Harlan Kowitt
Chief Financial Officer @Hickory Farms, LLC
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Financial Officer @Hickory Farms, LLC
Chicago, IL, US
Finance and accounting leader for a $150MM leading retailer of food gifts and specialty foods. Responsibilities include Treasury, FP & A, Accounting and Supply Chain Planning. Focus has been partnering with management team to maximize profitability, accelerate sales growth, simplify finance workflows and integrate supply chain planning.
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting, Finance
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, Real Estate
SKILLS
ABOUT HARLAN KOWITT
An energetic transformational finance leader who delivers impact through thoughtful analysis, and cross functional collaboration to drive operational efficiencies and accelerate earnings. I thrive in situations where there is no roadmap or template to solve a business issue. Success is predicated on critical thinking, stakeholder collaboration and resourcefulness.Faster and better decisions are enabled by partnering with business leads to focus on 5-7 key business drivers. This approach ensures business strategies, investments, and initiatives are concentrated on improving these levers to accelerate earnings. Additionally, this process often requires synthesizing trends for business partners to highlight drivers of operating performance and taking corrective action as needed.Finally, my project management and process improvement skills were critical to the implementation of a transformational cloud-based planning and analysis platform (Anaplan from Hyperion), enabling integrated business planning, improved forecast accuracy and effectiveness of business analysis. This project included business strategy, software selection, requirements gathering, stakeholder alignment, business process redesign, change management and project execution.A critical thinker and enterprising leader who develops partnerships that drive profitable business decisions and operational efficiencies.Additional proficiencies include, Strategic Planning and Budgeting | Forecasting | Operational Analysis | Business Partnership | Cash Flow Management | Systems Integration | Management Reporting | Capital Planning and Evaluation | Executive and Board Presentation Development |Cost Control | Supply Chain Finance | Business Case Development | Logistics | Risk Assessment | Initiative Value Capture | ROIC | IPO Support | M&A Due Diligence | M&A Integration | Financial Accounting | Process Improvement | Executive Compensation Programs| Continuous Improvement | KPI Development and Analysis |Talent Development | Internal Control-SOX.
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