aaron fox resume - june 2016

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FOX - 1 OF 6 AARON K. FOX 1756 Driftwood Ct. Oxford, MI 48371 (248)515-7163 [email protected] Qualifications For: Financial Management, Financial Analyst and SAP Finance PERSONAL SUMMARY A financial professional with fifteen plus years of Automotive experiences. I have experiences supporting operations such as Payroll, Logistics and Supply Chain, Procurement and Sourcing, Business Development, Project Spending, Troubled Suppliers, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis, and Corporate Accounts Payable. Additionally, I have supported the company in the large process of entering bankruptcy, exiting bankruptcy and cleaning up from bankruptcy. Most recent experience is supporting the company through the huge undertaking of a successful implementation of SAP Go-Live. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY June 2016 – Current International Financial Specialist – FP&A Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Auburn Hills MI FP&A – Lead Finance Analyst – Processes and Procedures - Finance Specialist Redesign the processes and procedures of the international teams forecasts and actuals processes February 2015 – June 2016 Financial Specialist – IT Finance Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Auburn Hills MI ICT Finance – Lead Financial Analyst - Capital Finance Specialist Reconcile ICT’s $100M software construction in process balance and identify disconnects to correctly identify $3M overstatement Developed procedures and processes allowing ICT to correctly understand what is in their $75M capital forecast Developed process and procedures to correctly tie forecasts and budgets out to the SAP system Work with operations to improve the approval process for capital and G&A spends Develop procedures to allow the ICT organization to properly capitalize nearly $100M in old capital projects July 2014 – February 2015 Financial Specialist – IT Finance Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Auburn Hills MI ICT Finance – Lead Financial Analyst - Accounting Specialist Redesign the accounting processes and procedures to allow the group to properly close the books in 50% less time Develop accrual process to systematically account for a $70M monthly accrual Developed procedures to allow the group to be in alignment with SAP data when

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A A R O N K . F O X1756 Driftwood Ct.Oxford, MI 48371

(248)[email protected]

Qualifications For: Financial Management, Financial Analyst and SAP FinancePERSONAL SUMMARY

A financial professional with fifteen plus years of Automotive experiences. I have experiences supporting operations such as Payroll, Logistics and Supply Chain, Procurement and Sourcing, Business Development, Project Spending, Troubled Suppliers, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis, and Corporate Accounts Payable. Additionally, I have supported the company in the large process of entering bankruptcy, exiting bankruptcy and cleaning up from bankruptcy. Most recent experience is supporting the company through the huge undertaking of a successful implementation of SAP Go-Live.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORYJune 2016 – Current International Financial Specialist – FP&A Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Auburn Hills MIFP&A – Lead Finance Analyst – Processes and Procedures - Finance Specialist Redesign the processes and procedures of the international teams forecasts and actuals

processes

February 2015 – June 2016 Financial Specialist – IT Finance Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Auburn Hills MIICT Finance – Lead Financial Analyst - Capital Finance Specialist Reconcile ICT’s $100M software construction in process balance and identify disconnects to

correctly identify $3M overstatement Developed procedures and processes allowing ICT to correctly understand what is in their

$75M capital forecast Developed process and procedures to correctly tie forecasts and budgets out to the SAP system Work with operations to improve the approval process for capital and G&A spends Develop procedures to allow the ICT organization to properly capitalize nearly $100M in old

capital projects

July 2014 – February 2015 Financial Specialist – IT Finance Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Auburn Hills MIICT Finance – Lead Financial Analyst - Accounting Specialist Redesign the accounting processes and procedures to allow the group to properly close the

books in 50% less time Develop accrual process to systematically account for a $70M monthly accrual Developed procedures to allow the group to be in alignment with SAP data when working on

month end accruals and forecasts

June 2013 – July 2014 Financial Specialist – Procurement & Sourcing Finance Control Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills MIPurchasing Finance – Financial Analyst - SAP System Implementation (Non-Production Procurement) Project Management for convergence of Chrysler and FIAT Systems. Lead cross functional teams to convert from legacy systems and data over to SAP systems.

Approximately 16 systems, that previously produced Purchasing Documents, were sun downed

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and converted to SAP. Co-Lead conversion of purchasing documents from legacy systems to SAP. Roughly 70

thousand purchase orders totaling $7 billion dollars were converted into the new SAP system. Projects containing program spend limits and corresponding actuals were reconciled and then converted into SAP; approximately $11.5 B spread across 2k programs.

