David Hill

About David Hill

Finance/Accounting Professional with broad experience in many aspects of accounting, auditing and financial management. Direct experience with Shared Service Center Operations, Financial Process Outsourcing, Construction, Hospitality, Building Products, Manufacturing, CPG, Financial and IT consulting. Interested inmoving into a financial leadership role or a Project Management/Process Improvement role.Specialties: Financial ReportingProject ManagementProcess DesignProcess ImprovementManaging Outsourced OperationsFinancial Statement PreparationChange ManagementFinancial Statement ReviewFinancial and IT Audit

Experience

1. VP Global Controller

   James Hardie

   Jun 2016 — Present

   Responsible for Internal Reporting, Global Controllership, Manufacturing Plant Accounting and Shared Service functions for a $2B annual revenue publicly traded corporation • Responsible for all compliance and SOX activities including IT controls• Responsible for driving global standardization for all end to end financial processes to drive down cost, increase efficiency while ensuring that the control environment is maintained or improved• Developed and am currently leading the implementation of the long term Global Accounting Strategy• Responsible for maintaining the relationship with Ernst & Young. I have been able to end audit cost increases by creating a more efficient audit process thus allowing for any inflationary increases to be offset by efficiency gains• Responsible for an overall team of 100+ Associates worldwide• Brought a Business Partnering and Continuous improvement mindset to the controllership organization• Responsible for increasing the organizations ability to leverage SAP to drive efficiency and drive a “One version of the Truth” mindset• Developed a Global P&P Framework that is being used to develop, document and standardize global processes that will allow the organization to gain scalable and sustainable processes which will not only increase standardization, but will also allow for more rapid onboarding• Responsible for driving down turnover from 15%+ to under 8%• Turned the accounting organization from an organization that was avoided to one that was viewed as a business partner. • Introduced KPI’s to the Controllership function to help hold both Operations and Controllership to standards to help drive efficiencies• Implemented best of breed applications (i.e. Blackline) that connect to SAP to drive efficiencies and greater controls across the global accounting function. These applications were funded with headcount reductions that came from developing the underlying processes and then layering the application on top.

Education

• University of Illinois Chicago

  Masters, Business Administration

  1999 — 2001

• University of Notre Dame

  BBA, Accounting

  1994 — 1998