Thomas H. Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Georgia, US

During my tenure at Cognia, Inc., I played a pivotal role in various projects and initiatives that significantly enhanced the company's financial operations and overall efficiency. Consistent track record of driving process improvement, managing complex projects, and leveraging technology to enhance financial operations. My time at Cognia, Inc. was marked.

Tucker, Georgia, US

Brill Inc.Work on the Commercial Finance Team for Brill Inc over $700 Million Dollar Revenue Business on the Pricing Analysis Team. I was hired to improve our ability to analyze historic data and current trends for setting the best pricing for Contribution Margin and Gross Profit growth. Additionally used the new analytics to set pricing for our customers.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Member of Finance and Cash Management Team within Georgia Pacific’s Treasury Department. $19 Billion Dollar Revenue Business with a Treasury Team managing $3 Billion Dollars in working capital. I was hired to take over.
• Managed day to day activity with Kyriba Cash Management tool, ensuring all wire payments were successful and that bank communication to the platform was functioning.
• Worked with our banking partners to implement new banking instruments to improve our processes, save money and enable us to better manage our working capital across GP’s businesses.
• Improved the Wire process at GP in regard to the Wire Request and Approval workflow, moving the process from an internal legacy system to a scoped version of Service Now (SN). Researched different software solutions.
• Process automation using Automation Anywhere, a Robotic Process Automation tool. Designed and automated several processes within Treasury department. Created a tool using Automation Anywhere to read our utility.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Finance Manager within the Mueller Water Finance Department responsible for Sales and Marketing. MWP is a $826 Million Revenue business. Brought on to take over the managing of the Sales and Marketing Analysis for MWP.
• Redesigned the monthly and quarterly Orders Forecast between the different Value Streams and Sales Teams to enact a better overall forecast process using certaing key Economic Macros and Pricing Analyss
• Managed to decrease the overall time taken to run the Orders Forecast on a monthly basis just three business days from two weeks
• Provide key analysis to important customers, mainly sales, to help support and respond to business opportunities and decisions
• Process improvement to our Business Intelligence(BI) platform to provide better and more timely analysis to our customers
• Design, build and maintain longterm economic models for the company for long term strategic forecasting

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Member of HD Supply Facilities Maintenance(FM) FP&A Team. FM is a $1 billion business. Brought on to help migrate FM business from San Diego, CA to Atlanta, GA. Primary focus was to take ownership of SAP BPC Reporting.
• Traveled to San Diego for 6 months to facilitate transfer of FM business to Atlanta
• BPC lead administrator for ERP system for all of FM reporting and financials.
• Process improvement to BPC close process, initially a 2.5 hour process for every system download from SAP BI, reduced to under 5 minutes. Allowing faster updates to the system and more timely analysis for month end.
• Support and train new employees on the use of BPC, BI, and Longview
• Led a 6 month project to update and repair our BPC platform due to an incomplete implementation. Worked with iTelligence (SAP Consulting firm) and updated the entire architecture of the system to improve performance to.

New York, NY, US

• Member of Navision IT Accounting Support team for Greystone Inc. Managing tickets from different accounting departments from Greystone Property and Healthcare for Navision issues, system updates, and consolidations..
• Collaborated with a team of 3 to build and maintain the internal architecture of corporate structure, within Navision, for monthly consolidations and reporting.
• Handle tickets from Account departments from Greystone Property and Healthcare for Navision support with quick response and resolution to the problem; most tickets resolved in less than 10 minutes.
• Create and maintain financial reports pull data from Navision for management and executive reporting
• Support and train new employees on the use of Navision and JET Reporting for their everyday use in their positions
• For annual IT meeting presented, to the executives of Greystone, a product(FireEye) to increase our security against zero-day cyber attacks and protect our financial information and personnel information

Alpharetta, GA, US

• Member of Global Finance/Accounting Consolidation Team for an international grid textile corporation. Responsible for the consolidation of East and West sectors of Tensar. Database administrator for Khalix, Global ERP.
• Active member of the corporate consolidation team as the lead financial analyst performing numerous traditional accounting and financial duties for the monthly close.
• Prepare and maintain tools for analysis and reports used by management for results evaluation
• Maintenance of Khalix accounting system to ensure an efficient working system and ease of access for global users
• Provide service to global users to troubleshot errors on a daily basis.
• Work closely with external auditors during annual audit of financial statements and testing of the accounting system (KPMG and EY)

Munich, DE

• Financial Analyst for Performance Controlling. Managing Financial Database systems and automate lagging closing processes. Consolidating multiple reporting systems for Financial Reporting and analysis, as well as ERP.
• Cost Center Reporting and Controlling, create and manage Cost Center Reports as well as facilitate meetings with Cost Center Owners to control costs and deal with any one time substantial expenses.
• Corporate Allocation of Headquarter SGA costs out to different divisional businesses that fall under SII
• Reporting to Siemens AG ERP system, of Global Infrastructure Costs (GICC), for a top level view of the infrastructure(Headcount and management costs) of SII Headquarter costs
• Manage and maintain Hyperion legacy database systems to ensure system integrity and accuracy to local reporting systems to ensure accurate reporting
• Maintain and create Executive level reporting viewed by CEO and CFO regarding HQ costs

Forchheim, DE

Hired into short-term contract analyst position performing complex database migration and analysis of depreciation for diagnostic medical equipment. * Praised for high level of productivity, accuracy and attention to detail.* Instrumental in locating several million dollars of unaccounted demo/trial assets (equipment). * Manage running amortization of.

Recruited to assist new ownership of health club facility on short-term basis to develop structured accounting processes and provide guidance to less experienced staff. * Managed daily sales receipts, accounts payable, and updated missing information/errors in QuickBooks ensuring smooth transition to internal accounting.

Forchheim, DE

* Edited SOX forms documenting corporate controls passing audit on initial review. * Conducted Cost Center Head Count Reconciliation due to organizational restructuring ensuring proper budgetary appropriations. * Accurately forecasted Reagent sales.

Bs, Accounting

Business Administration, Computer Science