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Location:
Milwaukee, WI
Posted:
February 13, 2014

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Financial Executive

ALAN HAWTHORNE

*** ********* ******, *********, ** 40601

859-***-****(h) . accnwj@r.postjobfree.com . 502-***-**** (c)

Hands on, results driven CFO with deep experience in international

manufacturing looking for a challenging opportunity with a growing company.

. Financial reporting and analysis; advanced costing; financial modeling

& analysis; budgeting; treasury/cash management; KPI performance

analysis; and risk management.

- A passionate people person and dynamic manager heavily involved

throughout the enterprise, building relationships from the board room

throughout the organization.

Instrumental in the successful 6-year turnaround from loss of $5M to nearly

4-fold gains to $14M in net income, breaking even in one year, and doubling

income 3 years straight.

Proven expertise and leadership in -

V Accounting Full P&L, Reporting, Analysis, Policy & Practice

Development

V Finance Cash Management, Bank Relations, Budgeting, Forecasting

V Information Technology Infrastructure, Application Development, Help

Desk

V Human Resources Compliance, Risk Management,

Payroll & Benefit Administration

V J-Sox Compliance Policy Manuals, Process

Narratives, Key Controls, Weaknesses

V Lean Manufacturing Champion of Japanese

Management Techniques, i.e., Hoshin Kanri, PDCA,

Kaizen

V Gov/DOD Contractor All government reporting

and auditing requirements

Additional Core Competencies

ERP Implementations . Key Performance Metrics or Indicators . Risk & Crisis

Management . Legal & Environmental Matters . Customer Relations . IT

Operations . Financial Reporting & Analysis . HR Policies/Procedures .

Budget Analysis & Forecasting . Cost/Price Modeling . Banking . Purchasing

. Payroll . Intranet . Roadmaps/Dashboards . Fraud Detection . PowerPoint

Presentations . Land Purchase . Union Environments

Overview

. Gained unique perspective in sector having worked on the floor of several

plants to learn production up close, which aided in building product from

the inside and creating a superior budgeting and forecasting system.

. Known for creating environments conducive to making improvements that

deliver efficiencies that yield cost reductions, setting the gold

standard for KPI.

. Key role in the completion of three ERP implementations including user

training, two of which had previously failed.

. Completed 4 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) implementations in a single

year, leading to becoming part of 80% of customers to effectively

differentiate and beat competition.

. Gives extensive 2 hour, 140-page PowerPoint presentations to Japanese

audiences with great effectiveness.

Hallmarks Of Leadership - Analytical, decisive, competitive.

V A compassionate, empathic people person with an uncompromising work ethic

and a relentless drive to win and a transparent leadership policy

V A passionate team player, coach and mentor, down-to-earth manager

undaunted by stress and deadline who involves everyone, communicates

openly and breaks down silos.

V Readily establishes trust and respect from unions, peers, employees,

managers, foreign and domestic clients, who closely aligns with company

president

V Great understanding of risk management and compliance (legal, tax, audit,

etc.)

V Ability to turn around cross-cultural disunity, enabling outsiders to fit

in, including a company president from Japan after acquisition.

Select Achievements

. Instrumental in the successful 6-year turnaround from loss of $5M to

nearly 4-fold gains of 380% to $14M in net income

. Broke even in one year, increased by $5M one year later, doubled year

after that. Doubled income 3 years straight

. Co-created and managed a four-year Cost Reduction Project by reducing

labor costs and SG&A expenses, and improving material prices

. Improved cash flow by reducing past due A/R by $2.6M

. Reduced aged Inventory by $2.1M and Long Term Debt by $9M

. Directed implementation of new ERP system - Infor Visual Manufacturing

(2004)

. Directed implementation of new ERP system - Microsoft Dynamics AX

(2012)

. Implemented a new financial reporting package based on KPI metrics

and new operational reporting, which streamlined the financial

closing process from 11 to 4 days

. Introduced innovative full contour shrink sleeve labels for food and

beverage, which picked up 34% of the North American market in shrink

sleeves, for major accounts such as Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Dannon

. Instrumental in the complete two-year financial turnaround featuring cost

reductions totaling $1.5M that produced savings of $400k from labor,

$500k from inventory, $150k from supplies, and $550k through reorganizing

purchasing

. Streamlined financial close time by two-thirds from 15 to 5 days and

reduced audit and review fees by preparing required work internally

. Directed implementation of new ERP system (Mapics), and a Human

Resource Information System

. Directed the full utilization of Hoshin Kanri Lean techniques

. Achieved a turnaround in which main customer was Toyota and company lost

money three years straight, and increased profits by $1.2M and cash flow

by $1.7M without increasing sales

. Key initial phase and planning role in launching a plant in Mexico from

the ground up

. Saved Mobile Tech $1.2M over three years through redesigning fixed asset

systems to value assets not depreciated for the IRS

Career History

Southern Air Holdings and Subsidiaries, Florence KY

Feb 2013 - Present

$440M Air Cargo service provider with 700 total employees.

Controller

American Fuji Seal, Inc., Bardstown KY 2004 - Feb2013

$380M Japanese manufacturer of shrink sleeve label products with 600 total

employees.

Chief Financial Officer

Louisville Forge & Gear (aka Aichi Steel) Georgetown KY 2001 - 2004

$120M Japanese manufacturer in automotive industry with 540 total

employees.

Financial Director/Controller

Leggett & Platt, Inc., Winchester KY 1999 - 2001

Division Controller (KY, OH, TN, IN)

Earlier Positions

President - Hawthorne & Associates, CPA, CIA, Huntington WV (1991 - 1999)

Senior Internal Auditor - Ashland Oil, Inc., Ashland KY (1986 - 1991)

Senior Auditor - Somerville & Company, CPA's, Huntington WV (1984 - 1986)

Education & Development

Bachelor of Arts, Accounting, 1984 - Marshall University, Huntington, WV

Professional Licensure and Affiliations

. Certified Public Accountant (inactive)

. Certified Internal Auditor (inactive)

. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

. Institute of Certified Internal Auditors

. Kentucky Colonel



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