Strategic and hands-on executive with a track record of effective business partnership, team building, and continuous improvement / finance transformation to drive business performance.
Experience and Qualifications:
• Analytic and operationally focused leader with proven ability to lead and support efforts to significantly improve and simplify processes, business support, IT systems, and financial controls
• Change management leader with extensive experience in strategic financial planning and analysis, value creation, team building, and development of financial and accounting staff.
• Extensive background in M&A and divestitures including setting targets, financial modeling, due diligence, negotiations, and integration.
Specialties:
• Strategic Financial and Operations Analysis
• M&A Due Diligence / Negotiations / Integration
• Turnaround / Organizational Restructuring
• Shared Services Development
• Enterprise Systems Requirements / Integration
• Accounting Policy / Control Design
• Continuous Improvement / Lean Process Initiatives
• BPO and Vendor Contract Management
• Performance Management and Metrics
WW Controller @ From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Greater Seattle AreaDirector, Financial Reporting and Business Services @ • SUPERVALU Project Lead in Continuous Improvement / Finance Transformation initiatives.
• SUPERVALU Pharmacies Finance support for 177 Retail Pharmacies and related shared services and transaction support services.
• SUPERVALU Real Estate support for analysis and evaluation of Real Estate strategic initiatives.
• Reports to SUPERVALU VP Controller supporting Financial Reporting and Shared Services. From March 2013 to January 2014 (11 months) Finance Director, Business Services Outsourcing @ • Lead role for SUPERVALU’s Business Services Outsourcing initiative. This BPO program has successfully transitioned a number of processes to a third party scalable outsourced environment for Shared Services, FP&A, Analytics, Rx Third Party Payment Processing, Information Services, and Merchandising and delivered savings in the multi-million dollar range.
• Identification, evaluation, and implementation of key SUPERVALU prioritized enterprise projects that improve processes, increase efficiencies, and provide superior customer service in Shared Services and beyond.
• Transition SUPERVALU Indian captive to third party consulting arrangement and manage Master Service Agreement with Tata Consulting Services (TCS) and Cognizant.
• Strong end to end business process experience managing customer and stakeholder expectations and delivery of results through use of Lean Six Sigma methodologies. From March 2010 to February 2013 (3 years) Director, Distribution Accounting @ • Lead segment reporting for SUPERVALU Supply Chain segment ($9 billion annual sales) responsible for management reporting, financial analysis, strategic planning, internal/external financial statements, compliance and audit including SOX 404, vendor funds reporting, and accounting policy development.
• M&A experience in acquisitions and divestitures related to SUPERVALU 3rd party logistics (3PL) business and acquisitions/dispositions of Albertson's banners
• CFO for $300 million wholesale produce subsidiary
• CFO for $340 million 3PL business in delivering warehousing and transportation services with complete P&L responsibility and responsibility for negotiating and measuring service level agreements
• Accounting standardization and common reporting development From October 2004 to March 2010 (5 years 6 months) Platform and Plant Controller @ From 1997 to 2004 (7 years) Operations Plant Controller @ From 1994 to 1997 (3 years) Financial Analyst @ From 1992 to 1993 (1 year)
MBA, Finance @ University of Wisconsin-Madison - School of Business From 1991 to 1994 B.S., Accounting @ University of Wisconsin From 1988 to 1991 Brent Rudser is skilled in: Technical Accounting, Finance Transformation, Record to Report, Leading Change, Continuous Improvement, Lean Initiatives, Cross-functional Team Leadership, M&A experience, US GAAP reporting, Vendor Management, Center of Excellence, Shared Services, BPO, Contract Negotiation, Outsourcing Management