James A. Mottern
Financial Analyst
Gilbert,AZ
Summary
Results-driven Finance Manager promoting more than 30 years of overseeing transactions and delivering results. Highly collaborative individual with track record of building revenue pipelines, establishing monthly MOS, and delivering results. Offering confidence, team contribution and decision making skills.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Finance Manager, Licensing
Honeywell, Inc
Tempe, AZ
01.2008 - Current
- Drive revenue stream through strategic collaboration and partnerships.
- Develop Licensing annual operating plans and STRAP for each Honeywell business.
- Improve Working Capital through past due reduction and YoY FCF conversion improvement. 88% past due reduction, 15% FCF conversion improvement through root cause corrective actions.
- Review documentation and identified financial discrepancies, and closing loop with root cause corrective actions.
- Manage regular short-range outlooks and pulse updates for Honeywell businesses.
- Tableau dashboard for revenue and cash collection tracking. Deliver visibility to real time performance vs. plan.
- Monitor budget and revenue trends, compile reports for Licensing and business leadership to inform decision-making
Financial / Operations Analyst
Honeywell Corporate Finance
Tempe, AZ
01.2004 - 01.2008
- Prepared monthly CIP and retro depreciation journal entries for GTS, track unfinished projects to completion to determine reasonableness for capitalization
- Account clean up of aged Telecom capital projects with material CIP and SIP balances, by working with project managers and GTS finance to evaluate capitalization/write-off decision, resulting in $8.0M in capitalizations and write-off’s of $0.2M.
- Responsible for $17M department AOP development, internal business billing, monthly accruals, census reporting, ongoing financial reporting and variance analysis US Honeywell Shared Services.
- Developed monthly productivity metrics scorecard presented during Monthly Operating Reviews
- Prepared quarterly and annual operating reviews, along with presentations and analysis.
- Reconciled complex multi-business $20M Manpower Inc. account to current. Rolled out monthly status reports to businesses.
- Developed activity-based management study, used to prioritize work migration to BPO.
Accounts Payable Manager
Honeywell Global Business Services
Tempe, AZ
01.1996 - 01.2003
- Responsible for management of accounts payable processes for numerous ERP systems
- Consolidated 6 accounts payable sites into shared service site in Tempe, AZ
- Worked on GE integration team and helped develop transition plan post merger.
- Helped plan and implement transition of accounts payable from Tempe, AZ to San Luis Potosi, MX.
- Responsible for management of career development of employees
- Trained, managed, and hired accounts payable employees
Accountant
Hospice of Michigan
Southfield, MI
01.1993 - 01.1996
- Responsible for monthly journal entries of P&L and Balance Sheet accounts.
- Post closing responsibilities included variance analysis on all P&L accounts.
- Bank reconciliations, posted ending cash balances.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of Michigan - Flint
Flint, MI 08.1991 - 05.1993
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, MI 08.1987 - 05.1991
Skills
Coaching and training
Timeline
Finance Manager, Licensing
Honeywell, Inc
01.2008 - Current
Financial / Operations Analyst
Honeywell Corporate Finance
01.2004 - 01.2008
Accounts Payable Manager
Honeywell Global Business Services
01.1996 - 01.2003
Accountant
Hospice of Michigan
01.1993 - 01.1996
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of Michigan - Flint
08.1991 - 05.1993
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism
Central Michigan University
08.1987 - 05.1991
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