System testing and financial validation to ensure systems are functioning as designed Primary contact for Chrysler Canada, Fleet and Network Development in ensuring the groups

are adequately ready for the implementation of SAP (ensure they are prepared, knowledgeable and receive proper training prior to SAP system go live).

Post go live cleanup

October 2012 – June 2013 Financial Specialist – Procurement & Sourcing Finance Control Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills MIPurchasing Finance – Financial Analyst - SAP System Implementation (Direct Production Procurement) Project Management for 36 Financial end users and 200+ Direct Buyers for SAP system Go-Live

for Direct Production Procurement Design and test Custom SAP Material Off-Standard Cost system to allow proper financial

transactions and proper reporting for $200 million plus of annual material off-standard tracking Build training material for end users Assist with the implementation of non-standard SAP design to properly track off standard

material prices Provide guidance and training for Purchasing Finance and Procurement Post go live clean up

January 2012 – October 2012 Financial Specialist – Procurement & Sourcing Finance Control Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills MIPurchasing Finance – Financial Analyst - Process Improvement Specialist Integration of Chrysler Purchasing and Fiat Purchasing Management Performance Reporting

tools Implementation of Fiat and Chrysler Supplier Performance reporting Implementation of Chrysler / Fiat Purchasing consolidation reporting

January 2011 – January 2012 Financial Specialist – Procurement & Sourcing Finance Control Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills MISource Planning Finance – Financial Analyst Develop and present financial business case studies as related to making or buying processes and components as related to the entire manufacturing process throughout Chrysler Group LLC. Develop, coordinate and lead efforts to build and present business cases for sourcing business

internally, within Chrysler, or sourcing business externally, at a supplier. Ensure all financials, manpower requirements, processes and investment details are accurate

and complete. Ensure all scenarios in the studies contain ‘like comparisons’ to ensure all decisions are made in the best interest of the company.

Ensure all applicable parties and all involved participants are well engaged and in agreement with regards to the study and the corresponding data.

Coordinate review meetings with senior leadership and present financial findings of sourcing studies to corresponding leadership.

January 2010 – January 2011 Financial Specialist – Procurement & Sourcing Finance Control Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills MI.

G&A, Fixed Costs and Cash Analyst Procurement & Sourcing Finance ControlDevelop and maintain Purchasing and Supplier Quality’s - $80M G&A budgets, Consolidation of Purchasing and Supplier Qualities $147M fixed costs budget; Consolidation of Purchasing and Supplier Qualities Cash Forecast Develop departmental G&A Budgets, maintain actuals and develop & maintain the Budget

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Performance Reporting for the various groups. Work with the various Directors, groups and HR to ensure all departments operated within their fixed costs budget; G&A budgets and ensure manpower authorizations were not exceeded.

Consolidation of all Chrysler Purchasing and Supplier Quality fixed costs inclusive of G&A, CN Tooling, Project Expense, Resource Tooling Supplier Claims Expense, and International Offices Expenses.

Consolidate the groups’ cash reporting requirements to Treasury to help ensure Chrysler meets its cash positive goals for 2010. Developed additional reporting techniques to allow for more accurate cash reporting by reporting in Canadian Dollars and at Canadian locations for Purchasing and Supplier Quality.

May 2009 – January 2010 Financial Analyst Specialist – Procurement & Sourcing Finance Control Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills MI.Financial Analyst Raw Material Economics & Bankruptcy Conversion Specialist – Procurement & Sourcing Finance Control. Develop liability amounts owed to suppliers and reports utilized for bankruptcy courts. Developed methods and oversee group of people to transition Chrysler out of bankruptcy through the bankruptcy clean-up period. Support the Chrysler’s Bankruptcy by developing supplier cure payment build-ups by gathering

large quantities of data, manipulating the information and creating reports to show total liabilities owed to suppliers at the time Chrysler entered bankruptcy.

Develop, implement and maintain the process of cleaning up from Chrysler’s “off-line” bankruptcy cure payment process by creating and tracking supplier cure debits that followed the supplier cure payments. Through various methods that I developed and put in place, I have been able to successfully issue and track $1.3B of cure debits to over 2,500 divisional suppliers.

Clean up the Chrysler Corporate Accounts Payable system of all prepetition invoices that were in the system and continued to enter the system at the time of bankruptcy and thereafter. At the time Chrysler entered bankruptcy there were over 500K invoices worth $1.6B. I successfully dispositioned all 500K plus of invoices against cure debits ensuring suppliers were not “double paid” and identifying where any overpayments were made in the cure payment process.

