William Bruyea, Mba Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

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Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

• Senior Financial Leader for the country’s largest assembly company, with 25 direct reports. ResultsThrough management of critical KPI's and strong G&A expense management have added $2 million to bottom line in 2020..
• Standardize and document accounting and payroll processes, integrate accounting system with Salesforce, update budgeting process, identify and implement new payroll system and ERP.Solutions
• Integration with Salesforce complete
• Month-end close reduced from 25 to 10 days through process improvement and training
• Accounting roles re-evaluated; work redistributed based on skill sets, and performance metrics developed
• Accounts Receivable over 60 days reduced from 27% to 2% in 4 months, improved cash flow by $1M

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Mandate
• Standardize accounting processes, integrate accounting system with Salesforce, train accounting staff, develop standard costingSolutions
• Integration with Salesforce complete
• All accounting processes evaluated, streamlined, and documented
• Accounting roles evaluated; work redistributed based on skill sets
• Developed standardized month end close process, accountabilities assigned

Los Angeles, California

• Mandate
• Standardize processes, systems, and solutions to make company scalable for 300% growth targetSolutions
• Paid down of bank Line of Credit by $1 million in 180 days by implementing Invoicing and Accounts Receivable best practices, and assigning best collection skills to reduce Accounts Receivable by 12 days
• Further lowered Line of Credit by $800k by lowering inventory levels by 20% with no impact on order fulfillment or stockouts through coordinated purchasing, review of MOQ’s, and elimination of overflow warehousing
• Outsourced IT function resulting in 40% annual IT expense savings over in-house solution
• Outsourced Accounts Payable and Order Entry overseas slashing labor costs on these functions by 50%

Dallas, Texas

• Mandate
• Assist with consolidation of Phoenix facility with Dallas plant
• Develop operational KPI’s leading to efficiencies and performance improvements
• Create tools to improve CEO decision makingSolutions
• Facility consolidation move to Dallas completed with zero downtime and 100% “on-time” customer deliveries
• Job costing, pricing initiative, and production process evaluatoin for more than 150 products resulted in gross margin improvement of 12%

Flagstaff, Arizona

• Mandate
• Development of first Strategic Plan within 12 months collaboration with CEO and Board of Directors
• Implement and streamline financial and operational processes in a political environment with 7 unrelated businesses, no standard chart of accounts or systems, and minimal technology budget
• Evaluate and reduce organizational risk
• Implement consolidated budget for 7 lines of business
• Shorten month-end reporting from current 45 daysSolutions

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Majors: Accounting, Operations, Strategic Planning

The Beacom School of Business at USD is an Internationally Accredited business school under AACSB and is ranked by U.S. News higher than.

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Project Management Certification

B.A. (Honors), Business Administration, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Member of marching band The University of Western Ontario is considered the Harvard of Canada due to its use of.