Ralph Luto

Fast tracked leader promoted from Controller, Director to Treasurer & Secretary in seven years span. Tasked with directing the entire financial operations of Nagase America LLC, including budgeting, planning, investing, and other financial matters. As well as oversight of Trade Compliance, IT and HR departments.

• Created, planned, and implemented policies and procedures to increase productivity and maximize organizational efficiencies such as utilization of Tableau dashboards, standardized budgeting with Centage and Concur AP and expense reporting.
• Collaborate extensively with other executives to define and improve company mission, goals and operational effectiveness.
• Oversee entire company SG&A expense budget with annual spending $15M+
• Manage implementation of ERP upgrade to S4 HANA & development of in-house supply chain digitalization platform resulting in 50% efficiency improvement in workflow processing and tracking.
• Established competitive quotas and bonus programs for sales department ,helping to increasing YoY profitability by 15% and boost employee moral.
• Coordinated with external auditors to enforce compliance with financial regulations and standards.
• Introduced and implemented EDI practices resulting in 80% reduction in man hours spent on order processing.

Supervise and manage all aspects of finance and administrative operations. Responsible for forecasting and compiling ROI analysis and customer profitability reports. Work closely with senior sales managers to grow sales volume while strategically ensuring margins are met with current and potential new customers. Constantly anticipate changes to promote better practice and contribute to the company.

• Credited with managing and overseeing 5 years of smooth and spotless audits.
• Responsible for compiling and reporting monthly, quarterly and annual financial results to USA General Manager and global Board of Directors.
• Implemented and oversaw noncompliance dispute procedures, resulting in annual saving over $100,000 in fiscal year 2014.
• Responsible for enforcing EDI functionalities to ERP systems. Resulting in increase from 10 EDI customers in 2010 to over 100 by 2015, greatly improving productivity.
• Negotiated Agent Commission agreements for all outside sales agencies.
• Manage and file Sales & Use tax reporting to all NEXUS States.

• Received prestigious Airman of the Year Award. (Employee of the Year)
• Accomplished 52 in-depth reports and presentations to senior leader meetings.
• Periodically audited source data for accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with directives.
• Collected, monitored, audited, evaluated, and analyzed MIS data.
• Use statistical techniques, interpreted findings from data, identified trends and significant deviations, and recommended corrective action.