Jason Zillmer

About Jason Zillmer

Finance leader who partners with teams to tackle challenges, improve processes, and support smarter decision-making. Brings a strong track record of turning financial data into practical insights, building lasting relationships, and delivering meaningful value across all functions and levels of an organization. Experienced in process improvements, forecasting, scenario analysis, ERP implementations, material and inventory costing, and manufacturing operations.

Experience

1. Regional Controller

   Wagner Spray Tech

   Jun 2020 — Present · Plymouth, MN, US

   Lead the controlling (FP & A) function for two U.S. business units ($300M revenue /$25M operating income) and five diverse customer and product segments.• Designed and implemented a 16-month rolling forecast model, replacing fixed annual budgets, including change management and model development resulting in more flexibility and faster reactions to changing business environments• Manage a high-performing finance team including a Senior Finance Manager and Operations Controller, fostering collaboration and accountability throughout the organization.• Deliver monthly local and group-level managements reports and present results and forecast updates to executive leadership.• Collaborate with domestic and international colleagues to perform capital investment analysis (NPV / ROI), make / buy, production and vendor location decisions along with impacts to individual entities and overall group involving tariff and other long term strategic scenarios. • Conduct manufacturing variance analysis and develop reporting which lead to better understanding of manufacturing variance drivers, improved costing model accuracy, reduction of production order variances, improvements in master data, support for kaizen process improvements and • Build financial models, scenario planning, and collaborate with external diligence teams in the U.S. and Latin America related to potential M&A targets.• Serve as US FICO lead / key user, supporting transition from SAP R/3 to S/4HANA• 401k committee and US home finishing customer experience team member.

Education

• North Dakota State University

  Bachelor's degree, Accountancy

  2000 — 2006

Skills

• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Gaap)
• Business Process
• Yellow Belt
• Master Data Management
• Budgets
• Account Reconciliation
• Accounts Payable
• Construction Accounting
• Vlookup
• Accounting
• Financial Reporting
• Manufacturing
• Problem Solving
• Ms Excel Pivot Tables
• Microsoft Excel
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• General Ledger
• Cost Accounting
• Sap Mm
• Analysis
• Sap Implementation
• Microsoft Office
• Accruals
• Internal Controls
• Sap
• Change Management
• Forecasting
• Continuous Improvement
• Variance Analysis
• Financial Statements
• Management
• Fixed Assets
• Accounts Receivable
• Sap Bi
• Financial Accounting
• Process Improvement
• Inventory Management
• Oee
• Jd Edwards