Finance Professional
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Jeffrey A. Buckholt
South Park, PA 15129
**************@*******.***
(C) 412-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Successful finance professional with diverse accounting and finance management experience as a Finance Manager and Controller. Managed accounting functions of both small and large companies in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail industries. Strengths are in teambuilding, forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning, and month end financial statement review and analysis. Success in impacting bottom line profitability and streamlining procedures to improve efficiency and profits. Technology skills include SAP, Epicor, Freidman, Syteline, custom legacy systems, advanced Microsoft Excel (to include pivot tables and lookups), Word and PowerPoint
EXPERIENCE
SKC Inc. 2024 – Present
Chief Financial Officer
A $30 million global manufacturer servicing the industrial hygiene and occupational safety market specializing in air,
noise, and surface/dermal sampling equipment including pumps, detectors, filters, and calibration tools used in
environmental and occupational health applications. Managed a staff of five remote employees.
●Work with the CEO on developing the long-term financial strategy and expansion planning.
●Prepare monthly financial statements, analysis and reports for the Executive Management Team and Board of Directors.
●Work closely with the Management Team on operational efficiency and forecasts.
●Monitor banking activity and cash flow forecasting.
●Oversee monthly state sales tax filings.
●Coordinate with Management the preparation of the departmental and complete annual operating budgets.
●Maintain the general ledger and ERP financial systems.
●Direct the preparation and coordination of the financial statement review and tax filings with external auditors.
Fresenius Kabi, Warrendale PA 2023 - 2024
Sr. Manager, Finance
A $110 million health care operation that specializes and manufactures lifesaving medical equipment and technologies for infusion, transfusion, and clinical nutrition. Responsible for being the finance lead for the US Medical Device Operation for on-going business as well as future growth. Support the day-to-day management of reporting, analysis, financial planning, and forecasting activities including Capital Expenditures.
●Manage month end close process, the preparation, reporting and reconciliation of monthly actual results to the budget, forecasts and prior year.
●Lead the budget and forecast process collaborating with the Executive Team.
●Manage inventory control including cycle counts and year-end physical inventory through reconciliation.
●Initiate production and KPI reporting for manufacturing efficiencies and work toward continuous improvement.
●Supervise the year-end material inventory standards and changes for the coming year.
●Work through earlier SAP upgrade to develop and correct issues for efficient processing.
KT-Grant, Export PA 2021 - 2023
Controller / VP of Finance
A $100 million private equity held company that manufactures and supplies equipment and services to the global metal, mining, and chemical industries by offering safe and productivity improving processes. Responsible for all accounting and financial functions for multiple businesses. Direct management of four staff and two indirect employees.
●Work with the CEO and members of the Executive Leadership Team on the strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting process.
●Responsible for the consolidation and reporting of the monthly financial statements.
●Prepare monthly reporting package for the Investor group.
●Prepare and update weekly cash flow projections.
●Oversee and manage the annual budget process.
●Track and report weekly and monthly KPI statistics.
●Liaison with external and tax auditors.
Jeffrey A. Buckholt
1711 Queens Drive
South Park, PA 15129
**************@*******.***
(C) 412-***-****
A. Stucki Company, Moon Township, PA 2017 - 2021
Director of Financial Planning & Analysis/Controller
A $350 million private equity held company focused on the engineering, manufacturing, machining, repair, and reconditioning of railcar parts, railcars, and locomotives for the railroad industry. Responsible for all accounting and financial functions for multiple global locations. Direct management of ten staff and six remote employees.
●Analyze and review monthly balance sheet, income statement and business unit profitability reports.
●Report any variances in actual results to the budget and last year.
●Develop weekly cash forecast.
●Prepare ad hoc financial analysis.
●Coordinate with CFO and Business Unit Leaders, the company annual budget and monthly forecasts.
●Managed the monthly closing and consolidated reporting process.
●Liaison with external auditors.
●Integrate acquired companies into corporate accounting system (SAP).
Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Coraopolis, PA 2013 – 2017
Division Controller
Nuverra is a water hauling, treatment, and disposal service provider to the oil & gas industry. The division revenues at peak in 2014 were over $100 million. Manage the accounting and finance functions for five trucking yards, 10 disposal wells and one treatment facility. Managed up to seven direct reports and ten remote staff.
●Ensure timely and accurate reporting of Divisional financial statements with reporting and analysis to operations and corporate management.
●Support Division monthly and annual development of budget and forecast.
●Monitor and analyze Capital Appropriation projects.
●Ensure accurate and timely customer invoices, A recent customer audit resulted in error rate of 0.02% for over $132 million in billings covering 2.5 years.
●Conducted vendor spend analysis, resulting in savings of $500,000 annually by converting to bulk fuel purchases.
Matthews International Corp – Bronze Division, Pittsburgh, PA 2000 - 2013
Division Finance Manager
A manufacturer of flush bronze memorials and plaques with annual revenues over $200 million. The bronze memorials are shipped to cemeteries nationally. Managed the accounting, finance and inventory functions for five domestic and three foreign operations. Managed seven direct reports.
●Produced and analyzed the monthly financial statements for all the plants.
●Develop monthly forecasts, annual strategic plan and operating budget.
●Managed physical inventory and reconciliation process.
●Analyzed and developed standard costs including material, routings and BOM’s for over 2,000-part numbers.
●Worked with Division President on sales commission payouts and performance analysis for staff of over 20 employees.
●Established Sarbanes-Oxley procedures and documentation for the Bronze Division.
●Reduced A/R DSO from 45 days to 35 days.
●Member of 10Q Financial Statement review committee.
●Lead finance team member of SAP integration team (FICO, OTC).
American Textile Company, Duquesne, PA 1998 - 2000
Controller
A family business that manufactured and distributed protective pillow and mattress covers with annual revenues of $25-$40 million. Managed the accounting functions and inventory for products imported and manufactured domestically. The products were packaged and shipped to various retail distribution centers and stores. Managed four direct reports.
●Implemented new (Friedman) financial software package.
●Developed budget process for the entire company.
●Analyzed monthly financial statements.
●Reduced the A/R DSO from 60 days to 45 days.
Jeffrey A. Buckholt
1711 Queens Drive
South Park, PA 15129
**************@*******.***
(C) 412-***-****
EDUCATION
Waynesburg University, Waynesburg, PA
Master of Business Administration – Applied Business
Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Accounting
ASSOCIATIONS
Finance Committee - St. John’s the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Pittsburgh (South Side) PA
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