Eric Genzlinger

Currently serving as a key business partner ensuring robust internal controls for SOX compliance, working capital management, project management, budgeting and internal reporting.

• Worked with business executives to create annual budget and track actual expenses against projected expenses.
• Enhanced internal controls to monitor critical areas of financial control and devised corrective actions to address risks or deficiencies.
• Improved working capital 50% by reducing AR days, inventory stock levels and budgeting AP payments.
• Reviewed processes and procedures to guide program implementation and optimize auditing.

Served as the plant controller for two manufacturing locations. Broad experience with preparing detailed financial forecasts and budgets, and then reconciling actual results against expectations through variance analysis. Prepare and analyze key monthly, weekly and daily business drivers. Recognize positive and negative trends and make recommendations to leaders about reducing costs and improving throughput. Lead monthly financial performance meeting with each plant's leaders to analyze results and facilitate decision making. Extensive experience using continuous improvement tools for both the finance function and operations. Improve working capital with the tight control of inventories and timely collection of invoices. Served as the financial leader after a large acquisition using templates to target integration synergies . Experience using production data with financial information to prepare meaningful analysis for local and corporate leaders. Responsible for month end close, SOX internal controls and project spending analysis.