- Worked closely with the President and Senior Management to develop and execute a strategic vision and long-term plan including evaluation of the financial management and budgeting process, internal controls, accounting systems, and the development of key performance metrics to drive return on invested capital.
- Overall budgeting and forecasting with clear insights and recommendations to support the President’s and key management’s initiatives.
- Driving cash flow optimization activities and ensure that they reflected a careful eye on expense containment while enabling strategic investments to be made in order to fuel profitable growth.
- Ensure financial reporting accuracy and timeliness and provide direction on a forward-looking basis to support business decisions.
- Capital appropriation investment analyses and perform post audits to measure expected payback, ROI, IRR, and EVA.
- Responsible for the financial planning cycle including strategic planning, operating plans, interim forecasts, and departmental budgets including sales, profits, manpower, material, capx, facilities, and working capital.
- Compose and circulate managerial financial package focusing on areas for management’s actions.
- Manage external accountants to evaluate foreign sales commissions.
- Collaborate on the development of the procurement card purchasing process and perform periodic audits on total spend and limits.
- Performed payables discounting arrangement analysis determining no benefit would result from this program.
- Developed hourly wage analysis to help facilitate union contract negotiations.
- Formulated vital information for the preparation of the annual report, 10K, and other required filings.
- Responsible for month-end and year-end closings and coordinate year-end audit procedures with outside accounting firm.
- Experience with foreign currency transactions and translation.
- A/R and A/P functions including credit, collections, and disbursements.
- Managed expense reporting and analysis.
- Performed reconciliations including; bank, inter-company, A/R, A/P, payroll, and 401(k).