Robert Cherry Email & Phone Number

South Carolina, United States

Fountain Inn, South Carolina, Us

• Lead all financial activities of the company including partnerships with all the business units worldwide• Responsible for driving continuous improvement by identifying inefficient processes as well as recognizing opportunities to improve overall productivity within the finance organization• Ability to connect and develop change strategies to increase efficiencies by working with different organizations• Responsible for leading corporate accounting and FP&A functions• Partner with operations as well as sales and marketing to support accurate forecasts, annual operating plans, and actual reporting of sales orders and backlogs• Makes assessments and recommendations to executive leadership to improve processes across the company’s finance function• Oversee the central accounting, financial planning and analysis, cost accounting, and compliance functions for global operations• Travel overseas to access their new manufacturing operations• Prepare board of directors & executive management presentations• Responsible for daily productivity initiative across the central financial organization• Maintain all corporate financial policies & manage relationship with external audit firm• Ensure compliance across 37 manufacturing locations worldwide with internal policies and IFRS/GAAP• SAP Financial Lead for implementation across multiple business segments• Developed a global chart of accounts and reporting structures to drive consistency in financial and management reporting

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Liberty site: manufactures components for life-saving Cardiac Arrhythmia and Heart Failure devices. • Oversee all aspects of finance and accounting operations for Cardiac Rhythm Management Site saving over $1.5M on $37M of output• Reduced aged inventory by $.5M in my first year• Partner with site operations and R&D organizations to achieve site finance goals• Ensure compliance with Abbott Corporate policies and as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)• Lead the annual and quarterly budget and finance process• Responsible for month-end and year-end financial close process• Develop and ensure compliance with financial standard operating procedures throughout the site• Drive operational excellence through the use of metrics and continuous improvement projects• Responsible for the finance vision and direction and provide overall leadership in the execution of all finance and accounting tasks•.Support and ensure systems are properly configured to meet business objectives

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

• Site is responsible for over $300M • In charge of all financial accounting & reporting for internal supply chain facility that manufactures internal rotating parts for multiple GE aircraft & power generation turbine platforms • Responsible for all the monthly financial closing processes & ensuring compliance with GE Corporate Policies including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)• Built management reporting tool to measure actual discrete part cost & operations metrics against Op Plan & Forecast and also provided by part impacts of rate, mix, & volumes on the overall shop performance• Developed annual operating plans to achieve aggressive parts cost targets to meet overall company profit objectives• Prepare monthly operating & financial forecasts for the site and partnered with the operations teams to track progress throughout the month• Created BI visualizations utilizing data from multiple source systems including Oracle ERP & corporate pillar applications• Reduced aged inventory from $2.0M+ to less than $0.2M• Obtained approval for $10.0M+ of capital investments that have increased productivity, volumes, & employment while reducing parts costs to our customer• Developed & implement a strategic plan to grow output 20% Year Over Year with a trajectory to double output in 5 years• Established plans to invest in new technologies and internal capabilities to reduce key cost drivers• Partner with Local Governments to secure monetary incentives to assist with the upfront costs in meeting sites growth targets• Developed a scorecard utilized across multiple manufacturing operations to clearly provide necessary operations metrics including productivity metrics, volume impacts, as well as rate impacts to parts costs• Lead Physical Inventories for both Inventory as well as a full physical on Plant & Equipment

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

•Championed the product costing function for the Supply Chain division for all Affiliate sites both foreign and domestic•Responsible for developing consistent costing methodologies between multiple sites on multiple ERP platforms•Ensured data accuracy of information fed into the main costing system from Affiliate ERP’s and proper reporting of intercompany profits to allow for proper long-term Customer Service Agreement (CSA) accounting

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

•In charge of quarterly, monthly, and annual financial closings and reporting for 15 manufacturing locations with more than $1.0B in annual revenue•Led monthly financial reviews with all sites which included the B/S and P&L and prepared executive presentations of quarterly results for review with the CFO•Ensured compliance of financial statements in accordance with GE Policy and US GAAP•Managed Internal Corporate Audit Staff engagements across all sites and ensured any audit findings were addressed and audit finding closure activities were documented and presented to Executive Management•Designed, implemented and tracked a model that outlined all intercompany transactions to ensure appropriate accounting and intercompany profit eliminations were properly stated in the financial statements•Led a cross functional team project for Aviation Systems to implement a new company wide standard chart of accounts in 5 ERP’s

West Chester, Oh, Us

•Responsible for all aspects of the companies forecasting, planning and strategic planning processes for $7B•Prepared quarterly Board of Directors and Executive Management analysis and presentations•Reviewed all expense spending, capital spending and contracts in excess of $250,000 to ensure prudent use of company funding•Performed post audits on capital spending projects to ensure that objectives were being achieved•Provided market and ad hoc analysis on competitors at the request of the CEO •Performed Merger and Acquisition analysis as well as performed due diligence activities for Executive Management and the Board of Directors•Lead financial teams to dispute trade cases initiated by China and Europe•Responsible for inventory planning that lead to over $100M reduction in working capital•Tracked and analyzed gross and net sales including gross margins in producing forecast and trend analysis on a monthly basis•Provided financial support and analysis to operations, marketing and legal departments for strategic business decisions and cost savings initiatives

Richmond, Va, Us

•Documented financial processes at two integrated paper manufacturing locations and relocated financial responsibilities to the companies Financial Shared Resources Center •Assisted with the implementation of SAP including the conversion of legacy systems and establishing a standardized Chart of Accounts•Responsible for monthly/Qtrly/Annual financial closing for the Containerboard and Coatedboard divisions•Coordinated and directed Internal and External financial audits•Ensured compliance with technical accounting policies both Internal and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles•Documented business processes across divisions and ensured consistency in financial reporting practices

• Responsible for accounting and bookkeeping of capital expenditures, cash flow, costs, sales revenues for entire company• Prepared monthly balance sheets, income statements, and detailed cost and inventory data and variance reports for submission to management for this global trading company • Maintained general ledger and prepared reports on bank transactions, including letters of credit • Prepared reconciliation reports for company’s sales• Performed periodic inventory counts to verify information in the general ledger• Communicated with customers and vendors concerning accounts receivable and accounts payable• Reconciled accounts in the general ledger and resolved any variances• Served as administrator of company’s 401K plan• Assisted the controller in preparing and reviewing financial statements

Education record

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting