Allstate

Director of Finance

Senior Finance Manager

OrthoFi

Director of FP&A

Finance Manager

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Product Manager

Senior Financial Analyst

Staff Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

Accountant

Senior Finance leader with expertise installing best-in-class finance operations to drive stronger corporate performance. 

My expertise is in transforming finance functions to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This involves assessing people, process, and product (reporting, analysis, forecasting, and consulting) to rebuild the function and drive operational excellence.

This often involves deploying modern tools and technologies to scale analytics and help executives make faster decisions. However, most finance teams underutilize their current resources and spending too much time on reporting. They struggle to produce actionable analytics to feed their forecast - I help finance teams fix this problem.

Ultimately, my skillset is rooted in turning finance teams into value-added, proactive operations.

Expertise in: 
- Budgeting
- KPI reporting
- P&L forecasting
- ERP implementation 
- Root cause analytics
- Operational planning
- Business unit strategy
- Multi-year forecasting
- Managing remote talent
- Automated dashboards/reporting

Financial tools & systems
- Excel
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Sage Intacct
- SAP BPC/HANA
- Business Objects
- Hyperion/Oracle Essbase
- Quickbooks Online/Desktop

Brett Hampson

VAST Insight Partners

Helping manufacturers make more money, making stuff!


Improving your current teams & creating workflows for connected decisions. Focused planning, analytics all focused on Integrated Business Planning (SIOP, S&OP, S&OE, FP&A, Analytics). 

“We have meetings where teams are always firefighting instead of executing.”

“We spend all this time doing forecasts and the numbers are rarely believed—or used?”

“We see inventory growing faster than margins & customer counts dropping too quickly!”


Most manufacturers struggle to connect strategy with execution. Teams work from different numbers. Decisions rely on gut feel. Inventory keeps building while opportunities slip away.

VAST Insight Partners exists to change that!

We help mid-market and PE-backed manufacturing companies align sales, finance, and operations around one plan—so execution becomes your advantage, not your weakness.


Outcomes when working with VAST:

Improved Forecast Accuracy → So the business plans with confidence & improve revenue
Inventory Reduction → Unlock trapped cash and reduce working capital strain
Cross-Functional Alignment → From siloed decisions to synchronized execution
Faster, Smarter Decisions → No more waiting for leadership to "call it"

When execution is clear and connected, growth becomes profitable—and sustainable.

That’s the VAST difference.

Founder & Strategic Growth Partner

Briggs & Stratton

Business Unit CFO driving reporting, forecasting, S&OP Integration, Inventory optimization, & cross-functional engagement in a start-up enviornment.

Director of Finance - Electrification

Cresco Labs

Responsible for the synchronization of business plans within Cresco to deliver value & provide transparency to the organization on supply targets, constraints, and opportunities.

Owns supply planning, operations analytics & business alignment to operational execution.

Vice President of Operations Planning & Analytics

Vice President of Planning & Insights

Vice President of Sales & Ops Planning (S&OP)

Gehl Food & Beverage

Leader for enhancing visibility to forecasting, planning, and long term strategy. Driver of reporting, analytics, budget, revenue management and business insights to create cohesive momentum throughout the organization.

FP&A Manager

Rexnord

Responsible for driving excellence into Budget, Forecast, and M&A activity across Zurn Group. Finance business partner cross-functionally and within the Finance team, leading the creation of tools and capabilities to enable optimal utilization, while supporting next level business growth.

World Dryer Integration Finance Leader

FP&A Manger - Zurn Group at Rexnord

Finance Manager and business partner for the Front-End Sales and Marketing Teams. Employing detailed data analysis to create multiple visual and analytic models for forecasting and strategy insights. Subject matter expert solely assigned to create comprehensive reporting providing details on channel, segment, and industry trends. Designated business unit lead ensuring compliance with SOX regulations through reviews, internal controls, and external audits. Evaluated and streamlined existing processes eliminating waste and inefficiency, while analyzing and leading the business strategy transition.

Sales Controller

Reporting, data analysis, commission processing and other financial close activities. The role was quickly developed into a multi-faceted and influential role, reaching across the business and elevating the position to a controller in 11 months.

Sales Analyst

MillerCoors

Developed and executed a Directed Asset Recovery Program yielding more than $200,000 to the bottom line in its first year. Prepared and delivered monthly capital project results to the company’s senior leadership. Responsible for in-depth and cross-functional project analysis for capital portfolio, project validations, and various other forecasting, budgeting, and analysis for entire capital portfolio.

Corporate Financial Analyst - Capital FP&A

Provided forecasts of business unit financial results. Developed the annual plan and administered budgets totaling $27 million. Ensured an accurate and efficient monthly closing of the books. Partnered with multiple departments (Tech Services & Distribution Teams) on identifying areas for cost savings as well as on performing capital analysis calculations and took part in the Weekend Warrior Program to run the Distribution floor for periodic weekend shifts.

Financial Analyst - Milwaukee Brewery

Leadership Development Program, Finance - Procurement

Helping manufacturers make more money, making stuff!


Improving your current teams & creating workflows for connected decisions. Focused planning, analytics all focused on Integrated Business Planning (SIOP, S&OP, S&OE, FP&A, Analytics). 


If you’ve ever sat in a meeting thinking:

“We should be more aligned, but we’re too busy firefighting…”
“Our forecasts are off, but no one trusts the numbers anyway…”
“Inventory keeps growing, and I’m not even sure who owns the plan…”

Then we should talk.


I’m the founder of VAST Insight Partners, where we specialize in helping PE-backed and Mid-Market manufacturers bridge the gap between finance, operations, and commercial strategy. 

Our focus:
→ Forecasting that drives action
→ Inventory that fuels growth (not cash traps)
→ Planning that actually gets executed

We do this with by leveraging financial analytics and connecting planning via SIOP/S&OP/S&OE via practical & fast-to-implement approach that unlocks trapped margin and enables real strategic progress.

If you’re responsible for growth, margin, or execution and want to run a tighter, smarter business—let's connect.

▶ Book a Meeting (just below my name) or visit www.VASTInsightPartners.com

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