Controller/Accounting Manager
Resume:
Patrick J. McGinn
Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60169
*************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Resourceful, reliable, detail-oriented professional seeks demand planning position. Experience in production, distribution, demand planning, finance, and operations. Strengths include strategic planning and implementation, team building, and operational analysis.
Extensive international experience.
EXPERIENCE and ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Wilson Sporting Goods, Chicago, Illinois March 1988 to November 2009
Senior Planning and Distribution Manager Tennis Balls & Footwear 8/2008- 11/2009
Senior Planning and Distribution Manager Footwear 3/2006- 8/2008
Distribution Planning Manager Footwear 8/1994- 3/2006
Racquet Finance Manager 2/1992- 8/1994
International Division Transportation Manager 9/1990- 2/1992
International Planning Manager (Golf) 9/1989- 9/1990
International Manager Financial Reporting 3/1988- 9/1989
• Assist in formalizing Distribution planner duties category wide, establish achievable MBO targets, formalize finance and operations meeting standards for maximum impact.
• Member of the planning group which was an integral part of AS/400 to SAP system conversion in September ’07. Material master, sales forecast system, issuing purchase orders, etc.
• Worked on a warehouse conversion strategy when moving Racquet Sports warehouse
from Utah to Tennessee (centralized warehouse) in November ’06.
• Developed a defective footwear vendor chargeback program generating over $600K in savings over a 10 year period.
• Prepare and communicate quarterly production forecasts to vendors and factories to ensure adequate capacity for market center demands.
• Create and execute inventory planning strategies to refine and maximize our U.S. inventories by reducing sku counts, improving DSI’s/product turns, short and long term reduction of close-outs, and creating strategies to improve sales forecasting from our Retail analysts and RSS sales group.
• Monitor sales forecasts and place monthly production to maintain targeted inventory levels. Prepare annual Plan and quarterly forecasts in detail by line item (sku detail).
• Close books on a monthly basis, reconcile accounts, prepare period end management reports, worked on IBM mid frame to AS/400 system conversion.
• Responsible for implementing corporate worldwide transportation strategies with foreign subsidiaries. Cost savings estimated at $300K to $400 in first year.
• Process international orders for vendor purchases and factory production. Follow through to ensure shipments are made to meet market center requirements. Purchase and maintain inventory of shafts, grips, and other components to be used in assembly of clubs in Taiwan.
• Translate local currency financial statements into U.S. dollars, prepare revised forecasts, intercompany account reconciliations, prepare period operating reviews, and consolidate cash flow projections.
Nike International, Beaverton, Oregon August 1983 to February 1988
Manager of Independent Distributors (Europe) (NL) 7/1986- 2/1988
Operations Manager Centralized European Apparel (NL) 3/1984- 6/1986
Operations Manager/Financial Controller new Apparel Division (UK) 8/1983- 3/1984
• Responsibilities included oversight of Independent Distributors, Licensing Distributors, and Middle Eastern Distributors.
• Prepared proposals for product distribution and licensing agreements.
• Implemented an export program to minimize parallel import activities within Europe.
• Analyzed best practices for doing business in European locations. Acted as liaison to Corporate Headquarters.
• Monitored financial agreements between the Corporation and its Independent Distributors.
• Was responsible for the production, quality control, and distribution of the Corporation’s product lines for Europe and Middle Eastern countries.
• Developed systems for price negotiations with suppliers.
• Integrated financial systems with Corporate Headquarters.
Price Waterhouse Vooren Amsterdam 10/1979- 8/1983
Senior Tax Accountant/ Amsterdam 8/1982- 8/1983
Senior Tax Accountant/Chicago 10/1979- 8/1982
• Prepared U.S. tax returns and consulted clients including IBM, Exxon, DuPont, Westinghouse, Ingersoll-Rand, and Nike/Amsterdam.
• Was responsible for Standard Oil expatriate U.S. tax return preparation/Chicago.
EDUCATION
Masters in Taxation, DePaul University, 1981
Bachelor in Business (Accounting), Western Illinois University
CERTIFICATE and MEMBERSHIP
CPA certificate received November 1981
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Illinois CPA Society
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