How CommScope Maximizes Recoveries Following a Major Acquisition

In the years following their acquisition of Arris, CommScope faced many challenges as it underwent the merging of two major finance organizations. During this time, they moved to a shared services environment, which 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.

As part of CommScope’s continuous improvement and standardization process, Alex Meyer, Director of Shared Services at CommScope, engaged apexanalytix to audit all CommScope entities. This service provided an external review of payments and outlined opportunities to prevent overpayments in the future. After the success of routine AP recovery audits, the CommScope team decided to expand their audit program to include sales and use tax, unclaimed property, and freight rate compliance. This comprehensive approach to ensures CommScope maximizes their recoveries in partnership with apexanalytix.

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
• The benefits of expanding a recovery audit program to include sales & use tax, unclaimed property and freight rate compliance auditing.
• How to find and partner with a trusted audit provider

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 30 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, Shared Services (ROW), 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.

Pete Erdner
VP, Commercial Audit Operations, apexanalytix

As Vice President, Commercial Audit Operations, Pete leads the apexanalytix commercial audit division and works directly with clients on strategic client audits.  His team is responsible for the oversight, management, and client satisfaction of commercial audit engagements.  His goals are to ensure audits are completed timely, that they meet or exceed revenue expectations and performance objectives, and they deliver client value in recovered monies and enhanced internal controls.

Pete has been in Operations for over 25 years, the past 20 in management.  Prior to joining APEX, Pete’s career experience includes public accounting, tax preparation and auditing.  Pete holds a BA in Corporate Communications with a Business Administration Minor from Elon University.  Pete is also a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the AICPA, NCACPA, IIA.