Brian Anderson
Seattle,,WA
Summary
Finance professional with expertise in long range business planning, quantitative analysis, and partnering with engineering disciplines. Extensive acumen in both the procurement and finance functions with strong communication, organizational, and planning abilities. Over a decade of combined experience at Amazon.com and Boeing Aircraft Company.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Contracts Manager
Amazon.com
AmazonCare
11.2021 - 09.2023
- Identified, evaluated, and qualified new suppliers for AmazonCare startup business
- Collaborated with internal partners to define business requirements, project budget, and initiate RFP/RFQ for managed categories
- Negotiated complex legal terms and conditions for master service agreements, work orders, and contract addenda
- Initiated and managed purchase orders at the line item level for each vendor in partnership with finance
- Managed contract approvals to obtain collective buy-in from finance, operations, legal, and engineering disciplines
- Coordinated with internal business team to ensure vendor production capabilities meet scaling requirements of business
- Created a streamlined intake process through JIRA software to enable upfront procurement engagement, and better workflow management
Senior Finance Analyst
Amazon.com
Prime Air (drone Delivery)
08.2019 - 11.2021
- Lead annual, project-based budgeting process and created a streamline, automated planning template for summarizing $100M of R&D spend
- Initiate charge line creation to tie project-based budgets to chart of accounts in Oracle in order to improve reporting accuracy for over $100M of spend
- Review and approve purchase orders for discrete cost centers to ensure budget adherence and charge line accuracy
- Question the underlying assumptions behind the engineer's LRBP budget to optimize the allocation of working capital and ensure that the committed budget is aligned with broader business launch goals
- Lead the development of a comprehensive, dollarized BOM for drone manufacturing to understand key cost drivers at a granular level, including labor hours by department and discrete hardware cost categories
- Created audit mechanism to increase the pre-approval threshold and reduce manual review of low dollar purchase requisitions
- Managed headcount targets at an organizational and team level to ensure optimal resource allocation across the business
Senior Finance Analyst
Amazon.com
Category Procurement - Customer Fulfillment
09.2016 - 08.2019
- Wrote and implemented comprehensive savings methodology that ties savings the business P&L on a cost per unit level
- Built dynamic should-cost models that illustrate impact of price negotiations and value engineering at a cost per unit level for packaging categories
- Derived bottoms-up, granular BOM pricing for packaging suite and implemented new forecast vs actuals reporting cadence
- Defined requirements for automated, web-based savings tracker and lead the beta testing and eventually implementation to replace Excel-based tracker
- Lead the claw-back of a ~$40M annual rebate for mechanical handling equipment and negotiated more favorable upfront pricing as rebate substitute
- Quantified the impact of a new, strategic long-term agreement with our mechanical handling equipment partners that portrayed the allocation and risks of robotic sortable projects across the supply base.
Contracts Procurement Agent
The Boeing Aircraft Company
Site Services - Capital Equipment
07.2014 - 08.2016
- Lead quarterly performance reviews of key strategic suppliers for tooling and capital equipment on the 777X Program.
- Reconciled should-cost price analysis with business partner's long-range business plan
- Developed supply chain architecture and category management strategies for executive transportation and capital equipment vendors
- Defined project requirements and key performance indicators to ensure a shared risk strategy between Boeing and its vendors
Operations Procurement Agent
The Boeing Aircraft Company
787 Program
01.2012 - 06.2014
- Coordinate the delivery and management of Boeing-owned inventory to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Interface with final assembly and consuming partner to address inventory demand on a daily basis
- Lead delivery negotiations between consuming and providing partners to guarantee production schedule
- Integrate across functions to ensure engineering and contracting of 787-9 Derivative parts
- Develop and implement strategic metrics for more effectively mitigating part shortages
Business Planning Analyst
The Boeing Aircraft Company
IT Finance
06.2010 - 12.2012
- Coordinate and develop annual budgetary process
- Facilitate budget allocation between the IT organization and enterprise customer
- Derive and assess quarterly project Estimates At Completion to ensure SOX compliance
- Analyze monthly actuals and provide forecast recommendations to customer
- Initiate capital budget approval and chargeline hierarchy
- Provide spend analysis driven by operating versus capital costs
Education
Masters of Business Administration - Focus on International Business
Seattle University
Seattle, WA03.2016
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration - Finance and Management
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO05.2010
Skills
- Comfortable analyzing large datasets to derive procurement strategy
- Broad understanding of budgetary and forecasting processes
- Able to deriving dynamic cost models from multiple data points
- Experience working in an engineering and manufacturing prototype environment
- Adept at leading complex contract and budget negotiations
- Identify and lead process improvements through automation and standardization
International Experience
- Korea Aerospace Industries, South Korea - Coordinated and directed quarterly Production Readiness Assessments, Develop and implement risk mitigation strategy for 787 production increase and sub-tier rate-readiness
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan - Point of contact between consuming partner and thirty-eight providing partners, Lead physical and administrative audits of consuming partner's warehouse
Timeline
Senior Contracts Manager
Amazon.com
11.2021 - 09.2023
Senior Finance Analyst
Amazon.com
08.2019 - 11.2021
Senior Finance Analyst
Amazon.com
09.2016 - 08.2019
Contracts Procurement Agent
The Boeing Aircraft Company
07.2014 - 08.2016
Operations Procurement Agent
The Boeing Aircraft Company
01.2012 - 06.2014
Business Planning Analyst
The Boeing Aircraft Company
06.2010 - 12.2012
Masters of Business Administration - Focus on International Business
Seattle University
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration - Finance and Management
Truman State University
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