin, Ireland, IE

Dublin, Ireland, IE

Dublin, Ireland, IE

Dublin, Ireland, IE

Dublin, Ireland, IE