Team worked with suppliers to answer questions, resolve discrepancies and recoup any overpayments that occurred during the cure payment process. Due to the off-line cure payment process Chrysler had to cycle all invoices through the systems to properly account for the $1.6B of supplier cure payments. This off-line process created many problems, questions and misunderstanding throughout Chrysler and the Suppliers. We were able to work with the communities to resolve such inquiries.

Identify weaknesses in the various Chrysler systems throughout the bankruptcy process allowing for improvements to be made to the systems in the new Chrysler, post-bankruptcy.

Oct 2008 – May 2009 Financial Analyst Raw Material Economics– Procurement & Sourcing Finance Daimler Chrysler, Auburn Hills MI.Maintain, Coordinate, Forecast and Create Future cost Models with regards to Chrysler’s Raw Materials Usage by running Chrysler’s Raw Material Simulator. Chrysler’s Raw Material Simulator involves tracking all aspects of future and historic pricing and volumes as related to Aluminum, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Scrap Steel and Fasteners. Provide support to Buyers with regards to all financial aspects of Material Economics. Forecast future spending as relates to Material Economics Launch new system (Quantrix). Implement additional processes to simplify the forecasting

process and model building process – this new system and new procedure reduced the time needed to build up future models and forecast by 30%. These new processes allowed for additional pricing strategies to be tracked and implemented by the purchasing and financial communities.

Simplified the process of obtaining historic usage information and pricing information to accurately forecast future volume usage and pricing of all raw materials economic commodities.

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Developed methods to track and maintain additional commodities on Chrysler’s Simulator – Rubber, Fuels & Oils and Plastics.

Simplifying suppliers pricing adjustments to allow for more transparency between Chrysler and Chrysler’s Suppliers.

Implemented additional Raw Material Indexes to account for a hybrid of raw materials.

2001 – Oct 2008 Accounting & Financial Analyst Chrysler Transport, Inc. (CTI) Detroit, MI.Maintain all aspects of General Ledger for CTI; maintain inventory balances and reports, SOX procedures, tax reporting, capital assets, year end reporting, reconciliations, audits, payables, receivables, accruals, record retention, all aspects of monthly, quarterly, yearly close. Support Operations in all financial, performance, and competitive studies. Reduced the time needed to close the books by 50% through automated transactions and

simplifications to processes. Coordinated launch, tested, and ensured proper billings in launch of new automated billings

system that improved billing accuracy and eliminated manual entries. Develop and Maintain special cost studies; inclusive of business segment analysis, part cost

analysis, labor cost analysis, gap analysis, and performance metrics – with consideration given to volume and mix.

Coordinate, collect, analyze and present all cost studies relative to Chrysler Transport’s effort to “Return to Competitiveness”.

Coordinate the reduction of budgets’ forecast to actual variance by ensuring timely and proper bookings of all transactions and increasing communication channels between all groups – finance, accounting, and operations.

Increased inter-department communication channels to help eliminate dual-process wastes. Created a finance presence throughout the organization by tightening financial controls. Develop and ensure proper Sarbanes-Oxley compliances. Ensure all previous work in different areas of the organization was maintained. Develop and maintain Route Modeling and Cost Modeling analyses.

2000 - 2001 Payroll Specialist DaimlerChrysler Transport, Inc. Detroit, MIMaintain weekly Payroll to ensure proper weekly payments of 600K were made to 500 employees at DCTI. Conduct special studies as requested. Develop and maintain special programs to help automate processes throughout the organization.

1998–2000 Industrial Engineering DaimlerChrysler Transport, Inc., Detroit, MIDeveloped various tools and reports allowing Management and Operations groups to have visibility to business performance compared to standards set by Industrial Engineering.

Summer 1998 Plant Payroll / Accounting Specialist – Summer Intern Chrysler Corp. – Warren Truck, Warren, MIMaintain weekly Payroll to ensure proper weekly payments were made to the employees at Chrysler’s Large Warren Truck Assembly Plant. Handle completes made by employees, research potential errors, reconcile and correct as needed. Develop reporting tools for Plant Controller Staff for budget reporting.

EDUCATIONBaker College Flint , MI B.S. Business Management and Marketing

COMPUTER SKILLS

Expert in Microsoft Excel, Access, Power Point, Word; SAP, Essbase, Impromptu, Quantrix. Intermediate SQL, QMF.

Willing to travel and relocateReferences available upon request