QUALIFICATIONS

Finance professional with more than 12 years of experience with Fortune 100 consumer product companies within the manufacturing operations finance, corporate finance, & logistics areas. Extensive experience in all aspects of manufacturing/distribution costing, inventory control, period end close, financial reporting, P/L management, finance operations, KPI creation and analysis, project management, & SAP system implementations.

EXPERIENCE

Stanley Black & Decker: Danbury, CT -North America Industrial Division Plant Controller 2016 - Present

Lead and coordinate the financial close and reporting for 3 manufacturing facilities, 2 outsourced operations and 2 distribution centers. Estimated cumulative yearly gross revenue from these operations is circa $200MM

Key member of process/cost savings initiative team, leveraging my previous LEAN and Six Sigma experience.

Responsible for manufacturing KPI reporting and analysis to Sr. leadership at SB&D.

Coordination & creation of monthly manufacturing financial package.

Noor Associates & RH Management Resources: -Manufacturing Finance Consultant 2015 - 2016

Tracked and maintained spend against strategic initiative funds (SIF)

Reported to Sr. management on SIF spend with customers and payback analysis

Had overall responsibility of P/L from gross sales through COGS for the Pepsi/Unilever partnership

FAL Foods USA: Astoria, NY -Corporate/Plant Controller 2014 - 2015

Managed profit & loss variance analysis, balance sheet health, cash flows, funding management & reporting

Reconciled multi company legal entity consolidated financial statements and tax returns.

Manage department of 3, enabled and coached team to achieve strategic goals and process improvements.

Reported directly to the CEO & was a key member of the Sr. management team.

Created manufacturing standards this included setting up the material master and creating material standard costs including material usage rates for variable labor, depreciation and fixed factory overheads.

Nestle Waters North America (NWNA): Stamford, CT 2005 - 2014

NWNA is a $4.2 billion division of Nestle Corp. (27 production facilities and over 100 branches/warehouses)

Financial Services Operations Manager (’09 – ’14)

Lead multi functional teams through period end close process improvement initiatives. This was done utilizing many LEAN & Six Sigma tools as well as teaching DMAIC approach to problem solving

Point of contact for financial operations during two {tea} mergers/acquisitions

Managed the development of automatic general ledger account mapping for all purchase card transactions, this greatly reduced 1200 employees work effort as well as increased P/L reporting accuracy.

Worked with internal compliance team as well as external auditors regarding all financial operations processes, controls, segregation of duties and any issue resolutions or plans of action that were required.

I was the lead business partner for the customs compliance audits that Nestle Waters went through in 2012 - 2013.

Reported on key measures to business stakeholders DPO, DSI, working capital and cash discounts earned.

Developed goods receipt/invoice receipt verification reporting. Worked with NBS to deliver this new reporting to the multiple Nestle operating companies in the US and Canada (Circa $30 billion gross sales between them.)

Financial Services Supply Chain Lead (’07 – ’09)

Responsible for yearly planning standard costing process which included all aspects of production usage variance, bill of material review, and COGS variance analysis for all 28 NWNA manufacturing locations in the US and Canada.

Stabilized Nestles’ SAP custom distribution costing model for wide spread implementation in other Nestle markets around the world. (NWNA was the testing division for the custom solution.)

Managed the development of an Excel/Essbase reporting tool for supply chain management to compare Cost Center Accounting (CCA) plan to actual spend month over month and year over year utilizing BW/BEX analyzer.

Achieved process improvements by working cross functionally with multiple areas in support of corporate accounting, retail accounting, business planning, accounting operations and all internal finance teams.

Finance and Control SAP Implementation Super User (’05 - ’07)

Managed team that developed a new reporting tool which enabled the supply chain operations team to apply actual production and white collar costs down to product groups by production location

Automated a number of manual time-consuming period end close journal entries and corresponding reconciliations to reduce the supply chain period end close process from 4 days to a 3 day period end close.

Was a key member of the Nestle global business excellence team as a FICO subject matter expert (SME)

Developed a new period end close calendar and benchmarked activities and their dependencies

Various Companies: -Plant Operations Finance Consultant 2003 - 2005

Set up purchasing procedures based on business practices & policies to more efficiently utilize SAP

Communicated with 3rd party vendors concerning changes due to automated payment system implementations.

Maintained and updated product std. costing for manufactured products within the facility

Enhanced payroll function utilizing the Kronos payroll package by updating employee settings in an effort to limit maintenance and payment errors

Automated the fixed asset process and implemented changes that made the process more efficient

Set up reconciliation process for tax purposes between the fixed asset classifications and the G/L

Automated fixed asset depreciation process through the use of modifications implemented into the companies Navision system & a Navision supported macro program. This program saved between 40-60 man hrs per month during the closing process throughout the finance and accounting areas

Partnered with IT to express ideas and have a clear understanding of the current objectives in looking at new tools/system developments

Diageo: Stamford, CT 2001 - 2003

Diageo (Guinness/UDV) is the worlds’ largest spirits distributor they are one of the most profitable companies in the world on an operating profit percentage basis.

Sr. Financial Analyst-Inventory/Co-Packing (’02 - ’03)

Supply financial support for the supply chain operations team concerning all manufacturing at 3rd party locations.

Prepared monthly financial performance reports for operations management review.

Tester/trainer on the SAP implementation team

Sr. Financial Analyst-Co-Manufacturing (’01 - ’02)

Provided inventory and finance support to the Smirnoff Ice operations team

Prepared monthly financial performance reports & benchmarking for management review

Financial analyst for multiple acquisition projects (ROI)

Candies: Valhalla, NY -Import Warehouse Finance Manager 2000 - 2001

Cycle and spot count scheduling and maintenance, monthly warehouse expense tracking, inventory aging and turns analysis, & physical inventory adjustment reconciliations

Paxar Corp: Orangeburg, NY -Plant Controller 1998 - 2000

Standard product costing, job costing manufacturing, routings, & bill of material creation & review

Physical inventory control, auditing, cycle counts, & manufacturing variance analysis

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office, SAP competency certified, Advanced Excel, Oracle, JD Edwards, BW, Great Plains

EDUCATION & ORGANIZATIONS

Mount Saint Mary College: Newburgh, NY

MBA business management program - 1997

Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY

Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting/Psychology (dual major) - 1993

APICS Organization Professional Member

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