Raj B.

About Raj B.

A results driven senior finance leader with over 30 years of extensive aerospace manufacturing experience with business units of multinational corporations and private equity groups. Known for being a proactive business partner by understanding key business drivers; improving profitability and cash flow; implementing lean processes; leading change and developing high performing teams.Specialty- Managing multi-site organizations - Rightsizing and restructuring businesses- M&A - Divestitures and acquisitions and associated integration - Negotiating collective bargaining agreements with IAM and UAW - In depth government contracting knowledge (FAR, DFAR, CAS, DCAA, DCMA)- Certified Six Sigma Greenbelt

Experience

1. VP Finance & IT

   VACCO Industries

   Oct 2021 — Present · South El Monte, CA, US

   CFO and Empowered Official of VACCO with wide-ranging responsibilties for company’s Finance, Accounting, Cost Estimating, Contracts, Information Technologies (IT), ITAR & Export Control functions. VACCO Industries is a leading designer and manufacturer of specialty valves, filters and advanced fluid control products—offering innovative engineered solutions to critical missions for defense, space, and commercial markets. VACCO’s customers are aerospace and defense primes, including Boeing, General Dynamics Electric Boat, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Jet Propulsion Lab, and the US Navy, and NASA.ESCO Technologies is a global provider of highly engineered products and solutions to diverse and growing end-markets that include the aerospace, defense, space, healthcare, wireless, consumer electronics, electric utility, and renewable energy industries.

Education

• University of Connecticut School of Business

  BS, Accounting and Finance

  1977 — 1981

• University of Hartford

  MBA, Corporate Finance

  1985 — 1988

• The Wharton School

  Certificate, Strategic Partnering for Finance Leaders

  2007 — 2007

Skills

• Sap
• Due Diligence
• Business Process Improvement
• Leadership
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Internal Audit
• Financial Planning
• Budgeting
• Financial Reporting
• Cost Benefit
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Strategic Planning
• Earned Value Management
• Us Gaap
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Analysis
• Financial Analysis
• Government Contracting
• Process Improvement
• Six Sigma
• Executive Management
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Budgets
• Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Acquisition Integration
• Gaap
• Management
• Aerospace
• Cost Accounting
• Financial Modeling
• Auditing
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Far
• Accounting
• Cpa
• Variance Analysis
• Mergers
• Restructuring