EXECUTIVE PROFILE
* Accomplished finance manager and business leader, with over 20 years experience at major, respected global corporation.
* Five years international work experience, and subsequent six years in high-profile corporate roles with global scope.
* Progressed to top 1% management level, with consistent highest performance rating, in very demanding and competitive corporate environment.
* Broad finance and accounting foundation, with unique skills and interest in strategic planning, external business development, and acquisitions/divestitures.
* Strong strategic thinker and doer; high output; effective collaborator and organization manager; highest integrity/professionalism.
* Looking for rewarding second career as high level manager in smaller, growth-oriented company; 42 years old.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MAJOR CONSUMER GOODS COMPANY, 1981 - 2002
Manager - Equity Ventures (2000 - 2002)
Responsible for equity investment portfolio of 17 direct investments and four venture funds, with over $150 million invested. Accountable to an internal Board consisting of the CFO, CTO and CIO. An important part of CEO new business development program.
* Led a renewal of venture fund program, which improved strategic focus, and extended our scope into product technology acquisition.
* Coordinated a major deal with a Health Care start-up company, including an equity investment, licensing agreement, and broad strategic alliance agreement - resulting in a potential $1 billion new business, and rights to an attractive future pipeline.
* Negotiated company's second largest value licensing agreement in precedent-setting deal involving corporate intellectual property.
* Coordinated the shutdown of a company where we were the majority shareholder, eventually ending in an assignment for the benefit of creditors.
Comptroller - Global Customers/Sales (1998 - 2000)
Appointed to new position on small team of selected multi-functional resources chartered with developing a successful approach for doing business with an emerging group of high-growth global customers. Promoted after 18 months to assume worldwide sales finance responsibilities, reporting to Global Sales Officer.
* Led development of breakthrough new strategy for successfully conducting business with a new class of growing global customers. Instrumental in gaining broad corporate alignment to several new programs that improved our business results with leading retail customers.
* Drove first ever global segmentation of company's retail customers into tiers of strategic importance, with differentiated relationship benefits.
* Staffed and developed necessary financial reporting infrastructure for initial group of new global customer teams.
* Coordinated a network of sales finance resources around the world by defining globally collaborative project priorities, and personally leading efforts to establish joint measurement of customer profitability on our brands.
Director - Global Forecasts and Analysis (1996 - 1998)
Responsible for coordinating the company's worldwide financial forecasting and corporate strategic planning process, providing insightful business analysis to the CEO and COO, and preparing content/speeches for the Board of Director meetings and other significant company meetings. Excelled in the most demanding and highest profile Finance Director job in the company.
* Provided frequent summaries and essential high-level perspective on the state of the company's worldwide financial forecasts and business - which involved fast analysis and effective presentation of a massive amount of operational data, and strong working relationships with the geographic profit centers.
* Coordinated the company's annual global strategy and business planning process; improved CEO/COO focus on the most important global businesses; provided corporate-level analysis that guided CEO/COO to strategic business interventions on developing market opportunities; secured agreement to long-term corporate and business unit financial goals.
* Led work simplification effort that eliminated non-value-added forecasting effort in the subsidiaries, resulting in significant productivity gain.
Finance Manager - Scandinavia, based in Sweden (1994 - 1996)
Responsible for all finance and accounting operations for a $300+ million business across four Scandinavian countries, including managing an organization of over 50 people.
* Led a financial turnaround of the business from one of company's four largest cumulative loss geographies, to first profit/positive cash flow in Year 1, significant improvement in Year 2, and on track to fully repay company's cumulative cash investment by end of decade.
* Oversaw significant improvement in time to close monthly books to world standard four days over last six consecutive months.
* Renegotiated unfavorable retail customer contracts for new product introduction into Norway, which had resulted in firing of previous General Manager.
* Led divestiture of small Health Care business in Denmark to a management buyout group using an innovative deal structure.
Director - European Paper Financial Analysis, based in Germany (1991 - 1994)
Responsible for the forecasting/financial reporting and project financial analysis for a $3+ billion business and top company profit center, involving the coordination of activities across ten European subsidiaries and three joint ventures. The role expanded significantly over my three-year assignment due to new product introductions, competitive expansions, and two new acquisitions - such that I was replaced by three persons when I transferred to Sweden.
* Delivered record profits, and achieved business unit's incentive goals, each year across total business.
* Coordinated European Commission clearance for acquisition of a German company.
* Drove major cost savings initiative, and competitive defense planning.
* Maintained excellent relationships with subsidiary finance and general managers in challenging environment.
Finance Manager - Food Business (1988 - 1991)
Responsible for total financial operations for $400+ million business -- with total organization of 17 people, including three remote plants.
* Led $15 million improvement in brand profitability, including strong, innovative leadership of cost savings team.
* Involved in significant acquisition activity with Division general management.
Other Assignments:
* Group Manager, Financial Analysis - Food Division (1987-1988)
* Senior Financial Analyst - Food Division (1986-1987)
* Plant Accounting Manager - Food Division (1984-1986)
* Profit Forecaster - Food Division (1983-1984)
* Financial Analyst - Food Division (1983)
* Internal Auditor (1981-1983)
EDUCATION
BS-Finance, University in Eastern U.S., November 1981
* Summa cum laude (GPA 3.87/4.0)
* Graduated in 3 1/3 years |
