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Okmulgee, Oklahoma, US

Leading Finance and IT Organization at Private Equity owned 350MM+ Innio Waukesha Engines. Transforming a former General Electric functional finance organization into a customer, accountability and process driven, agile organization. Building up the resources to operate as a standalone company without global shared service centers. Reshaping the team and.

Advise senior leadership on company best practices, industry trends and business optimization as part of global centralization effort culminating in Germany.ABOUT HUS: HUS is a sales and service provider of prepress, press, post-press and digital printing equipment and software and a privately-held subsidiary of Heidelberg Americas, Inc. and Heidelberger.

• Full P&L role directing Consumables business for U.S., Mexico, Canada and Brazil.
• Developed country-specific business strategy and agility-driven implementation plan, resulting in sales turnaround from 8% decline into 3% YOY growth, improved profitability by 7% and gained market share in 5%.
• Defined and executed new go-to-market approach and data-driven sales strategy that increased average sales-per-sales-head by $800k+ per year. Transitioned up to 70% of sales into eCommerce and customer base from 80%.
• Built Telesales through internal and external resources, delivering 2% sales growth in first year.
• Established Customer and Product Profitability Improvement program that delivered 3% margin gain.
• Improved Net Working Capital by 30% while. Increased on-time delivery from 80% to 98%+.

• Reporting to the Group CFO in Germany and dotted line to the GM - US, oversaw Finance, HR, Legal, IT, Order Management, Procurement, Logistic and Used Equipment functions as Corporate Officer of U.S. subsidiary of HDM.
• Led restructuring and successful 18-month turnaround. Reduced total company costs by 30%, saving the company millions with no impact to quality or customer satisfaction. Decreased company footprint and centralized.
• Actively managed Working Capital to free company of debt, generating significant free cash flow. Reduced dependency on cyclical equipment business.
• Established centralized Procurement & Logistics department that delivered annual savings through leveraged purchase power and Hub & Spoke inventory management and purchasing system.
• Engaged Financial Services and Sales Management to investigate and resolve major financing portfolio issue. Established new credit rules for customers with poor credit, involved Sales in collection process and reduced.
• Effectively navigated volatile industry through implementation of BI tool and Customer Cockpit dashboard. Engaged SAP and third-party information to develop value and data-driven customer insights.

Heidelberg, DE

Initiated career at Heidelberg in the Corporate Controlling function. Gained a series of promotions leading to Senior Vice President, Corporate Controlling, in 2000. Transferred to Atlanta, GA in 2002 to serve as Chief Financial Officer, Americas.ABOUT HDM AG:HDM AG is a $2.8 billion, publicly-traded developer, manufacturer and service provider of.