Accomplished Senior Financial Manager

MARK D. KINNAMAN

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SENIOR MANAGER

(Financial Analysis—Capital Planning—Project Management—Systems Development)

Accomplished financial planning and analysis manager who partners effectively with others to accomplish organizational goals. Broad industry experience includes companies ranging in size from a small boutique consulting firm to a Fortune 50 corporation. Strengths include systems expertise and strong modeling skills to identify value-creation opportunities and to implement cost-effective solutions.

Strong track record of improving bottom line and operational performance for a diverse group of industries (CPG, Packaging, Distribution, Consulting, Aerospace). Highly effective in identifying practical cost reductions, leading cross functional teams to implement solutions, gaining organizational trust from the Board Room to the factory floor. Excellent consulting skills, cost and customer focus to deliver results. Demonstrated expertise includes:

• Financial Analysis / Business Planning • Management Reporting

• Capital Planning • Financial and Manufacturing Systems Development

• Process Improvement • Project Management

REPRESENTATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS

NEENAH PAPER. INC., Alpharetta, GA 2007-Present

Financial Manager – Business Analyst

Provide expertise in financial, business and strategic analysis to identify value-creation opportunities; implement cost-effective solutions; enabling business to meet or exceed business and financial objectives.

• Analyze and communicate business results on a monthly and quarterly basis to help ensure profitable operations and sound business management.

• Lead development of budgets, forecasts and other financial plans, helping to ensure accuracy in forecasting, knowledge and understanding of deviations from plan, and tactics for corrective actions.

• Lead development and implementation of new or improved systems and reporting capabilities.

GEORGIA-PACIFIC (Acquired by Koch Industries 2006) Atlanta, GA 2001-2007

Manager–Analysis

Provided Financial Planning and Analysis for Division management. Partnered with IT to develop and enhance Financial and Manufacturing Systems. Managed a $400 million annual Retail Capital portfolio.

Financial Analysis / Business Planning

• Provided financial analysis as a key member of business improvement teams: Product Team increased vital supplies efficiency for $10 million annual savings; Outsourcing Team developed an improved RFP process for $3 million first year savings; Pricing Team developed product portfolio to enhance economics by reducing operational complexity and utilizing current manufacturing capabilities.

• Enabled the Division to effectively manage commodity spending, by creating an analysis tool to provide a central database for Division reporting of Commodity Pricing, Usage, and Inflation.

• Developed incremental cost models focusing on fiber and energy costs as key drivers for Economic Optimization model. Identified opportunities to reduce energy costs by improved energy monitoring.

Financial and Manufacturing Systems Development

• Led major systems improvements to develop key performance indicator dashboards. Instrumental in driving management reporting system changes to improve data integrity and reduce cycle times.

• Designed and implemented division website—enhancing communication, collaboration, and technology transfer between mills, providing a central point for best practices and documents.

Capital Planning

• Developed a Capital Planning tool to support a rolling-wave capital outlook and three-year Capital Plans by Business, while providing a framework for executive management presentations.

• Implemented strategic capital guidelines for prioritizing investment opportunities.

Process Improvement / Project Management

• Eliminated 500 positions over two years as Team Leader using lean manufacturing principles. Developed an excel-based data collection tool to identify Best-in-Class mills and identify improvement areas.

• Led a cross-functional team to design, develop and automate the process for establishing and maintaining product run rates: projected $500K annual savings from improved planning and scheduling processes.

• Led a team to assess internal controls and implemented a control framework to ensure SOx compliance.

PRINTPACK INC., Atlanta, GA 2000-2001

Corporate Cost Accountant

• Provided consulting services and system support of Cost Management System to controllers, cost accountants, and other users. Implemented new version of product cost system at multiple facilities.

AMAZON.COM, McDonough, GA 2000

Consultant

Consultant to General Manager of an 800K s.f. automated distribution center.

• Recommended process improvements to reduce variability and improve throughput.

• Developed staffing tool for analyzing effect of seasonal demand on multi-shift operation.

IBES, INC., Manhattan, KS 1998-1999

Senior Analyst

Project management for a boutique consulting firm.

• Reduced staffing by fifty percent for annual savings of $3 million by reengineering the labor force structure, procedures and equipment for the Air Force Academy dining facility.

• Developed a Holistic Staffing Model for the Federal Aviation Administration. Produced project deliverable reports and presented briefings to FAA management. Designed and maintained content for FAA related web site.

BOEING / MCDONNELL DOUGLAS, Huntington Beach, CA 1988-1998

Principal Financial Management Analyst (1996)

Principal Financial Controls Analyst (1989)

Pricing/Cost Estimating Specialist (1988)

Developed budgets, process improvements, monitored program costs, and recommended corrective actions to executive management and customers. Managed Corporate Team chartered to implement Strategic Manufacturing Centers. Provided technical leadership in Financial Systems and Processes.

• Enabled the consolidation of strategic production and outsourcing of non-strategic manufacturing. Achieved annualized savings of $50 million.

• Led development and implementation of new Business Systems and provided user training at multiple facilities.

• Increased accuracy of management forecasts by developing improved overhead rate financial models.

EDUCATION

MBA, University of California, Irvine, Emphasis in Finance and Strategy, GPA - 3.83/4.00

BS, Industrial Engineering, Stanford University, (Production Systems and Computer Simulation)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Advanced Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project; ERP and BI — SAP, ORACLE, Cognos, Hyperion

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