THOMAS E BILLER
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INTERNAL REPORTING AND FINANCIAL PLANNING & ANALYSIS (FP&A) Degreed finance professional with financial analysis and accounting experience contributing to operational efficiencies via responsive analysis, forecasts and annual plans that enable strategic goals. Skills include: Volume, Sales and EBITDA reporting & analysis Forecasting, Modeling and Revenue Reporting Receivables, Inventory and Payables (NTC) Analysis Financial and Business Reporting Infrastructure Full Year Cash Flow Projection and Summary SAP Consolidations of Financial Statements Travel Expense Reporting & Tool Implementation Consolidated the Payroll and Benefit Accounting Stock Based Compensation Analysis and Reporting Selling, General & Admin (SG&A) Expense Reduction SENIOR CONSULTANT Myridius, Inc. / RCG Global Services, Inc. 07/2023 — PRESENT Prepare financial reporting presentations, labor utilization reports, quarterly financial forecasts, annual budgets, and operational, capital and regulatory reporting.
Financial Analysis of monthly financial results
Budgeting, Estimating, and Reforecasts throughout the fiscal year through a rolling forecast.
Capital Expenses, Burn Rate, and Contractor Monitoring were additional items tracked and monitored for project leads, program management and executive management
Cash Flow analysis and reporting weekly for major internal initiative for Treasury SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST Bakelite Synthetics / Hexion Inc. 03/2010 — 6/2023 Prepare financial reporting packages, business activity reports, financial forecasts, annual budgets, and operational and regulatory reporting. Prepared bank reporting financial support packages and additional external reporting support packages.
Volume, Sales and EBITDA monthly flash (month-to-date/quarter-to-date/year-to-date).
Net Trading Capital Trends and Days Analysis (DPO / DIO / DPO).
Business Unit and P&L Trend Reports for Internal Finance Managers.
Net Debt, Cash Flow and Liquidity Reporting and Analysis.
Performed Advanced MS Excel macros, pivot tables, formulas, functions and charts.
Collected and analyzed data, summarized findings and made recommendations to different groups.
Prepared and maintained sales and order backlog reporting daily, month-end accounting, and pricing analysis. Budget Management
Managed the budget preparation for departments as well as ownership over government funded projects including bid, proposal, financial execution, and compliance audits. Manage quote, budget, financial analysis, and data analysis for assigned opportunities with clear timelines and requirements.
Ensure all financial billing activity aligns operationally via financial analysis of all billable data.
Collaborate across the organization to lead the process and complete deliverables.
Continue maintenance of high quality and accurate budgets.
Facilitate tracking of opportunity pricing, process, and resources.
Prepare budget financial analysis summaries to support contractual approval. Internal Reporting
Prepared and maintained financial reports: Flash reports for Volume, Sales, and EBITDA; P&L Trends; Financial Statements; Net Trading Capital; and, Net Debt.
Publish monthly financial results. Reduced reporting time from close to final book.
Assembled financial presentation for leadership meetings. Coordinated board deck presentations.
Developed dashboard and reports to improve business making decisions and team production.
Created metrics for monthly and quarterly team business reviews. Financial Analysis Manager GrafTech International 01/2005 — 12/2009 Full year cash flow projection and summary and detail level analytical schedules per GAAP. Forecasting, Planning and Analysis: Sales, cost of goods sold, cash inflow, financial statements, and income expense with reporting to the CFO and CEO.
Payroll and Benefits, Consolidated the Payroll and Benefit Accounting, and Stock Based Compensation analysis and reporting; streamlined the Vanguard Reporting function to allowing uniform analyses of the 3-different plans.
Global SG&A, Headed Global Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) expense reduction efforts, focused on bringing GrafTech's $120M cost structure back into line with the size of the organization.
Achieved $15M in SG&A expense savings in the first year (14% YOY reduction) by targeting elements of expense and discretionary spending.
Implemented Concur Travel and Entertainment (T&E) Expense reporting tool to all staff in the United States creating a 33% improved reporting efficiency, reducing the need to audit 100% of excel based expense reports and allowing accounting to create entries from a single source in Americas ledger. Accounting Management
Analyzed, forecasted and budgeted expenses for various product lines supporting the business, functional and cost management teams to identify and pursue cost savings opportunities.
Performed monthly close processes, record accruals, and explain variances. Recorded accruals, intercompany transactions and other general and reconciling journal entries as needed as part of the month-end close process following GAAP accounting practices. Prepared preliminary and year-end audit schedules.
Prepared summary reports for current and forecasted amounts for decision making.
Developed and monitored expense allocation to business lines establishing control procedures.
Assisted in ongoing process improvement initiatives as well as other ad-hoc reporting tasks and special projects.
Ensured expense allocation activities are in compliance with SOX and audit standards.
Built and maintained financial models for volume impacts and cost saving initiatives.
Condensed large amounts of data into succinct messaging for executive audience. EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Accounting, Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA TECHNICAL SOFTWARE
Oracle EBS, SAP, Business Warehouse (BW), Business Financial Consolidations (BFC), JD Edwards OneWorld, Workiva (or Wdesk). MS Windows Excel, Power Point, Word, Outlook, and TEAMS. PATENT PENDING
Currently have a patent pending from my work at GrafTech International for Carbon Foam used as a safer barrier.