Manufacturing Product Cost & FP&A Consultant | Content Writer Connecting Businesses with Customers Through SEO| Niche site owner x9 | I Sell Integrity

My name is Benjamin Wann.

I am purpose-driven and passionate about making a difference by creating valuable, practical content and offering consulting services to increase profitability by optimizing Profitability and Product Costing accuracy within Manufacturing organizations.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills to form effective relationships throughout the organization and communicate complex analytical models/ financial concepts synthesized and concisely. Excellent analytical, decision-making, and project management abilities.

Top Strengths (Strength Finder 2.0): Focus, Analytical, Learner, Ideation, Achiever.

Areas of Expertise:

✔Product Costing & Profitability

✔Business Intelligence and Data Models

✔Operational Excellence: Proactively build strong relationships to understand and meet all business needs.

✔Strategy-Execution: Influence culture and lead others to align workstreams to reach targets/milestones on budget and time.

✔Process Improvement & Re-engineering: Fix what's broken and design systems to serve the business- Not vice versa.

✔Deep Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of financial accounting systems, controls, financial modeling, compliance procedures, and industry best practices. Leverage learnings and share knowledge.

How I Work:

• Rise beyond traditional expectations to lead projects leveraging data, analytics, and operational knowledge to drive company performance.

• Partner with functional leads to create plans and forecasts while understanding/evaluating vital operational drivers. Utilizes budgets, forecasts, and models to develop high-quality analyses monthly, quarterly, and annually.

• Demonstrated ability to execute, follow-up, and ensure attention to detail. Resourceful, creative, problem-solver.

• Demonstrated ability to instill a sense of urgency, think proactively, and increase productivity in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and team-oriented environment.

• Hands-on & Roll-up-the-sleeves approach towards executing day-to-day initiatives and work.

Management Consultant for Business Process-Analysis and -Reengineering

Complex product portfolios and process chains often make it difficult to answer questions about inefficiencies in production, logistics and overhead (VUCA). For example: which factors drive costs and revenues, which products/processes are profitable and which are not? To find answers to these questions, I offer the following consulting services:

- Optimization of IT systems and processes for accounting, budgeting and controlling (FP&A).

- Creation of transparency to identify non-value-adding processes in production and administration

- Strategy and measure development for cross-functional product/process-, cost and profit-optimization in mid-sized companies and corporations.

Expertise:

I have cross-functional expertise and many years of experience in corporate management, business controlling, cost accounting/management, production management (REFA), sales and IT.

Professional experience:

From the shop floor as a toolmaker, including in the USA and Canada, to director in the finance department of an international corporation, to founder, shareholder and managing director of a software company (Microsoft Partner).

Services:

BI/BA (Process Intelligence) based process analysis of complex, multi-layered value chains. Development and implementation of measures for cross-functional optimization of processes, productivity, costs, yield and quality. Software implementation for ERP, cost management & controlling as well as for the optimization of operational processes (BI/BA/PI).

Industries:

Automotive, mechanical engineering, toolmaking, plant engineering, precision engineering, electrical engineering, metal/plastics processing industry.