How an Acquisition Helped CommScope Improve Shared Services and Enhance Recoveries

Moving to a shared services environment allowed CommScope’s finance team to have a greater focus on improving operations while realizing greater efficiencies, cost savings, and proactive measures to ensure tax compliance.

CommScope acquired Arris Communications and observed that Arris was utilizing apex for AP recovery audits. This service provided an external review of payments and outlined opportunities to prevent overpayments in the future.

As part of CommScope’s continuous improvement and standardization process, Alex Meyer, Director of Shared Services at CommScope, extended the apex audit to include CommScope entities to recapture potential overpayments similar to the recoveries that Arris experienced.

Join the webinar and hear Alex talk about:

• Post-acquisition: merging two large finance organizations
• Utilizing audit service results to close control gaps and standardize processes
• Leverage contingency-based work to improve financial results
• Best reasons to perform a sales and use tax audit

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 26 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Alex Meyer
Director of Shared Service Operations, CommScope

Alex joined CommScope in 2015 as the Director of Operations Accounting. He was responsible for leading a staff of 55 cost accounting professionals and all aspects of the global cost accounting function in over 50 manufacturing and distribution locations worldwide. In 2020, he was assigned to his current role as Director of Shared Services Operations with a heavy focus on standardization, process improvement and cost reductions based on lean principles.

Prior to joining CommScope, Alex held various leadership roles with multiple Fortune 500 companies including International Paper, ConAgra Foods, Trane, Ingersoll-Rand, and Precision Castparts. Alex is a graduate of the University of Michigan Executive Development Program. Additionally, he served in Operation Desert Storm as an officer in the United States Navy upon graduating from Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Danny Thompson
Senior Vice President, Market and Product Strategy, apexanalytix

As senior vice president of market and product strategy at apexanalytix, Danny Thompson is responsible for defining, communicating and leading our company’s software product strategy and roadmap. He works closely with our customers to ensure that each solution helps them meet their business objectives.

Danny has a proven track record in the procure-to-pay arena, with a strong background in ERP implementation, process automation and financial shared services. He previously was vice president of product management at Tungsten Network, a global business-to-business e-invoicing firm.  He also is a former global process driver for invoice-to-pay at Pfizer.

Danny earned a B.A. degree from Harding University.