Nay Liebenau: Plant Controller in Anaheim, CA
Nay Liebenau

Plant Controller
Anaheim | United States
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Whitcraft Group
Plant Controller | 01/2018 - Current
Aerospace company specializing in the manufacturing of turbine engine components for commercial, private and military aircraft.
• Responsible for preparing annual business plan, monthly financial statements and forecasts
• Managed month-end and year-end close process and ensured accurate and timely reporting
• Reviewed, analyzed and presented financial results to management with recommendations for improvement to short term
and long-term financial performance
• Work cross functionally with the IT department to create job costing report that allows for a greater understanding of profitability by part by allocation of resources and by driving continuous improvement
• Responsible for preparing weekly, monthly and 13-week cash flow forecast
• Managed a team of direct reports. AP, AR and Jr Accountant including training, staff development and implemented KPI's
to increase productivity
• Traveled on occasion to other TECT sites to train new hires
• Established strong cross departmental working relationships that resulted in timely completion of projects
• Established cycle count procedures to ensure inventory levels were represented correctly which resulted in a savings of
$300k
• Developed and implanted business unit labor and overhead rates to drive more accurate quoting and costing
• Developed and ran weekly overhead spend meeting with General Manager and operations team in order to identify
potential overspend and to ensure financial performance
• Responsible for managing various tax filings including; annual property tax filings/audits to ensure taxes were filed in a
timely manner
• Maintained positive relationships with customers and suppliers
• Managed capital projects from beginning to end resulting in eliminating the potential of overspend
Aerlex Tax Services
Tax Specialist / Executive Assistant to CEO | 04/2016 - 12/2017
Tax company that specializes in sales and use tax, property tax and federal tax for private and commercial aircraft
• Liaise between county/state/federal tax authorities and company CEO
• Prepare correspondence to tax authorities and aircraft owners
• Responsible for managing all property tax clients
• Managed team of 5 tax preparers
• Perform audits of aircraft flight logs, maintenance logs and charter invoices
• Perform audits on aircraft usage on a state-by-state basis for the purpose of analyzing use tax liability
• Perform habitually situated, common carrier, interstate and foreign commerce and non-resident fly-away calculations
• Prepare and submit numerous multi-year property tax audits, annual property tax filing and sales and use tax exemptions
• Analyze client's property tax bills to ensure aircraft assessed value was correctly calculated and as a result I saved our
clients more than $10m in erroneous valuations
• Successfully saved client $2m in formal protest against IRS multi-year audit by conducting a thorough audit of client's prior
tax filings
California Fruit Wine Co
Business Operations Manager | 01/2013 - 12/2015
Start-up Company specializing in the development of an innovative product in the premium fruit wine market
• Participated in the development and implementation of new Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP)
• Performed day to day accounting activities including accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll and provide P&L
analysis
• Produced analytic reports based on advertising campaigns and private events at our public tasting room
• Participated in critical strategy sessions with our Board of Advisors
CityGrid Media
Account Manager | 09/2011 - 04/2012
Internet Company that connects local business advertisers with the largest and most trafficked websites and mobile apps
• Increased client ROI by over 1000% in the first 30 days of launching them on the CityGrid advertising network by utilizing
customer needs analysis
• Produced and analyzed monthly campaign performance data to insure campaign is running efficiently
• Assisted with traffic quality analysis and management of advertising campaign