Plant Manager

Rodrigo L Menino

Address: ** ********* ***, ************, ** – 06109 * Phone 267-***-**** * Email: *******.******@**.***

Education

Drexel University, Lebow Business School, Philadelphia, PA May 2006

BS, International Business, Marketing Minor, GPA 3.9/4.0 - Summa Cum laude

Employment History

General Electric Company, Consumer & Industrial, Plainville, CT

FP&A - Manufacturing Supply Chain April 2008 - Present

Responsible for preparing financial forecasts and conducting monthly/quarterly variance analysis of operational, BS

accounts and key productivity metrics. Recommend business decisions based on trend analysis and market conditions.

Closely work with the operational team to drive cost out effort through variable cost productivity analysis and deflation

efforts. Support the team to drive cost out behavior with information based on financial results.

General Electric Company, Consumer & Industrial, Plainville, CT

Project Finance Mgr –Restructuring February 2008 – August 2008

Managed a $17MM restructuring project. Performed daily tracking of cost to meet quarter targets as well as overall project

budget. Analyzed project benefits ($11MM yearly) and completed payback analysis through major points of the project.

Created a process to transfer the P&E ($10MM) and inventory ($3.5MM) cross multiple locations/ledger and business

entities. Maintained P&E lists and depreciation schedules during the entire dissolution process. Managed the surplus

equipment disposition/auction driving an income gain greater then $0.4MM.

General Electric Company, Consumer & Industrial, Plainville, CT

Plant Finance Manager August 2007 – February 2008

Controlled the financial planning and results for a $23MM (Cost basis) GE chemical plant. Worked directly with the

operations team to drive productivity gains, targeting production level load, inventory rightsizing, labor reductions, external

material deflation and base cost cutbacks. Introduce new and improved financial modeling for forecasting and

standardization of reporting results.

General Electric Company, Consumer & Industrial, Cleveland, OH

Plant Finance Analyst February 2007 – August 2007

Assumed responsibility for analyzing and reporting financial results of the Plainville plant ($60MM top line). Lead the team

to operationalize the financial plan driving variable cost productivity and base cost reductions. Drove continuous process

improvement to track and control indirect costs through bullet train efforts. Provided controllership through reconciliation of

Balance Sheet accounts and practice of de-capitalization of non-compliant P&E.

General Electric Company, Consumer & Industrial, Plainville, CT

Cost Accounting Analyst Finance August 2006 – February 2007

Responsible for cost standards accuracy for 3 different manufacturing plants. Coordinated the surplus/deficit reconciliation

of a $12MM inventory balance resulting in a $1MM over costing throwback. Performed analysis of drivers of standard

material price variances for multiple plants. Involved in calculating internal profit elimination according to GAAP rules,

FIFO, and year-end standards change.

Corporate Training

PFLP (Plant Finance Leadership Program) Graduate July 2008

* Two year accelerated program, including four job rotations every six months

Foundations of GE Leadership August 2007

Six Sigma Certification - Green Belt June 2008

Evolutionary Leader-Leveraging the times April 2009

Accomplishments & Recognitions

Rewards

Managerial Award 2008 - Plainville Plant Closing Project

Managerial Award 2009 - Headcount Control

Projects

Participated in two international audit teams (along side KPMG) responsible for assessing inventory processes for a GE

Motors plant in Brazil and a GE Electrical Distribution plant in Puerto Rico with $25MM and $3.6MM of inventory on hand,

respectively. Took major steps in improving inventory processes driving US GAAP compliance in the Brazilian plant by

coaching physical inventory processes mimicking US procedures.

Took major role in the capitalization of engineering effort compensation driving $0.5MM of operational margin, while

creating a sound, GAAP compliant, tracking model for accounting reconciliation purposes.

Compliance

Ensured regular adherence and compliance to all financial and EHS policies. Participated in EHS councils and enforced

sound EHS practices at the plant level. Also prepared balance sheet account reconciliations driving 800K of aging

balances throwback.

Coordinated the 2009 fixed asset inventory for all US/MX (maquiladoras) locations (>25 locations in total). Total FC cost

value of ~$316MM and NBV of ~$57.2MM.

Leadership

Daily mentoring of plant finance managers and FP&A managers on systems and business metrics.

Briefly acted as the finance manager for the Plainville plant with $60MM of top line a year.

Constant interaction with executive-level management.

The go-to person for PF&A/controllership related concerns.

Hyperion Smart View for Office trainer- helped train all Supply chain finance team.

Languages

English (Fluent) and Portuguese (Fluent)

Strengths

Imagination - Understand and identify business challenges and drive change and resolution.

Expertise - Strong technical skills in financial systems. Used as a team resource for systems fixes and training.

External Focus - FP&A roles provides awareness to big picture business environment, and internal customers; Share

knowledge of customer’s needs/wants and market conditions with managers.

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