Thomas Kaiser Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Manage Philadelphia Plant Finance, Inventory, Raw Material purchasing, Receiving, and Information Management Systems(non-financial audits: ISO, FSSC & Safety Certifications)
• Prepare annual business plan, monthly close/reporting/financial analysis and rolling forecast for two manufacturing plants, Philadelphia, PA and Moorestown, NJ, producing 31MM cases
• Present annual business plan to Owners and CFO and report monthly financial results to Corporate Controller and Senior Financial Management
• Assist with Plant Financial audits, Internal and External
• Prepare Capital justification analysis for Senior management-ROI, NPV, Payback
• Responsible for continuous improvement using brain storming, root cause analysis and DMAIC principals saving thousands (e.g. CO2 usage, ingredient & package yields, line efficiency impr.)

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Support two manufacturing plants, Philadelphia, PA and Moorestown, NJ, producing 30MM cases
• Prepare annual business plan, 3 Year plan, monthly financial analysis and weekly forecast
• Improving both plants efficiencies by leading EJT (Excellence Journey Toolkit) and Total Product Manufacturing
• Successfully manage multiple positions (SOEL, Finance, Environmental, Planet Team-energy/water)
• Responsible for continuous improvement using Root Cause Analysis and DMAIC principals (lean), saving thousands (e.g. electricity usage, package yields, pallets, ingredient yields)
• Lead team that successfully passed Coke safety and environmental audits and 14001 ISO (environmental) certification audit

Upstate NY And Eastern PA

• Responsible for nine distribution centers, from Harrisburg, PA to Albany, NY, with $330M in sales
• Prepared annual $74 million OPEX Business Plan for Sales, Warehouse/Distribution, and Admin
• Headed team that implemented a policy to manage $1 million "Point of Sale" expenditures
• Saved over $100,000 in OPEX spending providing key metrics, visibility to detail & regular review
• Supported Region Finance Manager, and Vice Presidents of Sales and Warehouse/Distribution
• Travel 60%

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Responsible for all product costing for a $300 million sale facility
• Assisted team that implemented a Consolidation & Reporting-budgeting/forecasting system
• Supported Director of Finance, Vice Presidents of Finance, Production, and Logistics & Warehouse
• Analyzed freight costs associated with purchasing products vs. manufacturing and implemented recommendations resulting in annual savings of $1.5 million
• Implemented Finance department cross training to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Performed multi-million dollar new product cost scenarios

West Berlin, NJ

• Responsible for accounting, finance, treasury and legal functions
• Coordinated external audits and reviews
• Assisted in negotiation of outlet store and new administrative office leases

Moorestown, NJ

• Assistant Controller-Ideal (3/2001-6/2007)
• Oversaw three foreign locations (Belgium, Italy and Singapore) and one domestic
• Direct report to the Divisional Vice President of Finance
• Managed 11 employees, 5 direct (domestic) and 6 indirect (overseas)
• Headed team that hired a freight audit service to audit and pay $4.5 million in annual freight billing
• Reduced monthly average cash held outside the US from over $1 million to $.4 million