William Bitzer Email & Phone Number

Macedonia, Ohio, United States

Great Day Improvements, LLC – Macedonia, OH – 2015 to 2022.Controller:• Scaled infrastructure for growth - 12 locations in 2015 to 69 locations 2022, with minimal staff growth.• Led all daily accounting and treasury activities to ensure accurate and timely monthly financial statements,• Monthly branch performance reviews, full balance sheet account reconciliations, and in depth quarterly accruals reviews to adjust revenue / cost expectations to market conditions,• Culminated in annual audit completed timely and with no adjustments in 2021. • Monitored daily processes to identify internal control issues. • Supervised asset acquisitions from capital budgeting, through to the recording in fixed asset manager. • Provided extensive support, process solutions, and documentation for pre and post acquisitions activity.Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable: • Managed corporate and direct-to-consumer (DTC) receivables through high level analysis, unique reporting, and forming strong personal relationships with branch collection’s personnel.• Supervised A/P team in a centralized model serving 77 locations utilizing completed contract accounting. Banking & Consumer Financing: • Managed day to day banking relationships (2) and assisted with the transition to new a banking partner.Payroll: • Supervised & monitored all hourly, salary, and bonus payments to ensure the integrity of coding, and labor costs in order to accurately calculate job profitability and create a basis for standards. • Supervised biweekly commissions payments and the execution of Salesman Accountable Plan.• Prepared and executed annual 401(k) audits. Inventory / Manufacturing: • Compiled wages, burden, and benefits to calculate job specific labor rates / standards by branch. Insurance: • Executed company wide insurance programs including Workers Compensation (both monopolistic and private insurers), Property & Casualty, General Liability, and Automobile – including most acquisitions.

Newbury, Oh 44065

Plant Manager: Plant Manager/Logistics Manager:• Baseline capacity: 6.25 experienced FTE’s producing average of 45K lbs. per month. • Fabricated stands and monopole attachments; occasionally monopoles and A-Frames. • Utilized 40% of production floor space.• Ending capacity: 23 FTE’s / monthly output 250K lbs. - 268% labor growth vs 456% output improvement.• Fabricated A-frames, stands, static masts, communications infrastructure (monopoles, disguised towers, disguised monopoles), H-frames, and directly embedded structures introducing the application and utilization of Corrocote protection. • Utilized 90% of the production floor space.• Planned and executed the above through planning, recruitment, training, and leadership.• Implemented product transportation program to utilize galvanizing services en route to final destination - increased production window available, reduced shipping costs, and improved the profitability of the job.

Newbury, Oh

Controller:• Supervised, executed monthly/annual close, prepared internal benchmark and bank financial statements.• Managed daily cash flows, accounts receivable, job costing, accounts payable, payroll, and inventory.• Provided strategic planning to reorganize shop floor roles, realigning critical processes, and information requirements to transition an outsourced manufacturing model to an integrated local fabrication operation. • Successfully transitioned the reorganization planning and early execution to become Plant Manager.By bridging the gap between the office and production floor to gather information of the economic transactions of our fabrication, we modeled this data. Considered the framework and knowledge of the current processes that were available to determine if an internal production model was feasible. Once feasibility was determined, we initiated the transition of systems to move from an outsourced subcontracted process to an in-house manufacturing model.

Shaker Heights, Oh

Supervised accounting, service contracts, budgeting, reporting, treasury, and the facilities operations of a 45 student therapeutic preschool / kindergarten and 150 outpatient mental health clinic with a total staff of 57. Provided the operating and financial data necessary for effective major gift proposals, donor relations, and stewardship.

Cleveland, Oh

Served as liaison to Finance and Treasury Departments for all organizational initiatives, responsible for all revenue and pledge reporting in Oracle Financials, prepared all capital budgets documenting surpluses and deficits. Provided financial logistics support for on-site and off-site fund raising events. Established a system to classify all pledges by restriction, conditionality, aging, and discounting, with the collection probability of each pledge evaluated and quantified as a reserve. Provided fund information for donor stewardship.

Garrettsville, Oh

Restructured $2 million of distressed personal and corporate debt simultaneously with multiple banks.

Solon, Oh

Controller/ Site Manager:• Supervised all aspects of job cost reporting, financial statement preparation, and applicable audit schedules.• Implemented a management program, which increased interest income by more than $50,000 annually. • Served as construction site manager, ordering and receiving job materials and scheduling subcontractors.• Negotiated with resident engineers monthly progress billings – creating, finalizing and submitting.

Cleveland, Oh

Performed all audit tasks, supervised physical inventories, and performed specialized projects for clients as directed. Installed and implemented accounting packages, computer networks, and remote communications systems which were chosen after completing an industry overview and a very detailed individual client needs assessment.