BRIAN F. WILMOT

Phone 860-***-**** acz5mj@r.postjobfree.com

Experience:

**** – Present Pitney Bowes Inc., Shelton, CT

Global Technology Company offering innovative products and solutions that enable commerce in the areas of customer information management, location intelligence, customer engagement, shipping and mailing, and global ecommerce. More than 1.5 million clients in approximately 100 countries around the world rely on products, solutions and services from Pitney Bowes.

Sr Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis / Business Systems - Global Ecommerce

Developed and implemented many improvements and controls within and outside Global Ecommerce that drive

future synergies for reporting as the business takes on new customers. Ecommerce is a fast paced and demanding environment that involves cross-functional efforts globally to ensure success.

Finance and Business lead for high growth Global Ecommerce business

Analyze segment level variance and profitability reporting to identify areas of opportunity and growth

Analyze program inputs costs and revenue across the product lines identifying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Business Unit lead for Global SAP transformation project including Cognos reporting

Leverage data warehouse and dashboard technology to identify areas of opportunity within the operations.

Provide tactical support for existing and new initiatives to assess financial controls and impacts to the business.

Prepare Monthly Segment Level Financial Statements and Monthly Contribution Margin analysis

Create, maintain, and distribute a set of daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and forecasts of operational metrics that support leadership to make informed fact-based decisions

Analyze Financial Statement structure for SAP posting and reporting

Automated Segment Level reporting (Actuals, Forecast and Budget) within Hyperion structure

Strategized and automate financial data with Global Accounting Office (GAO) to Review and analyze data associated parcels shipped which are utilized in the Revenue analysis

Streamline purchase order submission and funding approvals support for GAO and with Business Unit

2008 – 2013 Sikorsky Aerospace Services., Shelton, CT

Sikorsky Aerospace Services, a Sikorsky company, is a multi-billion dollar aerospace service and support business that provides comprehensive support to rotary- and fixed-wing operators around the world.

Senior Manager of Financial Systems, Reporting and Analysis –Finance/IT-Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS)

Primary lead for financial systems, reporting /analysis and special projects for a $3Billion business with multiple business units globally. Coordinated monthly forecast, annual plan and 5-year Long Range Plan submissions with associated variance explanations for product deliveries, sales, margin, other operating, indirect costs, key balance sheet accounts and cash flows.

Developed, implemented and supported financial modeling and analysis for planning, budgeting and forecasting

Provided variance to forecast analysis to Director & CFO's for financial close

Project managed and developed finance SharePoint site for key and critical communication and workflow processes

Evaluated financial systems and business cases providing solutions for functional improvements

Automated Senior Management flash reports and analytics utilizing Hyperion (SmartView) and Excel

Project lead for Data Warehouse Project for financial reporting across all SAS business units.

Lead and implemented the division wide Financial Reporting project to streamline and standardize the organizational reporting

Liaison with key Finance & IT business counterparts and established finance data repositories and controls

Project lead for IT Finance on the Hyperion Planning and Reporting development and processes

Analyzed forecast and understand business drivers of changes to sales, margin, and other costs, and ensure forecasts are consistent with expectations

Lead monthly closing activities and reconciliation to the financial statements and analyzed monthly results and prepared variance to forecast explanations

Prepared financial/business presentations for Senior Executive leadership meetings

Liaison with offsite entities that ensured timely and accurate forecasts, reporting and analysis submissions

Prepared and reported key performance metrics associated with company programs, including but not limited to forecast accuracy, return on sales, inventory turnover, and cash collections.

2000 – 2008 Praxair Inc., Danbury, CT

Praxair, a Fortune 300 company, is the largest industrial gases company in North and South America, and one of the largest worldwide, with 2012 sales of $11 billion. The company produces, sells and distributes atmospheric, process and specialty gases, and high-performance surface coatings

Manager of Business Intelligence/Sr. Project Manager – Corporate IT/Global Data Warehouse

Oversaw all aspects of the data warehouse including performance, data structures, architecture and monitor the technical aspects of data warehouse applications for performance and efficiencies for use by over 2,000 Cognos users.

