Finance Manager/FP&A Manager

William R. Dean, CPA, MBA, CTP

**** ***** ****, **********, ** 60062

Cell 847-***-****

Email: ace63e@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Twenty years of progressive finance responsibilities in chemical

manufacturing, advertising/distribution, medical products, foodservice and

consumer products. Significant strengths in strategic business planning,

financial analysis, profitability assessment, and acquisition modeling.

Effective project manager, good team leader, comfortable presenter,

creative, and customer driven.

EXPERIENCE

Hot mama's foods, Inc., Wheeling, IL 04/14-07/14

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

High visibility role in a publically traded company, reporting to CFO.

Significant product recalls forced the closure of the Wheeling facility and

role was eliminated.

. Prepared forecast of cash needs for the business to aid in the search

for additional funding.

. Charged with creating financial transparency for Upper Management by

owning several areas of the balance sheet to ensure balances were

accurately presented, including preparation and posting of entries.

. Created reconciliation process for several G/L accounts and ensured

appropriate entries were recorded.

US Foods, Inc., Rosemont, IL 02/13-04/14

Region Margin Manager

Margin Management support for Divisions in the Northeast region.

. Worked with Divisions to identify sales below cost, customer declines,

product class declines and other opportunities to improve margin.

Assisted with rolling-out new initiatives and tracking/quantifying

results from those initiatives.

. Made recommendations that yielded an incremental $170K+ of profit, on an

annualized basis. Led margin calls with the Division Presidents and

VP's of Sales to discuss margin performance and initiative progress.

Responsible for highlighting favorable and unfavorable performance and

recommending solutions where applicable.

THe sterno group LLC (Former holding of Blyth, Inc.), Des Plaines, IL

03/10-01/13

Manager, Business Analysis and Pricing 08/11-01/13

Member of Sales and Marketing Management team for growing Foodservice

company. Business sold in October 2012. Role supported Sr. Vice

President. Responsibilities included: financial planning and reporting,

customer and sku profitability analysis, pricing determination, and

production forecasting.

. Worked closely with Marketing to model new strategies, develop new

product costing, and ensure product availability by acting as liaison

with the plant.

. Supported Sales team by evaluating new customer proposals, developing

new product pricing, and assisting with forecasting and budgeting

responsibilities.

. Developed monthly production forecast by sku for Operations. Tracked

and reported forecast accuracy KPI.

. Created Excel based template and pivot table to budget sales by sku by

top customer to achieve greater insight.

. Prepared monthly and quarterly Sales presentation for Corporate.

Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis 03/10-08/11

Member of Finance team supporting Sales and Marketing, reporting to VP of

Finance. Responsibilities included: preparation of monthly and quarterly

financial reporting packages, monthly close, compilation of budget and

forecasting models, profitability assessment, system reconciliation, and ad

hoc analyses.

. Improved data accuracy and reduced completion time by over 20% by

automating monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages.

. Developed dashboard by working with Sr. Management to capture key KPI's.

. Evaluated bid proposals for integral product line and assisted with

selection recommendation to Sr. Management.

. Developed complex Excel based Database to gather and report sku level

data for National Accounts.

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Nonni's Food Company, Inc., Westchester, IL 11/04-09/08

Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Finance Manager at $200 million Consumer Food Products company. Majority

owned by private equity firm until Q2 2008 when sold to Vivartia S.A., a

$1.6 billion Greek Consumer Food Products company. High profile and

diverse responsibilities included financial planning and reporting,

consolidations, cash management, stock ledger accounting, fixed asset

tracking, monthly close responsibilities, and involvement with external tax

accountants and external legal team.

. Involved with 2 acquisitions, including related accounting entries and

system integration.

. Owned and updated all aspects of budget model, including Income

Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows and debt covenants.

. Saved half of a day during close by automating monthly Income Statement,

Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows preparation, while ensuring

consistent treatment of accounts from period to period.

. Functioned as Cash Manager on daily basis for over 2 years, ensuring

accounts were properly funded to meet payment timing, cash disbursements

were mailed to prevent overdrawn accounts, and forecasted when

additional funding was needed. Managed conversion of short-term

borrowings to fixed, more favorable rates.

Unilever Home & Personal care, usa, Chicago, IL 04/01-10/04

Marketing Resources Analyst - Anti-Perspirant/Deodorant Category 08/02-

10/04

Member of $400+ million category of Unilever, a $45+ billion Consumer

Products company. Finance partner responsible for monitoring and tracking

Advertising and Consumer Promotion spend, ensuring brands stayed within

budget. Additional responsibilities included leading team to develop and

present P&L Training module to newly hired non-finance team members,

fostering cross-functional knowledge transfer.

Associate Finance Manager 04/01-08/02

Finance partner with Brand team, responsible for overall profit and loss

statement. Provided financial support for two brands ($325 million) in the

Hair Care category. Analyzed monthly financials, researched significant

variances versus current year plan and prior year, presented financial

results to the Brand Director and team, evaluated product profitability,

budgeted/forecasted, and various ad hoc analyses.

Baxter INTERNATIONAL Inc., Round Lake, IL 08/99-04/01

Senior Financial Analyst

Spiegel, Inc., Downers Grove, IL 09/95-08/99

Advertising Financial Planning Manager 09/97-08/99

Internal Auditor 09/95-09/97

CF Industries, Inc., Long Grove, IL 08/93-09/95

Staff Internal Auditor

EDUCATION / ACCREDITATIONS

Certified Treasury Professional 2009

Certified Public Accountant 2002

MBA with Distinction (Financial Management & DePaul University 2001

Control/Entrepreneurship)

BS in Commerce (Accounting) DePaul University 1993

(Honors Program)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office, incl. Access, Hyperion, JD Edwards, SAP, Southware,

Syspro, Sage X3, Advanced Excel user: Modeling, Vlookups and Pivot Tables.

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