Melissa Wellmann

Background

About Melissa Wellmann

Global business executive with over twenty years of financial and operating experience across energy and chemical industries. Accomplished in business turnarounds and corporate restructuring through revenue, cost, and operational improvements along with driving growth through mergers and acquisitions. Experience in Fortune 500, private equity, and Big 4 public accounting environments. Recognized for developing high performing teams within highly complex organizations. Expertise and Achievements: • Led planning and integration of a complex $2.25 billion M&A transaction across 16 functional and cross-functional integration teams. Excels in merger integration and synergy capture. • Led long-range and strategic plans for a $44 billion multinational enterprise incorporating commercial, operational, and macroeconomic factors to develop risk-based scenarios • Restructured business driving increased margins by 35% through cost reductions and contract renegotiations along with working capital improvements. • Completed 5 SAP ERP implementations of which 3 were major and an active member of the steering committee for other implementations. Led redesign of underlying finance/reporting infrastructure and processes. Global Leadership | Information Technology & Systems Integration | Financial Management | Growth Strategies | Mergers & Acquisitions | Risk Management | Strategic & Operational Planning | Contract Negotiations | Supply Chain Management | Operations | P&L Accountability | Cost Reduction | Lean Methodologies | Six Sigma | Continuous Process Improvement | IT Implementation | ERP & SAP | Financial Analysis & Forecasts | Project Management & Implementation | Client Relationship Management | Performance Management | Margin Improvement | Turnaround Management | Transformation | Continuous Process Improvements | Budgeting | Mentoring