Steve Talbott Email & Phone Number

Chesterfield, MO

Consulted with small businesses on identifying and reporting on new business opportunities, manufacturing costing projects, ad hoc financial projects, bookkeeping services and tax preparation. Worked with individual clients on federal and state tax issues, return preparation and electronic filing

Chesterfield, MO

• Developed, implemented and monitored pricing models that lead to maximized product category profitability. Collaborated with sales, procurement, and manufacturing teams to determine changes to internal cost and/or the.
• Member of team that developed and implemented an Integrated Business Planning process across entire division and later became the Demand Team facilitator.
• Developed and maintained SalesForce.com dashboards for sales team, tracked and reported customer contacts in SFDC for sales management team, and developed and maintained approvals process in SFDC for tracking pricing.
• Suggested annual market wide pricing changes and resulting margin impacts across customers and product categories.

Chesterfield, MO

• Planned and coordinated company-wide annual budget/quarterly forecast; compiled, analyzed and explained resulting financials. Primary areas of responsibility included manufacturing and distribution cost, product.
• Improved reporting accuracy by creating and implementing Hyperion/Excel templates to facilitate budgeting/forecasting process, actual results and cost reduction reporting for manufacturing locations and corporate.
• Collaborated with senior management to determine metrics that needed to be developed and implemented to help explain individual department’s monthly results.
• Responsible for financial analysis of internal capital projects and collaborated with manufacturing engineers on submission of package to senior management for approval.

Pevely, MO

• Responsible for day-to-day accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, monthly financial closing, inventory valuation, payroll, payroll taxes, and other miscellaneous filing.
• Lead team tasked with the evaluation, selection and implementation of an integrated MRP/Accounting software package
• Prepared financial reporting package for financial institutions and obtained financing for inventory purchases in order to obtain new international business
• Member of team that worked with business consultants in order to transition management to the next generation of owners