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Vice President of Finance for a $200M manufacturing company in the lawn and garden category, composed of 16 owned locations across the midwest. 15 years experience from Cost Accounting, Corporate Finance, Controller roles, and Vice President leadership. Strong background in cost accounting from bill of materials, margin analysis, process efficiencies and variances. Develop and justify all capital expenditures, total scale of capital projects typically 5% of budgeted sales. Perform synergy and ROI analysis identifying potential acquisitions and implementing those acquired sites within our ERP system afterwards.

Career Highlight 1: Identified cost savings through small packaged line and the associated labor absorption with the small sized products. Improved margin by 100bps annually. Implemented several acquisitions over the years where small family owned businesses were brought on. Activating all aspects from items, customers, vendors, purchasing agreements, payroll, budgets/forecasts, equipment/hardware.

Career Highlight 2: Coached and developed several Analysts and Controllers who have since gone on to be promoted to Controllers and VP’s of Finance themselves.

Why Hire This Candidate (In Their Own Words): Proven leader comfortable working in a fact paced environment that relies on dependable team collaboration and accurate and timely decision making. A leadership style that blends ground level work for example building out and understanding cost and margin down to an individual sku by customer ratio but also comfortable leading and executing decisions on a broader scope that is best for overall business.

Strengths: Manufacturing cost accounting including bill of materials, labor, processing, variances. Leading teams of Analysts, Controllers, Accounts Receivable and Payable. Capex execution. Price justifications and negotiations with largest customers.

Hobbies & Personal Interests: Family oriented. Enjoy spending time with wife, we’ve been together for 14+ years and have a beautiful 15-month-old daughter.

Industry Experience: Agriculture, Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Sciences and Biotech, Manufacturing, Private Equity, Retail, Wholesale & Distribution

Company Fit: Large company size, $200M region which rolled up to the total region is $800M.

Management Experience: 7+ years managing ranging from Analysts, Assistant Controllers, Controllers, and Shared Service Managers with teams underneath their scope.

Software Experience: Infor M3 for past 10 years. Prior to that with different organizations used Oracle and Netsuite.

Open To: Hybrid, In-office, Remote