Steve Brown

Experience

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  Kraft Foods/General Foods

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1999

  Finance Supervisor

  Responsible for plant variable manufacturing cost budgeting, financial analysis and payroll for Post cereal and Kool-Aid powdered beverages plant in Modesto. Reported to Plant Controller. Supervised three direct reports.Promoted to Plant Controller in 1999.

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  Kraft Foods Group

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2008

  Plant Controller

  Responsible for all plant cost budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and reporting for $80 million Post cereal and Kool-Aid powdered beverages plant in Modesto. Member of plant management staff reporting directly to Modesto Plant Manager. Supervised as many as three direct reports.Prior to Kraft Foods spin-off of Post cereal division to Ralcorp in 2008, played key role in plant financial cost impacts resulting from the exit of the Beverages business from the Modesto site.

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  Post Holdings

  Jan 2008 - Mar 2015

  Plant Controller

  Responsible for all plant cost budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and reporting for $50 million Post cereal plant in Modesto. Member of plant management staff reporting directly to Modesto Plant Manager and with a dotted line to Network Controller in Battle Creek. Supervise one direct report.After Post Foods spin-off from Kraft Foods to Ralcorp in August 2008, coordinated plant financial transition to JD Edwards system.

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  Modesto Milling Inc.

  Feb 2015 - Mar 2022

  Controller

  Member of the Corporate management staff reporting to the company President. Supervise the accounting staff and responsible for all financial aspects of the business including internal financial statements and analysis, cash flow management, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll and insurance.