Project manager to Director of Business Intelligence overseeing management and direction of multiple data warehousing-related projects.

Interfaced with cross matrix business community and served as liaison in order to align data warehousing projects with business strategy and gather/analyze business requirements from managers, directors and vice presidents of business units to coordinate and implement data warehouse and decision support projects.

Worked with Technical Managers and Decision Reporting Managers in planning, resource allocation, design, development, and testing and implementation phases of projects.

Controlled the project budget and ensure projects follow standard Development Life cycle (Requirement Analysis, Design, Construction, Testing, &Implementation).

Managed all aspects of project plans and execution, including: estimating project resource needs – internal/external, project planning and scheduling project budget management, issues and risk, change control and status reporting, managed vendor relationships and project budgets.

Successfully led the Puerto Rico data warehouse project implementation, coordinated and worked with the Puerto Rico business team, infrastructure, ETL and other groups to ensure quality report testing and delivery of training. Provided on-site, hands on training that was very successful and well received.

Built and maintained a very positive team environment with a priority focus on customer satisfaction utilizing resources in various locations globally.

Developed and maintained productive working relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders and key clients/users, as well as working with IT Infrastructure management and Enterprise Architecture to determine project scope and deliverables and a strong drive for results while maintaining positive teamwork and business relationships.

Guided and directed the Business Intelligence team with regards to strategy, staff training, performance reviews, career development and hiring/resourcing decisions.

Project Manager/Business Lead for ERP/ JDE Order to Cash (OTC) - North American Industrial Gases Business

Project Manager for business reporting on the OTC team that communicated/interacted with various business representatives with regards to their JDE OTC reporting requirements and implemented JDE/Cognos reporting solution

Led a team of data warehouse professionals to develop, test and deploy over 400 reports that were identified by working with the various businesses utilizing Cognos Data Warehouse toolset and SQL

Change leader responsible for the billing system conversion to JD Edwards

Developed training material and trained over 300 people through the U.S. and Canada.

Quickly understand a business issue and turn that into an actionable reporting requirement.

Effectively bridged the gap between IT and business.

Manager of Systems and Support, Financial Services - North American Industrial Gases Business

Managed the Billing, Accounts Receivable, EDI, Document Management and eBill systems to insure a flawless interface for internal and external customers

Lead, directed and coached a team of six direct and six indirect reports comprised of Financial Analysts, Systems Analysts, EDI Coordinators & Mappers, Application Programmers and Administrative Support personnel to support various functional areas

Directed the daily and monthly closing activities, coordinated job schedules with the hardware and software teams insuring that they were completed accurately and timely

Financial Analyst, Sales and Market Analysis - North American Industrial Gases Business

Overall responsibility for planning, directing and coordinating activities pertaining to technology projects for the department or for a given business unit or units and ensure that project goals are accomplished in line with business objectives and within prescribed time frames and funding parameters

Acted as liaison between the Lead Project Managers and the business users to ensure that all requirements were met

Provided tactical business/decision support from a financial perspective to all of the NAIG U.S. sales organizations, with particular emphasis on merchant sales support

Senior Project Manager and developer for the corporate performance management and budgeting tool for a 2.5 billion dollar division

Selected as a focal point in the rollout of the Cognos business intelligence software to analyze internal customer needs regarding the conversion to JD Edwards in order to minimize business interruption

Tracked business performance and develop analysis around sales trends by product, geography, market segment, capital expenditures and fixed costs.

Actively participated with Financial Reporting & Analysis team activities including, product line profitability and monthly financial reporting.

Education: Northeastern University, MBA; Accepted into the program

Sacred Heart University, Bachelor of Arts: Finance

Membership: National Scholastic Honor Society - Delta Epsilon Sigma

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