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Camarillo & Thousand Oaks Facilities

Key role in the company’s program business management, financial forecasting, cost accounting, management reporting, inventory and internal control processes.Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Program Managers, Engineering, Manufacturing, Contracts, Purchasing and Accounting) to provide end-to-end program financial support.Bring a strategic and operational focus to critical programs and/or product line planning and financial operations, with a particular emphasis on delivery of financial plans, and improved cost and compliance controlsManage all aspects of the budgeting, forecasting and monthly financial reporting for assigned segments and/or product lines. This includes revenue, direct cost and profit forecasting and analysis. Work with Program Managers to establish program budgets and Management Reserves. Provide financial reporting and variance explanations that are consistent with required WBS structure and contract requirements.Ensure programs meet the required financial results and that efficiencies are identified to improve program performance.Prepare and review Program EACs, Program Reviews, financial reports and ensure profit rates are properly reflected.Prepares cost analysis for proposals and standard products.Generates and analyzes customer required reporting for program financial status and earned value reporting.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Short-term contract work (1-6 month duration) involving Financial and Operations leadership activities.

Greater Atlanta Area

$3.3B Mattress Manufacturer / Relocated to Los Angeles (birth place)Created a monthly S&OP process encompassing 40 manufacturing locations in the US and Canada.• Provide forecasting for a make-to-order business, identifying future spikes in demand and providing sku guidance for prebuilding in advance of firm orders.• Provide accuracy metrics by plant / dealer / product family. RCCM on major misses.• Identify network constraints and work with the enterprise to engage help from those plants with excess capacity.• Work with Sourcing to ensure raws will be available on time to meet demand. Track those vendors where spike in volume is projected.• Identify ‘pinch-points’ in production where, based on future demand, capital equipment will be required.• Work with plants on staffing recommendations to meet future demand.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Opportunity to create / implement / manage an S&OP group with $1M capital budgetProvide financial support for a $B global business unit of a Fortune 500 client with multiple domestic locations and international locations in Mexico, China, India and the Netherlands. Responsibilities include consolidated forecasting, waterfall reporting on sales and margins, proformas, NPI and Vitality Index reporting, Sales and Engineering budget management, quarterly Sales commission calculations, sales territory progress charts and ad-hoc modeling. Data mining in JDE, Cognos, HFM, Spreadsheet Server (JDE), Smartview (HFM) and Salesforce.com.

Twin Cities Mn

$7B Global Water Company / Layoff due to Business Unit ConsolidationsHired as a change agent and starting from a blank slate, created a monthly SiOP (Sales, Inventory and Operational Planning) process for a $0.6B GBU with sites in US, Mexico and China. Improved OTD and customer/vendor relations, and reduced inventory balances.• Led the Sales & Marketing, Production, Supply Chain, and Engineering functions in identifying sales-target road blocks, developing mitigation plans and executing to resolution. • Business Unit comprised of multiple acquisitions over the last decade with different products, sales structures (OEM / Distribution / Service), and market drivers.• Collaborated with sister sites to resolve issues at vendors (tooling/ force majeure/capacity) and internally (change in product chemical make-up for national customer).• Negotiated stocking agreement with major customer, defining agreed-to volumes and passing on expediting fees to customer due to large order spikes.• Developed relationships with key external customers, sharing forecasts and identifying discrepancies. • Assist in staff planning, E&O disposition and make/buy analysis. Led completion of parts move from vendor in CA to our site in Mexico, saving $250K annually.

Greater Los Angeles Area & Eagan Mn

$46B Aerospace Company / Plant Closure, chose not to relocate to Owego NYDeveloped and executed long-range plans for a $1.0B Line of Business (LOB). Led monthly reviews with Executive Leadership Team on performance to plan and outlook. Extensive use of Hyperion, ESSBASE and SAP. • Created stretch goals/bottoms-up AOP to achieve Business Unit (BU) targets. • Changed the perception of our LOB at the Business Unit (BU) level as one of the worst LOBs to one of the best based on accuracy and timeliness of submittals.• Created monthly and quarterly forecasts and analysis of financial results and variances, presented in terms understood by non-Finance managers as well.• Formed cross-functional teams to create more robust processes meeting expectations of all functions involved. • Managed 5 multi-million dollar contracts ($1B in total) in SAP, oversaw 1,000 budgets across all functions and 2 other sister LOBs.• Earned Value Management (EVM) focal point including processing of Baseline Change Requests (BCRs), Estimate-at-Complete (EAC) Change Requests (ECRs), maintenance of Contract Budget Baseline (CBB) log, Management Reserve (MR) log, and Undistributed Budget (UB) log.• Consolidated large amounts of data using Excel pivots and functions to manage staffing, capital and budget expenses on software development for the programs.

Minneapolis Mn

$1.1B Global Financial Services Company / Left due to Family Matters; Relo to CaliforniaSupported VP/GM of a $360M multi-product line group. • Executed strategic plan for national sales force of 36. • Approved and denied all major sales deals. • Ran Due Diligence and closed on 4 Acquisitions. • Ran AOP with use of Hyperion Planning tool.

Golden Valley Mn

$40B Conglomerate / Promotional Freeze During Merger with Allied SignalFinancial business partner for VP of $210M HVAC business unit having full financial planning and analysis responsibilities, along with P&L, working capital, and cash flow management responsibility. Worked closely with the Sales, Marketing, and Engineering groups. Analyzed variance explanations, project profitability, and acquisition candidates. • Finance lead for multiple cross-functional Product Line Business Teams , developing new product offerings and marketing programs.• Pro Forma responsibility on new product development, including IRR, payback period, and pull-through business with speed-to-market as a focus.• Prepared competitive market analysis, market size & capture, pricing and margin from a Voice Of Customer perspective, and retirement of aging and under-performing product lines.

North Hollywood, Ca

$250M Aerospace Company / Move to Minneapolis MN for Job TransferFinance Manager of Pricing department with 3 direct reports, automating processes and negotiating multi-year, multi-million dollar Aerospace contracts. • Ran Financial Planning and Analysis, developing Long Range Plans, annual budgets, and quarterly estimates. • Valuation of acquisition candidates through pro forma, cost of New Product Development, and cost savings. • Orchestrated physical inventory reviews and reconciliations, cycle counts and variance analysis , material transfers, update standard costs and review BOMs, • Evaluated Excess and Obsolete inventory and set reserves.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting Theory And Practice

Education record

Education record

Costpoint | TM1 | Excel | PowerPoint | Word | Hyperion | HFM | ESSBASE | SAP | Oracle | JDE | Lean Principals | 6Sigma