Sarah Benike-Immel Email & Phone Number

Saukville, WI, US

United States

• Reporting directly to the President, overseeing financial strength and solvency for the largest steel coil processor on the continent. Responsible for a multimillion-dollar finance and IT budget, championing financial.
• Transforming the finance division for the largest business of Charter Manufacturing, architecting an organizational structure, new processes, and programs to support the company’s long-term growth goals, including a.
• Directing growth engagement in collaboration with a top consulting group, leading the combined team in identifying long-term growth strategy for Charter Steel, designing a plan with a significant multiphased investment.
• Leading a cross-functional team of leaders focusing on scaling, engineering innovation, and optimization to grow product line volume and top-line revenue over the next five years

• Drove significant culture change through the customer service team, directing P&L and customer success initiatives, overseeing a 17-member team of managers, customer service representatives, and a cross-functional.
• Piloted projects that supported triple-digit volume growth within two years and millions in incremental sales, focusing primarily on processes including taking, scheduling, and shipping orders efficiently
• Identified significant cost reductions, including saving thousands of labor hours by automating order status reports from manual data entry and millions of dollars more in annual third-party spending through vertical.
• Led a cross-functional team of managers from Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, IT, and Operations through the assessment of business processes and systems capabilities, development, and execution of a five-year.
• Led numerous risk mitigation projects, improving project closure rate by 53%, leveraging project management training of all team members
• Restructured customer service department to improve efficiency and drive customer satisfaction

• Managed full P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet for the organization with oversight of monthly financial close and reporting, forecasting, and budgeting. Directed a six-member management team of Senior FP&A, and.
• Implemented a new long-term, driver-based strategic planning financial model, which was subsequently adopted to support all long-term sustainable profit initiatives
• Developed a top-down budgeting process for SG&A to hold controllable spending flat over three years
• Defined new operational processes and policies to address COVID impact in 2020, meeting federal, state, and local guidelines while continuing to serve clients and limiting employee risk, ultimately identified.
• Provided financial leadership support to Charter Steel Staff as well as Commercial, Logistics, and Supply Chain leaders
• Owned development of quarterly Board of Directors and annual budget presentations, including presenting to Charter Steel President and Charter Manufacturing Executive Leadership Team

• Guided the performance of a 5-member Senior Financial and Pricing Analysts team, managing an annual budget and driving improvements to the commercial and logistics team strategies and outcomes. Identified opportunities.
• Refocused team strategy and expectations to provide world-class customer service for internal and external customers with a new strategy to reduce customer claim cycle time to resolution and streamline refund processing
• Led implementation of activity-based costing profitability model (Impact) to support pricing decisions as well as optimal customer and product mix for maximum profitability, generating a significant increase in profit.
• Built Pricing KPI reporting process to track progress against established improvement goals in error and dispute reduction

• Supporting the SG&A cost centers, R&D, general reporting, and analysis, with responsibility for guiding a small general accounting analyst team in uncovering opportunities to improve reporting, cost containment, and.
• Prepared and presented financial reporting to the leadership team on findings and analysis of the company’s financial and accounting picture, relaying risk exposure and potential opportunities to improve controls where.
• Led Gainsharing Team (incentive program), partnering with management to design 2016 gainsharing metrics and communication plan, establishing methods to re-engage the workforce in the program

• Directed the development of numerous forecasting models to address costing, investments, and opportunities to improve profit margins and revenue.
• Built three return-on-investment models, including financial summaries for senior and executive management on a potential investment to use an alternative scrap source in our melting process
• Managed the summer intern, led through site-wide fixed asset audit, internal controls projects, and other projects

• Led annual business planning and standard costing preparation for Charter’s melting operation, overseeing the training and development of a financial analyst team. Responsible for the month-end financial close and.
• Co-developed a two-day cost review in-service training to improve insight and usefulness provided by monthly financial and operational reporting, creating a standardized mode of sharing financial information across the.

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance, General