Stephen Wilder Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, Dk

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Optimized a 14 member finance and accounting team to manage 45% more business activity with two fewer staff (reduced via natural attrition).• Quarterly Board Member / Key Shareholder presentations coordinating financial/operations reviews with the controllers and business leaders, and status updates with Functional Unit Leaderso Updated reporting processes to utilized pre-formatted data printouts into useful financial data in excel via VBA macros and pivot tables.• Updated Corporate tax processes, updated in-house tax processes and implementing a professional firm as our tax partner.• Managed the company 401k plan and annual audit – troubleshooting various challenges due to mid-year changes overs in payroll systems (2019-2020) and Record Keeping/Plan Admin (2020-2021).o Implemented a TPA in 2022 to streamline the Plan administration.• Managed monthly treasury responsibilities including cash management, loan requirements, corporate card administration.o Streamlined AP processes, eliminating manual checks for over $5m in AP annually.o Established Standard processes for clearing inter-company invoicing without the use of repetitive manual checks.• Oversaw team transformation process to prepare the group for necessary software implementations:o Eliminated redundancies via attritiono Streamlined workflows and reassigned team members to new positionso Clarified Accounting roles vs Controlling and Finance roleso Implemented a dedicated annual review process designed to track competencies and establish succession planning.o Sourced and selected solutions for new Finance ERP implementation.

Schindellegi, Schwyz, Ch

Southwest Area - Finance

Schindellegi, Schwyz, Ch

Support airfreight business field through financial analysis and reporting. Support and manage regional business controllers within North America. Manage monthly forecasting and annual target setting processes.

Schindellegi, Schwyz, Ch

Act as central contact for all Airfreight Pricing related matters in United States.Monitor and maintain rate databases for RFQ and other pricing exercises including: BDG requests; other Corporate, Global, Regional and Local quotations' internal pricing of products and solutions.Manage reporting and data mining for North America Corporate Airfreight.Lead North America pricing team in BDG pricing coordination.Assist with various corporate airfreight operational functions as directed by corporate airfreight management.

Schindellegi, Schwyz, Ch

- Act as "rate expert" for both Air and Seafreight RFQs for Business Development Group. - Assist BDG in liaising with the Business Fields during quotation process.- Coordinate and complete stand-alone request for select Strategic Customers.- Maintain and administer BDG quotation tool "BTT" act as superuser for Western Hemisphere and participate in global discussions regarding development and implementation of software.- Reporting and data extraction support for Corporate Airfreight team.- Other responsibilities as directed by North American Airfreight and/or Corporate Management.

Master Of Accountacy, Financial Accounting

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Financial Accounting

Marine Systems Engineering

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