Mundelein, Illinois, United States
Proactive finance leader with deep expertise in forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and accounting for both large and mid-sized companies. Proven ability to deliver timely financial analysis and insights, enabling upper management to make strategic decisions. Highly disciplined and skilled at managing multiple priorities effectively under tight deadlines.
• Responsible for overseeing plant accounting and finance operations across three U.S. business units, with a combined revenue of $80 million. • Delivered comprehensive financial reporting to the Executive Management Group, encompassing budgets, strategic plans, forecasts, and monthly results analysis. • Manage project accounting which includes job cost tracking, work-in-progress reporting, and revenue recognition for contracts. • Instituted a real-time forecasting model that provides an accurate prediction of daily revenue numbers. • Implemented a new inventory policies and procedures for physical and cycle counts for manufacturing plants.
• Oversee the monthly close process of a $200M segment. Manage the consolidation and accounting for 20 plants in a Shared Service Accounting Group. • Prepare, review and analyze monthly consolidated financial statements, providing variance explanations to Upper Management. • Responsible for the sales and personal property tax reporting within the segment. • Part of a team that successfully implemented processes and controls to make the company SOX compliant.
• Responsible for the monthly consolidation and review of financial results of a $600M reporting segment consisting of 23 Domestic and Foreign Business Units. • Played a major role in creation and review of the Yearly Plans and Quarterly Forecasts. Provide guidance and support to the Business Units Leaders during this process. • Implemented a weekly revenue flash process to provide Senior Management current sales information. • Created a SharePoint site to provide better communication and easier transfer of information between Platform and Business Units.
• Accountable for financial statement generation, analysis and budgeting for business units across the corporation and the presentation of results to Senior Management. • Team member that coordinated and developed on the successful conversion to a unified set of financial statements after the merger with the Mead Corporation. • Supported the marketing and selling groups on pricing projects and the maximizing of product margins. • Team lead in the conversion of cost centers from Oracle to SAP. Developed a new cost center structure and naming convention within SAP. • Financial lead on restructuring projects that included the closing of a facility and reductions in staff. • Provide department heads in-depth analysis and monitoring of their expenses. • Assist human resources on the development and calculation of employee bonus and compensation plans. • Green Belt member of the ACCO developed Lean Six Sigma initiative. Member of a project that helped restructure our payables process and generate yearly savings of $264K. • Responsible for management and development of a Financial Analyst within the department. • Tracked and analyzed direct import sales and margin profitability.
• Assisted with the building of the forecasting and planning group in the newly formed Mosaic Company. • Responsible for the consolidation of annual budgets, bi-monthly forecasts, and strategic plans at a corporate level. • Analyzed and provided an overview of the budget and forecast information to both senior management and the board of directors. • Provided information and support for senior management on a range of projects. A few of these projects included debt tracking, competitor analysis, cash forecasting, and capital project review. • Consolidated and provided analysis for monthly and quarterly income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements for management. • Assisted with the preparation of 10-Q’s, 10-K’s, and the yearly annual report. • Compiled statistical information for U.S Government reports and was the primary contact for inquiries.