Plant Manager

Gary Phillips

P.O. Box *** Telephone: 407-***-****

Vernon, FL 32462 Email: **************@***.***

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

* Saved approximately $57M in overweight production utilizing check ware

* Saved approximately $21M in changeover cost with new schedule method

* Increased acquisition ROI by 14 months or $18M through increased T-Put

EXPERIENCE

Tyson Foods, South Georgia 2012 – Present

Complex Controller

Redesigned the agriculture and poultry business accounting & finance departments to prepare for new division.

Introduced templates for Lean Management to begin recognizing cost

savings initiatives and demonstrate metric graphs for attainment assessment.

Manage the cost and general accounting department staff of 14 for 4 plants.

Prepare plants financials weekly, business forecasts bi-weekly, balance

sheet reconciliations monthly and budgets annually.

Introduce & educate plant management on cost variances and the

application of monthly standard changes resulting in methods variance.

Plan, manage, and audit the goods inventories, fixed assets and spare parts

warehouse including cycle counts as part of the internal control process.

Developed and implemented SOP’s for all functions of the plant finance

department including inventory, forecasts, budgets, fixed assets and costing.

Lead and manage the plant's cost savings initiatives for over 27 projects

and provide graph assessments on attainment including IRR on capital

projects for measuring performance and ensuring the CIR report out

justifies the ROI for capital projects.

Conduct weekly meetings to ensure Lean projects are meeting planned

objectives and provide advisory guidance to the project leaders as well as

direction for plant director.

Publish daily metrics throughout the plant for interval attainment.

anage all legal agreements for the complex.

Perdue Farms, Perry, GA 2010 – 2012

Plant Finance Controller

Introduced templates for Lean Management to begin recognizing cost

savings initiatives and demonstrated metric graphs for attainment assessment.

Manage the cost and general accounting department staff of 7 over 2 plants.

Trained finance staff on SAP test modules for new SAP 6.0 accounting system implementation and served as finance lead on steering committee.

Develop new product costing for R&D and provided insights to BUs.

Prepared plants financials weekly, business forecasts monthly, balance sheet

reconciliations monthly and budgets annually.

Introduced & educated plant management on cost variances and the application

of monthly standard changes resulting in methods variance.

Planned, managed, and audited the inventories, fixed assets and spare parts

warehouse including cycle counts as part of the internal control process.

Developed and implemented SOP’s for all functions of the plant finance

department including inventory, forecasts, budgets, fixed assets and costing.

Led and managed the plant's cost savings initiatives for over 38 projects and

provided graph assessments on attainment including IRR on capital projects for

measuring performance on the CER reports to justify ROI for capital projects.

Conducted weekly meetings to ensure Lean projects are meeting planned

objectives and provided advisory guidance to the project leaders.

Conducted interactive training on the manufacturing floor with leads to drive

connection between operations activities and financial impact to the plant.

Published daily scorecards via monitors throughout the plant for interval

attainment and discussed results weekly with VP of Manufacturing.

Drove monthly financial meetings with corporate VP for plant. Counseled

Plant Director on variances and metric results for future decision making.

Kelloggs, Battle Creek, MI 2007 – 2010

Division Cost Accounting Manager

Helped restructured the bakery business accounting & finance division to significantly increase the efficiency of value added services.

Reduced disbursements by 46% by eliminating duplicate spending and waste.

Managed the cost accounting and payroll departments.

Trained personnel and managed all implemented SAP accounting systems.

Developed new product costing for operations and business units.

Prepared all financials, business forecasts, budgets and daily scorecards.

100% compliance with SOX 404 reporting requirement.

Planned, manage, and reconciled the physical inventories, fixed assets and

manufacturing variances for operations.

Developed, documented, and implemented accounting procedures for all

aspects of the manufacturing plant.

Led and managed the plant's cost savings initiatives for over 200 projects

and provided tools for measuring performance and issuing the reports.

Conducted interactive training on the manufacturing floor to drive connection

between operations activities and financial impact to the plant.

Provided guidance to plant management and drove financial meetings.

Established stretch goals and work with production to achieve initiatives.

MC USA, Orlando, FL 1997 – 2007

A medical manufacturer company for the hospital, surgical, home health, radiology, respiratory and nursing home arena with revenues moving from $10M in 1997 to $360M.

Controller / CFO

Rotech Medical, Orlando, FL 1995 – 1997

A respiratory services provider, went public in 1995, increased revenues from $345M

to $865M in 3 years, company sold in 1997.

Mergers and Acquisitions Director

Masco Corp., Orlando, FL 1991 – 1995

A conglomerate with many industry sectors, one sector was formed named Atlas Door as a manufacturing residential garage and door business with the acquisition of 12 plant locations located in several states. The company grew to $750M and then sold.

Division Accounting Manager

General Electric, Ft. Myers, FL 1988-1991

Disbursements Manager

SOFTWARE

Extensive use of AS/400 based systems, as well as microcomputers in a Microsoft Windows environment. Software includes: Timberline, Symphony, Great Plains Dynamics, Peachtree, SAP, JD Edwards, QuickBooks as well as Microsoft Excel, Word, Word Perfect, Works, Hyperion and Lotus.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

A/P / A/R / Taxes / Mergers & Acquisitions / Auditing / Billings / Budgeting / Business Development / Cost Accounting / Financial Analysis / Financial Reporting / Forecasting / Payroll / Policies & Procedures / Staff Development

EDUCATION

University of Central Florida Orlando, FL

BSBA: Major: Finance Graduated 1983

MBA - Completing

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