Provided comprehensive financial management and controllership to several businesses with sales over $250M by partnering with leadership to execute budgets and strategic plans to drive growth across many functions including Product and Channel Management, Business Development, and Marketing Communications, Manufacturing and Engineering.•Participated as the Lead Finance role for integration activities of an acquisition valued at $240M and the divesture of a $40M business to gain $5M bottom line savings•Managed Global Royalties / Licensee Revenues and contractual reviews totaling $22M.•Focused on E&O inventory management resulting in a 15% reduction to goal of 5% of finished goods inventory•Provided financial guidance on New Product Development to launch over 50 global programs with capital values ranging from $50K to $1.5M•Designed and maintained several SOX policies and proper internal controls with no Audit findings•Created detailed Channel P&Ls for use in vendor line reviews for all majors customers with the ability to revise on site for quicker decision making during negotiations. Allowed sales teams the ability to win several new listings at major retails such as Home Depot and Lowes.

Controllership functions for $65M expense budget to include strategic planning, budgeting, process controls, forecasting and reporting supporting the Presidents and VP of sales and their team. Managed financial staff of 3 analysts.•Drove several cost savings efforts throughout the sales organization targeting direct spend of T&E, supplies and utilities by negotiating new contracts, writing policy and procedures, and working on cross functional teams•Created detailed and summary reporting for the sales team to track and manage their budgets•Implemented new automated expense system (Concur), developed and trained a 300 member sales team•Created and maintained web based portal for sales team for all financial reports, training documents and policies

Assisted in monthly close procedures to include journal entries, balance sheet recs, sales and expense reporting. Tracked, estimated and reported controllable expenses and sales for the industrial channel of business. Managed retailer co-op advertising and rebate programs.•Developed reporting model to track co-op advertising spend•Created financial training presentations for sales team

Managed controllable spend and budgets for several claims centers. Forecasted future mental healthcare costs using IBNR modeling. Assisted in several site audits for various state run Medicare and Medicaid programs helping the company to gain the current and future contracts.

Performed all controllership and financial duties for distribution and warehouse site. Managed staff of 15 employees to include functions of A/P, A/R, Payroll, Customer Service and Cash Management. General Staff Accounting and A/R accounting functions.