Nathan Roberts

Background

About Nathan Roberts

Senior Executive with 20+ years of experience who brings a proven track record of success in developing financial and mathematical models, financial strategy, forecasting, budgeting and process improvement. Accomplishments • Within six months of being hired, collaborated with the President of World Concern to reduce operating expenses by >50% to ensure continued organizational viability despite a decline in donation revenue due to COVID-19 • Partnered with Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission’s executive team to implement financial discipline and controls in the budgeting and forecasting processes – turned a decade-long trend of financial operating losses into a surplus within three years, while maintaining core organizational programming • Redesigned and automated Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission’s monthly financial reporting system – implemented visual dashboards to improve the department leaders’ organizational financial management, while reducing the monthly reporting cycle down from several weeks to one day • Developed and led a cross-functional team to examine health insurance benefits at Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission which successfully mitigated a 30% cost increase while providing increased benefits to employees • Conducted ROI / business case analysis in partnership with various Boeing stakeholders to execute a multi-billion-dollar profitability initiative resulting in the redesign and automation a major airplane production system • Increased finance team capacity at Boeing by 30% by applying lean Toyota Production System principles • Developed and executed a process at Boeing for recovering costs due to supplier manufacturing discrepancies - successfully recovered up to $300M Core Competencies • Chief Executive and Board-level communication • Creating automated visual financial reporting systems • Revenue and expense budgeting and forecasting • Cashflow forecasting • Employee benefit design and analysis • Process development and implementation • Application of lean principles / continuous improvement • Project management / team leadership • Independent problem solving • Time management / multitasking • Financial variance analysis • Conflict resolution • Capital project budget planning and management • Management, employee development and mentoring • Business case development for financial investment decisions – NPV, ROIC and risk analysis • Complex data analytics and financial modeling • International supplier negotiations • Advanced MS Excel skills, proficiency in JMP, Adaptive Insights, Salesforce and MIP