► stephenmcrane@yahoo.comWith a passion to improve productivity I drive financial and operational management for cross-functional, diverse businesses. I'm a hands-on, multicultural, strategic leader overseeing turn-around operations, rebalancing manufacturing footprints, optimizing capital structures (debt vs. equity) and treasury/tax strategies, and restructuring transportation and customs processes.I am a fluent Spanish and German speaker with successful expatriate assignments in Mexico, Germany and Belgium. These assignments have fed my passion for leading and developing high performance, multi-cultural teams.Specialties: Organizational re-engineering Global Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis Acquisition Integration | Divestitures Multi GAAP Environments | Currency Hedging Internal Controls | Financial Policy Value Chain Insight | Productivity Improvement Fraud Investigations | Risk Management Talent Selection, Development and RetentionIn addition to extensive experience driving growth, profitability, and operational excellence, my background includes start-ups, forensic investigations, finance transformation, systems implementations and launching international shared service centers.
Listed skills include Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, Forecasting, Internal Audit, and 39 others.