Becky Mitchell
Commercial Financial Manager-US Autoparts Aftermarket at Clarios- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB)
GE
Experience
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Clarios
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United States
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Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Commercial Financial Manager-US Autoparts Aftermarket
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Sep 2020 - Present
Commercial Finance Manager for three accounts, including Clarios’ largest aftermarket customer, managing the financial forecasting and reporting for $812MM of sales annually and $177MM of customer program funding. - Provided P&L and balance sheet forecasts involving complex modeling of financial and cost recovery programs, as well as analysis of financial impacts related to contract negotiations. - Interfaced with Treasury on a $650MM factoring program in order to maximize cash flow, and completed factoring recovery analysis on various LIBOR assumptions for FY2023 in order to identify magnitude of risks. - Actively participated in the development of a finance rotation program, assisted tax team in external Sales Tax Audit of exemption certificates for all commercial customers, and served as commercial finance representative for the evaluation of a new global account reconciliation solution. Show less
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GE Healthcare
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Global Product Finance Manager - Cardiovascular Ultrasound, Diagnostic Cardiology, and Acute Care
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Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
Finance Manager for three businesses, supporting teams that generate $700MM in sales annually through product development and improvement. Responsibilities include measuring P&L results such as revenue growth and operating profit, as well as evaluation of return on investment of new product introductions, variable cost productivity, market share, pricing and capture rates. - Managed $77MM of variable and base cost spend, coming in below budget for all three segments ($3MM in total). - Secured $1.5MM of government and private funding for investment in product development. Show less
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Sr. Commercial Finance Mgr, Cardiovascular Ultrasound
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Mar 2011 - Oct 2018
Finance Manager for $150MM Cardiovascular Ultrasound sales organization comprised of 75 employees, driving 13% orders growth. - Identified cost savings of $5MM annually with no negative impact to sales margin. - Developed sales incentives and promotional pricing with external market partner, generating $5.5MM of incremental sales in the first three quarters. - Partnered with sales leadership to create growth opportunities and increase market share. - Managed $50MM sales commission pool, including compensation model for estimating and accruing commissions for 450 individuals/50+ incentive plans. Show less
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Commercial Finance Mgr, Diagnostic Cardiology
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Jul 2007 - Mar 2011
Responsible for planning, forecasting and reporting U.S. sales and margins of $80MM business. - Partnered with sales manager of distribution channel to monitor success of numerous distributors and manufacturers representatives. - Leveraged Accounts Receivable team in identifying drivers of non-payments in order to increase AR turns and working capital.
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Operations Finance Manager, Diagnostic Cardiology
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Feb 2006 - Jul 2007
Responsible for planning, forecasting and reporting $20MM of costs related to engineering development of four product lines in three countries. - Worked cross-functionally with supply chain to set standard inventory costs annually and as needed. - Facilitated capitalization of software development according to GAAP guidelines and interfaced with Controllership on Technical Feasibility requirements and impairment testing.
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Operations Analyst, Service Supply Chain
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Apr 2004 - Feb 2006
Responsible for the planning/buying tools used by the Service parts business to fulfill customer needs. - Managed optimization of parts supply for the U.S. Services business, including measuring SCOT (shipped complete on time) and Span (time to fulfill) for various categories of products. - Maintained Access database to ensure availability of accurate information to the team of 13 buyers and planners.
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Sales Compensation Manager
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Aug 2001 - Apr 2004
Responsible for driving development and implementation of sales incentive compensation plans as well as management of payments and issue resolution. - Designed annual variable compensation plans in conjunction with Sales leader and Human Resources partner. Created roll-out documents and communicated to sales teams. - Interfaced with Oracle consultant to program plans systemically and test them. - Created workflow and streamlined process for payment issue resolution.
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Sr. Financial Analyst, Global Services
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Jun 1999 - Aug 2001
Responsible for planning, forecasting and reporting results for the GE Healthcare Services business. - Developed common definition of global Service metrics and standards across the regions. - Consolidated regional service results into single global view.
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GE Industrial Systems
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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Financial Planning & Analysis
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Oct 1996 - Jun 1999
Responsible for planning, forecasting and reporting monthly/quarterly results for the Drive Systems division. - Provided detailed explanations of current year variances to prior year actuals and operating plan. - Developed operating plans and prior year recasts to align with current annual business structure. Responsible for planning, forecasting and reporting monthly/quarterly results for the Drive Systems division. - Provided detailed explanations of current year variances to prior year actuals and operating plan. - Developed operating plans and prior year recasts to align with current annual business structure.
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GE Plastics
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Plastics Manufacturing
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Commercial Pricing Analyst
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Feb 1995 - Oct 1996
Responsible for planning and measuring pricing strategy for various grades of plastic resins to extruders and distributors. Required close monitoring to ensure that sales of both GE and competitor material complied with Robinson-Patman Act. Responsible for planning and measuring pricing strategy for various grades of plastic resins to extruders and distributors. Required close monitoring to ensure that sales of both GE and competitor material complied with Robinson-Patman Act.
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GE Nuclear Energy
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United States
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Construction
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1 - 100 Employee
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Financial Analyst, Business Operations
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Jan 1994 - Feb 1995
Responsible for the cost management of site expenses related to Sourcing and Facilities.
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Financial Analyst, Legal Containment
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Aug 1992 - Jan 1994
Responsible for modeling multiple scenarios related to financial settlement of nuclear reactor containment issues. Proposed settlements varied by customer and were reviewed with Legal and business leadership.
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Financial Management Program (FMP)
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Aug 1990 - Aug 1992
Completed GE Financial Management Program consisting of financial coursework as well as rotational assignments in GE Capital (San Francisco, CA), Manufacturing Finance (Wilmington, NC), Operations Analysis (Vallecitos, CA) and FP&A (San Jose, CA).
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Education
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Finance
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