Experience

Honda Trading America Corporation

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• North American Governance, Risk Compliance & Ethics (GRCE) Manager

  • 2019 - Present

  Marysville, OH, United States My leadership supports a $4B supply chain organization. I own P&L/balance sheets including cash flow statements for Japan & US Federal reporting, while managing a high performing team across a three country region. ***Created a training program that supported professional development, lowering attrition significantly. *** I led improvements to Business Continuity Planning emphasizing IT-based disaster mitigation/recovery, which rapidly became relevant during Covid—providing… Show more My leadership supports a $4B supply chain organization. I own P&L/balance sheets including cash flow statements for Japan & US Federal reporting, while managing a high performing team across a three country region. ***Created a training program that supported professional development, lowering attrition significantly. *** I led improvements to Business Continuity Planning emphasizing IT-based disaster mitigation/recovery, which rapidly became relevant during Covid—providing prescriptions for how to run and transact business amid shutdowns ***Overhauled our Chemical Compliance program with IT infrastructure improvements that increased the rate of compliance and elevated customer satisfaction Show less



American Honda Motor Company, Inc.

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Governance, Risk & Control (GRC) Lead, North American Region

  • 2015 - 2019

  Marysville, Ohio I owned GRC across North America spanning technical program management, vendor liaison, IT compliance and security, AI and digital transformation, cross-site training, and auditing *** helped drive a PeopleSoft conversion before and after Go-Live as an org-wide change leader and trainer ***owned the GRC system supporting IT SOX compliance across 11 Honda business systems Independent Business Integration & Change Management Consultant



Rob Mockard Management Consulting

• Rob Mockard Management Consulting

  • 2010 - 2015

  Columbus, Ohio Area I provided change management, and operations and business process consulting for Honda, Mettler-Ohio and others. ***Developed hands-on end user training for Honda N.A. ***Key leader in SAP implementation at Honda, including mapping business processes to system functionality and customizations, while ensuring SOX compliance controls



Travelex

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• North American CFO & SVP of Finance, Global Business Payments

  • 2009 - 2009

  I was N.A. CFO for a $100M region with $6B global foreign cash flow purview, member of the Board of Directors, and member of the Audit Committee. ***helped integrate U.S. acquisition of a UK-based private-equity owned entity ***avoided a potential $2M write-off by accelerating collection cycles 30+ days and improving cash flow



AXA

• France
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• CFO, North America Region

  • 2000 - 2008

  I reported to NA Chair and oversaw $50M business division with $350M cash flow spanning operations in 39 countries. ***rebuilt finance structure post-merger, and create and managed the Treasury role ***helped company realize $800% revenue growth and double-digit margins during tenure



Information Resources, Inc.

• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President, Director of Internal Audit

  • 1997 - 2000

  Chief Audit Executive who reported to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Worked closely with the CFO. Assessed risk, developed and executed an annual audit plan across all IRI’s global businesses. Met on a regular basis with the executive management team and Audit committee to review corporate risks. Developed auditors to partner with operations management inside and outside of the US. - Grew internal audit staff formerly outsourced to improve HQ collaboration with… Show more Chief Audit Executive who reported to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Worked closely with the CFO. Assessed risk, developed and executed an annual audit plan across all IRI’s global businesses. Met on a regular basis with the executive management team and Audit committee to review corporate risks. Developed auditors to partner with operations management inside and outside of the US. - Grew internal audit staff formerly outsourced to improve HQ collaboration with operations management around the world. - Collaborated closely with CFO; reported to Audit Committee of Board of Directors. - Indemnified key risks worth $1.5M with joint venture partner in Eastern Europe. - Saved $250K on liquidation of Japanese subsidiary through critical Balance Sheet review. - Optimized ORACLE financials system functionality via implementation assessment. - Recruited by CFO to perform non-audit projects (e.g., companywide savings initiative). Show less



Nestlé Purina North America

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Internal Auditor

  • 1994 - 1997

  Worked at both Purina Pet and Energizer Battery locations in Europe, Asia and Latin America and assisted local management to improve internal controls and to lower costs in compliance with HQ requirements.



EY

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Audit

  • 1991 - 1994

  Managed and completed financial audits of a diverse client base including McCormick Spices & Dryden Oil companies.