Business Finance and Administration

JOHN ROBERT CROLAND

470-***-**** - ****.*******@*****.*** - www.linkedin.com/in/johncroland/

SUMMARY

A Financial Controller and Business Operations Leader with extensive experience in supporting multiple operating units. Proven financial management experience with direct responsibility for life-cycle financial management goals, objectives, and process optimizations. Instrumental in driving operational oversight by developing, implementing, and communicating efficient and effective process flows. A Self-motivated team collaborator possessing extensive experience working with all levels of the organization to successfully meet company objectives.

Core competencies include:

Operations Analysis

Group Financial Reporting

Strategic Business Initiatives

Procedure/Process Control

Financial Auditing

Best Practices Facilitation

Budget/Forecasting

Asset/Cash Management

Contract Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES, INC, Marietta, GA

Global company supplying Postal, Baggage Handling, Warehousing, and Fashion Conveying systems

Senior Accountant 2014 - 2017 – World Wide Shared Services Organization:

General Ledger Oversight – US, Canada, Mexico – Responsible for reconciliations of all Asset and Liability Account balances. Posting WIP sales through System and Journal Entry posting. Enacting Project Budget adjustments. Enacting Service Project billings. Transacting and Reconciling global Intra-company AR and AP balances.

NAFTA Sales and Use Tax reporting, Audit liaison. – monthly reporting of US Sales and Use Tax Reporting, Canadian HST/GST and PST reporting, and Puerto Rico PICO Tax reporting. Audit liaison. Jurisdictional contact for Audits, Registrations, and renewals.

SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC, Norcross, GA

Global leading company in supplying Industrial Automation Manufacturing Equipment

Financial Controller 2012-2013 – Automotive Projects Business Unit Segment and Automotive and Solar Vertical Market Organizations : Exceeded all assigned objectives with full Profit and Loss / Balance sheet responsibility for Automotive Projects Business; $37M revenue with >5% EBIT contribution.

Provided accurate and timely budgeting, forecasting, Sr. Management reporting, and Commercial Management support of cost-revenue and direct revenue recognition Automotive projects.

Volunteer work through the company at Habitat for Humanity, The Ronald McDonald House, and the Georgia Special Olympics in order to help benefit and better our community.

Controller - Divisional Asset Management Liaison, VMM Controller 2010-2012 – Divisional Asset Management Operations Leader reporting directly to the Division VP/CFO. Implementing, Monitoring, and Analyzing dynamic actions and measures across departments to reduce A/R and Inventory balances

Invited to deliver company CFO Conference Best Practice sharing presentation to all Division Finance CFO’s which I developed and implemented by building a team across two divisions.

Developed asset reduction strategies, processes, and dashboards in conjunction with Divisional Business Unit Financial Management. Lead the development of an Inventory Scorecard for each BU’s product lines to determine turns, balances on hand, and strategies for reducing slower turning stock.

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Controller - Divisional Asset Management Liaison, VMM Controller 2010-2012, continued

Commercial Partner to the 4 Vertical Segment Managers consisting of 62 total heads. Obtained and successfully managed within budget US and International investment budgets (~$7M) to increase global business development. Accurately tracked and reported direct and indirect Account/Market Sales Volumes for US (~165M) and International reporting (~$310M).

Controller – Automation Solutions – Discrete Factory Automation Segment 2008-2010 – AS Management Team Controller for Discrete Factory Automation sub segment with Sales of ~$120M exceeding plan at 107%. Oversaw all financial planning and reporting responsibilities derived from our segment workforce of 103 people, 3 of whom were Financial Analyst direct reports to my position, one of whom I mentored to became a Segment Controller.

Successfully managed all financial aspects of the business, including SOX, internal and external audits, market investments, product lifecycle management, transfer pricing infrastructure allocations, China Royalties, and US and German monthly management variance reporting.

Controller/Program Manager of Strategic Accounts and Centers of Competency (CoC) Organizations 1996-2008 – Core initial team member in the development and implementation of Strategic Account and Vertical Market focused Center of Competency Organizations designed to develop industry/customer specific solution sets encompassing the broad breadth of Siemens Goods and services across BU’s/Div’s, and operating companies. Successfully managed Financial Analyst staff for over 7 years.

First certified US Facilitator of Global Account Management Planning Process consisting of 3 day workshops including various members of Domestic and international Siemens entities designed to coordinate globally consistent and cohesive major target account penetration and development. Workshop included customer Sr. Management interview which I facilitated.

Created, implemented, and managed cross organizational allocation funding model within budget.

US Liaison for Food & Beverage CoC Global Corporate Account Managers; developed global Preferred Supplier T&C/pricing agreement with Anheuser Busch, inc. (18 month process).

Developed Contact Grid worksheet to allow CoC members to more easily navigate across Internal Organizations in order to minimize the time required to address customer requirements.

Go to Market (G2M) company wide revamp committee member – 2007 team of the year nominee.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Economics Major, Sociology Minor

University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SAP, JDE, Insight/Hubble, Hyperion

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Finance Training Courses completed include but are not limited to:

Sarbanes Oxley – Intermediate, Advanced Net Working Capital – Advanced Cash Flow – Advanced

Domestic Tax Regulations, International Tax Regulations

Accounts Receivables – Intermediate, Advanced Inventory Management – Intermediate, Advanced

IT Compliance Safety Diversity in the workplace

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