Danielle Moats

Versatile, hard-working accounting professional with more than 20 years experience in manufacturing and operations. Enjoys intrinsic rewards by helping others and establishing rapport with clients, customers, and office and plant personnel. Skilled at budgeting and forecasting, strategic planning and financial performance reviews.

Owner - Pet Wants Chardon & Madison Village - Chardon, OH

(2019-06)

$1.5M Private Pet Retail & Pet Services brick and mortar stores

• Introduced a new pet retail store(s) to local Northeast Ohio residents while providing pet nutritional support for pet parents who appreciate a natural holistic life
• Responsible for all store operations including customer service, procurement and business reporting

Controller - Willowbend Nurseries, LLC. - Perry, OH

(2020-06 - 2023-11)

$25M Private locally owned nursery ornamental farms

• Responsible for daily financial transactions for all 5 privately owned nursery farms including general ledger, deposit and cash transactions, accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Developed new internal reporting tools to better manage CIP projects and account reconciliations
• Administer sales commissions for internal and external sales representatives
• Assist with farm employee human resources and special governmental projects

Finance & Operations Director - Ridder North America - Oakwood Village, OH

(2017-02 - 2019-11)

$80M Private Dutch owned manufacturer of greenhouse equipment

• Established the reorganization of the North American corporate office managing finance and operations team in Cleveland, sales and operations team in Canada, and remote sales and operations personnel throughout US
• Developed internal processes for both sales and operations teams to aide in the sales growth of nearly 40%
• Managed all daily operational and finance activities for North American division providing full financial and operational visibility to Board and Corporate Management in quarterly and annual presentations
• Responsible for all sales and financial budget plans and its management reporting
• Created all North American financial relationships between auditors and banks; managed required audits

Operations Finance Manager - Transtar Industries - Walton Hills, OH

(2015-11 - 2017-02)

$550M Private equity owned remanufacturer and distributor of automotive components

• Lead financial operations in 4 remanufacturing plants and 6 distribution centers with a cost base of $50M and corporate inventory of $110M
• Financial operations include, implementing new budgeting and forecasting process, inventory accounting, physical inventories and involvement in all manner of decision support
• Developed and implemented new income statement reporting and analysis package comparing actual performance versus plan, forecast and prior year
• Heightened focus on core return process across 70+ branches to lower core expense by $2M and reduce warranty returns by $1.2M

Plant Controller | Global MFG Finance Lead - Weatherford International - Houston, TX

(2013-08 - 2015-11)

$8B Global oil and natural gas service provider

• Responsible for all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting and forecasting requirements including month end close and variance reports
• Improve internal processes to accurately capture actual work order costs for data integrity and accuracy and reduction of plant expenses
• Developed and distributed daily flash report for financial metrics for ALS division plants to monitor and focus on succeeding monthly forecasted commitments
• Created an annual budget template for divisional plants and assisted in managing such process to ensure a consistent consolidated budget completion across ALS division plants

SR Plant Financial Analyst | Transportation Financial Analyst - Avery Dennison Corporation - Mentor, OH

(2008-11 - 2013-07)

$6B Global manufacturer & distributor of pressure-sensitive adhesive products

• Responsible for all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting and forecasting requirements for Painesville Plant and North American Transportation including month end close, account reconciliations, balance sheet reviews, SOX and site audits
• Weekly operational financial risks and opportunities provided to Corporate management to understand financial performances throughout the month

Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting - University of Houston (2004-12)