SUMMARY:

• Professional financial leader skilled at contributing valued services and guidance to businesses seeking to realize maximum profit potential while maintaining full compliance with stakeholder expectations.
• A proven mentor with strong communication skills who produces beyond expected results in P&L optimization, financial planning & analysis, cost accounting and Controller roles managing general ledgers, payroll, accounts payable and accounts receivable with experience using multiple financial systems.
• Responsible for the site’s financial operations including reporting and analysis of operational performance. Leading the monthly closing process from scheduling through reporting of monthly results to multiple stakeholders within the plant and the Americas finance team.
• Preparing daily, weekly and monthly reporting using key performance indicators in a standard cost environment utilizing an SAP general ledger system.
• Manages an effective financial control environment that safeguards plant assets and minimizes risk.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implementing SAP system upgrade to bank financial systems as part of the project team.
• This bank wide system change will affect all general ledger, AP and fixed asset accounting practices.
• My primary role involved decomposing Regulatory, SEC and internal management reports to define data fields and sources of information required to build the next generation of Confidential Analyzer based reporting processes.

Sr. Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided value added support to the Confidential during the phased implementation of Confidential, a data warehouse project supplying consistent regulatory required data across the bank’s varied lines of business.
• The Financial Management External Reporting ( Confidential ) project utilizes current software tools (MicroStrategy) to access detailed financial records required to meet increasing regulatory demands for bank financial data.
• My primary roles were facilitating successful system audits and driving completion of the UAT (User Acceptance Testing) process.
• The project was successfully completed on time and on budget.

Confidential

Vice President, Associate Director - Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Obtained successful audit results on all client contract compliance and Confidential corporate internal control audits over life of the account.
• Managed account P&L to above target profit while mentoring business line leaders on cost management and Confidential PeopleSoft finance system cycles.
• Trained the financial staff on the decentralized account level JD Edwards financial system.

Vice President, Associate Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led annual budget preparation and quarterly reporting processes for the global account in concert with evolving client requirements.
• Prepared and built consensus agreement for tracking of financial performance data vs. contractual targets as input to Quarterly Business Reviews. Confidential fee was dependent on this client approved performance.
• Developed financial commentary and variance analysis in a globally consistent format for monthly report to client; coordinated gathering of world wide EssBase financial inputs from regional teams.

Director of Accounting & Finance

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Owned the operation, staffing and development of the Confidential finance organization to meet client’s needs at optimal cost.
• Implemented Confidential financial and accounting policies. Developed account specific policies for the financial and project management organizations consistent with Sarbanes-Oxley documentation.
• Developed annual budgets, monthly forecasts and analyzed variances for Confidential IT and Facilities functions while identifying opportunities to improve cost performance.
• Forecasted and controlled financial plan for $60 million in annual facilities spending across 20+ electronics manufacturing sites in the Americas, from Brazil to Canada.
• Educated functional staffs on company policy for capital planning, budgeting, purchasing and control practices.
• Utilized FourthShift as general ledger tool and Ariba AP / Payroll software.
• Established global standards for reporting IT cost trends with common chart of accounts and reporting formats on a monthly basis. Created metrics to evaluate performance across multiple sites.
• Drove cost reduction process for Confidential Information Technology function across eighteen sites and the region staff.
• Co-authored ERP deployment budget for newly acquired manufacturing facility.
• Managed IT capital spending to budget of $3 million in four-month implementation window.

Program Manager

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Managed customer focus team ( Confidential ) responsible for total customer satisfaction in the areas of quality, delivery, communication, service and technical support.
• Improved tactical performance metrics for delivery and quality to level that facilitated the purchase of customer’s manufacturing capacity and Solectron’s ownership of the next step in value chain.
• Facilitated the transfer of customer’s entire circuit board manufacturing capacity of over 400 products with annual sales of $50M.
• Accomplished this objective in less than nine months.

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and analyzed weekly income statements and operational efficiency metrics for multiple business units.
• Presented results each week to site management and the business unit customer focus teams with quarterly presentations to corporate staff.
• Implemented financial planning process in business unit leading to improved profitability.
• Accomplished this by focusing business team on break-even point and efficiency levels required to achieve sustainable profit.