Guckenheimer

Finance Director

A-Frame Venture Studio

Advisor

Memorable Experiences Group

• Led all financial, accounting, HR and IT activities for operating entity investment of a family entertainment center focused private equity fund including technical transition from previous ownership: Accounting, Payroll, Cap Ex, Annual planning and forecasting, and P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow activities and reporting.
• Rationalized product offerings and pricing,  leading to simplified operations and customer experience, and higher spend per receipt.
• Provided and presented all financial reporting and analysis for quarterly investor meetings.
• Led internal and third-party support team through re-branding, renovation, and relaunch of operating entity

Chief Financial Officer

Stone Brewing

• Led first ever bottoms up annual budgeting, latest estimate forecast, and mid-year COVID impact projection process across operations, sales,
hospitality, and distribution businesses (~$250M revenue) .
• Developed monthly departmental financial performance reporting, driving monthly business reviews presented by department leaders.
• Developed consolidated P&L reporting including KPI reporting (volume, headcount, T&E, capital spend, and rate per unit), easily reconciled to the chart of accounts, reducing redundancy and reporting time by a day and use in investor updates and bank covenant renegotiation.
• Provided analysis on change drivers of price volume mix analysis for sales, raw materials, and Gen Admin OH spend.
• Established P&L calculations and review process for all new products.
• Calculated and implemented updated overhead costs standards for internal production.

Sr Director FP&A

Constellation Brands

• Led team of 7 providing monthly financial processes and evaluations for all of Constellation Brands US winery operations and operations support teams: ~$360M annual budget.
• Provided leadership, coaching, and support of team of managers and analysts during changing structure, new personnel, and expanding expectations of business partners.
• Led, presented, and reviewed results of annual budgeting process for Constellation Brands US winery operations and support teams.
• Coordinated annual physical inventory audit processes for ~100 branch plants, providing approvals and count postings.
• Developed financial performance scorecards for monthly financial performance reporting.

Director Operations Finance, Winery Support

• Owned, updated, and coordinated Annual 5 yr. Strategic Plan financial model including performance analysis.
• Partnered with brand managers, operations, project managers and operations finance to evaluate financial impact of all new initiatives: new brands, line extensions, and product changes.
• Delivered financial analysis for proposed strategic initiatives, 5 yr. growth projections, and projects: Spirits Strategy, Fine Wine Initiative and Franciscan restructure.

Finance Manager, Marketing (Innovation & Strategy)

• Led financial long-term planning, annual planning, and reporting activities for EMEA sales team: 50 countries, 137 distributors, 5 op cos.
• Created P&L projections for new product development proposals and customer performance evaluations.
• Provided accrual entry, commission calculations, invoice and credit coding and data validation.
• Established financial guidance, modeling, transfer pricing, and 3rd party pricing of new European distribution entity.
• Developed business process documentation for intercompany and direct sales of multiple product types, bottling relationships, production facilities, and operating companies

Finance Manager, EMEA Sales

Harmless Harvest

• Led all financial, accounting and HR activities for coconut water start up with $8.3m annual sales: Accounting, FP&A, Cap Ex, A/R loan development, and P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow activities.
• Developed Cost of Goods methodology and processes for sales approval, sales projections, vendor invoicing corrections, and customer deduction reclamation.
• Led production planning and execution, from raw materials ordering to finished goods pickups.

Finance Manager

Bonny Doon Vineyard

• Lead Operations and Finance of winery, direct to consumer, sales and restaurant business including accounting, HR, viticulture, sales, marketing, and hospitality.
• Developed adjustable financial model for long term plan including input supplies, COGs, expenses, capital, profit and loss, cash flow, and balance sheet to optimize profitability of the business.
• Implemented monthly department financial reporting and established department owner performance accountability.
• Produced quarterly financial results required by loan entity in order to maintain operational financing

General Manager

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates

• Developed financial model for the long-term plan, coordinating gap reconciliation of raw materials supply versus finished goods sales demand, and projecting COGs, expenses, capital, and retail profit and loss.
• Coordinated annual capital and expense budgets, and quarterly financial reporting for 4 CA wineries (26 depts).
• Identified inefficient finished goods storage, consolidated locations for operational saving and $0.5m cash influx.
• Developed Cost of Goods training to support decision making impacts on the Income Statement, Profits and Loss, and product margins.

Business Planner, CA

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

• Enterprise Analytics- Analyzed company-wide discretionary spending expense patterns and policies vs. standards for comparable industries, recommended instituting per diem and per meal expense limitation policy for business travel.
• Outage Restoration- Created model to optimize power restoration resources reducing average power interruption duration; analyzed trends of electric system outages for territory to target funding and improvement efforts.
• Smart Energy Web- Analyzed Home Area Network (HAN) market space (investors, manufactures, technology providers, customers, and utilities); Developed business criteria for technology selection and deployment strategy recommendation for 5m electric meters.
• Demand Response (DR)- Managed Product Development Organization, expanded and improved team; Launched 4 DR products resulting in reduced production needs and simplification of a portfolio of programs.
• Energy Policy Planning and Analysis-Improved model and authored manual for avoided cost model; Analyzed solar technology costs, presenting recommendations to C suite to focus on concentrating solar to meet near term objectives.

Principal

Bose Corp

• Collected and delineated  reporting of  sales performance metrics used in business planning and analysis. 
• Analyzed current state of sales report findings and future needs in order to minimize data validation and report production and maximize information analysis and insight.
• Performed statistical regression analysis of customer experience scores vs. sales for wholesale customer in order to determine effective score related incentives for sales staff.

Business Analyst Intern

Experienced Financial Planning and Analysis leader with over 15 years of expertise in CPG and technology with a diverse set of companies

Specialties: 
Long Term Planning (P&L, supply and demand balancing, operations and sales)
Projections (cash flow, balance sheet, income statement)
Financial models
Budget performance management (operations and sales)
Business process identification and improvement (operations and sales)

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